Grey's Anatomy: Goodbye Horses (22x04)

Even when Jackson's being a bit of a jerk it's good to see him.

Cons:

I'd love to be able to say "get it, girl, we love to see it" about Teddy and Cass having a steamy love affair but the issue is this: Teddy still sucks. I'm not mad at her on Owen's behalf, because Owen also sucks, and that's what makes them so frustrating as a couple. With Jo and Link, a couple I also hate, at least I still love Jo so I can grudgingly accept that seeing her happy is nice. With Owen and Teddy, it's just this big mess of crap. I don't want there to be more relationship drama, but now both the people that Owen and Teddy used to test out an open marriage are back in the picture, and I can't imagine they're just going to quietly separate and move on with their lives. It's going to be more angst, more back-and-forth, and I so, so, so don't want to see it. If I'm supposed to root for these two and want them to move on and find happiness elsewhere, then the show is doing a bad job of that as well. I don't think going to dinner with Nora when you're in the early stages of a painful divorce is like... the smartest move, there, Owen Hunt. But what else is new.

Bob's Burgers: The Skids in the Hall (16x04)

I love episodes where the kids are in school!

Cons:

It is weird scheduling-wise that this isn't the Halloween episode, though. I feel like they deployed that one a week too early for some reason.

The subplot with Bob's mustache shenanigans didn't really do much for me, to be honest. I was expecting wackier shenanigans, maybe Bob having some sort of identity crisis as he doesn't know who he is when his mustache looks so different. Or just wilder designs as the modeling continued. There was nothing wrong here, but it didn't really get a chuckle out of me either.

Grey's Anatomy: Between Two Lungs (22x03)

Lucas Adams is the worst, y'all.

Cons:

Okay, let's start there: I feel like one of the things that bothers me about this character is that at every turn, the writing is making the least interesting possible choices about him. It would have been better and more nuanced if perhaps he hadn't been a dick to the intern dude, had actually behaved really well, and maybe then it's a thing where Simone assumes he's going to be a big baby about it but actually sees him being the bigger man. But no, he's a total whiny bitch about it, the poor intern dude (who also seems really annoying not gonna lie) has no recourse, this is his career, he's trying to learn how to save lives here, and Lucas is just so shitty about it. Bailey has to put him in his place, and it's like... are we in kindergarten, dude? What gives? Grow the hell up. The problem of course is broader than just the incidences of this episode, because ultimately I don't believe in the relationship between Lucas and Simone to begin with. I don't want more drama, I don't want there to be back and forth. I want them to leave each other alone, please.

Bob's Burgers: The Twinnening (16x03)

A cute Halloween-themed episode!

Cons:

I know the premise of the subplot was that Bob and Linda couldn't get into the "Cakes" show but I still would have loved to see a bit of the performance of it. I think it's so funny, this concept of a touring Patty-Cake based act that is wildly popular and hard to get into. I want to go to one in real life, tbh.

Pros:

Sticking with the subplot for a moment, I liked seeing Bob at his enthusiastic best. It's always fun to see him getting swept up in a fandom or genuine love of something strange and specific. It's the counterpoint to his sort of mopey demeanor and saves him from being just this one-note miserable put-upon character type. There's this specific type of excited that Bob can get, where he's just overwhelmed to be in the presence of someone from this show, and the comedy comes in part from the fact that this is objectively not that big of a deal and Bob is acting like he's meeting an angel or something. And Linda reporting to us that Bob failed on the high five was really funny too! They didn't get to see the show, but I still think the Belchers had a lovely date night.

Grey's Anatomy: We Built This City (22x02)

I oddly enjoyed many different pieces of this episode, while still being frustrated as fuck by the same stuff that's been frustrating me for years now. Let's hop in.

Cons:

So... I don't want to be rude about Monica, I don't, but she really wasn't much of a character on this show! She had endless potential, I really liked her, which is why I'm so frustrated by her death. But the way Amelia reacted to it feels wildly out of scope. She wasn't uniquely close to Monica. They like... flirted a couple times. We didn't understand them as close friends. I like the idea of Amelia finding herself in a depression and taking real steps to get out of it, but the stakes here just felt off. I don't find the argument that she's to blame for the explosion particularly compelling, either. Sorry. Also, ugh, how long is Amelia going to be on sabbatical for? She's one of the only tolerable characters left on this show.

Link's angst is also not particularly interesting to me, nor is Owen and Teddy's relationship strain. Still rooting for them to stay broken up, fingers fucking crossed. Lucas needs to knock it off, the way he's treating Simone is beyond inappropriate. And Richard's going to be interim chief? Again? My god, let this man retire! Or rather, at this point, force him to retire. I'm sorry, but when he was giving the first day spiel to the new interns he sounded so tired and checked out. It's too much. It's been going on for too long. This man has been at the end of his career for like a decade at this point. And I must keep banging this drum: Winston, stay away from Jules. Please.

Grey's Anatomy: Only the Strong Survive (22x01)

Welp. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I'm even still doing here.

Cons:

I had sort of willfully forgotten the sad state of the romance arcs in Grey's Anatomy these days, to the point where I really don't give a flying fuck about any romantic subplot, and in the cases where I do care, it's because I want them to break up because I think they're terrible together. Let's run these through really quick.

Jo and Link - I know they want me to care, I know they want me to feel something about Link's brush with death. And Jo is a character I have so much fondness for, I want the best for her, so for her sake I don't want her to suffer a terrible loss, but godddd are they boring. There's just no passion or chemistry between them. I had forgotten they were going through a bit of a tiff with Link being anxious about the new babies. There's this really telling moment where Jo says "he's been my best friend for twenty years" and also talks about him being her only family, and it just pinged to me as the show needing to remind the audience why the stakes are high for Jo here. This deep lifelong friendship between the two of them is something that we never saw, we just get told it exists over and over again in the vain hope that one day it will feel true. And it doesn't.

Bob's Burgers: Til Death Do Us Art (16x02)

This one was quite fun!

Cons:

I honestly could have used more shenanigans from the kids inside of the art show. It was funny to watch Louise play with the dart gun and miss the point of the art, but Gene and Tina just kind of wandered around and were weirded out by some of the odd displays. They could have gotten into some more mischief, I think!