Critic’s Ranking: 3.65 / 5.0
3.65
I’ve to confess, Gray’s Anatomy Season 21 Episode 7 didn’t go the way in which I anticipated.
There was a surprising demise, an emotional goodbye, and a heaping portion of callbacks to older Gray’s Anatomy storylines, and I wasn’t actually ready for any of it.
Granted, a number of the episode’s reveals have been predictable, however general, the hour left me reeling.
Realizing that Midori Francis is slated to depart the present and her character, Mika Yasuda, this season, I wasn’t shocked in any respect to see a near-death expertise for the gifted intern.
The half that shocked me was that she survived.
Tragically, her child sister, Chloe (who was already combating most cancers) didn’t survive the automotive accident that almost claimed Mika’s life.
However in some way, Mika pulled via after a tense hour of touch-and-go surgical procedure and angst from her mates and sort-of-girlfriend.
Now, the query stays: how precisely are the showrunners planning to write down Yasuda out of the present?
Saying goodbye to her character by way of a traumatic accident made sense, and that choice was according to how different Gray’s Anatomy departures have gone.
Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd, George O’Malley, Lexie Gray, Mark Sloan — I might preserve going, however the level is, there have been loads of dramatic and bloody deaths for main Gray’s characters.
So it begs the query: what was the purpose of placing Mika via a automotive accident that she technically prompted after which killing her sister off?
Name me jaded, however now I concern that Mika’s precise exit can be way more tragic and arduous to abdomen.
All through the episode, different characters waxed poetic about how they felt about Yasuda.
Jules, whose relationship with Mika has been heating up all season lengthy, was significantly inconsolable, however the entire interns struggled with the prospect of shedding their pal.
Regardless of a number of transferring speeches (the one from Blue really made me a little bit sniffly), fortunately nobody needed to really say goodbye to Yasuda. But, anyway.
This week marked Jake Borelli’s last episode as Levi ready to maneuver to Texas for a pediatric analysis fellowship.
To start with, Texas? As a homosexual man? In this political local weather? Why couldn’t the writers have despatched Levi someplace barely extra queer pleasant?
Not less than his new love curiosity, James, can be by his facet, I suppose.
Is it most likely manner too quickly for these two to be transferring in collectively, particularly to a brand new metropolis and state throughout the nation? Yeah.
However you possibly can’t cease real love, so James stop his job as Gray Sloan’s chaplain (which he’s had for, what? Two months?) to comply with Levi to San Antonio.
It was a really romantic gesture, even when it was a little bit rash. I want these two the very best.
After all, Levi couldn’t go anyplace with out first spending a number of emotional moments with Jo.
The bond these two shared was, at occasions, a little bit baffling, if solely due to how downright imply each of them might be.
However nobody might deny that there was a variety of love between them.
Regardless of the bodily distance, Levi and Jo will all the time be shut, particularly now that Levi has an official godfather position within the unborn twins’ lives.
Levi’s arc ended with an attractive montage of a few of his greatest moments all through his tenure on the present, and it was the proper technique to honor a personality who skilled such immense progress in a number of brief years.
The storyline has him transferring to Texas for now, however Levi says he’ll be again in Seattle in some unspecified time in the future, so we gained’t be shocked to see him pop up once more sometime. (One can hope, proper?)
This week, regardless that Chloe, Mika, and Levi have been the plain focal factors, my character highlight was on Lucas.
Since his first day, he’s struggled to slot in and discover his place within the hospital and along with his class.
He carries the burden of the world on his shoulders and thinks he’s chargeable for everybody and the whole lot, and that was clearer than ever on this episode.
From the bodily manifestation of his stress (vomiting right into a biohazard bag as he raced between Chloe and Mika’s working rooms) to the way in which he stormed away from Simone as she tried to consolation him, Lucas confirmed a variety of his inner wrestle.
In no world is he in charge for Chloe’s demise.
However that doesn’t imply he’s not going in charge himself for it, particularly after Mika requested him to care for her sister.
Adams isn’t the one one shouldering blame and guilt, both.
When Mika is able to see her mates once more, she’s going to should cope with Lucas’s heartbreak over not with the ability to save Chloe in addition to Jules’s guilt over tagging Mika in for surgical procedure earlier than the accident.
It’s a traditional setup, and I’m truthfully not wanting ahead to it.
I feel they’re going to have Mika present some type of absolution for each Lucas and Jules, and whereas I get that they should hear that she doesn’t blame them, the main focus actually must be on Mika proper now.
It’s unfair to place the rest on her.
As a facet notice, I hope Midori Francis will get an Emmy consideration for the scene the place she reacts to Chloe’s demise. Her sobs shook me to my core.
Bits and Bobs
- Whereas Chloe was coding, the interns have been responding to the code alone. Why are there by no means any grownups when issues go south on this hospital?
- There have been so many callbacks to outdated Gray’s Anatomy scenes: the interns crowding outdoors the trauma room window and Jules and Simone watching infants within the nursery for consolation. It was nostalgic in a heartbreaking manner.
- Owen and Teddy managed to maneuver previous the bizarre Cass Beckman kissing storyline due to all of the chaos, however Sophia Bush can be again, so I can’t think about that drama is over.
- Watching Bailey consolation one more class of interns as they grappled with shedding one in every of their very own was a particular form of terrible.
General, it was a annoying and impactful episode, and it left us with the promise of issues getting worse earlier than they get higher.
Subsequent week is the autumn finale, and the promo has already arrange an extremely terrifying premise that’s one more callback to an outdated storyline.
Adams and Jo can be in a comfort retailer when it’s robbed at gunpoint — which, when you recall, is precisely how Adams’ grandfather died. Dangerous vibes throughout.
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Gray’s Anatomy airs Thursdays at 10/9c on ABC.
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