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Friday Shades of "Grey's Anatomy": Hug Me Like a Cow

Posted by Lindy Parker

So much to discuss on this week's Grey's Anatomy. Let's get right to it...

Lindy-High: Dr. Bailey and Christina hugging it out with zany Dr. Dixon -- a passably funny moment -- and then, watching Christina use the same method on Dr. Hunt to strike a more serious note -- ying and yang (ha.) of hugging scenes. We feel like we could love Dr. Hunt if Shonda Rhimes would ever give him anything to do but get drunk and act crazy.

Olivia-High: Dr. Miranda Bailey’s newly found talent for pediatric surgery is kind of lovely. Miss Lady actually brings out a bedazzler to help a kid. A Bedazzler. And she bedazzles the shit out of that back-pack too. We’re hoping she’ll start rocking bedazzled scrubs.

Lindy-Low: So many this week (see our full list of concerns with the Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice crossover event later today), but we've narrowed it down to two: First, the ridiculous contrivance of the pianoforte music behind Christina and Dr. Hunt's slo-mo hallway meetings presumably designed to illustrate what Christina described previously as "Victorian-era heated glances and loaded interactions." We actually stormed out of the room the second time it happened. Also, this:

Seriously, Shonda Rhimes? This is the best you can do for our gal pal Cal? This weirdly ominous, "I've heard things about you" bit that actually turns out to be a giggly, "He-he, only good things silly." Also, if the kiss is any indication, the Jessica Capshaw/Sara Ramirez chemistry gets a thumbs down from us. Don't you people do screen tests to determine this kind of thing ahead of time?

Olivia-Low: Callie. We love Sara Ramirez. Truly. We want to stroke her hair while she sings us Whitney Houston tunes accapella. Love her. She is gorgeous. Why the Grey’s Anatomy makeup team felt the need to transform her face into Jem, truly outrageous, we will never know. Is that Wet-N-Wild lipstick she’s wearing?

Also, Callie, do we really have to treat singledom as an affliction? Callie tells Lexie she can’t listen to her relationship news because she’s single and talking about your happy relationship to a single person is like bringing a six-pack to an AA meeting. Really? So being single is like having a disease? No, girl, no. Don’t say things like that. And wipe off that rouge, you look like a seventh grade hussy.

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Posted Feb 06 2009, 12:00 PM

Filed under: Grey's Anatomy, Shonda Rhimes, Sara Ramirez, Jessica Capshaw

Comments

Lea said:

You are absolutely in the minority about the Callie/Arizona chemistry. Other than the whackadoodle homophobes, the *clear* majority of fans, gay and straight, like these two. A lot.

February 14, 2009 11:22 AM

Ellen said:

I'm not so sure. I'm all about prime time introducing more interesting gay characters, but so far I don't think ABC has been able to find a really good match for Sara Ramirez, which is a shame. And in my opinion, Capshaw is the worse of the two by far.

February 17, 2009 1:17 PM

Ben said:

Please. Sara Ramirez needs someone who's fighting in her own weight class of hotness for once. And Jessica Capshaw AIN'T. IT.

February 17, 2009 5:07 PM

Brigid said:

I don't think that Arizona is the problem, per se. The problem is WTMFS happened to Callie? Our girl went from dancing in her underwear to hiding behind her bangs???? NOOOOOO!!!! Bring back her face! I will get behind Callie-relationships when Sara Ramirez, badass, comes back to the screen.

I have so much more to say about the development of Callie over the last season, but it's all related to the season, not to this episode. (On this episode, I'm normally charmed when the autism-cow-squeeze factoid comes up in conversation, but somehow Grey manages to bring it up in a way that feels dirty. Thanks, Grey, for ruining one of my favorite random trivia tidbits.)

February 26, 2009 12:26 AM

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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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