Grey’s Anatomy

From E!

“Callie’s going to think that Meredith told George about Callie’s sexual encounter with McSteamy, and it’s gonna get ugly between the two ladies. Also, the steammmyyy bathtub scene I told you about—which, mind you, does not include McSteamy, so I’ll just call it hot—airs around episode nine. It’s a couple who are not currently together.”

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Sweeps months are November, February and May. These are the months that networks and shows go all out to grab the biggest ratings possible. They then use these ratings numbers to set advertising rates for the show. It’s all about the benjamins, people. Anyway, I’m looking forward to a month of supersized, all out ratings stunts on many shows. Each week on Grey’s is huge as it is, so I can’t wait to see what show creator/ Exec Producer/Writer Shonda Rimes has cooking for us.

To tide you over until Thursday, the official preview for this week, according to TV Guide is:
Derek receives a surprise visit from his sister (Embeth Davidtz); Cristina scrubs in for a rare procedure, to the envy of her peers; Addison and George treat a pregnant woman with an unusual problem; and Alex ponders his future in medicine.

You may or may not know that Eric Dane (”McSteamy”) is married to Rebecca Gayheart. They have been married for two years and Rebecca is on the show Vanished on Fox. At a recent Fox party, Eric said the stress of them both working on shows wasn’t affecting their marriage. Is Eric a jealous guy?

“I don’t want her to kiss other guys,” Eric admitted, “But it’s part of the job. I don’t really have a problem with it.”

Wonder how she feels about his steamy (like, literally, steamy towel) scenes?

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Kate talks to People about McSteamy, sympathy for Addison and more.

Kate Walsh’s character Addison Shepherd may have broken up with Dr. McDreamy, but she isn’t splitting from Seattle Grace any time soon. The Grey’s Anatomy star, 39, talked to PEOPLE about heating up with McSteamy, facing off against CSI and her first big splurge (hint: Patrick Dempsey is to blame).

So what’s the deal on the new guy, Eric Dane (a.k.a. Dr. McSteamy)?
He’s like a statue. Every time he pauses, he’s just gorgeous. And so nice and so talented.

Is this the end for Addison and Derek?
You’ll see some interesting things play out. There aren’t tidy beginnings and endings. It’s always messy, and – no pun intended – there’s always a gray area.

Your character wasn’t too popular with fans at first. Has that changed?
Even if fans want Derek to be with Meredith they sympathize with Addison. She’s just like every woman struggling to make a relationship work.

Were you stressed about Grey’s going up against CSI on Thursdays?
Yeah, I was nervous. CSI is a great show – I was in it! (She played a transsexual informant.) But they are two different animals. There’s room for both of us. You know, that’s why we have the TiVo.

Do anything fun on hiatus?
I mostly did press. We went all over Europe promoting Grey’s. It’s huge everywhere. (The cast) went to Monaco and got an invitation to dinner with the prince. My stylist said, “So I see on your itinerary, cocktails at the palace. Is that, like, the palace?” I was like, “Yeah, (it’s) not a club. . . . The palace!”

Has your life changed in the past year?
I (had one) big splurge, which I am driving now. It’s a 1985 Aston Martin convertible. When I moved (to L.A. seven years ago) I got a station wagon. Then I got a little car crazy. I have to say, Patrick Dempsey did influence me a lot in that area.

Any buyer’s remorse?
No! This was hand-built. It’s gorgeous – an elegant British muscle car. It makes doing errands much more palatable.

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Since there was no new Grey’s last night, I’m going to post my original recap of this episode from TV Bender.

McGuilt, Dark and twisty, Soonish

I’m so glad to have my McFriends at Seattle Grace back. I’m going to be very confused for the next few Sundays, but hopefully I’ll get used to the Thursday thing soon. First of all, let me just honestly say, this wasn’t my favorite episode ever. That being said, know that I am as diehard of a fan as they come, and I still loved it, just not my favorite. I’ll get into why in a paragraph or ten.

First off, the panties ended up with Addison. Of course they did. That was the most obvious thing to do. I have to say, Addison has grown on me from the days of “Derek have you ever considered that even if I am an adulterous bitch, I still may be the love of your life?” I actually felt sorry for her. Alex and Addison worked to save an abandon baby’s life and Addison’s monologues were the perfect way to express her rage and hurt over Derek’s betrayal. I like her and Alex together, and hmm…. wonder about those possibilities. Will McSteamy come back again to take her away? Or will Alex help her mend that broken heart? Who knows, maybe even the Chief will comfort her (we know that much is true from the hyped “How To Save A Life” video, but to what degree remains to be seen). Addison’s flashback was heart wrenching all the way around. She desperately tried to explain away her cheating and watched as Derek hurled her clothes out in the pouring rain and pushed her outside, too. Give it up for Kate Walsh, folks – girl can act. At least Derek didn’t leave her outside, and he chose to leave instead.

Speaking of the Chief — let me just ask something here – he is the Chief of Surgery, right? Well, if so, then, really it isn’t HIS hospital. There are administrators and such that can take care of a quarantine situation so he can talk to his wife. But he doesn’t want to do that and it looks as though Adele has had enough. I hope Richard doesn’t handle the disintegration of his marriage by hitting the bottle. Maybe he will turn to an old friend, Addison, to help him through it. Hmm… I keep saying that, don’t I? I don’t know, but it’s just on my mind.

So the quarantine – Derek and George find themselves quarantined because of potential exposure to the plague. The plague? Seriously? I love George. I actually think it should be called O’Malley’s Anatomy – the heart of this show beats with and/or Izzie. George was the first to go in and try to talk to Izzie and you have to love him for that. When quarantined, George asked Derek if he ever told Meredith he loved her. He didn’t. George said he told Meredith he loved her but now Callie said it to him and he wasn’t sure. Maybe he could love her “soonish.” Derek counseled George to not wait until it was too late to say he loves Callie, even if he wasn’t sure and it was just “soonish.” As George pondered this we got to see him flashback to meeting Meredith for the first time. Bless his heart. Meredith is his McDreamy and Callie is his George. Ok, I know that’s ridiculous, but you get it. Meanwhile we flash back to Derek first meeting Meredith. That one was cute, and was there to help Derek realize what he had to do.

Christina got the confession out of Meredith and prodded her by repeating Derek’s question of what does this mean? Christina’s flashback was interesting – she went up to Burke and gushed about how great of a surgeon he was. I thought this seemed a bit out of character for her. Didn’t she give a speech about not being a kiss ass in the first episode or two? Anyway, and Burke was with another woman. Wonder what happened to her? Poor Burke, he spent the day alone, wondering where Christina was, but what a sweet little scene between the two of them at the end.

Meredith – “dark and twisty inside” Meredith – sigh. Like I said at the end of last season, I want Derek and Meredith together, but having them sleep together when Derek was back with Addison was crappy. I know real life is messy and complicated and that’s what they are trying to get across in the show, but having Derek return adultery with adultery was just ugly. Derek showed up and told Meredith he was in love with her, he made a mistake in going back to Addison and that the decision was hers. Meanwhile, earlier in the day, Finn, with his plans and all, told Meredith his hat was in the ring too. He knew what had happened, but still wanted her. So what will she do? The decision is either going to be McDreamy outright, or the classic cliché of “I choose me.” And then in November sweeps she’ll choose McDreamy. (I know I sound a bit cynical, but we’ll get to that in a minute.)

Let me say here that Bailey was awesome in this episode. And so was guest star Steve Harris (I miss the original The Practice). She cried as she told him she would have done something if she could, and she wishes that she could get yesterday back so she could stop things from happening. She was feeling the McGuilt. I can’t even remember, but where was she in that long period of time that her interns were working on Denny? By the time she entered the room, the whole plan was in motion. Would he have survived if she had of intervened sooner – before the wire was cut? McGuilt and McHeartbreak all around as she told Denny’s body she was sorry.

Izzie. Poor Izzie in her pretty pink Prom dress, lying on the bathroom floor, wondering how she got there, completely stuck in a moment she couldn’t get out of. She flashed back to the mixer when Alex told her she wouldn’t make it a year as a surgeon. She cried and mourned and tried to sort it all out with George, Christina and Meredith. And Meredith was the one that finally got her up off the floor. What is she going to do? That’s the question I want answered the most. (Because like I said above, the McDreamy decision ’06, we all know how that one will go).

So my problem with the episode was that they tried to do too much. There was too much going on with the flashbacks, current story of the 4 teenagers and the baby, the quarantine, Bailey and Omar, Meredith’s decision, Izzie greiveing, George trying to figure out if he loves Callie, the Jewish word for the mourning that Christina did which also meant Callie cooked, Finn dropping by to visit, the Chief’s wife dumping him and Izzie mourning, etc. It was too much to take in. I love that Grey’s has a complex story line and that all of the characters are intertwined. But this episode was almost overbearing. Just when the viewer would start to connect with Addison in her flashback, it would jarringly go to Izzie on the bathroom floor and just as you started to hurt for her, you would be with George and McDreamy and want to laugh that George thought he had the plague. Don’t get me wrong, the mix of comedy and drama is one of Grey’s hallmarks and I don’t want that to change. But in the season opener, I would have liked to zero in on a few core things and save the flashbacks for another time. They slowed the current action and having all of that crammed in that episode left me a bit McDizzy with no time to really feel any emotion. Maybe that was intentional.

Talk to me – what did you think?

Unfortunately, it just keeps getting uglier. Supposedly this isn’t Isaiah Washington’s first on set snafu. During a 1997 guest spot on High Incident, he got into fight with costumer Bryan Birge, who filed a restraining order against the him. While filming a movie in 2000, a woman he worked with claimed he made sexist remarks to her. Another source alleges he got “aggressive” with a costar in Soul Food and the producer told Us Weekly “He’s mercurial…We had to have a conference now and then.”

Ugh. I’m ready for the end of this mess. Look for the forthcoming onslaught from Washington’s PR firm to try and clean up his image. We should see pics of him kissing babies and playing with puppies and making promises to take anger management classes any day now.

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Our friend the TV Diva Kristin at E! gives us this little bit:

Izzie is back at the hospital, and she’s not allowed to treat patients or even talk to them until she jumps through all sorts of hoops, including following around her new “teachers,” aka the other interns. Meredith even has to give Izzie an evaluation at the end of the episode.

Isaiah Washington has released an official statement of apology for the reported scuffle on the set:

“I sincerely regret my actions and the unfortunate use of words during the recent incident on-set, Both are beneath my own personal standards… I have nothing but respect for my coworkers … and have apologized personally to everyone involved.”

My question is — why did this official statement take so long? I have a sneaky feeling that he was forced to do this. What do you think?

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Ok, ok, I promise I won’t start every post with Mc. Just humor me every once and a while, ok?

According to Eonline, the rumors going around now are

“that things are hardly back to normal on the Grey’s Anatomy set and in the production office. Word is there’s still a lot of anger and disappointment among the cast and crew who work on Grey’s Anatomy, and the producers are currently deciding how best to handle the aftermath of the scuffle, both on set and in the storyline.”

Hmm…. don’t you know Shonda Rimes is so pissed! I don’t subscribe to the “no such thing as bad press” business. Wonder if the storyline will be altered to punish Washington or something?

The gang at Seattle Grace is joining in the fight against breast cancer with Ford Cares Warriors in Pink. The characters can be seen on the show and in the press wearing pink and supporting the cause. If you’re so inclined, check out the merch available and be a warrior.

Grey’s star TR Knight, who plays Dr. George O’Malley, has told the press that he is gay. In a statement he goes on to say that he hopes that fact isn’t the most interesting thing about him. This announcement has interesting timing. Last week there was a reported scuffle on the set between Isaiah Washington, Knight and Patrick Dempsey. Depending on who you believe, Washington called Knight a “little bitch” or a “f—-t.” Either way, wow, my love for the Burke just went down about 9 million notches.

More on TR’s coming out

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