Critic’s Ranking: 3.65 / 5.0
3.65
I’ve to confess, Gray’s Anatomy Season 21 Episode 7 didn’t go the best way 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 had been predictable, however total, the hour left me reeling.
Figuring out 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 automobile accident that almost claimed Mika’s life.
However in some way, Mika pulled by 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 put in writing Yasuda out of the present?
Saying goodbye to her character by way of a traumatic accident made sense, and that possibility was in step with how different Gray’s Anatomy departures have gone.
Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd, George O’Malley, Lexie Gray, Mark Sloan — I might maintain 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 by a automobile accident that she technically brought about after which killing her sister off?
Name me jaded, however now I worry that Mika’s precise exit might be much more tragic and onerous 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 dropping their buddy.
Regardless of a number of transferring speeches (the one from Blue really made me a bit of sniffly), fortunately nobody needed to really say goodbye to Yasuda. But, anyway.
This week marked Jake Borelli’s remaining episode as Levi ready to maneuver to Texas for a pediatric analysis fellowship.
Initially, 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, might be by his aspect, I assume.
Is it most likely approach too quickly for these two to be transferring in collectively, particularly to a brand new metropolis and state throughout the nation? Yeah.
However you may’t cease real love, so James give up his job as Gray Sloan’s chaplain (which he’s had for, what? Two months?) to observe Levi to San Antonio.
It was a really romantic gesture, even when it was a bit of rash. I want these two the very best.
In fact, Levi couldn’t go anyplace with out first spending a couple of emotional moments with Jo.
The bond these two shared was, at occasions, a bit of baffling, if solely due to how downright imply each of them could possibly be.
However nobody might deny that there was a whole lot of love between them.
Regardless of the bodily distance, Levi and Jo will at all times be shut, particularly now that Levi has an official godfather function within the unborn twins’ lives.
Levi’s arc ended with an exquisite montage of a few of his finest moments all through his tenure on the present, and it was the proper strategy to honor a personality who skilled such immense development in a couple 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 received’t be stunned to see him pop up once more sometime. (One can hope, proper?)
This week, despite the fact that Chloe, Mika, and Levi had 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 best way he stormed away from Simone as she tried to consolation him, Lucas confirmed a whole lot of his inner battle.
In no world is he accountable for Chloe’s demise.
However that doesn’t imply he’s not going accountable himself for it, particularly after Mika requested him to handle 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 deal with Lucas’s heartbreak over not having 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 basic setup, and I’m truthfully not trying ahead to it.
I believe 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 needs to be on Mika proper now.
It’s unfair to place anything on her.
As a aspect 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 had 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 previous Gray’s Anatomy scenes: the interns crowding exterior the trauma room window and Jules and Simone watching infants within the nursery for consolation. It was nostalgic in a heartbreaking approach.
- Owen and Teddy managed to maneuver previous the bizarre Cass Beckman kissing storyline due to all of the chaos, however Sophia Bush might be again, so I can’t think about that drama is over.
- Watching Bailey consolation one more class of interns as they grappled with dropping one in all their very own was a particular type 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 previous storyline.
Adams and Jo might be in a comfort retailer when it’s robbed at gunpoint — which, if you happen to 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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