“Grey’s”: Beware of Sharks!
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What sharks? The ones that seem to be circling around this once-original medical series. First there was the Callie/Hahn romance, in which Callie explored her sexuality as a possible lesbian or bisexual. The whole debacle seemed to be conjured up just for shock effect and just ended up getting Brooke Smith (Hahn) fired from the show.
Now that she’s gone, the writers have cooked up something even more inane: Izzie’s frequent sightings of dead Denny. Her notions that her visions were real were fed by the ancient beliefs of one of her patients, an older Native America gentleman whom the writers dragged into the story and then had his old, damaged heart start working well. Iz’s hallucinations were somewhat plausible—until the end of last week’s “These Ties That Bind.” At Denny’s urging, Iz touched him, and her hand didn’t breeze through his body as if he were a ghost or imaginary. Her hand touched his chest AND IT STAYED THERE! Then the doo
med duo started to kiss. The real killer was when previews from this week’s ep showed them kissing and undressing each other. GIVE ME A FREAKIN’ BREAK! Denny is dead, and there’s no logical and acceptable way that he could come back as his corporeal self.
That sort of nonsense worked on “Dallas,” when Patrick Duffy returned to the cast after his wife, Pam, dreamed the previous season and she—and we—were shocked to find Duffy’s Bobby all lathered up in their bedroom suite’s steamy shower on South Fork. Dallas was campy enough for us to let that slide. “Grey’s”? Not so much. (The previously dead Tony will inexplicably be back from the dead on the upcoming season of “24.” And I never did hear how “All My Children’s” Jesse’s was resurrected after 20 years!) 
Then Dr. Virginia Dixon (Mary McDonnell of “Dances With Wolves” and “Battlestar Gallactica”) was hired to take Hahn’s place. The robotic doc starts rattling off statistics just like “Rain Man’s” autistic-savant Raymond Babbitt. How, I wondered, did someone like that get hired—wooed, actually—by Seattle Grace. At the end we learn that Dixon has Asberger syndrome, defined as a condition marked by impaired social interactions and limited repetitive patterns of behavior. Motor milestones may be delayed and clumsiness is often observed. Asperger syndrome is very similar to or may be the same as high functioning autism (HFA). Now, how in the world would someone with this kind of condition become a doctor who (literally, as a heart surgeon) holds patients’ lives in her hands. How would she effectively communicate with her coworkers? This could probably not happen in the real world.
Elsewhere, Sadie (Melissa George of “Alias” and “In Treatment”), an obnoxious longtime friend of Meredith’s, takes George’s intern place, and her presence doesn’t sit well with Cristina. Me neither. Then there was man-whore Sloan, who started hitting on Lexie, aka “Little Grey.” Ick.
This week, on “In The Midnight Hour,” Meredith, Cristina, and Bailey rescue dipsticks Lexie and Sadie’s when the dopey duo take on removing someone’s appendix by themselves. Hmmm. Is that yet another shark I see circling?
(Photos: ABC/Randy Holmes and Craig Sjodin)
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