Dec 05 2008
Grey’s Anatomy Episode 5-11
TV.com: All By Myself - Cristina is awarded the first solo surgery among the residents, but she has to relinquish it and choose her replacement; Mark performs a cutting-edge procedure to restore a patient’s speech, impressing Lexie in the process; and Callie can’t figure out if Sadie (Melissa George) is flirting with her or just being friendly.
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Recap & Review: Grey’s Anatomy is back after a week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, and we just jump right back into things as the attendings need to figure out which resident gets their shot at a solo surgery. The logical choice is of course Yang, but she is on suspension. They pick her anyway, and they leave the decision of who gets the first solo surgery up to her.
This leads everyone else trying to get on her good side and coming to her with why they think they should get the solo surgery. Izzie thinks she doesn’t have a shot at it because it will go to Meredith, but Yang is taking her choice very seriously. When pushes comes to shove, she finally makes a choice. She chooses Karev because he made the best case for the surgery. Once he knows it is him, he goes to look for Izzie, and he confesses that he is in love with her.
They do go on with their day with two cases that come into hospital. One is a car accident with two teen girls who can’t seem to stop fighting, and the other is a woman who is going under for a procedure that might restore her voice. The girls seem to be the more pressing of the two as the older girl seems to suffer from a brain fracture.
In fact, she codes while she is being tested. This changes the younger girl’s tune. She doesn’t want her sister having heard the last words from her being ‘I hope you die.’ She doesn’t make it though. During her surgery, something goes wrong and the girl goes brain dead. Dr. Dixon pushes the family to give up her organs. Meredith helps the young girl accept her sister would forgive for what she said if she was still coherent and alive. However, the miracle happens in the other case as the woman is given the gift of speech.
As with any episode, the focus isn’t on the patients, but on the lives of the staff. Izzie is still having an affair with a dead guy. Sadie finally tells Lexie Sloan has the hots for her, and we see Owen and Yang move forward on their own relationship. Not only that, but we see Callie wonder if Sadie is hitting on her or not. This one is perplexing to me because they fired Brooke Smith because the lesbian line wasn’t working. Now they have Sadie flirting with Callie? Something is wrong here. Very wrong.
Not only is there something wrong here with that, but the Izzie and Denny line has reached laughable with me. I liked it at first, but as soon as she started having a lot of great sex with someone who isn’t even there I started having a small problem with the plot. Hopefully, there ends up being some good explanation for what is happening, but I think people around Izzie are starting to think she has lost it. I’m starting to agree with them. What did you think of this week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy? For your daily tv listings, check here .
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