By Deanna Heibeck
After a long hiatus, Grey’s Anatomy returned this week with another drama-filled episode.
And it brought its usual dose of flirty doctors and complicated drama with “One
Step Too Far.”
Grey’s Anatomy excels as a
television series because of its ability to hold so many plot lines, without
losing its quality as a whole. This week’s episode proved no different even as a
couple of new characters are folded into the mix of doctors, nurses, and drama
at Seattle Grace Hospital. James Avery (Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air) guest stars as a grieving husband, Rebecca Hazelwood (Outsourced) plays a sexy doctor that
wins over the affection of a series regular, and Summer Glau returns this week
as the seductive nurse presumably a mistress in someone’s marriage.
Debbie Allen also returns this episode with a
flawless performance as Dr. Catherine Avery, better known as Dr. Jackson
Avery’s meddlesome mother. Although she is visiting Seattle Grace Hospital for
an experimental bladder treatment, her character helps develop a ridiculous
romantic relationship for her son and Hazelwood’s character, Dr. Mara Keaton.
It was such an unbelievable plot line for these two characters to get together
with such little chemistry. Only good thing that resulted from their being
together was seeing Dr. Jackson Avery (played by the sexy Jesse Williams) in a
tuxedo!
The most exciting plot line this week
occurred between series regular, Christina Yang (played by Sandra Oh) and a new
nurse, Emily (Glau). Previous episodes allude that Emily might be having an
affair with Yang’s husband, Dr. Owen Hunt. After everything Yang and Hunt have
been through in their marriage, you can’t help but side with Yang and hate
Emily for coming between them. This was the perfect element of drama to shake
things up from the growing monotonous story line between Yang and Hunt.
Probably the best scene of the entire season
occurred this episode when Yang confronts Emily with an accusing, “Can you stop
screwing my husband?” It was like a slap in the face with words. Yang never
fails to bring the sass and sarcasm, which makes me love her character even
more! As for her marital status, Yang learned some shocking surprises this
week. It’s too bad we’ll have to wait a couple more weeks to find out their
fate.
Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and Dr.
Derek Shephard (Patrick Dempsey) threaten to have some relationship trouble
this week, but writer Shonda Rhimes thankfully knew better than to push limits
with this couple. After seasons of a dysfunctional relationship, this married
couple finally seems to be happy, until Grey makes a huge medical mistake on
Shephard’s patient. Once again, Shephard gets overly emotional and severely
angry with her for her poor decision. Sometimes his character loses
attractiveness when he has such temper tantrums. Luckily, they recover with
only a minor bump in their happiness. It definitely gave their story an
interesting twist, but I guess relationships on Grey’s Anatomy are never too perfect for too long.
Series fans find a familiar relationship
spawning for Dr. Alex Karev as he comes to the aid and protection of one of his
interns. With all these new and constantly changing characters over the years,
it’s always great when the doctors make references to past episodes or
characters. Dr. Karev’s new attentions towards his intern are reminiscent of an
earlier season relationship he had with a patient. Yet their status as a couple
still remains unclear. Once again, Shonda Rhimes masterfully leaves us just
enough to speculate while forcing us to keep tuning in every week.
This episode proved to be just enough drama
to satisfy my addiction. Unfortunately, I guess I’ll just have to wait a few
more weeks to get my next Grey’s Anatomy fix.
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