Grey's Anatomy: Ridin' Solo (21x12)

Tom Koracick... mouse misogynist and Beatles fan... you'll always be famous.

Cons:

Okay, so, I'm going to heroically refrain from harping on about how Nick is boring. He's... there, and he's being supportive of Meredith which is good I guess. Whatever. However, I do have kind of a complaint/question about the Meredith plot here? I really wish there had been a moment where Meredith and Amelia had been like "oh my god, this is so exciting that Tom's research is actually yielding helpful information, we should team up with him and learn more" and then Tom could be even more of a jerk and reject their offer of collaboration, and then Meredith could have her whole "shame on you" moment during the application process, and Tom could win, and Meredith could decide to do it on her own.

Without that essential piece, the question just sort of lingers over this episode. Why can't these people who are all researching the same thing, work together on it? I get the idea, that Tom is just chasing fame and Meredith is truly passionate about the subject matter... but it just feels like a pooling of resources situation would make sense here. Tom even brought up that Meredith published her abstract for anybody to use, and Mer and Amelia were like "yeah, but we weren't thinking of you when we did that." Like... grow up, I know Tom is an immature baby, but you should be above that!

Grey's Anatomy: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (21x11)

Nick can fuck right off!

Cons:

I seriously hate that man, he's both boring and terrible to Meredith, where the hell did he get off trying to chastise her about her decision about the liver? I feel like my girl Meredith Grey has done plenty of criticism-worthy stuff over the years but right now she is a SAINT for the way she's dealing with these men in her life (Nick, Richard) who are being so condescending and shitty to her. I also just don't feel the chemistry or connection between Nick and Meredith. That ending scene where they're talking about how they'd go to any lengths to protect each other and how they can't imagine their life without each other? It just... it inspired nothing in me. They just don't have that spark, they aren't believable to me as a couple. And Richard giving Meredith a half-ass, grudging "I can understand why you did what you did" talk? Screw you, Webber, you owe her an unequivocal apology and you're lucky Meredith is being such a saint about this. Yeesh.

Grey's Anatomy: Jump (for My Love) (21x10)

Richard sucks, what the helllll.

Cons:

Okay, we all know my longstanding dislike of Catherine Fox, and she did annoy me this episode by trying to excuse Richard's behavior and make it about "oh, it's hard when your mentor is also family" or whatever. Like, no... stop excusing Richard's behavior. But honestly, I do appreciate that Meredith and Catherine are able to be adults and converse about professional things without being whiny little babies about it, so in that regard, I have to say that Richard Webber wins first prize for unreasonableness this week. His petty little avoidant act with Meredith is infuriating! And why? Because she didn't break HIPAA and tell Richard about Catherine's cancer? Dude, take it up with your wife, not with her doctor! I find the argument for why his anger is excusable so flimsy and nonsensical. He needs to get a grip. Poor Meredith didn't do shit to deserve this!

Nick continues to be boring, but he didn't do anything to piss me off too badly this week. He's just kind of set dressing to me, to be honest.

Grey's Anatomy: Hit the Floor (21x09)

Guess which romances in this episode I don't give a shit about? All of them!

Cons:

I don't even want to belabor the point because I'm just repeating myself, but in short? Jo and Link suck and don't work as a romance, and Link was seriously getting on my nerves in this episode. He's weird about the women he dates, he gets too intense about them. This is what ruined the Amelia/Link thing too, except that theirs was a relationship I did enjoy, and this one with Jo is bad and also is supposed to be endgame unless one of the actors wants to leave the show before the other one. I hated the implication that Jo had "never had a stable adult relationship before" because like... I know this show took a giant crap all over Alex Karev on his way out the door, but you cannot say their relationship wasn't a stable and adult relationship before that. Yeesh.