Grey’s Anatomy Season 21 Episode 9 Fumbles Both Cliffhangers in Snoozefest Midseason Premiere

Critic’s Score: 2.8 / 5.0

2.8

Bailey and Ben carried the midseason premiere on their backs.

After a protracted hiatus, literal seasons have modified throughout this time; Gray’s Anatomy Season 21 Episode 9 delivered an underwhelming hour that did little to maneuver the plot ahead in any significant manner.

And people cliffhangers? Largely, nothing burgers. Boo! Hiss! Yawn.

Teddy is Imply AF

What’s happening with Teddy? It looks like she flipped her “bitch change” a while once more and by no means went again.

However hey, I welcome this current surge in no-nonsense, lowkey imply, unapologetic middle-aged ladies who aren’t seeking to appease.

It’s semi-refreshing as a result of feminine characters are all the time anticipated to be thoughtful, good, and a slew of different issues.

However, I’ve a pure aversion to “meanness.” Sue me.

Teddy has been harsh this season, significantly throughout this installment. She’s been overdoing it together with her chatting with individuals, scolding and reprimanding them like youngsters.

It’s like she’s making an attempt to overcompensate for the difficulty she confronted throughout that Meredith fiasco. Perhaps she thinks that being a hardass will assist. However that is Gray’s Anatomy; that’s hardly ever the case, and nothing she says or does will hold individuals in that hospital from doing absolutely the most.

Towen Nonetheless Sucks

However realizing Gray’s, a part of showcasing how “imply” Teddy is can be to justify Owen tripping over his scalpel down infidelity highway along with his childhood pal.

If Teddy is imply sufficient, it’d be pure for Owen to lean into his reference to Nora, proper?

I’m not even an Owen hater, however why is Owen Owen?

His admission to Nora that the emotions have been mutual after their near-kiss was 50 sorts of messy. However we knew issues have been headed this manner.

My difficulty is that, at this level, it’s a real surprise why Teddy and Owen are nonetheless “fortunately married.” I’ve misplaced rely of how they’ve damage one another, betrayed each other, lied, chosen different individuals and issues, and the listing goes on.

They’re such a sizzling mess as a pair, one thing that has solely worsened through the years fairly than improved. They’re additionally tiresome.

Teddy and Owen come to thoughts when there are requires this collection to shift away from the previous guard. Their storylines, significantly these revolving round their marriage, have a tendency to pull issues down.

Until they pull one thing sudden out of their hats, like a threesome or foursome with Nora and/or Cass, it’s onerous to take a position or care.

Molly Will Break Blue’s Coronary heart, and I HATE IT

A contented Blue is a sight to behold, primarily as a result of Harry Shum Jr. is just the very best and has an infectious smile.

Nevertheless, Molly is an issue. She’s taking part in each side of the fence right here with one foot prior to now with Blue and the opposite sooner or later with David.

She has her cake, and she or he desires to eat it, too. It’s irritating that she retains taking part in these video games with Blue, and he permits it. He can not appear to withstand this lady.

Love makes us do silly issues, and Molly takes full benefit of that. Even the way in which she hangs across the hospital is infuriating.

Blue’s confession of affection made a lady cringe as a result of there’s nothing of substance coming from this, proper? As somebody who wasn’t significantly keen on them revisiting this facet of Blue’s previous within the first place, this arc might suck.

Jules Shuts Down in Mika’s Absence

Poor Jules!

When Mika left Gray Sloan, she took Jules’ coronary heart together with her, and it was heartbreaking to see Jules grapple with this loss.

She beloved Mika with all her coronary heart, and the worst factor about Mika’s exit was that there was little to say about it. What might Jules say or do?

Nothing. Mika misplaced her sister, was grieving, and couldn’t roam the halls of the identical hospital the place her sister died, and she or he almost did, too.

Her grief was so palpable that, as irritating because it was that we have been shedding inarguably the very best intern of the bunch, given how they arrange her exit, we solely wished what was finest for her—even when it meant they’d deprive us of this lovely love story.

Goodness is aware of many of the different love tales suck.

Jules Pushes Folks Away, However For How Lengthy?

For somebody like Jules, opening her coronary heart isn’t straightforward within the first place, and with Mika gone, the considered giving anybody else items of herself and rising hooked up was an excessive amount of to bear.

Unsurprisingly, she resorted to shutting everybody out, particularly Simone, who was additionally fortunately in a relationship together with her particular person.

She might keep away from getting damage if she didn’t should care anymore. However that’s additionally not Jules; it doesn’t come naturally to her.

She had considered one of her roughest days on the collection so far, making an attempt to navigate that hellish day, grieving Mika, and barely functioning. Her work suffered like nothing we’ve seen earlier than.

The affected person rolling off the desk onto the ground made me actually gasp. Then, the hour adopted it up when Jules froze as Teddy chewed Simone over it as a substitute of her.

I’m curious to see how Jules and Simone will mend their friendship. It appears each Simone and Blue perceive that Jules is having a tough time with out Mika—Simone particularly will get the character of that grief and its depth.

However Simone appears much less inclined to let issues go simply. We’ll should see, although.

The Midseason Premiere Squanders Its Cliffhangers

This hour had zero momentum following the ultimate moments of Gray’s Anatomy Season 21 Episode 8.

We discovered shortly that Lucas wasn’t gravely injured from the taking pictures, and it was evident early on that Jo wasn’t miscarrying.

For Child Shepherd to have a detailed brush with loss of life in a retailer theft, the premiere does little with that.

Amelia and Lucas didn’t actually have a dialog about it till the tip of the hour, and it had not one of the influence you’d anticipate, given that the majority of Amelia’s hardships centered across the traumatic expertise of seeing her father’s homicide when she was a toddler.

Gray’s Anatomy misses all these nice moments to construct on Lucas and Amelia’s dynamic and take full benefit of their similarities and the Shepherd legacy.

As an alternative, Simone was the one one who had a midway first rate response to virtually shedding him, and Ben got here in clutch like a real dad when Lucas had a panic assault.

Ben actually was one of many saving graces of this episode.

The prospect of Lucas battling PTSD from this occasion is a promising potential storyline, so there’s that.

Jo and Hyperlink’s Dispute Was Irksome

In the meantime, Jo’s ordeal was this odd scenario. The collection scrambled to clarify away why Carina DeLuca wasn’t on the hospital and launched this cherubic Gen-Z physician with no filter to examine round in Jo’s hoo-ha.

I’d’ve been irritated by him if I have been Jo. Get that youngster away from me!

But when it wasn’t dangerous sufficient that Jo’s physician was most likely nonetheless getting carded and obnoxious, Hyperlink was the identical when he stored throwing his weight round and making an attempt to inform Jo what to do together with her physique.

She’s a pregnant lady and an OBGYN herself; why did he suppose his enter was important to something?

Fortuitously, in a second that paralleled properly with Ben/Lucas, Bailey was there to consolation, handhold, and reassure Hyperlink, and she or he lastly bought via to him with pearls of knowledge.

Once more, Ben and Bailey carried this episode on their backs.

Someway, Hyperlink’s conduct shifted to him being the involved one that wished to be concerned, and Jo clocked in to not all the time working collectively as a unit as a result of she’s used to going at it alone.

Why Does Winston Suck So Unhealthy Now?

I don’t know. I didn’t agree with that evaluation, however I additionally don’t care sufficient to argue about it anymore.

However with the most important cliffhangers shedding steam two minutes into the hour, it contributed to a primarily uninteresting hour.

Amelia didn’t have sufficient time with Lucas, however she and Winston have been at one another’s throats once more. Most days, they appear like obnoxious siblings who hate one another.

However different instances, as a result of it’s Gray’s Anatomy, I’m all the time paranoid that their combating would possibly result in f*cking, and I don’t know what to do with that.

When Did Winston turn out to be so unbearable? Ugh.

Over to you, Gray’s Fanatics.

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Do you’re feeling dangerous for Jules? What’s the take care of Winston and Teddy’s attitudes?

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