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I didn’t recognize him right away but when I did that was exactly what immediately came to mind! The saxophone and that stupid hat. I kept thinking that Simone really needed to have a talk with Bailey and tell her exactly what happened in her previous residency. Chase is a racist, sexist SOB. The nerve of him saying Bailey’s not so great—I really wished Simone had yelled “Oh yeah? She cleaned up your mess and successfully resected the tumor after you gave up!” after him as he left. Both male patients came across as idiots. The kid knows he could die at any sudden motion yet tries to jump up when Millin finds the girl? I think Teddy should really blame herself for this one. Her telling Millin to find her was exactly what led to this outcome, and she only decided he should “fight for her” (or however she put it) because of her own issue with Owen. He’d said she was interested in bugs. Millin must have used that because she found her in an entomology club. I really hope Millin doesn’t go tell this girl what happened. Incredibly bad idea. She talked to the guy for all of 15 minutes and they didn’t even exchange numbers. Telling her will just make her feel like she’s the reason he died. Completely sick of Owen and Teddy. Especially Teddy since she was being a hypocrite with Owen and a complete bitch to Ben.

Glad Avery turned out not to be pregnant after all. What a mess that was. If the show is renewed I hope she goes away to med school. I liked her at the beginning of the season but now I really don’t. After their threesome night she had declared “never again” yet now she’s calling them a throuple?

He didn’t murder her. We got hints that he was probably conspiring with the “high-end gays” to murder her, but her death ended up being an accident and an autopsy would have borne that out.

He specifically said at some point that his mother had told him Jim killed his father. Either to Frank, Chelsea, or both, I don’t recall. ETA: Zion is not as smart as he thinks. Mr. Genius Baller MBA should have thought to open a Swiss bank account or one in the Caymans for Greg to deposit the money into. And Belinda is not nearly as rich as she thinks she is. The IRS will take a sizable chunk of that money because it was deposited into her US account. It’s only “retire and never work again” money if you invest it wisely and are considerably older than Belinda, who is maybe mid-40s? She could be around for another 50 years if she stays healthy. And you just know she’s gonna start blowing that money like a lottery winner.

I so wanted to see what she’d do if she found out Tim was the one who stole her lorazepam. Missed comedic opportunity, Mike White! Would also have enjoyed a scene with the Ratliffs getting off the plane only to find FBI agents waiting to haul Tim off in handcuffs. Bummer the Russians got away with it. ETA: Gaitok may think he’s got everything he wants now, but life with Mook isn’t going to be as great as he thinks. She’ll just keep pushing him to get more promotions until she drives him completely nuts.

Oh, it ws definitely also Broussard’s fault. She was more interested in her stats looking good than in seeing to it the patient got treated properly. (If you watch The Pitt, that woman from Admin is constantly on Dr. Robbie’s back about the stats on how quickly patients get treated and moved out of the ER.)

I think he has a particular frat-boy mentality I saw from a lot of 20-something guys when I was in my twenties. They seemed to view everything and everyone through a lens of “hot or not”. Saxon rating his sister’s attractiveness and speculating on her sex life, and encouraging his brother to hit on every attractive women he sees (“it’s a numbers game”) just to get laid fits with that mentality.

I read an interview with Patrick Schwarzenegger in which he said that at some point he tried to play Saxon a little more likable, but Mike White told him not to because nobody’s going to change that much in a week.

I saw that differently. He had this expression on his face when he took her hands. (Think Joey Tribbiani “How YOU doin’.”) I think she realized he was really only there to try to get into her pants after all and that’s why the rush to get him out.

Binged all 10 episodes in spite of the main character being so unlikable, because I really wanted to find out just what the hell she’d said to HR to get Xander suspended. She was tied with Cole for Most Unlikable. Danny was such a trainwreck! She came across as one of those people who just won’t get out of their own way and then thinks they’re always the victim. I sure don’t get why Xander fell in love with her with all her pull closer/push away whiplash. Or why Sam also seemed to be in love with her despite his denials. Or why nearly everyone seemed to think she was the best choice for chief resident. And I really don’t get why Xander still loved her at the end. It seems to me she threw him under the bus with HR so it wouldn’t look like favoritism if she was chosen for chief resident. We saw the argument before she went to HR, but never got to hear exactly what she told them. If she were truthful it should have gone something like “Dr. Phillips and I have been in a consensual relationship for x months, but I have ONLY JUST NOW figured out that if I get chief resident it will look like I was sleeping my way to the top, and he doesn’t understaAaAaAnd how I feel, so this is ALL HIS FAULT!” As for Cole—what a horrible person. Talks down to everyone and cheats on both his girlfriend and his mentor. If there is a second season (doubtful) I hope he does get sued. Loved when Luis told him he’d make life difficult for him in the ER if he hurt Cass. If Luis hadn’t already been my favorite character he sure would’ve been after that.

He wouldn’t necessarily have blood on him unless he shot someone at close range. That said, I doubt he’s the shooter. Same. And I keep wondering how she knows how to do the procedures she isn’t supposed to be doing on her own, especially since she’s just out of med school and shouldn’t know any more than Whitaker or Javadi. Seems kind of suspicious.

I thought it was funny when Saxon said he had no hobbies. What, pumping iron and pounding protein shakes isn’t a hobby? (Okay, we never see him in the weight room but you don’t have that body without working for it.) I suppose bullying his siblings and hitting on every attractive woman he sees don’t count. True, a lot of these rich people just have generational wealth. But would Mook know the difference? I think she just doesn’t want to be poor and pushing Gaitok to be more ambitious is one way to try to get there.

Sritala keeps getting non-answers to her questions about the supposed movie because these two guys didn’t agree on their stories beforehand. Frank is obviously BSing and making things up on the spot, claims to have watched her movies but can’t name any, and then Rick calls him his actual name when he’s claimed to be Steve. All I could think was that she’s either incredibly dumb or so vain that she’s enjoying the idea of starring in a movie again too much to notice they’re lying. And her husband didn’t seem to notice either! I think Gaitok is going to try to play the big hero to impress Mook, take the gun to confront the Russians over the robbery, and all hell will break loose. (As to Mook: if she so badly wants an ambitious guy, it would make more sense for her to throw herself at some rich guest than to tepidly date someone she isn’t really very interested in.) Greg has to know that offering Belinda $100k is basically an admission of guilt—he doesn’t seem the type to think anyone would fall for “I had nothing to do with it, I just want to preserve my peace”. I think if she takes it he’ll kill her and take back the money. (And she would have been smarter to act shocked that Tanya is dead, like she hadn’t heard—which she really hadn’t until she looked up Greg online.) As soon as Laurie and Alexei finished having sex, my husband said “He’s going to ask her for money.” Lucky for her his girlfriend showed up before she ran out of excuses for saying no! After she got away and was walking down a dark street alone I thought she’d get mugged or something, but no, a cab conveniently shows up. Piper either doesn’t want any of her family along at the monastery or was already starting to get disillusioned about what it would be like to stay there. I think it would be funny if Lochlan decides to stay and she doesn’t.

My impression of Lochlan is that he doesn’t really know what he wants and is easily led. He readily agrees to come to dinner and back Piper up with the parents when she tells them she wants to stay at the monastery for a year. But later when Saxon wants to stay and party on the boat, he goes along with it without a second thought. I think the reason he tends to follow Saxon more than Piper is because Saxon is an obnoxious bully who’ll give him a hard time if he doesn’t, so he takes the path of least resistance.

S4E6: Really, really hate the new character. He’s way too glib and arrogant. I really enjoyed Darlene telling him to call her Officer Curtis. She’s not afraid to remind any of these men of their manners—except Selwyn, who rarely needs the reminder anyway. Speaking of Selwyn, I loved his well-deserved digs at Fox that were taken as “humor”. Is Fox really that stupid, or is calling it humor another of his many not-as-subtle-as-he-thinks putdowns?

I wonder if she really did want Valentin for herself all along. Maybe it was just opportunism combined with her insecurity over feeling old (he was the one who sent them to the resort with all the retirees, after all) and wondering if her 10-years-younger husband was cheating on her. But even so, yeah, she had a lot of nerve being mad. I do hope the husband shows up, if only because I didn’t recognize the voice on the phone and wonder who the actor was. I was in a similar situation once in my 20s though it went a little differently. A friend (who was not married herself like Jaclyn) was pushing me at a guy. Only we did end up hooking up—just once—and she got majorly pissed off. And, like Laurie, I could only wonder why she’d been pushing me at him if she really wanted him for herself. Looking back I knownshe was really a frenemy and was probably hoping I’d be rejected. It’s that plus it’s so obvious he’s an entitled douchebag. He thinks of women as “pussy” and thinks the world owes him that because he’s good-looking and from a rich family. Belinda needs to stay far, far away from Greg’s dinner party. He also might try to kill Saxon. Lochlan will be safely tucked away at the monastery. Victoria telling Piper to stay one night at the monastery was a good idea, but I don’t think she’ll like how it turns out. She seems incredibly ignorant and unable to imagine anyone feeling differently than she does. With her obnoxious attitudes it’s no wonder Piper wants the opposite. Wouldn’t it be ironic as hell if Tim ends up dead from an accidental OD on the lorazepam? He didn’t. Chloe admitted she had sex with both brothers.

I get that Michael isn’t completely over Amy and why, and Nora is probably a rebound. I don’t even like Nora (though I think pre-accident Amy undoubtedly gave her plenty of reason for her antipathy). But… call me old fashioned if you want, but Nora IS his wife now, and they’re expecting a baby, FFS. So Michael needs to grow the hell up and do right by her. Come clean with her about his feelings rather than sarcastically telling her to shut up about the baby and sneaking around kissing Amy. Give Nora the chance to decide whether she wants marriage counseling or divorce/co-parenting.

I think she must have been Richard’s personal lawyer. I doubt the hospital’s legal staff would have told him to do all that. I don’t think Amy was necessarily going back to being cold with Katie. The problems she was wrestling with were not really appropriate to share with her child, especially not the issue with Michael and Nora for obvious reasons. I guess we’re supposed to sympathize more with Amy than Nora, but I didn’t blame Nora one bit for telling her off. But Michael is definitely the bigger problem. We didn’t get to see the eventual discussion Nora and Michael would have when he finally stops dodging her. I hope we get to see it in episode 1 next season, because he’s the one who deserves the real butt-kicking. He knows he has a pregnant wife at home—one who, as she told Amy, picked up the pieces after he and Amy split up. He should have shut that kiss down for both Nora’s and Amy’s sakes! And now they appear to be at it again… SMH. Poor Jake. I really hope he doesn’t go back to that bar and end up having a drunken fling with Sonya. I don’t like how Sonya told him what she overheard, purely for her own benefit. And did it not cross her mind that this would be hurtful to him? Gaslit is valid. Would you say you lighted a lamp or lit it?

S2E4: Anyone else wondering if it was the two teenage daughters who slashed Khaya’s tires so he’d stay overnight with Jackie? They certainly seemed to have been pushing them together pretty hard in the last couple of episodes. And I hate how Khazi treated Maria on the two occasions they met. Aileen needs to shut her nasty mouth already. She was trying really hard to imply at dinner—to guests, no less—that Maria was a cold-blooded killer when that wasn’t the situation at all. I do wonder whether the bruise picture will start her thinking or she’ll just continue being Gordon’s ventriloquist dummy. And I really, really don’t care what happens to drunk Marius.

Another odd thing about this episode: they opened the guy’s chest for cardiac tamponade?! Every time I’ve seen this occur on a medical drama someone withdraws the blood using a needle. Yet another odd thing: the liver was too big. SFW? Partial liver transplants are done all the time. The liver grows back.

She was and then saw Simone and Adams kissing. I assumed it was just an awkward moment for her to be interrupting, so she decided to wait, and expected we’d see her apologize early in this episode. I was just as mystified at first as to why she was now being a complete asshole to Simone. But it became apparent during her rant at Bailey’s house that she’s pissed that the other interns have relationships, while Masuda has left and doesn’t want to see her. Her behavior came across like “So what if I threw you under the bus and got you yelled at by Altman. You deserved it because you have something I don’t.” All the maturity of your average 13-year-old.

People I wanted to smack in this episode: - Daughter of Motorcycle Guy. STFU with the hysterics already and let the doctors do their work! The nerve of her asking if they knew what they were doing… - Millin. Complaining there’s no team? She’s the one who wasn’t being a team player. She was acting like a moody teenager who thinks she’s everyone’s victim. And unless I missed something, she still hasn’t apologized for throwing Simone under the bus because she’s so jealous over the other interns having relationships. The jealousy I completely understand, but behaving like this over it is so immature. - Richard making all the snotty comments to Meredith when they were supposed to be working together. That level of unprofessional isn’t acceptable in an intern, much less a highly experienced doctor. (Yeah, I know, shocker… this is Grey’s, after all.) - Evynn for leaving the Alzheimer’s out of Tasha’s medical records. - That patient’s mom who was blatantly flirting with Ndugu right in front of another doctor but then turned him down for a date. What?

And for us science fiction fans, he was Captain Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery and Victoria was Dr. Smith in the Lost in Space reboot series. As soon as they gave Gaitok the gun, all I could think was that they should have fired him, not given him a damn gun! Idiot leaves the guard shack with the gun not only not locked up, but lying out in plain sight. Oy vey. After seeing Greg watching Saxon and Chloe I wondered if Saxon might end up being the person who ultimately gets shot. And when he was looking Belinda up and came across the picture of her and Zion, his expression changed. Was he now thinking she’d be missed if he killed her? Or that he could blackmail her by threatening Zion? Anyone else thinking Valentin’s two friends did the robbery?

Avery really irritated me in this episode. First she tells Max to leave her alone and that he wouldn’t be her choice for a co-parent (I can’t recall whether she actually said this in so many words or just heavily implied it). Then she gets all jealous over the other doctor—okay, she’s human, that’s understandable. But what ticked me off was how she lit into Max over it. It came across as “I don’t want you but don’t you dare even look at anyone else.” I was thinking the same thing. Or why don’t they use one of the cryopods from the plastic surgery week episode? I don’t recall those ever showing up again.

Each has been talked about behind her back by the other two. But in most of the scenes where all three are together, Jaclyn and Kate come off like a mutual admiration society with a halfhearted compliment to Laurie as an afterthought. Their political discussion may have changed that, though. I think Kate living in Austin yet becoming conservative just makes her seem even more annoying (not to mention pathetic). Here she is among lots of liberals but she just turns her brain off and lets her husband do her thinking for her. I don’t have a lot of respect for women who change their beliefs and interests like chameleons to match their man’s because It’s All About Him. Internalized misogyny at its finest. Have a brain of your own! It’s All About Him also seemed to apply when Victoria was telling Tim how great he was and how Rick must just be “jealous”. Anyone else think there’ll be a romance between Belinda and Pornchai? Kind of hoping Greg/Gary will end up going overboard on the yacht outing. I wonder if Greg was even his real name?