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Post by kaz on Feb 11, 2011 0:01:26 GMT -5
Meredith faces memories of her mom and brand new daddy issues as Arizona, Callie, and Mark wrestle for control of their prenatal care. By Jennifer Armstrong | Published Feb 10, 2011 Comments + Add comment Oh, procreation, you crazy-but-necessary-for-survival force of nature, how you vex us and our Grey's Anatomy brethren. Let us count the ways: You give us parents who write in their journals about eyelet cell transplants as their brains slowly slip away to them due to Alzheimer's, thus forcing us to choose between diabetes studies and Alzheimer's studies. Okay, so this happens only to Meredith Grey. The Chief gave a speech about how she should do the diabetes study her mom thought up because, "I think she owes it to you. She didn't give you a lot of love, but she gave you her talent and her name. ... It might change the way you think about her. It could be the greatest thing that both of you ever did." But in the end, Meredith chose, I think, wisely: She'd stick with curing Alzheimer's with Derek, while the Chief could cure diabetes with the spirit of her mom. Love all around, cures all around, the Chief even gets something to do! I don't know who's going to be fixing patients what with all this curing, but so be it. You give us nutty parents who are overprotective even when we are still in utero -- and sometimes, if one of those parents is a lesbian, that means we have three nutty, overprotective parents. I was seeing the benefits of threesome parenting at first -- for instance, I am in a band that has three people in it, and I find the odd number enormously helpful when we make decisions. This Arizona-Callie-Mark arrangement could work the same way: Two out of three wins! End of story! I was even considering this a legitimate argument in favor of polyamory. In this fashion, it was determined Callie would no longer drink coffee, due to caffeine's possibly adverse effects on fetuses. However, Callie's lack of caffeine had an adverse effect on many around her, like April, whom she told, "I need you to speak differently." (Amen.) Hilariously, April replied, "Like, with an accent?" Callie sent her to get her a muffin and coffee ... or, wait, no coffee. Next, we saw Callie pouring herself some coffee in the lounge, only to be caught by Arizona. The anti-caffeine studies, Callie explained, were only done on rats, and, furthermore, she was not a rat. Yet she was still guilt-faced into giving up her coffee again. Callie finally got her cup of coffee by flipping out on April and Owen, who insisted she have some caffeine, baby or not. Yay. You give us parents who drive us nuts much later in our lives, too. So Mer and Lexie's father, Thatcher, was back in the hospital yet again. (Anyone else groan at this? He bugs me more than he bugs the Grey girls. I just never really care what happens to him, a rarity among Grey's characters for me.) Anyway, he was having abdominal pain, maybe because he was rejecting the liver Meredith gave him that other time he was in the hospital. "Of course, he's rejecting it because it's my liver," Meredith quipped. They had to go talk to him about his symptoms because, Bailey complained, she needed "someone who speaks Grey." Turned out Thatcher had a super-young girlfriend with him, which continued to not interest me, except insofar as she looked vaguely like Kyra Sedgwick, like she could play her daughter in a movie or something. I do like Kyra Sedgwick. Lexie saw this, and ran to tell Meredith to come talk to him. "Does he want more organs?" Meredith asked. Lexie lured her by answering, "He didn't say. He was too busy loving up on a tattooed 20-year-old." As Thatcher suffered more shooting pains while the Grey girls arrived, the girlfriend freaked out a little about the prospect of prostate cancer. "That's what happens when your boyfriend's an old man," Lexie snapped. "Old men get cancer." You can't begrudge her the honesty. However, Meredith stood up for his right to have a super-young girlfriend if it made him happy, even though Lexie wanted company in hating him. NEXT: Babies lost and saved ... READ MORE: tvrecaps.ew.com/recap/greys-anatomy-season-7-episode-14/
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Post by kaz on Feb 11, 2011 1:25:21 GMT -5
In last week’s Grey Matter, Mark Wilding told you all about the time he tried (and failed) to be an actor. In high school, I also tried my hand at acting. There’s a difference between Mark and myself, though. I didn’t just try. I freaking succeeded. Which was handy because I loved attention. As I quickly discovered, if you auditioned for a play and got a part, people would be FORCED to pay attention to you. And if you got the lead (as I did on more than one occasion – brag, brag, brag), they’d have to pay attention to you for as many as TWO WHOLE HOURS. Once, an elderly couple even came up to me at Hometown Buffet to tell me that they had seen and enjoyed my performance as King Arthur in our school’s production of Camelot. I was a mother-flippin’ star. But a person gets older. Maybe wiser. He leaves behind dreams of celebrity and pursues a career behind the scenes. (Though still in a capacity where he will be paid his fair share of attention. Hey, reader! Thanks for your time!) Then one day, while casting actors to play Clinical Trial Patients and their family members for an episode of Grey’s Anatomy, a producer suggests that it would be funny if THE WRITER played one of those family members. Oh hey there, Former Dreams of Super-stardom. It’s been a while. Nice to see you again. So, of course I said, “yes.” How could I not? And it’s not like it was going to be super-tough or anything. The family members in this sequence didn’t have any lines. I’d just have to sit at a table, pretend to care about the person sitting next to me and NOT look like a big, fat idiot. I could totally do that. After all, I was once recognized and praised by my adoring fans while loading up on bread pudding in a buffet line. HERE’S THE THING, THOUGH: There’s a difference between standing onstage in the high school auditorium and being on the set of a television show with a great, big professional TV camera staring you down. You’re suddenly the most self-conscious you’ve ever been in your entire life. You can’t stop thinking about the fact that just two days ago you’d gotten the worst haircut a person has ever gotten. Ever. You’ve also recently put on ten (but probably more like fifteen) pounds, which will combine with the extra weight the camera adds to make you look like Santa Claus, age 29. There are bright lights shining in your eyes making it nearly impossible to see, which you can’t really do anyway because you’ve taken off your glasses, knowing that your mom would later complain that she couldn’t see your face if you left them on even though you now realize that ain’t nobody gonna miss your big damned head because of all that extra weight and HOLY HELL WHY WON’T YOUR MOUTH STOP TWITCHING??? This is your moment. The nation is watching. You’re sitting across the table from Meredith Grey herself in an honest-to-God consult room at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital… and you probably look like a big, fat idiot. The stakes are huge, people. Which is why I can totally identify with what it must feel like to be a doctor who’s about to perform a heart transplant on a baby who hasn’t been born yet. In this week’s episode, Alex and Lucy go head to head over just such a case. Lucy is so shocked and offended when Alex refers to a brain-dead baby as a “turnip in the cabbage patch” that there is absolutely no way she’s going to let him get near a baby. It’s a fair position to take if you don’t know Alex Karev. When you’re just meeting the guy, he comes across as a jerk-ass wrestler with a crappy attitude. What you don’t know is that once upon a time, Arizona actually gave Alex a speech about the fact that a peds surgeon has to do whatever they can to not picture “tiny coffins” all day, every day. So you don’t see that what Alex is doing when he calls a baby a “turnip” is distancing himself, playing down the stakes of what he’s about to do, so that he can keep a calm head, not get too emotionally involved, and actually be able to help his patient. Yeah, it may not be the best tactic. And even though Arizona was the one who gave Alex the speech way back when, she’s not particularly thrilled with the way he’s chosen to cope, either. But at least she gets why he’s doing it. In the end, Alex and Lucy are in the same boat – doing what they think is best for the tiny, tiny patients they’re trying to help. Okay, so maybe my situation isn’t really the same as Alex & Lucy’s. There probably won’t be any tiny coffins involved if I can’t stop my lip from twitching as though I’ve injected it with caffeine. (At least, I hope not. That’d be terrible. And crazily improbable.) Speaking of caffeine, there’s that whole Callie/Arizona/Mark situation. While the parent-to-baby ratio is surely going to have some benefits once that baby is born, Callie is quickly realizing that it’s also putting her smack-dab in the middle of a 2 vs. 1 scenario and NOT in the way she might’ve anticipated. While Arizona and Mark do want what’s best for the baby, they’re kind of forgetting that making the mother miserable isn’t going to help anyone. Callie’s not being irresponsible or unreasonable in what she’s asking for. She’s not putting herself or the baby at risk. SHE JUST WANTS ONE CUP OF COFFEE. And, in the end, Arizona and Mark know that a little bit of compromise is a small price to pay for a happy home life. Which is maybe a lesson that Lexie needs to learn, too… Lexie’s dealing with the P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) referenced in the episode’s title. This is actually how we writers referred to Thatcher Grey’s twenty-seven-year-old girlfriend, before we dubbed her “Dani.” Here’s the thing. I have a little experience dealing with “Dad’s New Girlfriend,” myself. I was in college when my dad met the woman who has since become my stepmother. Sure, my dad had the good sense to choose someone who was age appropriate, but it’s still a strange thing when you’ve grown up seeing your parent a certain way, then are suddenly forced to see him as someone who goes on dates with a lady you’ve only just this moment met at a barbecue. I think I handled the situation with a little more grace than Lexie is initially able to muster. I’m pretty sure I’ve never screamed in my stepmom’s face. For one reason, it’s because like Dani, my stepmom’s actually a lovely person. But also, as Shonda once put it in the writers’ room when we discussed this episode - when it comes to family, you’ve got to get onboard or you’re going to lose them. It takes a lecture from Meredith and something like fifteen peanut butter cups from Jackson to get Lexie to figure this point out, but she does come around. She might not love the idea of Dani, but she loves her father and if not losing her relationship with him means being nice to a tattooed lady, then so be it. And what about Jackson and those peanut butter cups? It would seem that while Jackson’s at first open to Mark’s offer of trading awesome surgeries for information on Lexie, something changes while he watches her eat that candy and talk and talk and talk… Earlier in the episode, Jackson insists to Mark that he and Lexie aren’t close, but they sure do seem to be a bit closer by the end of the day. So much so that Jackson is willing to miss out on surgeries that might help him win Chief Resident if it means keeping Lexie’s secrets. I’ve said it before, but I find Lexie Grey incredibly charming. And from the look on Jackson’s face at the end of the episode, something tells me he’s starting to as well… Meredith, on the other hand, is not as charmed by Lexie today. And that’s because she’s simply not worried about her dad and his girlfriend. Dani makes Thatcher happy? Awesome. Mazel tov. If Dani wants to be there to hold Thatcher’s hand while he deals with a kidney stone, then it means that Meredith doesn’t have to do it. Which is fantastic, because Meredith seriously doesn’t have the time. Not only is she dealing with all the work that comes with an Alzheimer’s Clinical Trial, but now The Chief’s offering her what could be an even more prestigious Clinical Trial – a Clinical Trial based on Ellis Grey’s research. As we put this story together, we always knew that we wanted Meredith to decide to stick with Derek’s Alzheimer’s Trial, but we weren’t always clear on WHY. We knew it felt right to us, but we weren’t sure what Meredith’s reasons would be. At a certain point it was pitched that Meredith would decide that the Alzheimer’s trial belonged to her, while the diabetes trial belonged to her mother - Meredith wanted to make a name for herself under her own steam. And while that may still be partly true, it ultimately didn’t feel completely right. Further discussion brought us to the real heart of the matter: Richard is offering Meredith the chance to complete Ellis’ work – to ensure her professional legacy. Derek is offering Meredith the chance to cure her mother’s disease. Richard suggests that Ellis’s research is Meredith’s birthright. But what Ellis really left Meredith was first-hand experience of just how terrifying a disease Alzheimer’s can be and the drive to keep others from having to go through that, too. Okay, so fine. My problem isn’t really all that high-stakes when compared to curing diseases or whatever. In fact, my moment has come and gone and chances are you missed it completely. But, I promise you this: my mom sure didn’t. And I have a feeling this half-second of screen time is going to follow me around for a while yet. Austin’s Mom: “Did you see Austin on Grey’s? No? Well, here, I have it cued up on my phone…” Austin’s Mom’s friend: “Which one’s Austin? The one who looks like Santa Claus, age 29?” Whatever. That’s the price you pay when you’re a super-star. www.greyswriters.com
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Post by betinad on Feb 11, 2011 2:14:52 GMT -5
Tonight was an all-new episode of Grey’s Anatomy on ABC 7 in Queens. “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)” features the return of Thatcher to Meredith and Lexie’s lives. Meredith tests the memories of the patients in Derek’s clinic trials. Webber asks her to participate in a clinical trial for type 1 diabetes based on her mother’s journals. Derek tells her to think about it. Arizona wants Callie to eat healthy, including giving up caffeine, and she gets Mark on her side. Meredith talks to Cristina and Lexie about the two choices for trials, but Bailey interrupts and says Thatcher is in the hospital with abdominal pain. Lexie goes to Thatcher and is angry he didn’t tell them he’s there. He has a new girlfriend from AA—Danielle. They wonder if Thatcher is rejecting the liver. He had pain while intimate with Danielle. Owen, Callie, and April work on a guy who participated in a human slingshot. April’s perkiness is bothering Callie, and she sends her to get her food (but no coffee). Lexie can’t get her father’s results from the lab but doesn’t Mark’s help. Lucy is going to perform a C-section on a patient whose baby needs a heart transplant, and when Alex tries to join in, he finds out that she got him thrown off the case because she didn't like how he talks about patients. While in surgery, Mark asks Jackson about Lexie, and when he doesn’t have enough information, Mark sends him to find out what’s upsetting her. Arizona finds Callie making coffee and says she can make her own decisions, but Callie can’t bring herself to drink it. Meredith’s still trying to figure out which trial to choose, and Alex refuses to be kicked off his case. Lexie interrupts and asks Meredith to see Thatcher. Jackson tells Mark about Thatcher, but that’s not getting him in surgery. Lexie, Meredith and Cristina watch Thatcher and Danielle through the window until Cristina’s paged away. Thatcher yells out in pain and they run inside. Danielle’s worried and Lexie pushes her aside. The blood tests indicate that his liver’s fine. Danielle notices that it happens when he urinates and winds up worried about cancer. Randy wants to have his hips reduced in his hospital room, not the OR, so his friend can capture it on camera, but when Callie goes to do so, Randy begs his friend to turn the camera off. Lexie tells Meredith Thatcher has a kidney stone and thinks he’s going to do to her what he did to Meredith: have another child and never talk to her again. Meredith tells her that won’t happen and to give him her blessing. Alex and Lucy watch as the baby’s blood pressure drops in surgery and it becomes a race against the clock. They make it just in time and Alex and Lucy celebrate. Webber talks to Meredith about the trial and says this is a gift from her mother that could change her career. It could also change how she feels about her mother. In Randy’s surgery, Callie seems to relate to wanting to do whatever a person wants with their body. She really wants a cup of coffee, and Owen sends April to get her one. Jackson offers Lexie candy and gets her talking about Danielle and Mark. She says Mark’s leaving her behind so they have to be done. She realizes Danielle isn’t the problem—she is. Jackson tells Mark he didn’t get anything out of Lexie, but he can scrub in anyway. Lexie stops by to check on Thatcher, who’s doing fine. She asks Danielle to make sure he calls her. Bailey leaves the three alone. Danielle says they’re good for each other. Owen finds Randy’s friend taping him when he updates him on his conditions. His friend asks about the worst injuries Owen has seen and he tells them about a man who threw himself in front of a grenade. Meredith tells Webber that she understands how scared her mother was and that’s why she wrote everything down. She wants Webber to continue her work, but she’s going to continue to work on Derek’s trials. Callie arrives home to find Arizona and Mark cooked for her. She’s drinking coffee and she’s giving herself two extra votes about her diet for carrying and giving birth to the baby. Meredith tells Derek she’s working with him and he says the data says it’s “not not working.” Tune in to ABC 7 in Queens next Thursday at 9PM for the next new Grey’s Anatomy, “Golden Hour.” www.examiner.com/primetime-tv-in-new-york/grey-s-anatomy-p-y-t-pretty-young-thing-recap-meredith-s-choice
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Post by betinad on Feb 11, 2011 2:18:42 GMT -5
Valentine's Day has arrived at Seattle Grace on "Grey's Anatomy" on ABC. Thatcher Grey has also returned to the hospital and the lives of his daughters. He is possibly rejecting Meredith's liver, but she has other things on her mind. Chief Webber wants her to help him complete her mother's research, but she is already helping Derek with his Alzheimer's work. This means Meredith has a decision to make. As for Alex Karev, he has his eye on the new blond in pediatrics, but he has no idea she is a doctor that can bar him from the floor if she so chooses. At least that is what she threatens to do to him anyway. He opens mouth and inserts foot with her. Karev ends up in trouble with Arizona for his remarks to Fields, and he is off the case. He really needs to watch what he says. Mark Sloan is trying to deal with Callie's pregnancy, but he has a new person on his service – Jackson Avery. He is perfect in the eyes of Sloan – his looks are anyway. Sloan pushes Avery to talk to Lexie. He needs to know what is going on with her. Arizona is trying to keep Callie away from caffeine. She even uses guilt to keep her from it. Just like Lexie wants to keep her father away from the new girlfriend he brought with him to the hospital. A twenty-year-old young woman that has tattoos covering her, but she can't handle it alone. She runs to Meredith. When the sisters arrive at their father's room, she cannot go in, but she is forced to when he yells out in pain. This leads to a tense moment between Lexie and the new girlfriend. As it turns out, it isn't his liver. It might be something to do with his kidneys, but it leads to another argument between Lexie and the new girlfriend when she freaks out. From here, Bailey has to take him into surgery. The two sisters disagree on the new girlfriend though. Meredith tells Lexie to be happy for their dad and grow up. This is a surprising reaction from the older Grey. As for Karev and Fields, there is definite tension between these two as they watch the heart transplant of a brain dead infant. The two argue, but they continue to watch the surgery as a complication pops up. Crisis is adverted though. Meredith goes to Webber, and he really wants her to continue her mother's research, but she cannot make a decision right then. She walks away, and she returns to her work with Derek's study. As for Fields, she is ends up warming up to Karev some after a talk with Arizona. He does have some good qualities under that jerk exterior. Thatcher comes through surgery okay, and Lexie finally stops throwing darts at the girlfriend. She just wants to keep in touch with her dad. She fears he will disappear from her life like he did Meredith's when he met someone new. Meredith does make a decision on her study of choice. She gives Webber to go ahead to finish her mother's research, and she will continue her work on Derek's Alzheimer's study. She wants to cure her mother's disease. Once Callie arrives home with coffee in hand, she uses her new voting privileges to grant her one-cup of coffee per day. She needs her coffee. Another episode of "Grey's Anatomy" comes to a close, and the Grey daughters survived the return of Thatcher Grey once again. There will be another all-new episode of "Grey's Anatomy" on ABC next week entertainment.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979043242
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Post by betinad on Feb 11, 2011 14:32:26 GMT -5
Buddy's TV review So the season seems to be moving right along and last night's outing, "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)", was an example of solid, if not spectacular, storytelling. I felt like it was a transitional episode - setting up story for the rest of the season - as four of our characters were pretty much coming apart at the seams, albeit for vastly different reasons. Meredith Grey Meredith has a problem that makes other doctors rather envious: the opportunity to be a part of not just one but TWO potentially groundbreaking medical trials. Just as she's settling in to working with husband Derek on the Alzheimer's study, Richard decides to resurrect the work of her late mother, Ellis Grey, and pursue a major treatment for diabetes. Meredith struggles for the entire episode as she ponders everything from her relationship to her mother to where her loyalties should lie to what she ultimately wants to accomplish with her life and career. I thought she made the right choice: giving Richard her blessing to pursue her mother's work, but choosing to stick with Derek to seek a cure for her mother's disease. Meredith is still finding her footing professionally, but this trial seems to really speak to her in a profound way. Lexie Grey Meanwhile, Meredith's half-sister, Lexie, is unraveling completely. Their father, Thatcher Grey, has been admitted to the hospital with mysterious symptoms. Is he rejecting the liver Meredith gave him last year to save his life? Worse, who is the "tattooed skank" by his side professing her love and devotion? Of course, in due time Lexie realized that she was the one with issues. She was terrified that her father was getting sick again (it was a kidney stone, his liver was fine). She was still mourning the loss of her mother (who died a few years back from a freak medical complication) and, thus, was having difficulty accepting the new woman (who was about her own age!) in her father's life. Most of all, she was reeling from her latest breakup with Mark whom she still loves deeply and misses terribly. It was lovely to see Meredith supporting Lexie in a sincere way, even telling her (for the first time I can recall) that she loves her but Lexie needs to get it together. I'm also intrigued by Jackson. Sent on a reconnaissance mission by Mark, he ended up being drawn to Lexie. He kept quite about the things she told him in confidence. Are his intentions noble or self-serving? Is this the start of something for Lexie and Jackson? Only time will tell and what irony if Mark set the whole thing in motion himself . Callie Torres In the evening's comic relief, Callie was clashing with both Arizona and Mark over coffee. This was both a literal conflict and a metaphor for the way they've been trying to micromanage every aspect of Callie's pregnancy. I have to say, I was elated when Callie let them have it at the end telling them in no uncertain terms that while they get to express their opinions, she's the one carrying the child, so the final say is hers. YES! Lucy Fields Lose the quizzical look. That's the new Fellow in OB/GYN. She clashed with Alex Karev in an anvil-like way (after she had a Very Bad Experience with a patient and he shot his mouth off...again) with them Reaching an Understanding before she turned him down flat when he asked her out for a drink. I was fearful of Izzie 2.0 (this chick looks A LOT like the former Mrs. Karev) but the actress playing her has been cast in the new Charlie's Angels pilot, so I will hold my reservations at bay for the time being. She probably won't be around for long. Just as well. I love Alex in pediatrics. By his own admission he often says the wrong thing, but he also cares deeply for his patients. I want to see him as a doctor. He can find love later. Quote of the Episode Regular readers of this column know I don't care much for Teddy, but the girl is on a roll. Following up last week's gem "Oh, god, he got to you, too?" when told Arizona was having a baby with Mark, Dr. Altman threw another zinger Arizona's way. "For someone who has a history of ambivalence towards motherhood, you've got the whole guilt thing down cold." Hee. Scene of the Night Callie and Owen spent a good deal of the episode literally trying to put a patient back together. Trouble was, this patient was an idiot who almost killed himself for no good reason. I loved it when Owen put the guy firmly in his place in what was also a scathing commentary on the self-absorption and search for celebrity that permeates our culture. Explaining why a man who died was better off than this guy, Owen could barely contain his contempt when he said, "Well, that guy...he threw himself in front of a grenade to save six other soldiers. He didn't launch himself into a brick wall so that the Internet could laugh at him." The next all-new episode of Grey's Anatomy, "Golden Hour" airs next Thursday, February 17 on ABC. www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anatomy/greys-anatomy-fan-columnist-wo-39356.aspx
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Post by betinad on Feb 11, 2011 15:44:56 GMT -5
Ratings wipeout! 'Idol,' 'Grey's,' 'CSI' hit lowsIt was a wipeout last night, and not just for ABC’s action-reality show. Several top broadcast shows also had season-low ratings Thursday night, including American Idol, Grey’s Anatomy and CSI. Fox still won the night with Idol (21.7 million, 7.2) and Bones (10.1 million, 3.3). CBS aired Big Bang Theory (12.8 million, 3.9) and $#*! My Dad Says (10.4 million, 2.7), both dipping this week but avoiding new lows. CSI (12.6 million, 2.8) tied its all-time series low. The Mentalist (14.7 million, 2.9) held steady and won 10 p.m. ABC had Wipeout (6.9 million, 2.2), down 12 percent and marking a season low, along with Grey’s Anatomy (10.4 million, 3.9), which won 9 p.m. Private Practice (7.3 million, 2.7) bucked the trend — climbing 8 percent. NBC had its comedy endurance gauntlet: Community (3.9 million, 1.8) was down 10 percent and tied its season low. Perfect Couples (3.1 million, 1.5), The Office (6.9 million, 3.6), Parks & Recreation (5.1 million, 2.6) and 30 Rock (4.6 million, 2.3) were all within 8 percent of last week and avoided their bottoms. Outsourced (3.7 million, 1.7) hit a series low. The CW’s drama block of Vampire Diaries (2.7 million, 1.2) and Nikita (1.9 million, 0.7) dipped from last week. insidetv.ew.com/2011/02/11/wipeout-idol-greys-csi-hit-season-low-ratings/
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Post by betinad on Feb 11, 2011 15:47:15 GMT -5
iReport — Some people are just so lucky when it comes to finding love. Take Thatcher Grey for instance, well minus his first wife who cheated on him and took his daughter Meredith away. Thatcher found a wonderful woman who he married and had another daughter with, Lexie Grey. Sadly, this wife passed away after 20 some odd years of marriage, which turned him into an alcoholic which lead him to AA meetings where he met Danni, a twenty something, who became his sponsor and his girlfriend. Problem is, he didn't tell his two daughters about Danni. Danni brought Thatcher to Seattle Grace hospital complaining of severe abdominal pains. Dr. Bailey was tending to him when Lexie walked into the room. Lexie became extremely upset and rude when she found out this woman, who is possibly younger than her, is her father's girlfriend. It seems they have been dating for quite some time and Danni knows so much about Thatcher and the pain he is in. When she started to tell Dr. Bailey about the pain, she told Lexie that she probably won't want to hear this, to which Lexie sarcastically say's "I'm a Doctor!" So Danni starts to say "when we have sex and I'm on top" Lexie throws up her hands and makes some gutteral sound and walks out. Lexie finds Meredith and talks her into going to see their father, they both wonder if Thatcher's pain is from rejecting the liver transplant Meredith gave him. When they enter his room he yells out in pain, Danni is trying to tell them what's wrong but Lexie yells at her to get out, we are his family, Danni says she is family also, Lexie yells "you are not his family, you are his midlife crisis, now back the hell up". Meredith tells Lexie she needs to grow up and just accept the fact that their father found love. Lexie is still upset about Mark having a baby with Callie, but she still loves him. Lexie finally warms up to Danni, Thatcher's pain was caused by kidney stones. Lexie and Danni are standing over Thatcher's hospital bed watching him sleep, Danni tells her how much they mean to each other. Lexie looks over at Danni and asks "is that a hooker tatoo on your shoulder" Danni say's "yeah, I was drunk". Mark is worried about Lexie and how she's doing. He enlists Jackson, telling him he can be his assistant on surgery's if he can get some information about Lexie, should be easy since he and Lexie live together (interns are poor). Lexie won't open up to Jackson and he doesn't push it. Mark then tells him to get her some peanut butter cups because she talks alot when she's eating those. Lexie spills her guts to Jackson, telling him all about how Mark got Callie pregnant and how it's over between them but she misses him. Jackson decides to tell Mark that Lexie didn't say anything. Mark and Arizona are all controlling when it comes to what Callie eats or drinks, no coffee, bad for the baby. Callie is going bonkers, voices are too high pitched and she needs sugar, now!! Get some me coffee, nevermind, no get the coffee, no...etc. I never knew coffee was bad for the baby, but neither did Callie because in the end, she gets one coffee per day. They vote on everything now, Mark one vote, Arizona one vote, Callie three votes. This has got to be one of the best drama's on TV. All these characters are so interesting and not bad to look at either. Be sure to watch Thursday Nights on ABC. ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-553758?ref=feeds%2Foncnn
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Post by Leanne on Feb 11, 2011 16:00:33 GMT -5
'Grey's Anatomy' Recap: Making a Case for Pro-Choice Posted by Jeanne Sager on February 11, 2011 at 9:47 AM Grey's AnatomyGrey's Anatomy has gone pro-choice. Oh, don't get your panties in a bunch. There's more to being pro-choice than abortion. It's about making decisions for your body, and who better than the doctors at Seattle Grace/Mercy West to have to decide sometimes the body wants what the body wants? It's a show about surgeons. And what do surgeons like to do? Take control. But in an episode that was surprisingly subtle (for Grey's Anatomy anyway), Shonda Rimes and the writers made the case for self-determination one overbearing doctor at a time. A few cases in point: * Chief Webber has pulled up Ellis Grey's old writings, and he has a great idea. Take her work on diabetes care and put together a clinical trial to keep her legacy alive. And the way he sees it, Meredith Grey will want to proceed with her mother's life's work. Except Meredith is busy with Derek's Alzheimer's trial, a trial that will honor her mother's later years and perhaps protect her from sharing Ellis' fate. Enter the crossroads. Should Meredith pull out of the Alzheimer's trial because her mother left another project open? Should she have to do her mother's work simply because she's her mother's daughter? Score one for choice, Meredith doesn't take the Chief's bait. She's sticking with Alzheimer's; he can have diabetes. * Callie Torres is pregnant. And she's got not only her partner, Arizona Robbins, on her case, but the baby's daddy, Mark Sloane. The two have ganged up to determine what Callie can and can't do and can and can't eat, right down to making her gross green smoothies in the morning and trying to take away her one cup of caffeine. Score another one for choice: Callie is going to have her one cup of caffeine, thank you very much, and she's going to take this little threesome and make it a fivesome. Mark and Arizona get a vote. But so does she, the baby, and her girl thingy ... which is about to push out a baby. Since she's got the baby and the girl thingy votes, she holds the cards. * Little Grey's got some serious problems. First there's Sloane, who got Callie pregnant just as they were getting their relationship back on track. Now there's her dad, Thatcher Grey, who is suddenly back in the hospital, with a "tatted up skank" who is just about Lexie's age on his arm. And now Little Grey's got to bear the burden of holding up the entire basis of the episode. She's peeved because she isn't being given a choice (Sloane), and she's taking it out on dear old Dad for choosing a girlfriend without her approval. Score another one for choice: Meredith tells her to get over herself. She cries on Avery's shoulder, and she forgives her dad. Thatcher is free to choose who he loves. * And now for a little actual medicine. A teen (young adult?) has been rushed into the hospital with massive broken bones because he had the genius idea to build a human slingshot and climb in. Oh yeah, and his buddy, who was taping the whole thing (on an absurdly old video camera), has followed him into the hospital to catch the aftermath to post on the Internet. Only Torres breaks the news that he can't follow him into the operating room to see the real action, prompting the bonehead teen to demand she start resetting his bones right then and there, no anesthesia, no OR. As he told Torres and Hunt, "It's for the art." Score another one for personal choice: If a patient wants to be a bonehead, you let them. She starts setting his bones then and there, until he realizes this probably isn't such a good idea. Takeaway: don't mess with a doctor who hasn't had her caffeine today, every choice has consequences. Sometimes the "your body, your choice" issue gets so tangled up in abortion rhetoric that the rest of the argument gets lost. When it comes to our bodies, we remain in charge, even when we walk into a hospital and become a "patient." Our emotional health depends on remembering we come first. Did Grey's do a good job of showing that? thestir.cafemom.com/healthy_living/116166/greys_anatomy_recap_making_a
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Post by Leanne on Feb 11, 2011 16:01:35 GMT -5
It was your regular run of the mill Grey’s Anatomy last night with some interesting developments and not as much love as I initially anticipated for a Valentine’s Day episode. That being said, it was enjoyable but not overly enthralling. Greys Anatomy 7.14 Pretty Young Thing Review Mark and Lexie are still not speaking because of the elephant in the room or should I say the baby in Callie’s stomach. After hearing that Lexie is “ok” from Avery, Mark wants to find out just how upset she is and puts Jackson “Green Eyes” Avery on the case in exchange for taking the lead on a surgery. McSteamy advises Avery to use the peanut butter cup method to get Lexie to open up and while it works, we see a sparkle in Avery’s eyes as he chats up the youngest Grey and he lies to Mark about his results. McSteamy better watch out as it looks like McGreeny is on the prowl. An interesting and exciting development for the character. The Mark/Arizona/Callie dynamic was entertaining tonight as Mark and Arizona tried to prevent Callie from drinking coffee as to not harm the baby. However, thanks to Callie’s “extra special girl thingy vote" and the baby’s vote, she decides she is going to win this battle every time. I say, good for her! Meanwhile Alex and new OB-GYN Lucy Fields have a run in regarding a patient whose unborn baby needs a heart transplant. Their initial run-in isn’t successful as Alex puts his foot in his mouth with an offensive comment but after spending time watching the surgery with him in the gallery and seeing him interact with the family, it looks like her feelings might have changed. Meredith is forced to choose between two groundbreaking clinical trials. Already a part of her husband’s Alzheimer’s study, the chief presents her with a study on Type 1 Diabetes that her mother started. This storyline did not do much to advance the plot las night as Meredith stuck by her husband but it did allow for a little light to be shown on Ellis’ Grey’s work and the difference in relationships she had with her mother vs. the Chief. As we’re talking about her mother, it also made more sense that Meredith and Lexie’s father, Thatcher was in the picture during this episode. Currently dating a 20 year old “tatted up skank” as Lexie reffered to her, he was having some complications with his previous surgery. As it seems everything is going to be fine for Thatch, there wasn’t much point to him being around except to throw another wrench at Lexie. The girl has been dealing with some serious issues lately. If she’s starting a new relationship with Avery as this episode hinted, Lexie is really getting around the staff at Seattle Grace. She has gone from Mark to Alex to Mark and now to Avery. If this pattern proves correct, seems to me she’ll be back with Mark by the end of the season. I guess we will just have to wait and see. Quips of the Night * "That face, better than a hundred billboards my man” – Mark re: Avery * “It’s Sophie’s choice.” – Cristina re: Meredith picking between the Alzheimer’s and Diabetes clinical trials * “I’ll also get an extra special girl thingy vote.” – Callie re: She wins! So folks, what did you think of last night’s Grey’s? Was it just another episode for you or was it something special? What was your favorite storyline? Let us know in the comments below! tvovermind.zap2it.com/tv-news/greys-anatomy-714-pretty-young-review/47874
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Post by betinad on Feb 14, 2011 2:34:56 GMT -5
'Grey's Anatomy' still going strong after seventh season Last week's "Grey's Anatomy" episode proves why the series is in its seventh season. With a perfect combination of humor, love and wit, this episode did not disappoint. The storyline may not be anything too serious, but the simplicity of it brings much satisfaction to viewers. The episode centers on another typical day at Seattle Grace and is packed with plenty of drama. Owen, April and Callie operate on a patient who tried to be the next big internet sensation by becoming a human slingshot. Owen forces him to come to his senses by telling him a sobering story about a soldier in the war. These scenes were small, but the acting definitely made them memorable ones that really help justify why Owen is such an important character in the series.Being the womanizer that he is, Alex tries to woo a new doctor at Seattle Grace, but he is immediately put in his place when she kicks him off his own case after hearing him say a rude comment about her patient. Meredith and Derek continue their Alzheimer's research, but not before Meredith has to make the grueling decision on whether to continue research on a disease that killed her mother or to begin research on diabetes, for which her mother had great passion. The more humorous plot was between Mark, Callie and Arizona. Since finding out Callie is pregnant with Mark's baby, Arizona has been trying to keep her on a healthy diet, something that Mark agrees with. Callie does not take the "no caffeine" diet lightly and this causes much hilarious tension between the trio. In the end, though, they compromise and all problems are solved. The episode, entitled "Pretty Young Thing," leaves the usual list of unanswered questions that will hopefully be answered in weeks to come: will Lexie forgive Mark and get back together with him? Are Alex and Dr. Fields going to become an item? We will just have to wait and see. www.dailycampus.com/focus/grey-s-anatomy-still-going-strong-after-seventh-season-1.1978197
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Post by Leanne on Feb 15, 2011 16:23:56 GMT -5
It was a wipeout last night, and not just for ABC’s action-reality show. Several top broadcast shows also had season-low ratings Thursday night, including American Idol, Grey’s Anatomy and CSI. ABC had Wipeout (6.9 million, 2.2), down 12 percent and marking a season low, along with Grey’s Anatomy (10.4 million, 3.9), which won 9 p.m. Private Practice (7.3 million, 2.7) bucked the trend — climbing 8 percent. insidetv.ew.com/2011/02/11/wipeout-idol-greys-csi-hit-season-low-ratings/
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