It’s going to be hard to end the week on a good note because I just watched the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy.
And as much as I like to stay on topic here at Mommy Shorts (parenting related nonsense and the like), sometimes I need to vent about something random.
Like television.
Specifially horrible television that continues to waste my time.*
First of all, that should not have been the season finale. That should have been PART 1 of a Two Hour Season Finale.
Secondly (SPOILER ALERT), if Grey’s Anatomy isn’t going to get me (a person who has watched the show since it’s inception) to cry when Lexi dies, then that seriously says something AWFUL about McSteamy’s acting abilities.
Also? Why kill off Lexi???
Here’s my real problem.
Grey’s is SO OVER. It is time for Shonda to put the whole thing out of it’s misery and concentrate on promising new shows like SCANDAL.
The only reason I continued to watch the show this year is because I really thought ABC was bringing it to it’s rightful end.
And they had everything set up to end it perfectly!
Derek and Meredith go to Boston, Christina goes to Mayo, Alex goes to Hopkins, Teddy goes to Medco or whatever, Bailey gets married, Avery convinces Kepner to follow him to Tulane, Mark dumps the other chick for Lexi, Owen stays in Seattle miserable as Chief because I hate him, the real Chief rendezvous’s with Debbie Allen and then you end on Callie and Arizona having hot sex when all of a sudden George materializes out of thin air to say he is happy they are happy even if he is still dead. And just when you think the show is over, they cut to Alex putting his new scrubs in his Hopkins locker and who should walk in??? Dr. Izzy!
See??? Perfect ending!
But instead, they leave them all wrecked and dying in the wilderness because they think I will want to tune in next season to see if Derek will ever regain the use of his operating hand even though they already did that storyline with Burke.
And I don’t think I could handle whatever harrowing survival storyline they have cut out for Mark Sloane because the man showed his true acting chops tonight and they are non-existent.
SO.
We loyal fans really need a revise.
And a quick painless end.
Thank you.
* This also refers to Private Practice but I’m not ready to admit that I watch that just yet.
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In other ranty type news, I know that I am probably the only parenting outlet (do you like how I called myself an outlet?!) that did not cover the crazy brouhaha over the Time magazine cover.
I didn’t cover it because I didn’t find it relevant to my site. I have never experienced any sort of Mom Wars around here.
And I’ve always believed that when someone does something for attention (which is what Time was doing by using that cover photo and headline), the best thing we can do to squash it— is ignore it.
Isn’t that the first rule of winning any “fight”?
Note: That’s two of Mike’s friends (Hi, Jeff and Steve!) photoshopped into the cover. Uncle Brian sent it to me earlier this week.
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Now please— if you are a Grey’s fan, do me a big favor and commiserate with me in the comment section below.
And try to have a good weekend, regardless.
— Mommy Shorts
I gave up on Grey’s earlier this year, so I can’t comment too much. But I can answer your question about Lexi. The actress who played her can’t act. She had no chemistry with anyone and I don’t know how she lasted so long.
Shut up! I loved Lexi! I concur – Sloane was supposed to dump the other chick for her, and they all lived happily ever after. You didn’t even mention the ‘uh, they’ve been missing for nine hours and we’re just STARTING to get concerned?’ factor. And the ‘Mark Sloane is lying on Arizona’s lap even though her femur bone is sticking out at a ninety-degree angle’ factor. *throws up hands in disgust* – curse my helplessness to resist turgid medical dramas.
I gave up on Grey’s Anatomy after I had my child, because we live in a one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn- and he has totally taken over the living room. But I can still comment that the Lexi thing is stupid. I didn’t bite on the whole Time cover thing until i visited the attachmentparenting.org site. Then, I had to crack some jokes on my blog, because I am an asshole.
I love your site.
I gave up on watching Grey’s back in season 3. Or was it 4. I don’t know. So I have no idea half of these characters of which you speak. I guess I nipped it at the bud, eh?
I did not write about that stupid magazine cover either.
Love the Photoshopping!
I’ve never watched one episode, not even when I was single, kidless, and had a roommate OBSESSED with Grey’s Anatomy. That was so long ago he actually taped the show on my VCR when he wasn’t home to watch it. Haha…yes…Grey’s is definitely over…although after all the hype I’ve heard about this particular episode I kind of want to see what the hell happened.
Haha, you are funny! To me the best line was when Cristina said ” Why does this keep happening to us?” and I yelled at the the TV ‘ because you are in a TV show!’ Also I may have had a beer or two first. Grey’s and Private Practice like in-laws, are a lot easier to stomach when half in the bag.;) I agree re: Lexi but also must point out Shoda kind of ruined by stating someone would die so wasn’t really a surprise – at all. Whereas I had NO idea aboutthe shooting spree ending so found those deaths really powerful even though secondary characters. Also in fairness to show – they had to write the episode prior to knowing who was returning, so this left it open to kill anyone off in season premiere. But now Cristina will stay bc Teddy is leaving, Alex has to stay bc Arizonas leg is destroyed ( plus actress is pregnant), M and D will stay bc C is staying, and Jackson will stay to cover for Mark bc whether killed off or not he wouldn’t be operating anytime soon. Maybe Kepner will be new neuro or M will take over for D, but negotiate Kepner tostay as the deal since Lexi now gone? P.S. Though your ending is brilliant I would only change when Alex sees Izzy that he punches her in the face. I do not promote violence or violence against women, but she deserves a punch in the face ( character does) and I hated her whiney egotistical character even more than Owen! OK off to watch Private Practice finale … the first step is admitting you have a problem 😉
Also to me, dumbest part? Who the helllets five top rated doctors ( apparently) become Board certified without first locking them into contracts at the hospital they trained at? Would that not be a stipulation of residency that like the army, you have to stay a set number of years as payback – if only to avoid the flock leaving? Or at least offer great job and signed contract before Boards are written – could be conditional on passing even? That was dumbest part of theshow to me, whathospital could survive being run that way???
So terrible! And Meredith crying was the last straw! It was horrible! UH! I don’t even have anything else to say because all the other ladies said it so well. I wish Jackson and April would have gotten together earlier and worked it out though. That poor girl needs something good to come to her!
I don’t watch the show, but I remember seeing a clip a few [seasons?] ago where someone was impaled by an icicle. Granted, I used to watch “Days of Our Lives” in high school when they had a devil possession/exorcism plotline, but that seemed a bit ratings-stunt-y, and that was a long time ago!
Although, I have to admit, I’m still watching the last season “House”, partially for closure, and THAT show should have ended at least 2 seasons ago too…
I agree, on all accounts except for Sloan. I don’t care how bad his acting was, I would do all the dirty things to him, so he is forever forgiven.
I was so pissed about Lexie. It seems to me that now that April is getting laid, they needed to kill off one of the two neurotic ladies and I definitely feel April should have been the one to go. I kind of hate everything about her. And really, what the FUCK was that ending? Bullshit. That’s what.
I gave up on Grey’s not long after the whole Denny fiasco. I just couldn’t handle it. To this day, my husband will still say to me from time to time, “Ugh, I am SO glad you stopped watching that awful show.” Except his language might be a little more colorful. Your re-cap confirmed my choice, although I did feel some nostalgia. Maybe I can catch up on Netflix where there are no commercials and I can fast forward if it gets to be too much…
I haven’t watched Grey’s Anatomy since the first season. Sorry.
And I love that cover! I was kind of disappointed that so many people went ballistic over the cover – especially people who normally don’t rise to troll bait. Which is what I think it was. And especially people who didn’t read the article (which I didn’t, but I didn’t go nuts either so Nah Nah Nah). There are bigger mommy issues to deal with – like cramps. Which I have right now. OUCH.
Consider yourself seconded (or thirded or however many people agreed, because seriously? who wouldn’t?)
And I don’t watch Private Practice. Sometimes it just HAPPENS to be on at the gym when I’m running. And sometimes now means I run at a different time on Tuesdays. Coincidentally and all (though I find myself despising 98% of the characters on that show, the 2% being the babies whose parents signed them up and didn’t have a choice about their appearances.)
I think I watched part of the first season, but then when I saw how scrawny whatshernameis in real life I was totally turned off. Old School was the highlight of her career.
*sigh* I’m such a sap. I bawled when Lexi died, I freaked out over Arizona’s leg and McDreamy’s hand, and I rolled the roller coaster of Meredith’s emotions like they were a cheap ride at a carnival. But please, please, don’t think less of me. I took two kids for shots yesterday and I haven’t slept in a week.
Rumor is, she lots of chemistry with her brother: http://www.gossiprocks.com/forum/latest-gossip/56428-chyler-leigh-lexie-grey-her-brother.html
Yes- not noticing that they were missing is ridiculous. You put half your best doctors on a plane to go to another hospital for an emergency surgery and no one is keeping tabs on the thing?? Oh, I know— Owen was SO BUSY being a hero for Teddy. Also, if the plane didn’t show up, do you think the only person the other hospital would call was the Chief of Surgery’s office land line?? How about reception? Or some sort of call center? Or maybe, just maybe, somebody’s cell phone??
We are TV soul mates. I thought almost the exact same thing when Christina made that asinine remark. “Because the writers are LAZY! And they think plane crashes mean ratings!”
And I also was annoyed that they said in the previews that one person would die. Lexi died at the beginning of the episode so you knew everyone else was going to be fine and it totally ruined the suspense.
I didn’t realize they had to write it without knowing who was returning so I guess it makes sense to leave it as a cliffhanger- but I still say they just should have ended the show entirely.
I defy you watch a single episode of Private Practice without wanting to punch Addison in the face. And Pete. And Amelia. The therapy thing that opens and ends each show makes me stabby.
I’m super annoyed with the finale. I’ve been watching since the beginning and the writers are just getting LAZY. I missed the first 2 minutes, but did none of their phones survive the crash? And when they lit the last match that blew out….stupid! Like anyone would have wasted 5 matches in a few hours. Are we really supposed to believe that the Chief from the other hospital wouldn’t have called every phone in that hospital until he got Owen on the phone. I also laughed out loud when Christina said “Why does this stuff keep happening to us.” I did cry when Lexi died though. Not because of Marks awful acting, but because she was my favorite character. I’m really hoping that the new season will start and it was all just someones dream. I would have much rather watched your version of the series finale.
Come on…Don’t you think that someone would have realized a little sooner that their flight never landed!!! Wouldn’t air traffic control realize that one of the dots on the scree WAS MISSING!?!?! Grey’s seriously has gone down hill these past couple seasons, maybe longer like when Izzy was sleeping w/ a ghost, but this was by far the worst season finale yet!
This being said…I cried when Lexi died….I am a sap.
Compared to other season finales, this one was, hands down, the weakest. Last season’s finale? I was captivated. This one? Meh. They really dropped the ball this time. I love your series finale idea!
As far as the Time mag cover? I am so annoyed with mommy wars. Mommies need to drop the whole mompetition bull s*%t. We all need to be holding each other up, not pushing each other down.
ABC needs to cancel Grey’s and bring back GCB!!! Pronto.
And being from the medical community… I HATE Grey’s. It is just so wrong that they don’t even try to be right with the medicine anymore.
I have been going through old journals lately and have been shocked to discover how much I LOVED the first season of Grey’s. I stopped watching years ago because it was just getting worse and worse. So George is dead?
The show has not evolved well, but I’m still fully addicted. I was so very disappointed that I stayed up watching it last night until after midnight only to be left hanging with idiots in the woods, a dead lexi, and weirdo hospital duck dinner going on. I’m just as angry about Bones, if anyone watches that. I don’t know why the writers feel the need to go so extreme. I will still watch it next season..but maybe eventually it’ll go the way of Two and a Half Men and How I Met Your Mother and I’ll just stop watching them cold turkey.
George was hit by a bus several years ago. He pushed some girl out of the way and bit it!
Haha this review is perfect! I watched it last night with Mom (who’s visiting me because she’s on baby watch with me- due on Monday) I hadn’t watched the show all season because it started to annoy me. I wanted to watch this one because it was the season finale but man yea what a disappointment. The whole crash scene was just ridiculous. Too many of them escaped without a scratch. Loved the little smear of blood on Derek’s head. Like come on. Really pissed they killed Lexi too- like WHY? Ugh! It should have been Christina. She seriously annoys me. And yea how can they not be looking for them?! They have been missing for hours and hours at this point.
you literally wrote every single thing my coworker and I said about this this morning before I read this.
I literally sat here and said “I write better than these stupid writers!” and “dear GAWD what the F does Shonda Rhymes dream about because she is messed up!” (of course I said it likea white girl)
I liked Lexi, and having someone “beloved” die, I just thought it would be someone else. Like you said, I didn’t even cry when she died, I mean that should tell you something.
Plus I understand it’s a season finale, but have something happen that is REAL, BOMBS, SHOOTINGS, BUSES, hasn’t there been enough drama for this hospital ..honestly I’d stay with Grey’s if they would just stop going for the MONEY SHOT and give me a season finale where Jackson tells April he loves her….and leave us hanging..or have Owen and Cristina have a real conversation about the baby (deal breaker folks, a marriage deal breaker) instead of tip toeing around one another.
the point of this rant, I wanted to throw my remote at the TV and I hate that they didn’t have us see the reaction of Seattle Grace that there has been an accident.
UGH.
but funny, you were right on the money with the funny. xo
This is your best post ever Ilana. Really strong. Totally Agree . . . About the grey’s stuff (stopped there). Uncle M.
Oh I just noticed Jeff’s face on that photo – really nice work.
Like some of the other commenters, I gave up on Grey’s a while ago too. I only have so many TV watching hours available in my life, and right now they are going to Smash and Once Upon a Time.(Yes, I even gave up on Glee).
Despite being several seasons out of the loop, can I say that you’ve clearly got an (additional) future in TV writing? Go for it! 🙂
I’m with you on Grey’s. It was horrible and depressing and gory and horrible some more. And I didn’t cry when Lexie died, either. I was too horrified and depressed. And I’m still not entirely sure Arizona isn’t a goner. I mean, Callie was all, “I’m so happy and horny and I can’t wait to get it on with my wife!” and all. That’s never good foreshadowing. Plus, you know… Arizona was coughing up blood. And THAT’S never a good thing!
So, yeah…. horrible and depressing and gory. That about sums it up.
On another note, I finally addressed the TIME brouhaha today because the voices in my head would not shut up about it. And even though the response has been positive, I still feel dirty – like I played right into their hands. So, I don’t blame you for staying out of it. And LOVE that photoshopped cover!
I was briefly angry at your tweet last night about Lexi dying because I live in Germany now and have to wait until the next day to watch horrible television online in the corner of my new kitchen which is the only place we get our neighbor’s wireless signal. However, I just spent 45 minutes sitting on a hard floor with my iPad, and now I am mainly angry at myself for continuing to watch that horrible show. Owen is the worst, and I could use more Avery with his shirt off.
Also, we are far enough north that it is almost 10 pm and not dark yet which makes getting my almost 1-year-old to sleep let alone nap is nearly impossible, and bad American tv (along with bread and cheese…and wine) is my escape. A least I got 3 episodes of Community to take the edge off that horrible Grey’s debacle.
I am addicted to Grey’s Anatomy and have been since the beginning. I completely agree that the season finale short-changed us, though. And why kill Lexi? It was a disappointment. However, I’ll be right there watching when the new season starts. LOL
So glad I’m not the only one ranting about this! And they totally screwed themselves when the actress who plays Meredith decides she’s done because they killed off the other GREY! Duh!!! I was so frustrated I didn’t even cry. I thought it was a dream. I almost laughed. The whole thing was a train wreck … or a PLANE wreck, I guess.
I stopped watching GA a few years ago. I always felt Shonda made a mistake by sending Addison to Private Practice. For several seasons it felt like there weren’t any adults left. I love your ending and agree it’s time for the show to end.
It was awful. I hate myself a little more for every episode I continue to watch.
However, if any of them had to die, I’m more than ok with it being Lexi. It was clearly the only way to get her to finally shut. the. hell. up.
{Also, I too am unwilling to admit that I may or may not watch Private Practice.}
Finally caught up on the last 2 seasons.
So. Annoyed.
Major characters should have died in that crash: like Yang. THAT would have been a move to shake shit up.
Sloane embarrassed me I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU shut. Up. That was so lame I wept tears of pain at having to see that scene, not because Lexi died (and I actually liked her, when not over-doing the ranty things she – and all the rest – do).
Ruining McDreamy’s hand is annoying. You know what one of the biggest TV stunners was? On ER when DSr. Romano’s arm got cut off by a helicopter. And now Grey’s wants to essentially cut off McD’s brainy hand by an airplane? C’mon.
I get that the messages from the other hospital went unanswered, but are you telling me that an ENTIRE TEAM of surgeons would be flown to separate conjoined twins, not show up 4 horus after their ETA and only a few calls would be made to ONE number at SGH and they’d leave VOICEMAILS?? C’mon. There was more communication was it was a simple organ being moved to a different site for a transplant.
Also, that was the tidiest plane crash ever. How are their clothes still in tact? Where’s the big fire? How are more people not dead or ripped to bits? And how – if Yang saw him fly out the side of the plane – is McD not spread like jelly all over a tree?
Too much unrealistic stuff.
I was just waiting for the fringing singing to start up again. Blech.
I like your ending better.
I gave upon Grey’s because I got sick of listening to songs by The Fray at the end of every episode. Seriously. That band got famous just by the use of its depressing songs on Grey’s.
I agree this would have been a great series finale. Especially Owen staying in Seattle lonely and miserable because I hate him too. And even though Burke is a dick is real life for dropping F bombs, his relationship w/ Yang was a lot more steamy and fun to watch.
The one thing I’ve learned about Grey’s after season 2 is to set my expectations low and enjoy it for what it is – craptastic.
When Burke died, so did the show. Its like Shonda and the writers all went batshit crazy and the witty fresh dialogue was replaced by soap opera flap. The cool indie music that I almost always downloaded instantly right after the show was replaced by filler tones that make me die inside a little bit. How can a writer stand behind some of the plotlines they have created in the last 4 years? A mass murder?? Torres and Sloane having a baby?? Yang marrying that STUPID Owen (totally hated him since day 1)?? I think season 6 (which is when I stopped watching) is when it all started to come crashing down and the GOOD ONES (Stevens, O’Malley, Montgomery) were already dropping like flies. Derek became a Disney animated figure and Meredith lost everything that made her Meredith. They all should have had one big orgy and called it a day because I’m pretty sure everyone has had intercourse at this point. As for Lexie, I never liked her anyway..she is a BAD actress and she clogged up the show so many times with her stupid storylines….ugh I can’t talk about it anymore. Props to you for still hanging on!!!
correction: Burke didn’t “die” it just felt like he did
My husband,the “lapsed doctor” has FORBADE me to watch these RIDICULOUS dr. shows (of course I watch them anyhow, because I am woman hear me roar) as he says… NO DOCTORS would ever go out on the crazy-ass limbs these doctors do… it is ALL nonsense…but im still watching…probably just to watch my husband’s blood boil at the idiocy of it all
I don’t watch medical dramas because I’m a hypochondriac and assume that I’ll immediately get whatever symptom they’re profiling. And since Lexi is dead I don’t think that means Good News for me.
I’m very sorry for your television disappointment. I know how terrible that can be.
That was probably one of the worst season finales ever. The whole Lexi-dying-on-Mark thing was NOTHING compared to Sawyer losing Juliet in LOST. I think Mark lost me the minute he shaved his beard and that dying scene did nothing for me. Really? Ya think you should have said it sooner? No shit Sherlock. No tears, nothing. Ugh, so annoying. I did like Yang going crazy apeshit about being in another near-death experience, but seriously, a plane crash. The bomb, shooting, George getting hit by a bus, wasn’t enough? Oh, and don’t forget Denny’s death. I only watched the last 2 episodes this season and probably could have done without them. I like your ending better.
Ugh – I quit Grey’s YEARS ago, like when Izzy ressucitated the deer. blech.
I now feel like I need to get on netflix right here ni the office and catch up. I think I stopped in Season 4…
I gave up on that show in season 3 and started watching The Office instead.