No I am not going to recap Grey’s Anatomy. But I fell like we need a place to post about this show tonight while it is on. I watched Grey’s when it first came on, was that ten years ago? But, like most Shonda Rimes shows, it was great for a few seasons and then it starts to lose its appeal.
But I got sucked back in when Shonda completely took over every ABC program during primetime on Thursdays. I of course have forgotten all those early episodes I watched, and it took me a minute to remember this is the doctor everyone called McDreamy. For me, I was sort of watching like a dementia patient and falling in love with his character all over again.
SPOILER ALERT!
And then out of the blue after a fantastic episode where he saves people on the side of the road who had been in a horrific accident. He gets hit by a Mack truck and DIES in the final minutes. Despite being in the first year of a two year contract renewal, Shonda kills him. It appears that Shonda Rimes found him difficult and Shonda has a history of having no tolerance for drama on the set, so she fired him.
It was such a shock that most people didn’t believe it! Surely, that entire episode was a dream, right? Killing McDreamy pretty much kills the whole damn show, right?
On this morning’s Wendy Williams, Wendy polled the audience and asked if they were pissed about the sudden death of McDreamy. They were. She said but they are going to watch tonight’s two hour show anyway, right? And the majority said no.
Has Shonda finally gone too far with her iron fist? Tonight’s ratings will tell. I for one will be tuning in. Is this the finale?
It seems that Patrick Dempsey’s wife left him and I believe his mother died shortly before he got fired. If that is all true, bad things do come in threes!
Anyway, let me know if you are watching and feel free to comment as the show goes on. I will try to join in but I am so far behind with blog duties today, I will be multitasking.
RIP McDreamy 🙁
I love when my favorite shows are brutal and kill of main characters to keep the progression organic and fluidic. Showd that coddle the main characters bore me afterwhile.
For instance Cucumber season 1 was great.
Wow my spelling is shocking. I’m not even intoxicated….yet.
Cucumber just started to air here. Should I invest do u think, Micheal?
Micheal I like Cucumber on Logo. Are you saying this isn’t the first season?
I’m not a gay male so sometimes a few things go over my head. I’m so not the demographic but I like getting a little insight into a different life experience. I feel the same way about Fresh Off The Boat.
Don’t watch any Shonda show. Her shows are equalivant to reading a Tony Morrison book. They are too dense when Im looking for a break from my dense life.
But I miss Wil so much from The Good Wife and soon Kalinda. So I get the mourning. Hope the ratings survive.
Will being shot on the Good Wife was a perfect example of how to keep a show fresh, and remove a main character in a brutal but not in a cheap way.
Yeah season 2 of Cucumber isnt out yet. However, have you watched Banana? It is the 30 minute followup show to Cucumber that includes the younger actors from Cucumber. I recommend that too.
The Good Wife was my show until they killed Will. I just couldn’t keep with it after that, totally lost my interest.
@GirlMe~ I still miss Will and hope that Kalinda’s departure is temp. I like Fresh Off The Boat and The Goldbergs. My son’s girlfriend is Chinese and so the joke around here is that she was raised by a Jessica Huang and my son was raised by a Beverly Goldberg. 🙂
Me too – I love the reason they killed off Will but it killed the show for me. For a little while, now I’m thoroughly bummed about Kalinda. At least we learned from her character that it’s best to ‘hide your money in the wall”.
Agree with TT; Greys had me totally hooked for the first few years and then it faded for me. I think it will be fun to go back and watch those seasons I missed.
Can I ask stupid questions here? Like how is Amelia related to Derek?
Sorry I am trying to cook some dinner. So I am a few minutes behind for now.
That’s his little sister
Śhe’s his sister. She was on the spin off with Derek’s ex-wife. God, I use to live for Greys and Private Practice.
Sam… sighhh. Always loved Addison! Private Practice was my favorite. Til they all dated each other, and Violet’s baby thing. That was too far for me, but talk about ripping a story from the headlines! Actually, when I came back to give it another chance she fucked up again & did that horrible storyline with Amelia’s baby. NOT NECESSARY. That sealed the hatred of my love for this woman. I would have to say I’m totally over the love part now. She had me again with Scandal but my expectations were low and rightfully so. Shonda and Ryan Murphy with the Spooky Glee that AHS has become are cut from the same gimmicky cloth, but at least Shonda can write the hell out of a monologue.
What is wrong with Shonda Rhimes. She ruined my entire 4 day F**kind weekend with her killing off my pretend boyfriend nonsense. After 11 years of investment in that relationship, I started to stray but I came back…Only to be feel like I’d been hit by a Mack truck last week! And tonight it is like “How to deal with a death in 10 minutes” Seriously, where was Christina at the funeral, Meredith’s person?? His Ex-wife? Patients of his who’s lives were saved by our McDreamy?. I know, I’m sounding a little crazy but at least I have a topic to discuss while at my therapy appt. Now I just need an address for Shonda Rhimes so I can send her the bill.
@Karen Nagle~ I wondered about the absence of Christina and Addison too. They were not even in a flashback. I also pondered the lack of a phone call to his sister so that she could come and say, “Goodbye.” Yeah, I know it is just a TV show….but darn it, I have watched from the beginning. 🙂
I definately thought that with a 2 hour episode there would have been a bigger part given to the funeral/memorial with old characters coming back, but I think the point of the episode was to show how everyone dealt with his death and that “life is going to go on”. Had me in real tears at the end again.
At the beginning Shonda had the season finales going the way of ER when they killed off a major character at the end and she had finally stopped that, now I feel like she’s getting ready to go back that route.
ITA with the ‘how to deal with death on 10 min’ then she took the whole ‘everyone grieves differently’ sentiment and Rammed. It. Down. Our. Throats.
Does anyone else see the DNR or no DNR thing as Shonda inserting another current news item into the script #BobbiKristina
So weird that he just started acting like a diva. Guess he may have been processing the divorce badly and taking it out on work. Shonda doesnt play!
It’s on hours later out here. I was just getting back into Greys and she killed McDreamy, I’m ticked off.
She has killed off two other men I liked also.
I’ll watch tonight then I am done.
Shit! Is she going to kill Meredith too?
And possibly Jackson’s GF (wife?)
WTF with this sobfest.
Guess Meredith must have given Shonda the stinkeye too. She’s going to kill off everyone!
I don’t know, for me killing McDreamy off was not good TV. McDreamy and Meredith were the last stable long term relationship on that show. Every other relationship is rather new or unstable.
She demoted the Chief of Staff and killed off his wife. Then divorced and got rid of Christine, Meredith’s best friend, I liked their friendship a lot.
I thought Shondra was knocking off the “originals” to bring in a younger set, but that really did not mature.
Yes I have seen her writing about current events, maybe DNR.
I am done after tonight.
I liked their friendship also, but Sandra Oh wanted off…..
I am over April she is a selfish whiner!
OMG! WTF???? Meredith? This is some crazy shit tonight! (I’m caught up!)
OMG AS I TYPE THIS… I thought that was a sign she was not going to die. And then NOW BLOOD?
I am going to have an aneurism.
I wish I could join in. Bahwawa
The only star in Shondaland is Shonda. And I don’t necessarily disagree – her show, her prerogative to hire and fire. But also, she gets to bear the consequences of a fan backlash, if there is one. Frankly, I didn’t know the show was even still on.
I think this is a dream and she is dead or in a coma.
WOW. I was just starting to reconsider watching this show again. I had not watched for years. Fell out of love after a few years. Then I come here and find out McDreamy is dead?? WTF. Glad I DID NOT watch. Bummer.
OMG THat was so good.
I’m sorry I am not catching up on recapping tonight but I am about to watch American Crime.
Her shows jump the shark or fall apart in the writing so early on that I just can’t be bothered. The irony is that I then fill my time with shrieking housewives grinding on 23 year old boys looking for camera time. I need help.
I have never in my life had my viewing quirks described so succinctly. Bravo!
I will miss derek, but mer will rise.
dang so patrick’s wife left him, mother died, got fired and still managed to act his ass off in his final moments?? shonda, you’re an idiot….
Shondra ticks everyone off by killing off McDreamy in 10 minutes and everyone vows to never watch her shows again. So she deflects the anger on Meredith for pulling the plug in ten minutes.
Re-sets the hook with ease.
That is one B E A U T I F U L man!
I’m in the minority as I was OK that he was killed. I was never a fan though either.
Maybe it’s just left over crankiness from having Sandra Oh leave.
I stopped watching Gray’s after about seadon 4 or so.I got fed up with a lit of the rinse and repeat. Meredith’s baby being jerked arounc so much, going to be able to adopt her or not, so on much off and on in all relationships. I replaced it with some new show that looked more interesting.
I have kept up somewhat with the main characters. Patrick has alledgedly been “using” and a mess. I think more do use than don’t. It eems like few TV stars that quit a popular show because of boredom or they think they can be the next Tom Cruise, such as the guy playing Will Gardner on The Good Wife, are not seen a whole lot after that.
At least I don’t think we need to worry about Patrick being okay. He is rich and has his airstream.
I’m gonna also need Shonda to stop killing people by hitting them with buses and planes, That’s just not how every fucking doctor in one hospital dies over the years. This show got abundantly more ridiculous after season 5 and the plane crash made me glad I was no longer sucked in. I wonder when she’ll start killing everyone off on Scandal.
I love Shonda’s writing. I commend her on her depth of characters, their acting abilities and her writing…the show is just compelling and I LOVE medical stuff, even though I am a teacher by trade.
First McSteamy….now, McDreamy. I am all verklempt. 🙁
Crud…. I had a theory going…. regardless of the handwriting on the wall… I think I’m going to just keep believing in my theory. The ones Shondra can’t stand, she doesn’t do them the justice, the honor of dying. She just writes them off into a neverland sunset ie… Isiah Washington (after many years and maybe a lot of grovelling, she did relent and let him back, kinda sorta) and Katherine Heigl. George… beloved dead….Lexi… loved… dead…. Mark…. loved…dead… and now Derick. Christina is the only exception and I guess for some reason even Shondra wasn’t willing to push her luck that far by killing off Christina….anyhoo…. that is my theory and going to just stay in my little dream world. Really wish we hadn’t lost Dr. McDreamy…really wish if Greys returns next year they pull a stupid Dallas dream and he is alive and well……..now I have to go buy some unicorns
I’m telling you. That hospital could be a final destination movie with the number of cast members killed off. The most dangerous hospital in the world.
lol…. truth!!…. didn’t Christina call is Seattle Death when she left after the plane crash?
I stopped watching Grey’s Anatomy after they killed Lexie Grey. :*( Jerks.
I threatened to….. but sadly couldn’t follow through…. you have my admiration 🙂
I often wonder if people realize that these characters get written out because the actors that play them just don’t want to do it anymore. The writers can’t just leave them out of the scripts without addressing why they’re no longer on screen! Everyone is blaming Shonda for kicking them all out but the truth is you should be angry at your favorite actor who no longer appreciated the awesome paycheck and opportunity they were being given.
Um, Jen, the dude was FIRED half way through his contract.
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I think Shonda is kind of divaish herself. Watched a few interviews with her and she appears to think she is the voice of a nation. I admit, some of her episodes have been great, but overall, it’s tv fluff. Not a big fan.
I will miss Derek though. His relationship was the key to that show. As of that 2hr special, I’m happily done with the show.
I am so sorry I wasn’t here during the live conversation. Just watched.
I so get Arizona’s meltdown in the cafeteria. That could be me.
I also get April and her seeking validation/purpose. Unfortunately, you have to be 45 years or younger to support our military.
Why wasn’t Christina at the funeral?
Also, the show just reinforces, if you have money, you can do anything.
After Derek’s death last week (admittedly, I completely broke down), I was braced for an emotional, heart-wrenching episode this week. I expected a gathering of every character (most notably, Yang and Madison), past and present, to attend the memorial service and for the service itself to be far more significant. Derek deserved more and I was disappointed. Shonda Rhimes could have done better in this instance.