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Shades of "Grey's Anatomy": Don't Tell Mama

Posted by Lindy Parker

 

 The countdown to the season finale is on, people.  Here's this week's highs and lows...

Lindy-High: Not to sound overly macabre, but we kind enjoyed the way six year old girl who shot her father 17 times, sounded a bit like the spawn of Satan when she said, "Why my daddy don't die? I shot him a bunch of times" in a cold, dispassionate voice.  We were creeped out, but in that sort of funny way.  And anyway, we couldn't feel that moved by their situation because it seems implausible at best that a six year old could get 17 shots off without someone stopping her.

Olivia-High: Sharon Lawrence guest-stars as Izzie's mother this week. She plays overbearing trailer park mama like it's her job. And she kind of blew Katherine Heigl off the screen. Truly, Sharon was everything that we wish Izzie could be on a weekly basis: Idealistic, a bit narcissistic, sweet, funny, teary, and a scosh trashy. For our taste, she could have trashed it up even more. What? We like our ladies rough around the edges.   

Lindy-Low: Meredith screaming at a battered wife in the emergency room.  Really, it's getting to the point where we have to fast forward through all of Meredith's scenes.  Lots of people have difficult lives, Mer.  Get your shit together.  On an unrelated note, is it realistic that a highly-respected bone surgeon wouldn't get paid enough to afford her Seattle rent without a trust fund?  We're not really buying this Callie Torres plotline.

Olivia-Low: Dr. Hunt pours some random, granular substance into his patient's open wounds to stop the bleeding. Hooray for Dr. Hunt (and the patient) that his little sack of sugar worked. But, did anyone else notice that the shit he put into the patients gaping torso is not "FDA approved?" Hunt just throws some random war contraband into a patient. Is that okay? Are we okay with that? And why is that powder in his truck in a green duffel bag? Does he feel as though he might need wound-glue at the gym?

Previously:

Friday Shades Of "Grey's Anatomy": Death Doesn't Become Her

Friday Shades of Grey's Anatomy: Wake Me Up Before You Kill Me

Friday Shades of Grey's Anatomy: Sometimes You Just Need an Enema

Friday Shades of Grey's Anatomy: Surgeons of Tomorrow

 


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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She now writes for nerve.com's TV blog, "The Remote Island." She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

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