For any of you that have yet to
watch Thursday’s episode of Grey’s
Anatomy, titled ‘Puttin’ On the Ritz’, than now would be a good time to
exit this screen. This is not a spoiler free blog. THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS! You’ve been warned.
So, this week the Grey Sloan
Memorial Hospital threw a party in order to get donations for the hospital in
light of the massive storm they’d just gone through. There were definitely a
nice amount of throwbacks to the last party the hospital threw, but I do have
to say that episode was much better.
I know the series ER went on for a very long time, but I
desperately don’t want this series to go that way. When that’s done, there are
always actors and actresses circling in and out, and so the characters can’t
realistically stay in this one place, thus the writing benefits the actors and
not the characters. I mean there’s a reason Karev called it Seattle Grace Mercy
Death (when it still had the better hospital name), and incredible amount of
characters have died throughout the years, too many characters. It’s
disappointing to think it will keep doing that.
There were definitely some nice
moments, but there wasn’t an incredible amount of progression in this episode.
It was nice to see how Callie has
been brought into the friendship group with Meredith and Christina. The last
time there was a party thrown at the hospital, Callie was snide and didn’t much
care for Meredith, though she did claim the black panties on the bulletin board
as her’s.
Christina was a bit of a shining
beacon in this episode. She was all so very happy and upbeat in trying to get
people to give up their money to the hospital. It’s so unusual from the
Christina of years ago, but it’s nice to see her happy. Although, I really do
think they’re just dragging their tale around with this whole Christina and
Owen story; when they said they were done, they really should have stayed done,
this is just dishonest storytelling. When your audience is trusting you with a
story, they need to be able to depend that you’ll give everything you can into
the writing, and not to do all the back and forth development for characters.
My last note is about Bailey being
smart about putting the dying man in with Richard, one man that’s going to die
but doesn’t want to and the other man that wants to die but shouldn’t have to.
Sure, I saw this bit coming as soon as we learn how much the man wanted to
fight the cancer, despite his late age, but it was still a decently done thing.
Overall, this episode is more of
the same that I’ve come to expect of the later years of Grey’s Anatomy, but it still has its quaint moments. It’ll be
interesting to see how it’ll go with Alex’s dad, but I don’t know if I’ll be
able to see the actor as anyone other than Dexter and Deb’s dad over on Dexter. This really does need to be the
last year though; this series doesn’t have much in the way of great stories
left for it.
My rating: 6.5 out of 10.
Best Lines:
“Bailey’s going to lose her mind, she hates clowns. It’s
going to be hilarious.” – Callie remarking on the theme of the party.
“I know you know
how to do that.” – Christina says to Meredith, referring to how she met Derek.
“And snacks!” – a drunk April shouts after Leah.
All right, stick around and wait for my weekly update of Best
Performances of the Week shortly. Then it’s reviews of Haven followed by Once Upon A
Time and Revenge. Sorry for the lateness
of this!
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