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oncetherewasaway	Sep 20 2008, 11:54 AM
McEditor Posts: 1,625 Group: .Grey Girls. Member #23 Joined: October 25, 2006	RECAPS & REVIEWS & RATINGS BUDDYTV 'Grey's Anatomy' Aftergasm: McMommies, Tequila and Ghosts - Friday, January 16, 2009 There were two things that I loved about last night's episode of Grey's Anatomy: the guest stars and the tequila. Everybody raise your hand if you think Tyne Daly's Carolyn Shepherd should stick around as a recurring character? We're unanimous, then. There was one thing that I could really have lived without, but I'll get to those in a bit. First: McMommy. Tyne Daly was perfectly cast to be Derek's (Patrick Dempsey) mother and she even has the proper McHair for the role. She was great interrogating Lexie (Chyler Leigh) on whether she is a good girl and her number of sexual partners and traffic violations. She was great telling Mark (Eric Dane) to stop thinking so little of himself. The thing she did that made me the happiest was how she understood Meredith's (Ellen Pompeo) dark and cloudiness. She probably knows from years of experience how self-righteous and douchebaggy Derek can be sometimes, and she sees Meredith's ability to see all shade of grey (geddit?) as a very good thing. I'm hoping that Tyne Daly will come back to Grey's Anatomy soon, because a lot of people who work at Seattle Grace need a lesson or two from McMommy. Next, I absolutely adored the opening scenes, in which Meredith and her roommates are up until 4 in the morning, cleaning the house and preparing Meredith to meet McMommy. Meredith was frazzled and panicked, clutching the bottle of tequila to her chest like a life vest. There's the boozing Meredith Grey whom we all know and love! Izzie (Katherine Heigl) was also great, running around and cleaning the house, giving Meredith tips on how to be shiny and bubbly. Sometimes, there is so much drama going on at the hospital that we forget that all these residents are also roommates and good friends. What I didn't like about the episode was the very end after Izzie breaks up with Dead!Denny! (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Alex (Justin Chambers) suggests that they go visit his mother, and Izzie leaves to get the tequila to celebrate Alex's growth as a human. That was a really cute scene, but Dead!Denny! had to go and ruin it by sitting down next to Alex to talk to him. But the thing is, Dead!Denny! is a figment of Izzie's damaged brain, so how could he still be present after Izzie has left the room? If a tree falls in the forest and Izzie isn't there to see it, does it still exist? http://www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anatomy/greys-anatomy-aftergasm-mcmomm-25763.aspx Grey's Anatomy: Episode 5.12 "Sympathy For The Devil" Recap (Page 1/4) - Thursday, January 15, 2009 Grey's Anatomy begins in the middle of the night tonight. Bailey's (Chandra Wilson) young patient who needs like a bazillion transplants is still around this week. Bailey's in a tizzy about his condition, and pages Arizona Robbins at 2:30 in the morning to strategize about getting him bumped up on the transplant list. Robbins isn't so happy about being paged in the middle of the nigh for something that isn't an emergency. Derek (Patrick Dempsey) is also paged because the PDR patient, played by the creepy Eric Stoltz, is getting worse. His brain contusions are expanding, and if he doesn't have surgery soon, he'll die. Since he's about to be executed by the state in five days, he's thinking that he should refuse the surgery and try dying a natural death. Apparently, Lexie (Chyler Leigh) is now living in Meredith's attic. She has Mark (Eric Dane) stashed up there for some nooky, who wants to sneak out, but all the other denizens of the frat house are downstairs cleaning the house in anticipation of Derek's mother coming to visit, which makes a sneaky sneak-out difficult. Izzie (Katherine Heigl) , who happens to be great with mothers, is the only one who seems to actually do any cleaning. This is a great scene, with Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) reunited with the tequila bottle and all the kids hanging out together again.....cont’d http://www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anatomy/greys-anatomy-episode-512-symp-25722.aspx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CHICAGO TRIBUNE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CINEMA BLEND TV Recap: Grey's Anatomy - Sympathy For The Devil -Jan 16, 2009 Momma Shepherd comes to town and meets the staff of Seattle Grace, the creepy serial killer gets brain surgery, McBadass finally asks Cristina on a date, Sloane begins to cut himself some slack, the wizard gives Bailey's buddy a new kidney, and Izzie finally dumps Denny, but he's still not gone! And how is it that I've just now noticed that every episode this season is named after a classic song? The creepy creepy serial killer's brain is swelling and Shepherd makes the mistake of warning him that continued swelling could cause him to die. Sensing an escape from the death penalty, Captain McSlashy tries to refuse surgery, but Shepherd just points out that when he loses consciousness and thus is no longer able to make informed decisions, it just takes two doctors agreeing that he needs the surgery to perform the surgery. ....... there’s more http://www.cinemablend.com/television/TV-Recap-Grey-s-Anatomy-Sympathy-For-The-Devil-14659.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EW.COM TV Watch 'Grey's Anatomy' Recap: Mother May I? Jan 16, 2009 As Bailey struggles to save her favorite kid patient, Cristina and Owen connect even more, and Mrs. Shepherd drops by to help Derek and Mark with their ladies Now this is my Grey's. Eric Stoltz Serial Killer and Kid Who Needs Organs playing off each other — and more importantly, playing the doctors off each other — perfectly. Ponytail humor. Interesting secondary medical cases that also illuminate the human condition. Tyne Daly guest starring as Derek's mom. Yes. Okay, so it wasn't perfect. So Denny was still lingering, and the annoying blond pediatric doctor was still annoying, and Lexie and Mark were still hooking up. But if you ignore those little lingering problems, things went great. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to ignore those things today and focus on the good stuff, because the good was so good, and my complaints about the aforementioned have been aforementioned to death. So onto the greatness. Bailey's prized kid patient, Jackson, needed a liver and intestines so badly that she was obsessing about it in the middle of the night, even paging the Blond Doctor Who Shall Not Be Named to chat about it. Eric Stoltz was pondering the fact that his execution would be in five days, and he'd rather die in the hospital. We could see where this was going. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20253130,00.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- LA TIMES ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MSNBC McDreamy's mom visits ‘Grey's Anatomy’ - Jan 16, 2009 Plus: Organ donation creates yet another ethical dilemma - Mother knows debilitating tension: Derek’s mother visited, which had Meredith in a nervous knot. Izzie helpfully removed every potentially embarrassing item from the house (except the dead boyfriend), while Meredith dressed to impress with a kicky ponytail. Unfortunately for Meredith, McMama turned out to be Tyne Daly, and if anyone is going to be wise to Meredith Grey, it’s Tyne Daly. Ultimately, though, she gave Meredith a hearty thumbs-up. Sympathy for the devil: The saga of Eric Stoltz as William Dunn, a hospitalized death-row prisoner, continued, as he refused necessary brain surgery, figuring it wouldn’t be so bad to die in the hospital instead of by lethal injection. Derek, of course, was determined to get him well enough for execution. The obligatory heart-tugging child: Things got complicated when the prisoner told Meredith he’d donate his organs to Bailey’s desperate young patient. There was another donor, but (of course) those organs failed, and Meredith alone knew that Dunn could step in. Her decision to the ethical dilemma was (as usual) to duck it, here by telling him how to destroy his own brain, the better to allow the harvesting of his organs. As the episode ended, he took her advice, slamming his delicate, post-surgery melon into the edge of his bed...............cont’d http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28660330/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW YORK MAGAZINE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TV GUIDE Grey's Anatomy Episode Recap: "Sympathy for the Devil" - Jan 16, 2009 In this episode of Grey's Anatomy, Derek's mom comes to town and meets Meredith for the first time, Owen finally asks Cristina out on a date and the death row patient at Seattle Grace offers to help save a life by sacrificing his own. In a great ensemble moment, this week's episode began with Meredith surrounded by her friends at home in a makeshift group therapy session meant to help her cope with the fact that Derek's mom, Carolyn (Tyne Daly), is coming to town. For some reason, Mer already had it in her head that mom's don't like her and would prefer shiny, happy people like Izzie. So, Mer does what she thinks is the next best thing and starts soliciting Izzie for advice. The result? A Mer makeover, complete with an "alarmingly high ponytail" and a forced smile that won't quit, even when Meredith and Carolyn's lunch time talk takes a morbid turn. Mer does her best for most of this episode to be the person that she thinks Carolyn would want her son to date, but in the end, she confesses to Mrs. Shepherd that she's much more dark and twisty than she appears. Based on Carolyn's response to this confession (and the horrific look on Izzie's face who happened to be nearby at the time), it seemed as though Mer had just permanently written herself out of the Shepherd family photo album. So, who would have guessed that Carolyn would later give Derek her engagement ring to give to Meredith? Not I, but Carolyn seemed to get that Meredith is the yin to his yang.....................cont. http://www.tvguide.com/Episode-Recaps/greys-anatomy/Greys-Anatomy-Episode-1001694.aspx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TV SQUAD ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USA TODAY ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ZAP2IT 'Grey's Anatomy': The Death Penalty and Derek's Mom - Jan 15, 2009 Ellenpompeo_greysanatomy_s3_240 Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Sometimes it's nothing more than parts. Tonight, Grey's Anatomy was all about parts -- how they fit together, how they break apart, how they're cut away, and how we let go of them. Plus, we got to see the second part of the serial killer arc and watch a character who could've been just perky and annoying turn substantive and interesting. And Tyne Daley put in a fabulous guest appearance. Let's start with our death row inmate, Dunn (Eric Stoltz). His brain's swelling, and Derek wants to operate. But the condemned killer would rather die in the hospital, so he's refusing treatment. Derek tasks Meredith and Cristina with closely monitoring his condition. When he becomes unconscious, two doctors can consent to treat him and overrule his wishes. Cristina's on board, but sensing a sympathetic soul, Dunn tries to appeal to Meredith, who's conflicted and doesn't have the same quest for justice that Derek does. Bailey's getting impatient with Jackson's case, and she's getting emotional -- pushing Dr. Robbins to try to finagle a higher place on the transplant list for him. As Bailey wheels Jackson down the hallway and Meredith wheels Dunn from the opposite way, they meet, and Jackson's immediately fascinated by the bad guy he sees handcuffed to the cot. Dunn very creepily offers the kid his liver and intestine, which gets the kid's hopes up. Bailey, desperate, approaches Robbins with a stopgap plan, and the two end up duking it out when Bailey can't put aside her contempt for Robbins' wanting to trust the transplant process. Now, I hate the whole perky-blonde-doctor thing as much as the next person, but Robbins is actually quite sane, thoughtful and even-keeled. She's like the opposite of Dr. Sydney Heron, the terminally peppy resident who kept driving Bailey nuts last season.................there’s more http://blog.zap2it.com/ithappenedlastnight/2009/01/greys-anatomy-t.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by oncetherewasaway, Jan 17 2009, 08:59 AM.


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