Last night was the spring premiere of the hit medical drama Grey’s Anatomy.
The words “medical drama” may make you roll your eyes, but I can promise you that Grey’s is so much more than just that, and this episode proved it.
After putting her fans through emotional trauma countless times, creator Shonda Rhimes finally gave audiences a few things to smile about. Of course, “Grey’s” would’t be the same without a few devastations: Alex’s dad dying, Alex physically attacking Dr. Ross, and the fact that the road ahead is looking rough for Jo and Alex right now. (Wow, Alex just seems to have some pretty bad luck all around).
Despite all that misfortune, though, I have finally started to see the characters growing.
April is no longer concerned with doing what’s right for everyone else. She is finally focusing on herself, staying true to herself, and doing what makes her happy.
Last season, if Callie and Arizona were having problems, it would have ended up with one of them walking out on the relationship. This season, just when you think they’re going to be done for good, they work things out and end up happier than ever before. My favorite part was how they were realistic about the future: they realized that they will come across problems in the future, but that they would work to get through them.
Meredith and Christina are finally reunited as the Twisted Sisters that we all love them to be, and although Meredith and Derek’s relationship is a bit rocky, fans can’t help but root for Derek as he steps over this milestone in his career.
This episode left me feeling satisfied and elated not only because of how the characters have grown within themselves and in their relationships, though — it was more because of the moral of the episode.
For those of you who don’t watch Grey’s (first of all, why?) and need clarification, every episode has a moral. It starts off with Meredith as the narrater with a few thought provoking lines that introduce the episode, and then at the end, we hear Meredith’s voice again, but this time, she’s speaking with some wisdom or highlighting the resolution that has been implied by the episode.
This resolution was one of my all time favorites in all the 10 seasons:
“Looking back, it’s easy to see when a mistake has been made: to regret a choice that seemed like a decent idea at the time. But if we used out best judgement, and listened to our hears, we are most likely to see that we chose wisely and avoided the deepest, most painful regret of them all: the regret that comes from letting something amazing pass you by.”
And that quote right there is the reason why I love Grey’s Anatomy in a nutshell.
It’s more than just a medical drama. It makes you think. And this time, it made me realize that it would be an injustice to myself and to those around me to let something amazing pass me by, because you never know how it may turn out for you. Whether it has a good outcome or a bad outcome, you will still have learned from it, and some things are worth taking the risk for.
5/5 Stars
