One of the advantages of shows going into summer reruns, or even long hiatuses, is that it is easy to remember the things you like about a show while either forgetting or forgiving the worst flaws and the irritating little tics.
Which brings me to "Grey's Anatomy" tonight. …
All right, so there were some irritants. The whole McDreamy-Meredith on-off thing went way, way past Sam-and-Diane/Ross-and-Rachel overkill a long time ago. And Izzie is still poison, Karev's belief not being unbiased, although I might be willing to concede that that's mostly my issue.
Or not.
Anyway, the overall thread of what people believe in worked very nicely. And I am enough of a sap to get caught up in the Bailey's-baby drama even as I know that I am being completely manipulated.
But how can anyone not be impressed by an episode with the performances of Glenne Headly (as the faith-healing patient), Debra Monk (George's mother) and Sandra Oh (Cristina) in the operating-room scene. Again, I know it was deliberate manipulation, but Oh's playing the hand-holding offer in such a simple, direct way was not only touching, it still let us suspect that Cristina was just offering a quick solution to an OR problem. And that suspicion made her willingness to keep holding the hand just that much better.
Headly and Monk, meanwhile, are a couple of those great go-to actresses, and they had plenty to work with tonight. So I'd be happy to see lots more "Grey's" right now.
