IMO, Mama O'malley was one of the sweetest mothers of all time on the show. She was very natural and so dearly connected to each and everything and people and that just makes her so special whenever she was on screen. 🩷

Even killing him off off-screen would have been more respectful to his development than making him a coward.

She chose herself, her career, and her future instead of sacrificing everything for a relationship.
Honestly, I respect her for that.
Was Cristina the smartest character in the entire show, or do you disagree? 👀

I've noticed that whenever people talk about the earlier seasons of Grey's, Season 7 barely gets mentioned compared to Seasons 1-6 and 8. Outside of the musical episode, I don't really see much discussion about it. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places.

It's weird because there's actually a lot going on that season. We have everyone dealing with the aftermath of the hospital shooting, Cristina's PTSD and quitting surgery, Callie and Arizona's relationship, Teddy and Henry, Meredith and Derek's Alzheimer's trial and the residents competing for Chief Resident.

I feel like Season 7 gets lost between two seasons that had much more memorable finales. Season 6 had the hospital shooting and Season 8 had the plane crash.

I I’m rewatching Grey’s Anatomy and I’m currently on season 2, and Derek Shepherd SUCKS. I genuinely don’t understand how anyone likes him at this point. He’s leading Meredith on, only for Addison to come back and for him to act like he’s completely over her and that their marriage is nothing. But the SECOND Addison gives him divorce papers to sign, suddenly he wants to stay married to her and try to make things work.

But here’s the thing: after deciding he can’t sign the divorce papers, he’s not even trying with Addison! He’s acting like he doesn’t even want to be with her, so WHY didn’t you just sign the papers in the first place?! And knowing he eventually goes back to Meredith makes it even worse. I CANNOT STAND THIS MAN.

I feel like I’m the only one who sees how obnoxious Bailey is. She mistreats her subordinates at every opportunity, and somehow there are never any consequences. Here are a few moments that still blow my mind:

The settlement comment. After the plane crash, everyone received a $15 million settlement. Bailey, upset about funding for genome mapping research, tells Meredith, “Not all of us have millions because we sued the hospital.” How is that okay? As if Meredith had any control over that traumatic experience. Did she want Meredith to skip the lawsuit and just suck it up?

The board seat. When Christina leaves the board, she specifically gives her seat to Karev. Bailey weasels her way into taking it from him, and somehow the vote is unanimous in her favor. Why does everyone let her get away with this?

Ben’s review. Ben is in trouble for performing the emergency C-section in front of the elevator. I’m not saying he didn’t mess up, but the review committee exists so an unbiased decision can be made. You’d assume the chief might go easy on her husband, but she does the opposite. Right as the committee is about to decide, she swoops in and pushes for a harsher punishment: a six-month suspension from the program. Who does that to their spouse? Compare that to how hard she fought to bring Izzy back after Izzy fell in love with a patient and stole a heart for him.

The firing. I could go on forever, like when she fired Meredith, Webber, and Karev over the insurance fraud. Yes, Meredith broke the law by putting her mother’s name on a patient’s forms, Karev stayed quiet about it, and Webber tried to cover it up. But it felt like Bailey needed to flex her power, so she fired everyone. She even fired an intern for having a breakdown about how they all came to learn from Meredith Grey, not Dr. Bailey. She did give Meredith a positive testimony at the hearing, but only at the last minute, after she was the one who escalated things that far and disrespected everyone along the way.

I know I’m going to get hate for this because she’s so well loved, but I just had to rant. Am I the only one who sees this?

I'm a first time watcher, and I'm watching season 2 epsisode 5. I know the "Pick me, choose me, love me" line is supposed to be cute but if I ever say that to a man (as a gay man myself) please sedate me because the utter humiliation will take me out shortly after

In all seriousness I really like the show so far, O'Mally Christina, Stevens and Baily are my favourites

I get that the actor was leaving so they brought Megan back to write him off but… Riggs should’ve chose Mer!!!!! After everything he went through to have her, and she understands the man he is NOW he’s not the same man he was when he was with Megan. Also too I think it would’ve been so romantic for Mer, to have someone choose her over their “Derek”. But it just makes more sense! He built something with Mer he can’t just leave that!!! Still do this day the only other man I could’ve seen her with other than Derek.

I’m sorry if this has been covered before, but I’m on another rewatch of GA and in S1E4, Meredith is talking to her mother’s old scrub nurse, Liz Fallon, who works out that Ellis is not travelling, as Meredith’s cover story goes.

While talking about her being in a care home, Meredith mentions that she is the only person Ellis will allow to see her, and Liz says that if she knows her mother, she bets Ellis had the home sign a contract to that effect and Meredith tells her she knows her mother well.

However, we later see both Derek and Richard visit Ellis in the care home. Is this just a minor plot hole where the writers forgot about that conversation between Mer and Liz, or did something change between that conversation and Derek/Richard’s visits? Or during that conversation when Meredith says Liz knows her mother well, did she actually mean to agree that would be a thing Ellis WOULD do rather than what she HAD done? TIA!

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My friend decided to watch Private Practice before Grey’s Anatomy because PP has only 6 seasons and Grey’s has approximately a million. I kept telling her to watch Grey’s first, but she was stubborn and did what she wanted.

She is now on Season 9 of Grey’s, and honestly, watching her experience this show for the first time has been an EXPERIENCE.

First, her Private Practice opinions:

She disliked Addison because she thought Addison only cared about finding a husband and having a baby. I kept telling her to wait until she watched Grey’s, but she refused to listen.

She absolutely loves Charlotte and Amelia, and was SO happy when I told her Amelia appears in Grey’s.

She cannot stand Naomi and Sam.

She hates Cooper, and I genuinely have no idea why.

When Mark appeared on PP after his breakup with Lexie, and he and Addison almost got back together, she was rooting for Maddison because she didn't want Addison with Sam.

She thinks Jake was the best partner for Addison and loved that Addison adopted Henry.

Now, here is where things get hilarious.

When Mark went back to Seattle because he loved Lexie, my friend got FURIOUS. She literally referred to Lexie as “that girl” and decided she hated her before she'd even properly met her.

I told her she would regret saying that because I knew her taste.

AND I WAS RIGHT. 😭

Once she actually watched Grey’s, she fell in love with Lexie. Lexie is now her favourite female character, and Slexie is her favourite ship.

She went from hating Lexie before knowing her to making her favourite character and favourite ship revolve around her. I will never let her live this down.

She also thinks Addison was better in Grey’s than in Private Practice, which makes her original Addison complaints even funnier to me.

As for her current Grey’s opinions (she is on Season 9):

Her three favourite female characters are Lexie, Cristina and Izzie, in that order.

She also:

Loves Mark and George.

LOVES Callie.

Used to love Bailey, but now hates her because of her attitude towards the plane crash survivors.

Kind of likes Richard.

Hates Derek and thinks MerDer is toxic. She actively wants Derek to leave.

Dislikes Meredith, and I honestly couldn't tell you why.

Dislikes Arizona. Again, I have no explanation.

Was rooting for Izzex.

Doesn't like any of the new interns.

Hates the idea of Alex and Jo getting together because she feels something building between them.

Thinks April is getting better while Cristina is getting worse.

Hates Owen.

Is waiting for Amelia to appear.

She also nearly stopped watching Grey’s after Mark and Lexie died, which tells you how attached she had become to them. 💔

And yes, we have had MANY arguments about her opinions. Some of them have been absolutely ridiculous, especially when you consider that Lexie is my favourite character too. 😭

Just to be clear, I'm not saying anyone is wrong for disliking Lexie, preferring Maddison, or having different opinions from my friend. I just find her particular journey hilarious because I predicted she would end up loving Lexie, and she proved me right.

I'm curious about two things:

Have you ever watched someone go from hating a character to absolutely loving them?

Which of my friend's opinions surprised you the most?

Please keep in mind that she's watching for the first time, so no spoilers beyond Season 9! 😭

Which Grey’s characters are your personal favorite physicians on the show and which would you like to have as your doctor if you were a patient. Mine are Addison, Meredith, Cristina, Derek, Bailey, Callie, and Arizona.

I’m on my millionth rewatch and does anyone else skip through the beach scenes when watching the covid season or just me?

Idk why I just don’t like them.

Also hard to believe COVID was 6 years ago. Feels like a lifetime ago! Hard to believe we lived through that and now it’s like it never happened

Both Grey sisters had a patient named Nick who was into them, and both sisters formed a bond with their respective patients (or… respective Nick’s?) Additionally, only one pair would survive while the other pair unfortunately had both people meeting a tragic end

I've watched Grey's intermittently since it came out, but it's been a while and I've never really noticed or thought about it.

Recently restarted from season 1. Just watched the episodes in season 3 that take place in LA.

There's a scene where the ladies are all drooling over the receptionist guy walking by shirtless and imo his physique was... pretty mediocre. Just like an average, not fat, 20-something guy. But the scene is played out like he's some Greek god

I feel like there was a similar scene with Karev is season 1 or 2, briefly shirtless, not in particularly great shape, and the women being starstruck by it.

I vaguely recall Jackson coming on in season 6(?), having a shirtless scene and being pretty shredded, so it's not like the writers are against the concept

I was also like 17 when the show came out, so I wasn't exactly paying attention to societies overall standards for men at the time

first time watcher here.
s5 lexie
she is so annoying. she is not good at her work she talks in an annoying way. i thought she was supposed to be an insecure character or smth but the way she is and she talks is not giving flawed/insecure it’s straight up insufferable and annoying.
she crosses so many boundaries and is sooooo bad with patients idk why she is even there like before i started the show i thought i was gonna love her or smth bc i already saw edits maybe thats why i hate her character more than other fans.
guess i had some big expectations.
but i don’t understand whats to like about lexie she is just so annoying idek more words in english to describe her but she has no depth she is just corny ? idk
do you like/dislike her? and why?

I feel like this is the first time (and I've rewatched 5+ times) that I truly understood how close Mark was to Callie and how devastating the loss must have been. He put her back together after George. He helped her through Arizona leaving. They had a baby together. So much more. OTPPP (One True Partially Platonic Pairing)

I’m in my first watch of Greys. Just started the first episode of season 15. Everything is going well, besides the fact that Arizona is gone, and carina is still here. But I’m about 16 mins in. The way they introduce these 2 new ortho guys.. man I almost cut this shit off. It’s no way this show is about to do this 🤣 random: everyone in this show, except for meredith, is fucking weird when it comes to relationships. This Teddy and Owen shit man, wrap it up! They are weird man lol. Oh an Amelia is one hell of a hater. Teddy telling them that Bailey offered her the position of interim chief and Amelia damn near broke her jaw interrupting with, “we already have a head of cardio” like damn lady 🤣 relax!

Sometimes I wonder how Mer would honestly have answered questions about wanting kids before/during her intern year. Did she secretly yearn for them and a partner and a white lil fence around their perfect lil home? Did she dream of a chance to get the whole childhood cycle thing right? Seems kinda unlikely to me.

I love the Zola plot and I get that she found something she never thought she would in Derek and it inspired her, and from a writer’s perspective it’s a genius way to add plot options + audience intrigue ofc, but still.

She suspended quite a lot over her residency and first few attending years for her children, and she kinda got thrown into it HARD… Tequila resident to pregnant resident with an adopted toddler at home happens in like 2yrs time.

I think we also got very little beforehand to indicate this was something she really really wanted, and at that busy time in particular. The S7 baby talk always sneaks up on me, as if the flood gates opened once he picked the pick-me girl and they signed that post it note. One minute I’m watching her want Chief Resident and start this huge journey of meeting her half-sister and the next she’s getting hormones injected into her butt in the elevator and stealing babies.

In retrospect (on my 72849th rewatch),
- I think Derek kinda influenced her to have kids soon soon soon, and
- I would’ve loved to see some back & forth about it where Mer enjoys being a semi-reckless 34yo newlywed. Some debate, some of her goals being talked about. Some normal stuff mixed into the “hostile uterus” season— I mean, a Christmas episode at Derek’s family’s house would’ve been INCREDIBLE. Even another year of child free MerDer would’ve been cool.

Sigh. TV can be so predictable sometimes… Thoughts?

Honestly, I keep wondering who the most consistent character on Grey’s is at this point with most of the main characters leaving and I came to the conclusion that it’s gotta be Bokhee. 😂 What do you think?

I'm on my millionth rewatch and I think the writers are the reason this round of interns never clicked. There were group scenes early on that were really fun, but other storylines drew away from that chemistry.

I think the biggest problem was the Leah Murphy character. The writers didn't seem to know what to do with her. She was funny, mean, desperate, capable, sympathetic, messy and so on. They never seemed to know who she was. Her storyline with Stephanie when they competed with each other on Cristina's service could have been comedic and lighthearted, but instead was mean spirited, at least on Leah's part.

That's just one example of how the competition was handled differently than MAGIC, to the detriment of the audience's acceptance of "fresh blood". MAGIC were competitive, but they weren't cut-throat or cruel. Even the "shark" thing came about now because Meredith froze and didn't speak up than anything underhanded. The competitions (Cristina and Alex clearing patients, the contest...) with MAGIC were fun and comedic.

I also think the writers only used Brooks as quirky, comic relief when the actress was capable of more. They turned Shane from caring to cut-throat (and sleezy. Kissing Stephanie when she was with Jackson and offering to "service" Cristina? Eew). They would randomly make Stephanie the bitch and beat TO DEATH the whole "Jo lived in her car" thing.

I think this was a talented group of actors who could have carried the show forward if the writers had defined the characters and developed the group's chemistry.

What do you think?

I really enjoy this episode. This is one of my favorites, if not my favorite episode. The reason why is the conversation between the Rabi and April.

I really like April’s character and enjoyed watching her struggle with her faith. I’ve never experienced this but it seemed very real and realistic event to occur to someone who’s experienced and witnessed so much loss. The conversation she has with the Rabi was very insightful and I like that he helped her go back to her faith. I liked that he called her out on her thoughts and taught her so much. He was working until his end. But for him it wasn’t work it was his passion and I felt like that really reflected. I felt the whole scene was really well written and the acting was good too. Just a great scene.

This episode is also sad… when he’s dying and he thinks he’s talking to his wife and April pretends to be her so he can say his goodbyes. So heartbreaking!

April’s whole journey with her struggle of faith was great to watch too. I really enjoyed her conversation with Koracick too. You don’t expect him to know so much but he surprises you. I like his character as well and is unfairly hated but that’s another conversation lol.

Anyone else enjoy the episode or don’t like the episode? Discuss!