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You are here: Home / ABC / Thursday and Friday Catch-ups: Sleeplessness, Campaigns, Secrets, and Cowboys

Thursday and Friday Catch-ups: Sleeplessness, Campaigns, Secrets, and Cowboys

5 October 2013 by Jess

Grey’s Anatomy

Meredith, Derek, and Callie are all adjusting to co-parenting and co-habitating, with the new baby leaving everyone exhausted. Derek falls asleep at the grocery store, and Meredith falls asleep on the bathroom floor while talking to Cristina on the phone.

The Chief (Webber, not Hunt, sorry) is refusing a feeding tube, but Meredith convinces Ross to talk him into it anyway. When his first attempt fails, she brings the baby to the hospital to talk to Richard about it.

Bailey: You still have staples!
Meredith: I took them out. I’m a skilled surgeon!

It’s during this conversation that Meredith learns why Richard put her down as his decision-maker for care: if he was going to die, he thought she’d be strong enough to let him die without permitting any extraordinary measures.

I get it. He’s had a tough few years. Mer’s mom died. He lost his wife to Alzheimer’s. He lost his struggle with alcohol a few times before finally getting back on the wagon. He saved so many people by getting the power back on during the storm, at his own peril, and since he was still semi-conscious when Ross found him, he may have had enough cognitive ability to realize that he could die, and that he was ok with it.

Then Bailey came in with her stubbornness, she couldn’t let her mentor die, and Meredith, as much as she hated Richard for breaking up her family for so many years, couldn’t just let him die, either.

Arizona is still trying to patch things up with Callie, but you know what, Callie is an old soul. This isn’t going to be something they just “work through”. Something might happen to put them back on semi-friendly terms (as opposed to merely civil ones) eventually, but that time won’t come for a while, I think.

Alex and Jo are trying to find a way to be together, and Cristina and Owen are trying to find a way to avoid being together. There’s still love there, and I hope they find their way to each other.

Owen is trying to get the board to think like the board, and not just as doctors, and has to push Avery a little far to get his voice heard. The doctors finally get it together, and despite a huge hole in the side of the hospital, I think things will start to get back to normal, at work anyways.

Parenthood

Amber announces her engagement to the family. Though Sarah is nervous and skeptical about it at first, she comes around.

Kristina is on a roll with her campaign now that she has a manager to help her with her speeches and her formal candidacy announcement. Adam is still really worried that this type of stress from the campaign could send her into another health episode, but I think after he hears her speak, after he sees how much this really means to her, he’ll have her back.

Julia gets stuck with the environmental sustainability volunteer job for the kids’ school with another unemployed dad. While she feels pity for him, she realizes that she’s no better off career-wise and instead appreciates having a new friend to talk to about things like that.

And Crosby and Jasmine try to do better with Jabar by giving him a family night of his choosing, but baby Aida ends up ruining it with her incessant crying and getting them thrown out of the restaurant.

Crosby loses it a little bit, but you know what, family night or not, if the baby is that inconsolable, Jasmine should have taken her to the car or the bathroom or something. It’s not about the breastfeeding in public, it’s about the baby who won’t stop crying. They’re not the only family trying to have a nice night out, and it was a little inconsiderate of them to act like it wasn’t disturbing anybody else.

It did have its moments, but this episode wasn’t nearly as good as last week’s. I expect the bulk of the drama will arise from Kristina’s campaign and the new baby, with Amber’s impending nuptials being the comic and happy relief.

Scandal

Though I watched all of episodes from season two, I didn’t recap it last season on the blog because I had such a heavy schedule. So, I hope you’ll welcome the new show to the line-up here!

Liv’s name has been leaked as the woman involved in the president’s affair, and this time, the Gladiators have to help one of their own with the scandal. But not before her old man jumps in to help her disappear and leave the entire mess behind her. After she says no, then it’s Gladiators to the attempted rescue!

Despite Fitz’s and Liv’s best plans to clean it up, Melly and Cyrus have other plans. Melly goes along with her husband and Olivia at first, but once she finds a way around it, she goes to Cyrus, who works with the Gladiators to get the job done. Liv gets her rep and her life back, but at what cost?

Melly discovers that it’s Fitz who leaked Liv’s name, which is why she went back on their agreed upon plan and instead went to Cyrus with a new one. And, the woman whom Melly gave to the lions–er, the press–as the replacement for Olivia is now a client at Pope and Associates. This should be a fun season.

Since I haven’t discussed it before, I’m going to get into a few things now. First of all, Melly, Huck, and Abby are my favorite characters, with Cyrus following them up. I hate the affair between Olivia and Fitz. I think they’re both being stupid. I’m still not crazy about Fitz in general because Tony Goldwyn is still the guy who killed Patrick Swayze in Ghost in my mind, and I may still be a little raw about it.

And although Melly and Cy are stone-cold killers when it comes to their political livelihoods, they are so damn good it you gotta love them.

Melly is usually the one to throw a wrench into plans, but this season, I expect her to make a few plans of her own to try and reign Fitz in. I still want to know to what happened to Ballard (Scott Foley), because I love that guy. I hope Liv’s dad didn’t have him killed so he can come back and start up a really complicated off and on relationship with Liv again.

Hawaii Five-0

Steve and Wo Fat aren’t brothers after all. So, Doris is still up to something, and I’m sure even if it’s the last thing Steve does, he’ll find out what it is.

Meanwhile, there’s a new sheriff in town–a ranger who’s going around killing people in a cowboy hat played by our old friend Tim Daly from Private Practice. Of course, after a little police work, Five-0 learns he’s not really a killer, but just a concerned father whose daughter has been kidnapped while in Hawaii. They find the girl, after some gunfights and interrogations, and papa gets to take her home.

Another Tim Daly shot. Because there weren’t many pics to pick from, and who’s going to argue with me about it? He’s looking good, cowboy role and all 🙂

Kono makes it out of the scrape we saw her in last week, but after seeing how close they came to being killed, Adam tries to convince Kono to go back home and leave him to his fate with the Yakuzas.

Logically, she’s still a full regular cast member, so she’ll have to come back to Five-0 eventually with that in mind, but I think she’ll be stubborn a while longer.

Up next:

Another week gone! How did you find the episodes this past week? Staying strong or falling flat?

Sunday night, we’ve got new episodes of Revenge and Betrayal on ABC, and the premiere of Witches of East End on Lifetime. Witches airs at the same time as Revenge in my time zone, but there’s an encore the next hour, so I think I’ll skip Betrayal and check out the new show. I may catch up with Betrayal later on, but I haven’t got high hopes for that one. Cromwell or not, you can’t run a show around an affair. Unless it’s Scandal. But that’s a presidential affair, so it’s more interesting.

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