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Post by kaz on Nov 18, 2010 20:58:21 GMT -5
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Post by kaz on Nov 19, 2010 0:33:36 GMT -5
Tonight on Grey’s Anatomy Slow Night So Long: our favorite hair stylist Cristina decides bartending is her new gig, Derek gets his Alzheimer’s grant, and Alex and Mere do a secret surgery circa season two. And in the “birds and the bees” talk tonight, Mark becomes Callie’s “sexual sorbet” and Bailey lectures April on her “maiden voyage.” Avery has a bad dream, and Lexi comes in to wake him up but he’s calling out for Charles. Derek comes home to the array of “night of the living dead” where he tells Mere that he got the Grant. The Motley Crue show up for the night shift to take over for the rest of the doctors. Owen asks if Avery is okay and tells him to talk to someone about his problems. Welcome to the bar, Slone, Callie, Bailey and Derek show up to celebrate the grant, where, oh HEY it’s Cristina playing bartender! She’s clearly robbed the awful Good Will section of 80s Madonna wear. Owen shows up and tells them that “yes” he did tell Cristina to get a job so she’d get off the couch and stop watching infomercials. The bachelor party shows up and we know it’ll get interesting. Teddy shows up to the bar and tells Callie to get on an airplane and tell Arizona she’s an idiot. Back at the hospital two brothers come into the ER who tried to outrun a train. Lexi and Avery are on the job and it is something nasty. They call Owen back. Owen’s patient, Riley, which has literally been torn in half by the train dies and I could almost throw up the makeup department is that good at being gruesome. Lexi is the unfortunate one to tell the parents that Riley died in the ER. Back in surgery Avery flips out on Lexi but impresses Owen with his fast skills. Thankfully Lucas has survived! However Avery snaps at Lexi yet again. Not exactly how you impress someone, Avery! April’s patients are a teenage couple who have superglued themselves together because the boy’s family is moving away to Wisconsin the next day. April runs into Bailey who’s showed up completely wasted, who continues to babble about fistulas. April has abandoned the teenage idiots and tries to keep Bailey from drunk dialing Ben. Bailey tells her she’s a virgin so she can’t tell her not to drunk dial. And also, that Alex is not the boy she wants to take her “maiden voyage” with. Bailey tells her to use hot water and soap. Even when drunk, Bailey is on her game! Mere’s patient is a young boy who has abdominal pain after surgery. Dr. Stark is called back in and chews Meredith out for making him miss tiramisu to treat a child with “gas.” This man is ridiculous. Later, Meredith returns and the pain has gotten worse so clearly it’s not gas. While eating pizza in the attending lounge, Mere asks Alex what’s Stark’s deal is and Alex tells her there’s one rule: Don’t call Stark! Teddy runs into Meredith who tells her that Cristina is now bar-tending and it’s too hard to watch while she sobers up. The CT scan shows bleeding so Alex and Meredith go into surgery…without an attending, also circa the early years, except Alex has replaced Cristina. In surgery they’ve found the bleed and fix the situation without the help of the “doctor.” Avery tells Lexi to tell the parents of Lucas and Riley that they need to watch out for Lucas being sad that he’s alive everyday while his brother isn’t. Cristina is giving one of the guys a lap dance when Owen shows up to throw her over his shoulder to take her home. Mark and Callie sleep together, nothing new. And Alex and Meredith get chewed out from “Doctor” Stark while Chief looks on laughing. It’s now the morning, and we’ve survived the night shift, the Motley Crue return home pizza in hand. www.current-movie-reviews.com/tv/2010/11/18/greys-anatomy-recapsexual-sorbet-and-maiden-voayges/
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Post by kaz on Nov 19, 2010 1:04:34 GMT -5
Writer's Blog: “Do not go gentle into that good night.” “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary…” “One night in 1984, 18-year old Libby Zion died within 8 hours of her emergency admission to the hospital. Her death was attributed to overworked and inexperienced young doctors.” Okay, that last one wasn’t any kind of literary saying about the night, but it is a big part of the reason that the 80-hour work-week and night float was instituted in residency programs. We’ve all done all-nighters, right? Maybe some of you guys still do. Maybe you’re doing one right now because you took time off to watch Grey’s Anatomy and you know you have a paper due or a test tomorrow. My point is, we all know. Nights are supposed to be for sleep, rest, relaxation. There’s a reason night exists, and it’s not for humans to work. It’s for vampires to hunt, and werewolves to change, and demons to roam. Things change at night. And things change in this episode. It’s not the usual Grey’s. As a matter of fact, when Shonda first saw my episode in full she looked at me, took a moment of silence, then said, “Zoanne. Your episode is… weird. I mean, it’s not weird, it’s… yea, weird.” I didn’t know quite what to make of that, but I get it. Our attendings are checking deathat the door along with their coats. They’re leaving all that life saving stuff behind them and are just out being themselves without the impending doom of potential death looming over them. Teddy’s talking about online dating for god’s sakes. For a whole episode. It’s weird to see them like that – I get that, and I also kinda love it. They left the life-saving parts for the residents mostly, because let’s face it - residents run hospitals at night. The attendings let the inmates run the asylum, as it were. And crazy things can happen. Take Callie and Mark, for example. I’ll just go ahead and apologize to all you CalZona fans first. Okay, now that that’s out of the way, that the scene where he becomes her sexual sorbet was HOT, right? And it makes sense. They’re friends, they’re comfortable, they’re there for each other. What could be wrong about that? In fact, there’s so much about it that’s right. Who could be faulted for being green? They’re recycling, people! I’m sure you’d agree they’re doing their part for humanity and for mother earth. Good for them. Apologies also to all you Cristina fans who are mourning the loss of the driven, determined Cristina. Can’t she just have a good time? Can’t she just … BE? She’s not losing Owen. Owen’s sticking. She was there for him when he was going through it. She stuck. So he’s sticking, too. He’ll hold her hair. He’ll forgive her transgressions. He’s going to be there for her, whether she likes it or not. And we (i.e., the writers) know Cristina’s supposed to be the strong one. Hardcore. All surgery all the time. We know that. But sometimes it’s the ones who look like they’re the most together that have the biggest explosion. It’s her process, and she’s kind of making it up as she goes along. Trying to feel out what’s right for her. I totally sympathize with this. I had a moment in life where I completely burned out. I was trying to figure out my next move – do something else in medicine (I was/am an ER doc) or pick up everything and move to Hollywood to fulfill a childhood dream. Well, I’m writing this blog so you can tell what I did. And people thought I was C-R-A-Z-Y. And I didn’t even have a gun held to my head. So all I’m saying is, give Cristina a little slack, people. She’s been on one road with one destination all her life. Like Callie said, doctors often don’t get their 20’s to explore. They’re too busy with the weight of the world on their shoulders as they practice (yes, I said practice) saving lives! She needs time, she needs space… she needs to figure things out. Which is what Derek’s giving her. Last week he talked about floors. This week he watches her get drunk and go a little cray cray (but not too cray cray… he’s her bouncer, after all). But that is so true to Derek. He’s the king of backing off. Even when Mer was trying to decide whether or not to give half her liver to her dad, he gave her space, let her make the decision. He uses the same tactic with Cristina. He knows that direct confrontation ain’t gonna help – he’s been through his own little “breakdown,” and he knows he wouldn’t have listened. He needed to take the time he needed and that was that. He’s offering the same to Cristina. Mer doesn’t understand this tactic. She can’t fathom just sitting back and doing nothing. At one point we talked about Mer going to go to the bar to scream at Cristina to no avail, but as it turned out, her story did not allow for that. She had to save a kid’s life. Probably wasn’t so hard to go against Stark, since Stark is such, excuse my French, an ass. It’s not that he doesn’t know what he’s doing, he does. He’s not a bad doctor, he’s just a lazy doctor. And lazy might as well equal bad. So it’s up to Mer to save the day. Mer and Alex. Can you believe they’re the only two left of our original fab five? Funny how the years change things. They’ve stuck. And they’re going to keep sticking. Together. Do you guys remember the Chief’s speech from the first episode? “Eight of you will switch to an easier specialty. Five will crack under the pressure. Two of you will be asked to leave.” Ahh, memories… Jackson wasn’t there for the Chief’s speech, but he might’ve been in the category of “cracking under the pressure.” Who knew he was still reeling from the effects of the shooting and losing Charles? As it turns out, his coping mechanism is to keep things bottled up and then just release. His release on Alex last week helped him get rid of some of the anger and frustration he’s been feeling. But it wasn’t about Alex, it was about him. It didn’t stop the screaming in his sleep, but in this episode he is able to redirect his energy into work (and he kicked ass and took names in that surgery, y’all!). And when I think of kicking butt and taking names, I think of one person. Usually. Maybe not this particular night. Bailey. How much do I love drunk BAILEY? If you say you didn’t, I don’t know what I’m going to do with you. She is hilarious to me. I love the way she enunciates. Every. Word. Like what she’s saying is holds the answer to the meaning of life. Her advice to Virgin April is priceless. And even though drunk, she is quite wise. April knows Bailey is right. Alex is not the right guy for her. All this time and effort she’s spending hating Alex is time better spent just focusing on what’s right for her. Which is not him. Which she realizes. I love those two moments at the beginning and the end in the car and in Mer/Der’s bedroom. The change of energy in the car in the end vs. the beginning is lovely, and the interaction between Der and Mer speaks volumes to me. Even on conflicting schedules, even if they don’t get to see each other as much as they want to, even if they are two ships passing in the night, they’re still going to make it work. Mer’s elation at him getting his grant and Der’s simple gesture of closing blinds for Mer tells me that they’re going to take care of each other. It’s not all about sex for them, it’s about mutual respect and companionship. I always like to give little tips at the end of my blogs, and my tip for this one is: DON’T TRY TO OUTRUN A TRAIN!! You never get a second chance if you lose, and you lose even if you tie. Good night, good night, Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. Or right now. www.greyswriters.com
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Post by kaz on Nov 19, 2010 5:06:52 GMT -5
Dr. Bailey turned into a lush, Cristina started bar tending and Callie and Mark had sex…what’s going on?! I had to remind myself I wasn’t watching an episode Jersey Shore or 90210 during the Nov. 18 episode of Grey’s Anatomy — and that’s a good thing! After weeks upon weeks of emotionally draining story lines, it was a relief to have an episode filled with comedic relief. Of course, that didn’t mean we were completely off the hook. There were still plenty of serious underlying issues, as is the case every week at Seattle Grace Mercy West! Here were my favorite moments of this wacky episode: Watching the attendees get trashed out of their minds was refreshing after a season filled with PTSD. For me, Dr. Bailey (Chandra Wilson) was the highlight. Here were some of her gems: Bailey: “We all need love.” [To the vending machine:] “Why won’t this thing take my money?” April (Sarah Drew): “Dr. Bailey, are you drunk?” Bailey: “Tipsy. Tipsy. “ Later, she lectures April about staying a virgin as long as possible, saying, “I’m Bailey, I know everything. Alex Karev is not the boy you want to take your maiden voyage with. You wait. You keep your knees together.” Ha! Cristina (Sandra Oh) is a bartender?! It’s like watching a Saturday Night Live skit watching her mix shots. She has no concept of the dollar and tries to give everyone free drinks. While it’s nice to see her “having fun,” it’s hard not to take pity on her. Watching her puke in the toilet, while Owen (Kevin McKidd ) holds her hair, was heartbreaking. Callie is a mess with Arizona in Africa. Mark (Eric Dane ) suggests she needs a “sexual palette cleanser.” Or as Dr. Bailey put it, a“ sexual sorbet.” What does that even mean? As it turns out, “sexual sorbet” means having sex with a guy, even though you’re a lesbian. Callie threw herself at Mark when they got home, leaving me confused. Very, very confused. The residents are working the night shift, which means they have to sleep all day and work at night. They are messes and it’s fantastic! It reminds me of how I looked during finals week in undergrad. Side note: Derek (Patrick Dempsey) feels like he has to be Cristina’s bodyguard ever since she saved his life. Although it’s sweet, it’s overkill. Did you love tonight’s hysterical episode — or did it make you uncomfortable watching Cristina give a stranger a lap dance, Dr. Bailey ramble on about sex and Callie hook up with a guy? www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/11/19/kirstin-says-greys-anatomy-recap-watch-bailey-drunk-callie-lesbian-mark-mcsteamy-sex-7x09-video/
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Post by Leanne on Nov 19, 2010 14:47:03 GMT -5
ABC has got to give Grey's Anatomy a better lead-in. With the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special (2.2/6, up 10% from last year, 7.4 million) at 8 PM vs. a Grey's return (1.0) last week, the veteran medical drama (4.3/11, 11.4 million) was up 8% to reclaim the No.1 spot for the night among adults 18-49 for the first time in five weeks. It was tied with CBS' hit comedy The Big Bang Theory (4.3/13, 13.1 million), which marked its fifth consecutive week as the top-rated program on Thursday among 18-49. Big Bang was also up, by a tenth, as was the rest of CBS' lineup after slipping across-the board last week..... www.deadline.com/2010/11/ratings-rat-race-cbs-fox-abc-up-while-nbcs-apprentice-hits-series-low/
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Post by Leanne on Nov 19, 2010 14:51:25 GMT -5
It's getting harder and harder to find the medicine in Grey's Anatomy season 7. The doctor drama is getting thicker while time spent with patients takes a back burner, but episode 9 finally threw us a bone. After two months of watching the residents run around like they're afraid of their own shadows and Cristina Yang quitting, Meredith Grey and Alex Karev are finally starting to act like the overconfident surgeons they were when this series started. Finally, a reminder of why we started watching this show! I'm even beginning to like Dr. Stark, the evil new pediatric surgeon. He's a jerk who doesn't seem to care about much more than his dinner reservations -- he took Meredith to town for calling him in to actually, gasp, look at a patient. She needed him -- all the other attendings are out at the bar drinking to celebrate McDreamy getting a major grant for some Alzheimer's research. But Stark lit a fire under her mamby pamby "oh, I'm so happy I'm married, but so depressed because my best friend isn't cutting people open anymore" behind and forced her to turn to Karev for help. Go Meredith! Get angry! The little boy Stark glanced at before heading back to eat some tiramisu had serious stomach pains, and his mom was a nurse. She wasn't letting Meredith off easy, and now she was mad enough to do something. After running a host of tests to make sure she had her bases covered (in case she did have to call Stark in again), Meredith realized he had a perforated ulcer. Karev's advice? Call Stark, but don't wait. These ulcers can get tricky. Surgery for standard peptic ulcers -- painful sores in the lining of the stomach or first part of the small intestine -- has largely been abandoned. But an untreated ulcer can burn through the wall of the stomach. That's the "perforation," and it will allow digestive juices and food out of the stomach and into the abdominal cavity. It causes extreme pain and has been rumored to have killed people like Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien and famous spy Philip Agee. Letting the kid's stomach contents continue to leak out into the abdominal cavity would be like watching his slow death. Kind of the way we've all felt watching the residents fall away from medicine and into their soap opera. It's a medical drama, people, we needed them to care about medicine again! Cut to the operating room, where Grey and Karev find the perforation, fix the kid, all while the nurses continue to call Stark over ... and over ... with no response. When he finally shows up post-op, he's raving at the residents for opening up a patient without his say so while Chief Webber smiles from outside the room. He should probably fire Stark, but he knows he's getting his residents back. He's happy. They're happy. Now, a two-week break for Thanksgiving. And we'll see if Cristina Yang will return to the fold. But at least there's finally real surgery back in Seattle Grace.thestir.cafemom.com/healthy_living/112728/greys_anatomy_less_sex_more
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Post by trinity on Nov 19, 2010 15:19:07 GMT -5
How do you keep things fresh? It feels repetitive for me to gush, once again, how truly excellent season 7 of Grey's Anatomy is turning out to be, but there it is. There's no getting around it. Nine episodes into this resurgent year, I'm running out of superlatives to describe the creative renaissance GA is exhibiting. "Slow Night, So Long" was another terrific outing that gave the entire ensemble a chance to shine while playing with the show's format in an unusual way. The entire episode took place over a period of roughly 12 hours as the residents worked the night shift while the attendings went out drinking. Here are my impressions of the evening. I'm ready to see Cristina start to bounce back.I give GA a lot of credit for telling Cristina's story in a responsible way. Translation: They've taken their time with it rather than rushing to resolve everything neatly in record time. Having said that, I'm ready to see my girl make some progress and hope it's coming soon. Has she hit rock bottom yet? My suspicion is yes, if her disastrous evening tending bar (!) is any indication. If not, she's got to be getting close, and that's a good thing because even though I know that the PTSD storyline has been written very realistically (and Sandra Oh continues to rock the house), as a viewer I feel like it's time for some positive progress. I'm crossing my fingers. I really love Owen Hunt.Owen Hunt is a good surgeon, a good mentor and a good husband. I loved watching him being his professional badass self, running that ER like a champ. I loved watching him mentor Avery and counsel him personally as well as professionally. And I loved watching him collect his extremely drunk wife and (without judgment or a nasty scene in the bar) carry her home and rub her back and hold back her hair while she vomited her guts out. That, my friends, is love. He loves her no matter what. He's sticking by her no matter what. And although he may not know yet how best to help her, he's trying his best to support her unconditionally while giving her space to think and to breathe. I'm truly not sure one could ask for more than that. What would you do if you were in his place? I love Derek Shepherd, too.It was kind of great that Derek watched over Cristina when Owen was called away to the hospital. It's my opinion that if Owen had been at the bar for the whole evening, things wouldn't have gotten so out of control with Cristina because Owen would have intervened. Since he couldn't be there, however, I found my heart bursting with affection for Derek as he looked after Owen's wife and Meredith's person. He's becoming a brother of sorts to Cristina and I'm digging it. Way to go, Derek. I heart you. Mark and Callie? Seriously?
Let's be honest. The promos for this episode led us to believe that Mark and Callie would sleep together. Given the highly deceptive nature of promos, however, I was quite shocked when this actually happened. Yikes! I feel badly for the Mexie and Calzona fans, although I suppose Team Mallie is ecstatic. There's going to be fallout, though. We could already see the guilt on Callie's face and I'm totally calling a Callie pregnancy. Too predictable, you say? We'll see about that. Jackson Avery. That's it?Not to minimize the emotional trauma that Jackson is clearly experiencing but ... survivor's guilt? That's it? I confess to feeling a bit of an anti-climax since he and Charles never seemed that close, and the Jackson angst has been ratcheted up over the last few episodes, but whatever. I'm willing to give it a few more weeks. In the meantime I'm on the Jackson-Lexie train. Who's with me? I think they'd be both adorable and appropriate together. Jexie? Lackson? Work with me, people! Dr. Bailey, are you drunk?Why, yes, she was and since this is Miranda Bailey (as played by the terrific Chandra Wilson) that meant that both hilarity and poignancy ensued. As for the scenes with Miranda and April? Hilarious. Here's hoping we see them together again. Dr. Altman, are YOU drunk?
Turns out she was bombed out of her mind as well. I'm just not a big Teddy fan, so the best I can usually hope for is indifference to whatever she's doing and this qualifies. To be fair, she was funny both relaying her Internet dating nightmares and in her drunken meltdown but the truth is that I don't much care. I still feel like the writers are trying too hard to get me to like her. Of the 14 regular characters currently on this show, she's the one I truly feel we could lose and not miss in the slightest. There. I said it. Meredith, Alex and The Chief aka Stark is a Jerk
I give the writers a lot of credit for creating a character as unsympathetic as Phil Stark. There's just not much to like in this condescending, rude, lazy, "weasel" of a man. On the upside, though, Alex and Meredith (love them) did a great job as surgeons and The Chief knows it. Are they, indeed, the Last Two Standing? For now. But my gut tells me that Cristina Yang will come roaring back any day now. I can hardly wait. Gobble, GobbleGrey's Anatomy is pre-empted next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday, but an all-new episode, "Adrift and at Peace," will air on Thursday, Dec. 2 on ABC. www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anatomy/greys-anatomy-fan-columnist-ni-38701.aspx
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Post by Leanne on Nov 20, 2010 2:57:53 GMT -5
www.wetpaint.com/greys-anatomy/articles/top-5-omg-moments-from-greys-anatomy-season-7-episode-9?From off-hours drunkenness to on-hours drunkenness, here are the top OMG moments from this week's episode of Grey's Anatomy. 5. Bailey gets krunk. Can Bailey get "tipsy" (as deemed it) much more often? As in, all the time? Because she's an awesome drunk. She loses all her restraint and comments on all the hospital gossip, and those are conversations that we all look forward to. 4. Mark and Callie "eat sorbet." Frustrated with their unluckiness in love, Mark and Callie went from BFF back to FWB, if you know what what we mean. It'd be a lot higher on this list if ABC hadn't spoiled the moment during an ad break last week. Way to undercut the shock, people. 3. Residents gone rogue When they couldn't reach Stark, Alex and Meredith lied to their patient's mother and forged ahead with the surgery, which sent Stark through the roof the next day, even though the surgery was a success. But dude, if you're really hung up on tiramisu and not your patient, you've lost the right to complain. 2. Railroaded teens As much as Requiem for a Dream was an object lesson in not doing drugs, this episode was one for wearing a seatbelt and not trying to outrun a train. The teen who died looked like he had been pulverized, and that probably wasn't an exaggeration. 1. Cristina's bartending/whoring We've seen that while Cristina might be a surgical genius, she's kind of terrible at every other pursuit she puts her mind to, and that list now includes bartending. I think grinding your butt against customers' crotches in a bar that isn't furnished with poles is frowned upon. Especially when the proprietor is an upstanding gentleman like Joe.
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