“Grey’s” Watered Down
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- October
- 13
In “Here Comes the Flood,” not the show’s most enthralling episode, a pipe burst at the hospital. The water wasn’t that much of a huge deal except to reveal, while Mr. O’Brien was on the operating table, that patient he had an unexpected tumor in his abdomen.
As for the usually ditsy Lexie, she, through intense research, discovered what was truly wrong with the patient Mr. Patmore, who’d been in pain for so long: A nerve in his nose was inflamed. But then Mr. Patmore got moved to Mercy West for the operation and we didn’t even find out if the procedure cured him. 
On the romance front, Derek wanted Izzie and Alex to move out of Meredith’s house, but all was well in the end when Derek decided that Iz and Al could stay. Meredith quit her shrink, but the shrink and Cristina had didn’t think it was a good choice. Neither did I.
Nothing turned out well for Shelly, the cheerful and hopeful 32-year-old with colon cancer. During her stay at Seattle Grace it was discovered that her cancer was worse than suspected. That storyline was downright depressing. Why couldn’t the show have made her prognosis a bit more optimistic instead of miserable? George retook his intern exam, and we found out that—call the wire services!—Derek’s hair makes Meredith happy.
Sound like this week’s ep will be a bit more interesting. In “Brave New World,” Mer freaks out (but let’s face it—it doesn’t take that much to rattle her to her skinny little bones) when Derek discovers her mother’s old diary in the house. Callie frets as she prepares for her first official date with Erica, and Cristina stumbles into a part of the hospital that neither she nor her fellow residents have seen before. Maybe the morgue?
Last week I saw, courtesy of NetFlix, Patrick Dempsey’s most recent feature film, “Made of Honor.” Though the movie was lame and formulaic, it also starred Kevin McKidd, the season premiere’s military doctor Owen Hunt, who’s supposedly returning to “Grey’s.” So the two actors already knew each other before McKidd made is way to Seattle Grace. Dempsey has also been busy doing voiceovers for TV commercials: Mazda, All State insurance and Mississippi.org. As if he needs the money?
(Photos courtesy of ABC.)
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