MeredithGrey-related stories
Posted Oct 30th 2009 3:00AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(
S06E07) This week's episode of
Grey's Anatomy focused on Derek and evolved the character as someone that's not just McDreamy. The show should start with Patrick Dempsey talking more often. I didn't realize how mellow his voice was, though saying the words "calm," "quiet," and "peace" automatically sound calming. I hope he narrates a Disney movie soon.
If the show continues to be strong with character driven development per episode, I suggest keeping Meredith bed ridden. She's already forgiven her father and has strengthened her relationship with her sister. Let's evolve the rest of the one-dimensional characters while she stays in bed.
Continue reading Review: Grey's Anatomy - Give Peace a Chance
Posted Oct 8th 2009 11:52PM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(
S06E04) I love how
Grey's Anatomy can bounce between serious and hysterical moments. Old people wanting penile implants, bears attacking a groggy Alex, and a witty jab at
CSI in the first ten minutes of the show counterbalanced with Mercy West drama, Christina being ignored, and Lexie's father arriving at the hospital hacking blood.
One interesting point that clears up one question is how much the residents make. According to Izzie, she and Alex barely make $30K a year. I'm not sure if that's combined or individual, but it makes me solidify why a) Lexie lives with Mark and b) Christina and Callie are still roommates.
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: Tainted Obligation
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 2:58AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S06E03) The paranoia kicked in on
Grey's Anatomy with the fears of merging with Mercy West. Everyone was on pins and needles wondering whether or not they would get cut. Tonight's episode focused mostly on Lexie and Christina's reactions on how to guarantee themselves positions in Seattle Grace. I still don't see why they were worried because they are good at what they do and even if they got cut, they could easily find jobs.
We also see how much of a loving husband Alex is, being concerned for his wife's health and making sure that she takes her medications.
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me
Posted Jul 30th 2009 6:01PM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Reality-Free
Season six of
Grey's Anatomy is going to be odd. Getting past the fact that T.R. Knight isn't coming back, Ellen Pompeo is pregnant.
Shonda Rhimes has mentioned that Meredith will not get pregnant to coincide with Ellen so we'll either get
How I Met Your Mother-esque bump hiding, or Meredith will disappear for a while.
The only Grey left is Lexie Grey, Meredith's half-sister. Although her relationship with Mark is interesting to watch, could she carry the show's title albeit temporarily?
Continue reading Would you watch Lexie Grey's Anatomy?
Posted May 8th 2009 12:28AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Episode Reviews
I appreciate a show that takes the time to have decently written dialogue, well timed music cues, and good use of set. A show like
Grey's Anatomy needs a 100th episode celebration every week. When a show actually uses characters correctly, it can succeed.
I appreciate that this episode had characters that normally don't interact interacting. Seeing Mark/Meredith, Derek/Izzie, Lexie/George all interacting made me realize that the hospital is smaller than one thinks. You work with these people, you think you'd talk to them once in a while.
Clearly, the wedding was going to take a left turn. I was happy to see that the stress of work didn't affect anyone and they were all happily attending the wedding. So does every wedding end with sex after attending?
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: What a Difference a Day Makes
Posted Apr 25th 2009 9:18AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Reality-Free
EW.com's Michael Ausiello
posted this blind item yesterday: "A major female character on a popular and highly rated hour-long drama series will learn that she's pregnant next month."
Other tidbits: The expectant character isn't thrilled to be pregnant. The timing, both personally and professionally, is really bad. The baby daddy's going through some stuff. And the bun in her oven may have company.
Ok, let's speculate here. My first thought is that it's Meredith Grey on
Grey's Anatomy, since her real-life alter-ego Ellen Pompeo actually IS pregnant. But the timing isn't all that bad. She and Derek are getting married. They can use a distraction with Izzie's cancer taking center stage. And although he's had some issues, Derek seems to have pulled it together.
Continue reading Who's the "major female character" that's pregnant?
Posted Apr 24th 2009 1:38AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S05E20) "Someone will be singing 'Wind Beneath My Freaking Wings'" - MeredithWhy does ABC have to mention that
Grey's Anatomy has some of the best storylines on television? If that is true, that must mean that
Private Practice has the worst. The episode was good, but the long wait got me jaded.
The show does better when Meredith isn't the center of the show. Even with her as the narrator, she succeeded only as a model for Izzie and a mediator between Derek and Mark. Speaking of which, Lexie was hysterical the whole episode. I thought it was so obscene that she kept eating something different in every shot that she was in. Sure they mentioned that she broke out, but couldn't the makeup team add a lump or two? I didn't see one thing wrong with her face.
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: Sweet Surrender
Posted Apr 21st 2009 10:02AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Grey's Anatomy, Spoilers Anonymous, TV Squad Polls, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Is it just me or there seems to be a baby boom in Hollywood this TV season? This is probably the 73rd post we've written here at TV Squad this year about a TV actress being pregnant, wondering how it will affect the show she stars in.
When the two lead actresses of
How I Met Your Mother announced they were pregnant, the writers decided not to write the pregnancies in and go for the "hiding the belly under big clothes or things" option instead. They even shot the season finale months before they would have usually done so they could have the two actresses in reasonable shape.
People announced that
Grey's Anatomy lead actress Ellen Pompeo is pregnant with her first child, while reminding us that Chyler Leigh, who plays Pompeo's half-sister, is due in May. We know that Shonda Rhimes decided not to have Lexie be pregnant but what about Meredith?
Warning! The rest of this post contains spoilers about upcoming episodes.Continue reading Grey's gossip: Will Mer and Der have a baby?
Posted Feb 25th 2009 9:02AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Casting, Reality-Free
Could Meredith be getting another half-sibling on Grey's Anatomy? According to Entertainment Weekly's Mike Ausiello, it's very likely.
In his latest installment of Ausiello TV, he notes that late last year, executive producer Shonda Rhimes began quietly looking for a male actor to play a mysterious new recurring role. The person had to be both bi-racial and in his late 20's.
Although we won't know for sure until next season, it seems likely that the character might be the product of the affair between Meredith's mother and the Chief, as their affair was 20-some years ago.
A few other things spring to mind:
Do doctors really sleep around this much? I mean, we know that Sloan, Callie, Izzie, and all the rest of the staff currently employed at Seattle Grace have bedded down pretty much everyone on the show. But apparently, that was happening 20 years ago, as well.
Continue reading Grey's news: Is Meredith getting another half-sibling?
Posted Dec 4th 2008 11:03PM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: Grey's Anatomy, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S05E10) Before I even start this review, I've got to vent about the absurd amount of commercials during this episode of
Grey's Anatomy. Is it always this bad and I just haven't noticed? Are there always ads every two minutes or so? I found it extremely distracting to be constantly interrupted, especially when there were so many storylines going on tonight.
And we did have a lot to keep track of: Dr. Dixon's appearance, the Izzie / Denny / Alex love triangle, who would be awarded the first solo surgery, Callie's and Sadie's flirting, the medical cases of the week, Yang and Hunt, Sloan and Little Grey, Bailey and Sloan ... I can barely keep track of them all.
Let's break down this episode after the break and try to make some sense of "All By Myself."
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: All By Myself
Posted May 23rd 2008 1:47AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Episode Recaps
"The pager is sacred. Sacred sparkle." -- IzzieA sparkly pager, some quick-drying cement, and a field of candles all play into tonight's 2-hour episode -- the Season Four finale of
Grey's Anatomy. Has it really been only four seasons? Because it seems like so much more.
Anyway, tonight we learn a little more about some of the interns' history. For one thing, via a therapy session (and why can't I have Amy Madigan as
my therapist?), we learn that young Meredith saw her mom slit her wrists, then had to wait for her to pass out before calling 911.
Meredith says her mom wanted to die, but by the end of the episode, she figures out that she really didn't want to die. Being a brilliant surgeon, her mom would have known the faster road to death entailed slitting her carotid artery.
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: Freedom (season finale)
Posted Mar 22nd 2007 11:42AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Watercooler Talk
One of the reasons why I stopped reviewing
Grey's Anatomy was because that it just plain tired me out. With so many characters and storylines to keep track of, it became very difficult to cover them all in my reviews. Another reason was that the increasingly soapy melodrama was wearing me down, a notion that was confirmed to me last week when George and Izzie drunkenly slept together at the end of the episode (Though it did give birth to
Jonathan's clever use of the name "Gizzie").
But what also got to me about the show was its complete lack of medical realism. Yes, I know it's a TV show and it doesn't have to be hyper-real, but in the day and age of
ER and reality medical shows on TLC, you need to come somewhat closer to medical realism than, say,
Marcus Welby, M.D. did 35 years ago.
The last straw on this front was when I saw Meredith Grey at the beginning of last week's episode. Despite the fact that she was clinically dead for what seemed like hours, she came out of it not only OK, but prettier than ever!
Continue reading Meredith Grey looks awfully good... for a zombie
Posted Mar 1st 2007 2:41PM by Meredith O'Brien
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, OpEd, 24
It's the issue that will not die.
Torture and 24.
Newsweek is the latest to weigh in on the never-ending controversy about 24's portrayal of torture and its impact on real-life interrogators in the field. Even though the show's producers have said they're going to scale back on such scenes (you could've fooled me with the promos for next week with Jack Bauer threatening to remove a Russian official's fingers) the issue continues to be hotly debated.
Continue reading 24 and torture. Yes, again.
Posted Jan 18th 2007 10:41PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Grey's Anatomy
(S03E12) Don't panic, folks. I'm just here to help Joel cover
Grey's while he's off covering the TCA for us. I'm as shocked at you are that I, of all people, is covering this show at all, especially with
what I've said about it in the past. But yes, I watch this show now and am pretty much caught up with everything, but just the same, be gentle in your comments. Please? Thanks. I'll keep it short.
The theme for this episode seemed to be all about becoming personally involved. Let's go over how this theme appeared among all the show's characters.
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: Six Days (Part 2)
Posted Mar 20th 2006 2:26AM by Sarah Gilbert
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Grey's Anatomy
It's all her fault, you know. It's all because of
Meredith.
She threw away the juju.
Or maybe it's Cristina. After all, she said the "q"
word. (That's "quiet," if you missed it, and it lasted exactly 1/2 second.)
Whoever's fault it is:
all is chaos, death and destruction at Seattle Grace this week. And no amount of knocking on wood is going to remedy
matters. It's not all just in the fictional lives of Meredith & team, either: it's also gotten all mixed up in the
writing. This episode didn't cross a line, it jumped over a chasm from
awesome to
cringe-worthy. My
face hurt from grimacing after the chief went to that dumb AA meeting.
Please. I don't believe in 12-step
programs any more than I believe in rabbit's feet or horoscopes or juju-filled hot cocoa.
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: Superstition
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