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MaryRhodaPhyllis

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  1. S15 was the nadir for me. Unlike S13, I can barely remember it because it left no impression.
  2. I'm becoming more and more convinced that this is Pompeo's last season and she's taking the Grey's Anatomy title with her. The spin-off being teased earlier this year is really the continuation of Grey's under a new name and with *some* of the current cast.
  3. This episode and last week's made for a really strong one-two punch end to what will otherwise be remembered as an unfortunate mess of a season. It's a shame production had to stop two months early -- my fear is that whatever the writers had planned for the last four episodes of S16 will be diluted and stretched out over S17's first eight/nine shows (until the NEXT hiatus). And all the exciting dramatic propulsion of the last few weeks will be lost again. Oh, well. C'est la Grey's.
  4. And who knew early cognitive disorders were sexually transmitted? First Ellis, then Adele, now Richard. Catherine better be running scared.
  5. So next season is the last season, right? That's what it's really starting to look like.
  6. I've never minded a social justice cause unless it interfered with the series' ability to tell unique, engaging, character-driven stories. Grey's has officially jumped the proverbial shark on that front -- this episode was overstuffed with messaging. "Krista, don't preach." Also, this used to be a show with ridiculous writing but phenomenal acting. With players like Williams, Gianniotti, and Landi among the regular cast, that's no longer true.
  7. Look, I rooted for Izzie/Alex back in the day and I took a long time to invest in Jo, who spent her first four seasons as a cardboard cutout love interest with scant definition. But reuniting Alex with Izzie as his farewell storyline totally negates all the growth his character endured while with Jo. It's a rejection of the last, eight -- if not TEN -- years. And I'm shocked that they would dignify Heigl by trying to spin Izzie as anyone's happy ending. This was like fan fiction. Plus, now we're goddamn stuck with Jo, who only exists on the show because she was supposed to be Alex's endgame love interest. There's no point to her now -- this is the same thing that happened to Arizona after Callie. Oy vey. 2012 me would have been thrilled with this; 2020 me is not.
  8. To me, the show's ridiculous stories have always been less hard to swallow then the ridiculous scripting. This one had some classically contrived Krista-era dialogue: repeated cadence, structure, phrases. And laughably false moments like this: a 70+ year-old-woman un-ironically saying, "We're living our best life!" On what planet is that sensical?
  9. This is Brooke Smith levels of hinky. No regular player -- especially an original -- leaves in the middle of a season with no press or fanfare.
  10. This was all kinds of absurd. But because we've spent over 15 years now expecting nothing less, I'd call it a rather fitting milestone episode for the series.
  11. Thought this was one of the better episodes in a while. The characters had real conflicts, the dialogue was more honest than usual, and there was movement in several personal arcs. The series remains a collection of characters of differing depths and the chosen stories are never consistently well-rendered, but entries like this show why the series is long-running.
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