And the McSteamy Stands Alone

Whew – it was an exhausting but thorough episode of Grey’s Anatomy last night (warning – if you didn’t actually watch this episode, this post will be gibberish to you). In 2 hours, we wrapped up a ton and set the wheels in motion for next season. To recap, Meredith grew a backbone, served as a pimp with McDreamy to get a patient laid, actually tried to be good at her job for a change, visited her shrink (who apparently lives in her office 24/7 with no other patients), and then found 1 million candles to woo McDreamy. Phew. McDreamy wanted to then leave so he could break up with Nurse Rose and properly get down with Merry, but I say “Text the bitch!” On a side note, Merry (who decidedly is not) should have given crap to Derrick for being such an a-hole when brain cancer patient #1 died. Just ‘casue #2 lived doesn’t mean “I never want to see you again,” should be forgotten!

In other news, Ava/ Rebecca went to Crazytown, Karev has two mangerines, Yang perked up with the sparkle pager, put Hahn in her place, and then paid the teachin’ forward by making Lexi do a running whipstitch on a naner. George is hopefully going to be a real doc soon, Izzie also grew a backbone, Chief got the wife back (again?), Callie made out with Erica, and McSteamy stood alone (with thoughts of Callie and Erica to keep him warm). Oh, and the whole gang freed a kid from a chunk of cement. The best writing of the night was Bailey’s “seeing the big picture,” which seemed like a highly personal statement from creator Shonda Rhimes, who recently turned the keys of Private Practice (as Bailey turned the clinic over to Izzie) to someone else so she could focus on Grey’s (and it’s clearly paying off). The past few episodes have been stellar and back to why I first started watching this crap. So Lost ends next week, and then we move onto the summer reading list?