Grey’s Anatomy: Idle Hands – March 21, 2013

I was a little skeptical going into last night’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy. I thought it might be all whiny Meredith & power struggles amongst the new Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital owners.  The first few minutes seemed to almost cement my skepticism with the new fangled body scan and the constant reminders of how much it cost.

The good outweighed the annoying last night and I was pleasantly surprised with the episode. So let’s break it down…

The Good

·        Alex and the adorable cancer kid punking Chesty, who spent some time running around the hospital looking for a patient named Jenny Talia. Yes, I am over the age of fifteen, but I still found it hilarious.

·        Christina was back to her old self last night, trying to find a way to one up a former classmate and get on board Dr. Russell’s lotus valve project. And when she cut his funding so he HAD to put her on it, well that was the icing on the Christina cupcake.

·        April riding all the rides at the carnival. So much better than Jesus hating her.

·        My fears of it being a whiny Meredith episode was sort of spot on. My fears that I would loathe it, well they couldn’t be further from the truth. I loved Meredith and her extremely pessimistic doomsday outlook on her pregnancy. “If any one is going to have a two headed, eleven fingered baby, it’s going to be me.”

·        “See that, eleven fingers” “That’s not a finger”. Yep, McBaby is a boy!

The Annoying

·        Arizona & Callie. Ugh! Can they just please have the sex already so that we can move on and stop these uncomfortable sexual overtones? Really why would you share the sex with all of your partners?

·        Chesty getting all crude at the end of the episode. WTH Man? That was not cool, not cool at all.

·        The sad “goodbye” the teacher had to say to her students was gutting. It is so hard to find that one teacher that you love so much, but having to say goodbye to her, I wouldn’t have made it through.

·        Just use the damn thing already! Who gets a new body scanner and doesn’t test it out before putting a patient through it? I would have though there would have been test runs when it was set up.

·        And the counting? I get it’s cool, but that is a man with several broken bones and you people are acting like it is a new release of Harry Potter. Have some compassion!

·        Bailey. Dear Bailey, how I can barely stand you anymore. You are just so into you, you, you.

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Thursday Three: February 21, 2013

Thursday Nightcap

I sort of felt like I needed a nightcap after watching my Thursday Three. Let’s dive right in…

Vampire Diaries

Elena is in all sorts of denial. She takes her very dead brother Jeremy home to wait for his magical ring to work, but since he turned out to be one of The Five, he is technically supernatural and that ring doesn’t work anymore.

But, she is pretty sure that witchy Bonnie can bring him back, because that never went wrong in the past. Only problem is, Bonnie is nowhere to be found. She is off in the Newfoundland wilderness with Professor Shady Shane. He tells her a tale of how to bring Jer back to life, back to reality. Sounds like total b.s. to me, but Bonnie loves Jeremy so she will try anything.

Dr. Fell comes to the Gilbert house to claim Jer’s body, but Elena is having none of that. Too bad for the people who can actually smell things, like super vamps Stefan & Caroline and the humans, because Jer is starting to stink up the place.

Damon hooks up with Rebekah and they run into another hunter. Damon leaves Bek with the hunter and heads off to find Bonnie. She comes into the clearing and Damon proclaims “I could hug you right now” and they do. Bonnie tells Damon she knows how to bring Jeremy back to life. They hop some sort of flight back to Mystic Falls and Bonnie lays out her plan.

Her plan involves a huge massacre. You see why I think Professor Shady Shane is full of b.s.? Finally Elena’s bulb brightens and she realizes Jeremy is dead and nixes Bon’s plan. Instead she decides to light the house on fire with Jeremy’s body inside as a cover story. Seriously they need a cover story? The sheriff is in on the situation, they have a doctor who knows, what is there to really cover up? Damon tells her to “turn it off” and I am not really sure if she did or didn’t. Because she still burns her house down, with all her shit in it. What?

Rebekah is still in Newfoundland, not really sure how she’s getting home, but that really isn’t her problem right now, she finds Professor Shady Shane in the forest all bleeding and dying and well that can only mean one thing. Silas is some sort of shape shifter and has assumed the Prof’s identity. So it was his total story of b.s. with that whole massacre thing.

Looks like we have some reruns coming up, so not to sure what is happening next in Mystic Falls.

Grey’s Anatomy

Things are getting dicey at Seattle-Grace. Derek & Company are trying to find a partner to throw in about 90% of the money they need to buy the hospital, Alana has talked Pegasus back to the table, the interns are getting haircuts and looking for work, Bailey is being a bitch and Richard is on to something.

So Mousy got a really cute haircut and is keeping Meredith up to date on her patients, while she has to intern for Bailey who is all bitchy about Meredith leaving her a patient who is ready to die and has no hope. Alex is working on taking down Phil, a little boy’s tumor, Owen is totally in the dark about everything.

The hour wasn’t all that exciting. D & Company finally read some people in when a potential investor tells them they have no leadership, so they enlist Chief Webber and Owen. Owen goes balls to the wall and begs the board to wait one more day, to which they agree. Derek & Webber get to fly to Sea-Tac in a helicopter only to be shot down by the investor (not literally).

Webber has some sexy talk with Momma Avery and in the end, the Harper Avery Foundation buys in and backs the doctor and then Shonda jumps the shark and informs Jackson and everyone in the room that he is the Foundation’s representative and that she essentially “bought him a hospital”. Yeah, “he’s in charge.”

I think my brain shut down at that moment because it was one of the dumbest things I think Grey’s has done to date. And I have no more words.

Scandal

Well Hollis Doyle isn’t the one spying on Olivia. Thank god for that right? We find out pretty on that Creeper Jake is working for Evil Fitz. That’s right POTUS is having Liv spied on. Jake makes the comment that they have gone from photo to video surveillance and I am taken back to long before Fitz was shot that he had photos of Olivia. So, he’s been spying on her way before he knew about Defiance. But why? I am pretty sure that is the big arc question we are going to be asking ourselves until the season finale.

Jake is at least somewhat of a gentleman and doesn’t watch her get all naked. Score one for him. Also I think he might actually care for her. And not just in that stalkerly way.

Cyrus is still being frozen out by Fitz and Mellie is still in his good graces. Olivia tips Cyrus to letting Mellie be her own downfall and then he tips the media when it is decided that the First Lady will speak to the family of the hostages on a call-in. Once Fitz finds out, he is pissed and out pushed is Mellie and Cyrus just sits backs and waits.

David is being followed, but doesn’t know by whom. Huck is a smelly felly and the team has a new job of finding a non-gay, non-committed governor candidate and fake wife. And I am quite sure we all knew from the beginning that he was not gay and not gun shy around women, and was indeed bedding his sister-in-law. What we didn’t know until later in the show is that his brother totally knew about it and had no problem with it whatsoever. Politicians people, pol-i-ticians.

Finally we find that some lady (sorry I zoned out a bit) was following David and that she knows who was after the dead lady (who’s name I do not remember).

The CIA director assures POTUS that the mole is not in his department, which technically isn’t true because we find out HE is the mole.  Oh and Olivia & the Gladiators all know that.

I love that Quinn did some research on water-boarding to figure out what is going on with Huck. I think they have this adorable relationship. They are both the quiet types.

So why is Fitz spying on Olivia? How long before CIA Director is outed? Will Cyrus ever get back into Fitz’ good graces? And why do we still not know the name of America’s Baby???

Did you tune into any of my Thursday Three? If so what are your burning questions and head scratchers? Do you think Grey’s “jumped the shark”? Why is Fitz spying on Olivia? Hit the comments and let me know.

Burning Questions: Valentine's Edition

It’s time for Thursday Night Questions!!

Thursday is my night for television, I watch three straight hours of programming and am always left with a ton of questions. Valentine’s Day left me with some doozies!

The Vampire Diaries

First there was not enough Damon in this episode for me. Sorry, there just wasn’t enough of his snark.

Once you get through all the blah blah stuff you get to the juicy bits.

·        There is only one dose of the cure.

o       Seriously? One dose? Who doesn’t plan for the future?

o       Which leads to who is going to get it. For sure if Damon &/or Stefan get it they are giving it to Elena. Rebekah wants it for herself. Vamp Hunter Vaughn wants to cram it down Silas’ throat to kill him for real. And a few people want to feed it to Klaus. Oh and I think Klaus wants to give it to Tyler, but he also wants to kill him.

·        Bonnie does her magic with a shirtless Jeremy and it is all gooey and flirtatious. Once her magic works there is a “cave in” of sorts that leads Professor Shane with a broken leg and nobody wants to help him. Nobody.

·        Silas, for being a calcified dead dude has some magic of his own because he creates hallucinations for people. First Prof Shane with his dead wife then Bonnie’s Grams visits her. Jeremy, being that whip smart high school drop out he is, is on to it and brings her back.

·        Once Jer & Bon stumble upon good old creepy Silas, they find the cure locked in his stony hands and can’t pry it loose. Vaughn comes in and totally stabs Bonnie and then he and Jer get into a fight and well Jer is losing that battle. But big sister to the rescue.

·        Only it is not big sister Elena it is Katherine. Yes ladies and gents Katherine is back for the cure. But nobody knows why.

·        She sacrifices Jeremy to Silas because the only way to wake Silas is to feed him blood and well Jeremy is fresh meat. Silas goes to town on Jeremy like he is a Golden Corral buffet. And then he eventually breaks his neck and leaves him lying pretty convincingly lifeless on the floor.

·        Oh yeah, and Klaus is free and Tyler is on the run.

So the questions are:

·        What did Katherine do to Elena?

·        Is Jeremy really dead? Was he wearing his ring?

·        Will Bonnie be saved?

·        Why does Katherine want the cure?

·        What is Silas going to do with the Mystic Falls Vamps?

So that was jam packed hour one. Then we move on to a somewhat more subdued Grey’s Anatomy, where Derek & Company all quit in the end as they decide to buy Seattle Grace.

I have to say that I am really over the whole plane crash/settlement/hospital in jeopardy stuff. I miss the medical part of this medical drama.

I was left with only a few questions:

·        When will this whole thing with the hospital end?

·        Are we sure this isn’t the final season? It sure is playing out like it is.

·        Can we just get Owen a mental health day? This poor guy is run ragged with all this crap.

Finally it was time for Scandal. And after last week’s culmination of Defiance it was time for a new arc. And it starts off with a two-fer.

First I have to say that I think ABC is really pushing the adult content for this show. The show opens with Fitz in the shower only to be joined by Mellie who wants to make his day start off great and that is all I am going to say. I did feel for poor Cyrus who had to interrupt that with a pressing matter for the “President”.

Olivia is having an okay morning with a swim and then a stop at some corner coffee shop where she runs into Henry and they flirt a bit.

David Rosen is not having such a great day as he wakes up to a dead girl in his bed and cops at his door. Once he sends the popo on their way he calls the only person in town who can handle shit like this and Olivia and the Gladiators are off to rescue him.

Turns out that some covert CIA operatives were captured and are being held hostage in some foreign land that I didn’t quite get or can’t quite remember. In any event, Fitz is not happy and decides to handle this shit.

David agrees to let Olivia & Company clean up the shitstorm that hit his apartment while he was roofied out.

Quinn joins Team Cleanup with coach Huck and seems to excel at it. Is it just me or would they just make the cutest couple?

While Huck estimates they have two days before Wendy the slut is found, it turns out that she picked that day to have cable installed, so they have two hours!

It amazes me what they can get done in two hours. They id half naked photos of men (no faces, just body parts) and question them.

Olivia runs off to ask Henry errr Jake some questions because he is on Wendy’s phone tree. Then finds out that David has been arrested.

David makes a compelling argument to the guy who replaced him and is released. He heads off to Olivia’s to basically fire her after he accuses her of setting him up to rot in jail for Defiance. She tells him he can’t afford her and leaves.

Liv then heads off to meet up with Cyrus who is not having the best week ever as Fitz had a meeting with the head of the foreign land without him and is really giving him the cold shoulder. They have a back and forth on if there is something they need to discuss and well they apparently do, but decide they don’t.

So Cy has just a few minutes, but was gentlemanly enough to bring Liv a coffee. She asks him if he set David up for murder and while he likes the idea he did not do it. She drops the bomb on Cyrus that she is pretty damn sure Fitz knows about…you guessed it…Defiance. And then the light bulb comes on.

Back in hostage situation, Fitz wants to send in a SEAL team because they get shit done and Cyrus thinks they should wait, so Fitz acquiesces for all of about five minutes.

Turns out that James & Cyrus were able to decide on a name for their little baby, and little Ella is being christened and what nearly a year old. And guess who her godparents are? Yep, Fitz and Olivia. They have some sort of sexy stare down while everyone watches except the priest who is blessing the lovely child. Then after some thanking and champagne (because that is the classy way of doing a baby christening), Olivia sprints off with Fitz right behind her. Seriously was like the fastest walking race ever and it ended when Fitz pulled her into a computer control room (they don’t lock that kind of stuff up?) and once again the adult content was pushed to its near breaking point. Very skanky if you ask me.

Olivia drops the word Defiance and it is in the open and well he says she betrayed him and blah blah blah. Cyrus interrupts with news that the SEAL team is going in and they head off to the war room to watch. (See Fitz decided to send in the SEAL team right before the christening after Mellie told him to follow his gut). Turns out the hostages are not there and they issue an abort and then one of the cabinet members has the room cleared and drops the bomb on Fitz & Cyrus that there is a mole and there is arc number one for the second half of season two.

Olivia head off to the office and gets a visit from David with Wendy’s flash drive and they discover that old Wendy has a lot of classified information she is not supposed to have, stuff nobody is supposed to have.

After Liv heads home and calls up Jake and they chat and make plans for a date of sorts. Jake has some sort of fat apartment and after making himself a cool beverage while on the phone with Liv, he heads to his big old couch and full wall of television screens all of which are tuned to one station…Olivia’s apartment. Imagine William Baldwin’s character in Sliver and you will get it. Jake is definitely not Henry. And that is arc number two for the second half of season two.

So the burning questions are:

·        Who is Jake really?

·        Does Fitz realize that if The Secret Circle hadn’t made Defiance happen, he would not be president?

·        Why hasn’t Fitz & Mellie named their kid? They just refer to him as The Baby. It’s been ten months!

·        Am I the only person who made the connection that Fitz is a Republican and the actual winning candidate is/was a Democrat?

·        Why doesn’t Olivia have a better lock/security system in her apartment?

·        How unlucky can one person be Mr. Rosen?

·        How long until this country has a Creeper Alert system similar to the Amber Alert system? Because Jake should be on all the reader boards.

So did you watch any of these three shows? Were you left with any burning questions? Hit the comments and maybe we can come up with some answers together or at least commiserate together.

Thanks for tuning in. Next episode I will be featuring Dallas 2.0.

A Mid-Season Review of Grey's Anatomy & Scandal

My original plan for today’s post was to review last night’s episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, however, I don’t feel that they are really review worthy. In other words, I don’t think there was much to the episodes. Instead, I think I will review the season of each now that we are kind of at the half-way point.

Grey’s Anatomy

This was one of the shows I was looking forward to most over the summer. They left audiences with a big cliffhanger and I was anxious to see how they dealt with that. It didn’t take long for me to be very disappointed. I had hoped to see more of how the crash victims were rescued and we didn’t get any hint of that until episode two and then it was a very small glimpse.

The sub-story running throughout the season is the crash and the “who’s at fault, what’s the payoff?” story. I don’t like it. I am sort of a traditionalist in that I want more stories about the medical aspect with sub-stories of personal life. I am tired of seeing flashbacks and pointing the finger at who is to blame. Let’s get back to weird cases and snarky Christina.

The intern-centric episode practically sucked the life out of me and they re-aired it nearly back to back. Once was way more than enough. I don’t care about these interns. I don’t think they add anything to the story. Remember when Lexie’s group first came to Seattle Grace? We know what happened to her, but what happened to the others? And why are there so many of these new interns and why are they so annoying?

I will say a couple of things about last night’s episode. First, that dress in no way screamed Bailey. I realize she didn’t do a lot of wedding planning, but you would think she could have at least picked out a dress that was more her and maybe wasn’t pure white considering her son from a previous marriage was an attendant of sorts. Sorry, that is just a huge pet peeve of mine. Secondly, I am glad they wrapped up the Adele storyline and had her pass off camera. I think the underutilized that character and it felt a bit contrived when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s ala Ellis Grey.

Scandal

This show was a huge standout for me in its short first season run. I was glued to it every Thursday. So I was very happy when it was renewed and picked up for a full length season.  Things started off this year with a bang and has been nothing but a twisty turn, bumpy, mind-boggling journey. Just when you get an answer, seventy three other questions pop up. One minute you can’t stand Cyrus and then you like him again.

For me the biggest standout, must watch character is Mellie. I will admit that in season one I didn’t really care for her, but this season she has some of the best lines. More times than not she makes me laugh and I find myself rooting for her. I think she is twisted and incredibly intelligent. Fitz, on the other hand, seems like a total knob. It’s always interesting to watch political dramas because they often show the chief of staff has having the power, the drive, making shit happen. And this really is no exception.

I would really like the whole Cytron/Hollis Doyle thing wrapped up. It is getting a bit old. Also, let’s get back to some juicy cases. The last few episodes have been about the shooting. Actually, the season has had a huge focus on Huck, when I was expecting a focus on Quinn. I am happy to see David had a presence last night and I am still waiting for the day he becomes a Gladiator.

This second season has definitely had a darkness to it. Huck’s addiction, his relationship with Becky/Katie really have taken almost center stage. The first season had a dark side too, but nothing like this year. I would love a sort of lightening up of the second half, getting Olivia back to being a fixer instead of a mistress.

Are you watching the Shonda Rhimes block on Thursday nights? Are you enjoying this seasons stories? Hit the comments and let me know. Let me know what you want my thoughts on. I am always willing to share.

Happy watching…

Weekly Questions - The Thursday Edition

Thursday was a full night of television in my household and these are the questions I was left with after three hours.

The Vampire Diaries

• Caroline has super hero hearing right? So did she overhear Klaus on the phone with Tyler?
• So is Caroline the official compel artist in Mystic Falls? She seems to be the go-to person to make people forget.
• Is Jeremy sweet on April or does he just think she's been through enough already?
• Was Connor the James Bond of vampire hunters? He had some pretty slick weaponry.
• So is Jeremy going to tell anyone about his cure map?
• And why did his map start to grow? He didn't kill a vampire.
• Is Elena the sloppiest vampire ever? She never seems to wipe her face, which is poor hygiene.
• Is Bonnie the dumbest witch? Who trusts a man named Professor Shane?
• Is Elena all effed up because she killed a hunter or because he was a descendant of one of the Five?

Grey's Anatomy

• How much time is passing by on this show?
• Zola is potty training
• Minnesota is getting hit by mega snow storms
• Who else loved "Buck Up", it's a Minnesota thing?
• What city/state was Dr. Thomas driving in? There was no snow on the streets!
• Did anyone else laugh out loud at "Doomsday Preppers"?
• Could you blame anyone for not wanting to get involved with pulling a near dead lady from underneath a car? 
• Why was Meredith so surprised? After all she is in the middle of a lawsuit for a plane crash.
• Are frozen fish sticks Brazilian?
• Are you supposed to microwave said fish sticks?
• Who else wants a "bug out bag" stocked with alcohol?
• Did anyone else expect to see Alex sitting with Zola on the potty?
• Uh, did anyone else think they wasted their time on Dr. Thomas? That man was not coming back, not at all.
• Uh, would that lady be talking? Didn't Callie say they replaced her entire volume of blood four times?
• Who else is excited to watch Christina refer to her interns by their dwarf names?

Scandal

• What kind of secret circle is this?
• So, Olivia solved the David Rosen problem by getting him his job back?
• Do you just love that Huck attends AA meetings to deal with his addiction to killing people?
• Did you all think she was raped? Really? 
• Am I the only one who thinks going on a stalking date with Huck would be fun?
• What governor hits the bar on the way home?
• Is Hollis Doyle the most powerful man in DC? or the World?
• Why didn't they name the episode 4,359?
• Was Mellie wearing a helmet made of hair?
• Was the best line of the night "If your water breaks, change your pants and cross your knees"?
• Do you think Cyrus is bipolar?
• Is Abby going to start "investigating"?
• Really Governor? Rape is a "gorgeous word"? Wow!
• Voter fraud? 
• Is the computer plant guy in the Secret Circle?
• Will Abby live to see the end of the season?

Wowzers what a night! Did you tune in? Do you have any burning questions? Hit the comments and let me know.