Grey’s Spinoff Review
So I finally re-watched the 2 Hour “Grey’s” show this weekend to see what I missed the first time around. Here are some quick thoughts on the episode.
First up, I have to say I really wish they would have just done an hour long show devoted to Addison’s trip to LA. It would have made it so much easier than bouncing back and forth. I get why they did it though, if it was only the “Addison Hour” then many viewers probably would have skipped over this episode.
I really did like the cast of the “spin off” portion of the show. For the most part I felt they clicked. I’m still not getting the surfer boy thing though. He seems pointless aside from being eye candy. The part where they were are ogling him was funny though. The internet-sex doc also didn’t seem to mesh well into the story, but I’d give him time since he is a good actor.
I still loved the interaction between Addison and Tim Daly’s character, they were smokin. Addison and Noami worked really well together as well. The whole “divorce” issue between Naomi and her hubby hit a little too close to home for me though. While the whole story with the sleeping around surrogate in LA was amusing and well thought out, it seems the sex-crazed wife storyline in LA was just an afterthought and thrown in there. I still loved the whole Tilly part of the LA storyline!
Over in Seattle, I have a bad feeling that poor Alex headed for a heartbreak with Jane Doe. She went through an operation to regain her memory, but it didn’t work. By the end of the season we should get a little closure on Jane Doe. Will Alex be devastated? I am thinking so. He’s attached to her, maybe not romantically, but he’s attached.
Meredith’s step-mom died in this episode, just when she was getting close to both her and her estranged father. Now why did they go and do this? Seriously . . . SERIOUSLY!I don’t get it. I liked the interaction between Meredith and her step-mom, now she’s dead. Poo poo to this idea! Now her father is angry at her for “letting his wife die.” I agree with the poster who said if you sneezed you would have missed her death. I have watched twice and both times missed what she actually died of!
Burke and Christina continued with their wedding plans along with their nosey mothers. Christina and Burke clashed over whether to have a small simple wedding (Christina’s choice) or a big traditional one (Burke’s preference). I have to say, I love love LOVE Christina’s mother. Though I can’t watch the actress without thinking of her yelling “Waverly!” For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, go rent “The Joy Luck Club.”
Best lines of the week? Well I have to give the best line to Dr. Baily when she ordered Burke and O’Malley to talk to one another and leave her marriage out of it. There is just something about her character, she is one of my favorites on the show. I think it stems from the classic “Stop looking at my vajayjay” line. Addison gets the runner up line for the whole “you’re using fart logic” line. That would have gotten the line of the week, but again, there is something about Bailey’s delivery of her lines that just makes it.
I think Meredith’s stepmom had an infection (they never really said what kind or what caused it) and then she became septic which means there’s bacteria in the blood. That’s very dangerous and can cause death pretty quickly if they can’t get it under control. Maybe this helps as to how she died.
05.07.2007 at 11:19 am
Meredith’s step mom died from “toxic mega colon” it is not a made up disorder it is an infection in the colon that ends up going throughout the body.
05.07.2007 at 11:37 am
bascially what happened was that she had these hiccups and they gave her an anti-phsycotic which also is supposed to cure hiccups, when that didn’t work they put her on anti-bioctics which in turn cause her blood to turn septic. the bacteria that caused the septicemia to send her into shock. they tried to operate to get the blood to not be septic but it all happened so fast that i think they were just trying to pull “that bandaid” off quickly… which i didn’t like that story line AT ALL
05.07.2007 at 12:30 pm
So I’m further behind than you are on this one — I just watched this episode last night (5/9) — and this was single-handedly the WORST episode ever! (A few people at my office who watch agreed.) All the bouncing back and forth drove me nuts, especially when there’s so much meat in the Seattle story right now. Who cares what Addison is doing?!?! And they tried to cram too much into her story to make us want to watch her spinoff, but it came off a too much, too rushed. (That’s one show I won’t be watching.) At least they cleared up the elevator voice. If they were actually going to cast a voice from Addison’s subconscious, I feared I was going to be sick.
Hopefully tonight’s episode will redeem them. I’m curious to find out what’s up with Ava (Jane Doe). The previews hinted that she may be faking her amnesia….
05.10.2007 at 9:02 am