By Deanna Heibeck
After a long hiatus, Grey’s Anatomy returned this week with another drama-filled episode. And it brought its usual dose of flirty doctors and complicated drama with “One Step Too Far.”
Grey’s Anatomy excels as a television series because of its ability to hold so many plot lines, without losing its quality as a whole. This week’s episode proved no different even as a couple of new characters are folded into the mix of doctors, nurses, and drama at Seattle Grace Hospital. James Avery (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) guest stars as a grieving husband, Rebecca Hazelwood (Outsourced) plays a sexy doctor that wins over the affection of a series regular, and Summer Glau returns this week as the seductive nurse presumably a mistress in someone’s marriage.
Debbie Allen also returns this episode with a flawless performance as Dr. Catherine Avery, better known as Dr. Jackson Avery’s meddlesome mother. Although she is visiting Seattle Grace Hospital for an experimental bladder treatment, her character helps develop a ridiculous romantic relationship for her son and Hazelwood’s character, Dr. Mara Keaton. It was such an unbelievable plot line for these two characters to get together with such little chemistry. Only good thing that resulted from their being together was seeing Dr. Jackson Avery (played by the sexy Jesse Williams) in a tuxedo!
The most exciting plot line this week occurred between series regular, Christina Yang (played by Sandra Oh) and a new nurse, Emily (Glau). Previous episodes allude that Emily might be having an affair with Yang’s husband, Dr. Owen Hunt. After everything Yang and Hunt have been through in their marriage, you can’t help but side with Yang and hate Emily for coming between them. This was the perfect element of drama to shake things up from the growing monotonous story line between Yang and Hunt.
Probably the best scene of the entire season occurred this episode when Yang confronts Emily with an accusing, “Can you stop screwing my husband?” It was like a slap in the face with words. Yang never fails to bring the sass and sarcasm, which makes me love her character even more! As for her marital status, Yang learned some shocking surprises this week. It’s too bad we’ll have to wait a couple more weeks to find out their fate.
Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and Dr. Derek Shephard (Patrick Dempsey) threaten to have some relationship trouble this week, but writer Shonda Rhimes thankfully knew better than to push limits with this couple. After seasons of a dysfunctional relationship, this married couple finally seems to be happy, until Grey makes a huge medical mistake on Shephard’s patient. Once again, Shephard gets overly emotional and severely angry with her for her poor decision. Sometimes his character loses attractiveness when he has such temper tantrums. Luckily, they recover with only a minor bump in their happiness. It definitely gave their story an interesting twist, but I guess relationships on Grey’s Anatomy are never too perfect for too long.
Series fans find a familiar relationship spawning for Dr. Alex Karev as he comes to the aid and protection of one of his interns. With all these new and constantly changing characters over the years, it’s always great when the doctors make references to past episodes or characters. Dr. Karev’s new attentions towards his intern are reminiscent of an earlier season relationship he had with a patient. Yet their status as a couple still remains unclear. Once again, Shonda Rhimes masterfully leaves us just enough to speculate while forcing us to keep tuning in every week.
This episode proved to be just enough drama to satisfy my addiction. Unfortunately, I guess I’ll just have to wait a few more weeks to get my next Grey’s Anatomy fix.
No comments:
Post a Comment