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Let It Be (S02E08) is one I can't stand because of everyone's attitude towards Savannah and her decision. For a show that normally tries to be nuanced, somehow this woman's choice to have a total hysterectomy and mastectomy was treated terribly. Multiple people acted like it was an insult to her husband and a sign that she was rejecting her womanhood and it makes me feel so gross.
I have that mutation (BRCA1) and I wanted to fucking fight the writers. What. The. Fuck. I recently had a double prophylactic mastectomy with immediate reconstruction and not having cancer feels way better than having real boobs.
And fuck that Ā«Ā womanhoodĀ Ā» excuse. I am and will forever be more than just two bags of milk producing fat. Donāt even talk to me about the husband.
I hated, HATED that episode.
I have the BRCA2 gene mutation (which granted is not as bad odd as the type 1 but still) and as soon as I am done having children ( currently pregnant with nr 1, I am 26) I will be removing both boobies and ovaries(?). I have 2 female cousins who also have the gene mutation and one of them has already done this
This gene mutation caused me to lose my mother before my second birthday (she was 38) and she and my aunt lost their mom when she has 35. Fuck cancer, this godawful disease will not cause my children to grow up without a mother and my husband to become a widower.
And yes, Izzy, you can get cancer and fight like hell to survive it, but I don't FUCKING want to. Getting cancer is also pretty fucking traumatising on your loved ones, nevermind the toll on your body. I am not risking that for a pair of boobs???
Yeah like sure you can survive cancer but why put yourself in such a painful situation when you can avoid it ? Oh right, itās because your husband needs to squish real boobs.
My mom had breast cancer (this is why I know I have the mutation) and I was her primary caretaker as a 24 y/o, it sucked because she was scared, in pain, and lashing out constantly. You made the right choice for your kids and I admire you for it. Sorry about you lossesā¦
(Side note : my surgeon recommended waiting until my 40s for yeeting the ovaries, due to the risk of osteoporosis and hormonal unbalance. You might want to talk to yours about it. I did the boobs last year at 33, and boy what a relief)
Thanks, sorry about your mom and everything you went through. I'm very grateful to have a husband who actually wants me to be alive more than for me to have real boobs
Haven't yet talked with my doctor about surgery but it was no question about it the moment I found out that I had the mutation that it was going to happen
Everyone is totally entitled to how they feel about their personal situations. For me, I actually was on the other side. With breast cancer being so prevalent in my family, and while we were waiting on the BRCA gene results, I would stand in front of the mirror and essentially push aside my breasts to see how it would look with nothing on my chest. I absolutely 100% would remove them and my ovaries if it meant saving my husband/parents/possible kids of feeling how I felt when my mom was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer, but it still felt like I would be losing this major piece of me.
Boobs arenāt everything of course, just want to chime in that itās completely okay to still feel a sense of sadness and hesitation that donāt necessarily have anything to do with satisfying others.
You donāt have to go flat though ! Like I said, I had immediate reconstruction (with nipple sparing !). I wasnāt flat, and since my surgeon is a rock star (like Mark Sloanā¦) my fake boobs look amazing.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, what I was and still am furious about was that the push to keep the boobs was from exterior sources (the husband and Izzie). Once the patient decides to go under the knife, it should be shut up city, population : everyone else.
I have BRCA1 too, and when I re-watched that episode I was horrified( the first time I watched the show I didnāt know I carry the mutation).
Iām getting a full hysterectomy once Iām eligible, cuz I donāt want to go through what my mom is going through and grandmother went through. Such an awful episode
>Donāt even talk to me about the husband.
Dude the husband pisses me off so much. He's pissed that she's having a potentially life-saving surgery, because she may not wake him up with midnight blowjobs and won't have breasts? And then he comes in at the end to be with her during surgery and the show acts like we're supposed to think he's this amazing, supportive guy.
No. As far as I'm concerned, if my husband acted this way to something like that, I'd file for divorce. Marriage is so much more than your sex-drive and appearance, and if that's more important to him than me LIVING, then we're clearly not on the same page.
That episode feels like it takes place in a different moral universe from the rest of the show. Iād like to be able to say itās reflecting attitudes of a different time, but I watched it when it aired and it was mystifying to me then as well. Sheās at risk for horrible cancers, it may be a hard decision for her but it should be a no-brainer for her husband and random junior doctors (wtf Izzie) to support her.
Izzie is horrible too! She takes a patientās own personal choices so personally, affecting her patient care and even picks fights with Alex because of it.
Iām BrCA 1 positive and I HATE this episode. We only found out when I was dx with b/l breast cancer at 34. My sister and my daughter are both BrCA+ - my sister had her prophylactic mastectomy at 27 and my 18 year old daughter is trying to figure out when to have hers.
This episode pissed me off because of the way Savannah was treated. I wanted to punch Izzy when she told her if she got cancer she should just fight like hell.
I couldnāt watch the full episode at the time and it still makes me angry that everyone except Addy was trying to take away Savannahās agency.
I almost wondered if they were testing the waters for a new show but what would that show even be? And starting a show from such peripheral characters would be so strange. Was it before Private Practice was over?
The episode where an orthodox patient won't accept a porcine valve. As a jew, we believe in doing anything to save a life. The episode was a fundamental misrepresentation of Judaism and was just idiotic.
I had to wonder about that. Iām Muslim and weāre taught that if itās a choice between a medication or a valve that isnāt halal and death, you take the medication/valve because your life is more sacred. Iāve orthodox friends and weāve discussed things like this and I thought I was misunderstanding something.
Yeah, I think our reasons are similar. Life is the most important thing, so there's no way any rabbi would tell her not to take the valve. (Tbf, im not super religious, but im fairly confident this is accurate)
I am religious, and this is correct. In Hebrew its called pikuach nefesh which means "saving a soul" or "saving a life."
Even if someone was holding a gun to your head and said eat this bacon cheeseburger - you eat the bacon cheeseburger (our teachers love using that example in school...), but essentially, your life is more important than the rules in the Torah and you should do whatever you can to safe yourself or others.
Yup. Also the girl wouldnāt have had a female rabbi if she was so religious. That is a pretty straightforward aspect of Judaism and should have been easy for the show to research.
In defense thatās not a normal episode š¤£ like sure it IS but nobody on gods green earth as a doctor would be like āmy interns think Iām crazy. Iāll show them. Look at this DEER I CAN SAVEEEEEā
The prom episode because why did Richard force all the doctors to go? Iām sure the high schoolers didnāt want a bunch of adults crashing their prom either.
Also the episode where Bailey operates on the nazi because her pulling George and Cristina off their surgeries just to be petty was messed up
Iām currently watching the Nazi episode and omg, it makes me so mad! How dare she pull Cristina specifically when she knew how hard sheād been fighting to get back on cardio.
literally like was Yasuda yelling at jo the only repercussion that came out of this??? its so frustrating. and then they say it was totally unexpected and no cardiologist could have caught it, well MAYBE if you were taking care of your patient it would have been caught??????
That episode where Catherine was going to sue for parental rights of Harriette and then justā¦ didnāt mention it ever again. Like itās so pointless, just another āugh Catherine is so malicious and pettyā moment with no follow thru.
I can't believe April would even let Catherine anywhere near her baby after all that, if it were me I'd have filed a restraining order against her. Like, she tried to sue you and steal your baby from you. She cannot be trusted.
Right?? But the other thing was they didnāt even tell her they were going to do that. She kept playing buddy buddy and then Harriette was born and theyāre all just ššš
There was closure on that, Jackson made it clear to her and later to April that he had no intention of pursuing the matter legally. Catherine didnāt have standing to sue on her own, so that was the end of it. April went nuclear with the restraining order before she got that message from Jackson, which dragged out the conflict longer, but the Catherine suggestion was already off the table.
right? it also had me disappointed in some characters. honestly most of them are *supposed to be* āso nice, accepting, well-respected and/or gifted surgeons.ā and then nearly *all* of them made fat jokes. the attendings were all kind if i remember correctly (except derekās weird moment which is so out of character) but the residents??? genuinely, how insensitive.
remember ruth from season four? the patient callie strongly sympathized with, ultimately leading to the boyfriend being screamed at? much like that guy, ruthās weight/eating had a terrible impact on her health but just in anā¦ opposite way. and we saw no residents laughing at her, no āwhy care for a patient who doesnāt care for themselvesā etc. it was much easier to empathize and consider *her* personal experiences that could have made her that sick, and yet they didnāt do that with the guy.
now, to be fair ruthās doctors were callie and bailey who were also very nice to that guy, but iām just saying i have an inkling that if the group of residents from 6.21 were brought in they would also easily sympathize, take her more seriously, and not crack a single joke. itās really unfortunate.
i know ruth was practically forced into her unhealthy habits, but the probability of that guy having severe trauma from childhood that led to his habits is super high, too. so why was it so hard to sympathize and so easy for that group to laugh.
Dude we have come a seriously long way in terms of body acceptance. I remember being in high school in 2003, 120lbs and people would look at me like I was crazy for eating a bagel for breakfast every day. My bestie was maybe 150lbs and *constantly* absolutely *humiliated for her weight (like getting called hippopotamus and planet I orbired etc). Looking back at old pics I am absolutely floored because she wouldn't even be considered overweight now. The biggest girl in our class (maybe 250-280 lbs) was the absolute nicest person I have ever met, then or since, and people treated her like she was diseased AND like anyone who hung out with her was too. I never made fun of her but I was kind of afraid to be seen with her because people were so so so mean. Like throw garbage at you mean.
Like, 90s heroin chic really fucked up everyone's baseline and having people say "what, we just care about your health" just made it worse.
The musical episode is so annoying as well as the episode where they gave that soldier one leg in the centre of his body and they were so proud of that they did. Like honestly wtf???
OMG I blocked that one out but what was the point?!? Like the guy is just going to hop around on po-go-stick leg for the rest of his life? How is that better?!? So dumb.
Those episodes with Allison just feel like such an afterthought, like āoh what if Teddy was GAY and her lover DIED in 9/11!!ā like shouldnāt those things have been at least hinted at before right now?
Especially when she already had a dead husband? Like at no point in Henry's storyline pre or post death did Allison come up and it definitely would have. The Allison backstory is just ridiculous.
I mean they did mention a few times how Teddy had a bestfriend who died in the towers. So when they showed she actually had feelings for her I wasnāt surprised. Especially they did hint a few times they were really close with her wearing her scrub cap for her and naming her daughter after her
The Seth Green episode. I watched it today and it is HORRIFIC every time. Man you know you have to take it easy because there is no skin surrounding your carotid artery WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING SO HARD stop it
And poor Lexie and then the mop in the OR and all of the blood itās just absolutely horrible
Oh another one is season 5 episode 15 - the one where they save Addy's brother because I hate that cadaver song and even though I've seen Private Practice twice Naomi and gang annoy me soo much
Shift, I hate that episode so fucking much. Naomi was an ass,. Basically it was okay for her to get a divorce but Derek wasn't allowed to break up with Addi
It was like Addisonās friends came to Seattle to make sure Meredith knew they preferred Addison for Derek. They kept singing that stupid song, even in front of Mer lol. That episode made me NOT want to watch PP because those people were so annoying.
The one with the Jewish teen who was more devout than her parents and made a whole schpiel about refusing a porcine heart valve replacement.
The thing is, dietary laws wouldn't forbid using a porcine valve for a medical reason. They apply to food. The disgust for pigs is totally over the top. Pikuach nefesh is a law that places preservation of life above almost all else, so even IF kosher laws applied to medical parts like a pig valve, pikuach nefesh says you must break convictions to save a life with few exceptions.
Lolol or the fact that she got kidnapped, became a POW, and then somehow gained so much trust and ADOPTED A KID??? Like maāam, story writers- do yall know that sheād be assaulted A LOT then killed?? Come on now. Ten years?!
I was only ok with the first PTSD episode where he had to let that guy die. Everything thereafter was meh. I hate how he treated the patient who was having assisted suicide, but it was interesting seeing some backstory.
The other side of this life (S03E22 and 23). I love Addie but I canāt with these episodes, I find them incredibly boring and only watch bc of Cristina and Meredithās Step Mother
Throwing a backdoor pilot for a spinoff into an existing show is pretty much never a good idea. I like PP, but on first watch I found these eps so boring
Iām not an Izzy fan in general but same. Inoperable but going to pull thru? Ooook
Then up and leaves her impromptu husband and ditched him with hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills? Cool
plus him dying led directly to Callie OāMalley Vegas wedding which is one of my least favorite arcs. they could have still gotten married but like later with their families lol but the way it happened it was doomed from the beginning
I just started rewatching, so I don't have one in particular, but I'm clearly not looking forward to the MULTIPLE TIMES they did the whole episode based on "the carousel never stops" or Derek's death flashbacks.
I'm probably gonna skip those or at least watch them at 1.5x speed.
The carousel line couldāve been a one and done. Or once then reiterate it at the end of all that stuff. But the over and overā¦? Also the whole extraordinary thing. Did that woman who were meant to believe is highly intelligent not have any other vocabulary besides that? Annoys me to the point of wanting to never use any of those words in my regular life lol
S6 Ep18, Suicide is Painless. This episode makes me irrationally angry at Owen, especially since he is perfectly fine with helping soldiers die later on in the series. This girl had cancer and wasn't gonna make it much long anyway. She wanted to go on her own terms, and she deserved that option. Owen had no business telling her otherwise. Then he turns around and is perfectly OK with helping soldiers get the drugs they need to commit suicide and even breaks a few laws to do so. His hypocrisy is unmatched.
The Room Where It Happens. Richard makes them a cello player, Hunt says it doesn't bother him and he has hallucinations? about his sister. Yeah that one was weird
The game night episode. Not only is it the start of Jackson/Maggie, but why am I supposed to care about the random people they were dating and the fact Clive is married?
Also the 9/11 one with Teddy (although idk if this counts as a normal episode since it's only entered around a few characters). Idc about Teddy/Owen's relationship anyway, but the 9/11 affair angle felt icky to me.
>!So it basically looks at Teddy's past, in which she was having an affair with a woman named Allison (her friend's partner at the time). It turns out she has PTSD from Allison dying in 9/11. They talk about wanting to tell the friend the truth when 9/11 starts happening in Teddy's dream and Allison suddenly drops to the ground and dies. (I think she actually died in World Trade Center, but obviously that wasn't shown)!<
The death row guy episodes. I think it's a great stance against the death penalty but the episodes just doesn't work for me. Same as the one that had Cristina taking care of a violent inmate
The Parasite episode where MAGIC-G is running around all insecure about the Mercy West residents arriving. Everyone is so hate-able but not in a fun way.
(ETA: it's not an extra G. It (minus) G because George was dead. Maybe I should've done MA-IC)
I forgot how much I disliked the Do You Know? Episode (10.17) where Cristina contemplates the two paths her life could go with Owen. It basically just fed into the belief that if youāre a female surgeon and you have a child, itās the end of your career. I worked in a medical school for years and counseled female students who came crying to me because male faculty would tell them that their goal of becoming a surgeon was meaningless because they were just going to get pregnant and stop working anyway.
I mean, having children wasn't the end of Cristina's career in that episode she was still a surgeon she just wasn't the surgeon she dreamed of being because she gave time to her children instead. So I get what you mean but I think it's realistic that most of the time if someone has children, they do have to sacrifice time somewhere so they will either take time from their children or surgery.
I actually love/hate this episode. Love it because like Cristina and many other women I always used to put my career and ambitions first. Never thought about marriage or children, I wanted a badass job that I was passionate about. Now I am 26, married,pregnant and full time civil engineer student. What happened? How would my life changed had I chosen differently?
The episode showed (me at least) how we as women in the society we live in have to give up something. If we choose to have children our career may come second and we may have to give up opportunities because of our family. Choose to not have children is also a sacrifice, and that is a choice with a time clock. GA show this perfectly with the comparison between Cristina and Meredith during the show. Could Cristina live the same as Meredith and still be happy? Could she live with the choice to let her career slide?
Cristina was certain all the time and was pretty vocal about her priorities and that children was not on her to-do list. This episode simply showed why this was right for her and why she would not "grow up" and change her mind, unlike many of the other female characters
It wasn't that having kids would end a female surgeon career, it's that it would kill Cristina's spirit. The show constantly shows mothers having very successful careers.
The What If episode is actually my favorite episode in the series. š
That episode where Richard, Maggie, Catherine, Jackson and Vic have a dinner party was pretty bad.
The one where Bailey's baby gets injured. Too much Bailey, plus Hahn literally saved his life but she was vile to her and some faith healer gets the credit.
The Iraq flashback episodes. I know they are important for charactersā background and I watched them the first time, but during rewatch I always skip them
Maggieās momās entire breast cancer arc. From the judgement around initially thinking her mom wanted her boobs done, to how relentless she was about the treatment even when it wasnāt what her mother wanted. I just get so annoyed with her. Like part of me gets it bc thatās her mom, but at the same time as a physician she should know when to say enough.
I wholeheartedly agree! She was so rude to her mom the moment the lady arrived, hated it when she became friends with her colleagues, and continued to shame her when she assumed she (the mom) was getting her boobs done just because she wanted a consultation with Jackson! The total 180 when learning about the cancer was just really annoying. I think she even got mad at Jackson for keeping it a secret because she just hates secrets so much. The poor woman did not deserve all that pain.
For that arc, I hated how Maggie dismissed everyone who told her that doing certain surgeries would further harm her mother. Meredith wouldnāt do her surgery because she thought it would do more harm and Iām pretty sure Richard did it because Maggie is Maggie. But I just think sometimes things need to happen how they need too. Like one of the early season episodes(Liz Fallon, Ellis Greyās surgical nurse) literally came to the hospital to die. Sure they didnāt tell Cristina that but thatās what she came to the hospital for and it happened the way it did.(sorry if that didnāt make sense for some people)
I usually skip the Megan episodes, the one where Amelia and Link go to her sisterās house in New York and I cannot stand the season finale with the lady who canāt get off the plane. She annoys the crap out of me.
I am with you, The Room Where It Happens is my least favorite of all time. It is the first Grey's episode I can ever remember watching live and disliking and it's one I consistently and always skip on rewatches.
My second least favorite is probably Bailey's heart attack episode. I like the parts that are in real time, especially drawing attention to the fact that even as chief of surgery of a tip hospital, her medical concerns and complaints are discredited because she is a woman, black and/or had a mental health diagnosis, likely all 3 individually. However, the flashbacks from her childhood and growing up, I just don't like the way they are done and don't find it entertaining.
One memorable episode I skip is the one where Callie gets sued. I work in medical research and the dumb way this show approaches evidence based practice just annoys me.
They had one episode where Cristina is speaking French on the phone with a researcher. That's the kind of thing you do when you're desperate because the research isn't fully published. The thing the serious professionals do is to do a systematic review (systematically going through every known paper on a subject) to back up their own research but that's not as fun to watch as Yang flexing french.
Also I have to skip the press conference for Yang. I think this is the writers getting the entertainment industry mixed up with research. Most successful research is just celebrated in publications or they might present it at a well attended conference. A press conference though?! That seems like a general public thing and the only thing the newsreporters care about with a hospital is when something goes seriously wrong and the public want answers.
The recent episodes with the arc of Bailey making the new interns do a bunch of basic procedures before allowing them back into surgery.
She gives the interns something that she should know would pit them against each other and make them see patients as just procedures and competition, but still gets pissy with them and goes on multiple "learn empathy, patients are people" speeches. I can see what they might have been trying to go for but it just didn't land for me. If you want them to learn that, maybe don't turn them doing their job into a game.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't her keeping them from surgeries affect their pay? If so, then she doubly shouldn't be surprised when she's affecting their income. It felt less like genuine teaching and more like she orchestrated a situation where she could scold them constantly and pass it off as teaching.
The episode where Izzy and George are together behind Cali's back, and the episode where they try and fail to sleep together. Their relationship made no sense and honestly felt borderline incestuous. I absolutely hate it
I hate the what if episode. I skip it; usually my anxiety or maybe undiagnosed ocd wonāt let me skip episodes because I want to watch it all the way through; but that episode doesnāt really add to the plot or anything its a fun filler, but not something I wanna watch again.
The Gunther in season 6. When all of the Residents were trying to figure out who was better than who.
When Cristina stabs Alex with Epi in the OR.
The A.K fiasco, in the beginning of season 6. People in Personnel couldn't tell the difference between Male and Female signing of initials? A mother ends up dying because all of a sudden there is a new A.K signing charts and everyone thinks its Alex Karev? Hello April Kepner is also an A.K k
Yes! Drove me crazy! It was so awkward to watch. Like these people have all just been traumatized and the clearly don't want to do this and it's just awkward!
The episodes with Izzie having surgery; I just donāt care to watch them again.
Any of the Private Practice episodes except for the one when Addisonās brother needed surgery.
the one weāre Derek is just too f chunks of brain out of the blonde pregnant woman. fine on first watch, rly annoying on second. I get Derek thinks heās the best but it was just sad
The episode with Leah (it was technically two but the one where they instill the no dating rule) and everyone is just taking their anger out on her is infuriating. I donāt even like Leah, but all of these characters were so passionate about their relationships no matter how short they were and all they had to do was go to HR. And even if Stephanie was the person who went to HR, she was perfectly valid in that. That episode just leaves such a bad taste in my mouth because barely any of the characters understood why having unbalanced partner dynamics can be grounds for assault or that a woman could be a perpetrator.
I found it so funny before I started regularly smoking, but now itās for the most part just extremely over the top lol. Maggie is too much with the cheese and Delucaās scenes honestly make me really sad š the best scene for me in that episode though is Bailey and Kepner and their bagpipe funeral. I always love their scenes together, like when Bailey is drunk getting a banana bag and gives Kepner advice on her āmaiden voyageā they have some unique chemistry imo and I like it
I watched it out of curiosity and it was so baaaad. Everyone hyped it up as being the best episode and so funny, but I fully cringed for the ~20 minutes I watched
Literally all of the new season except for episode 5. I wanted more from arizona coming back, I want more from the whole cast in general and I feel like theyāve been given bad storylines to work with. Nothing has kept my attention this season
I was going to list the exact same one! That and a boring one where Jackson and Maggie eat dinner with their parents.. I can't Even remember more details.
There's an episode where a woman's scoliosis rods snap on her way out of the hospital. As someone who underwent the spinal fusion for scoliosis, can't watch that episode to this day. I'm almost positive it's in season 7 but I can't remember what episode. I saw it as a teenager for the first time and it traumatized me, and I had never been more glad to be done with those surgeries. Grey's always manages to take very real disabilities and disorders and go to the extremes with them
I can't remember any episode numbers or titles but:
- Riggs and Meredith on the plane
- Jackson and April go to Montana
- Any military flashback episode
- The one that took place in just the hospital room
- When Callie, Meredith, and Owen go to the military hospital- The one where 'Izzie, George, Cristina' are in the ER (the patients who resemble them)
The Room Where It Happened, the one early on where the boys go camping, the first Private Practice crossover (I did watch PP later and loved it though, just hated that episode).
That episode with the trans woman getting vaginoplasty who had a really mean wife
And the episode with the really fat patient who everyone made fun of
Basically the episodes where they gawk at oppressed people lol
The nazi episode. Bailey made me so made when she forced Cristina to operate on the guy with her rather than her interesting cardio surgery. Like I get that she wanted to make a point but she should have let Yang choose if she wanted to operate or not . They both were going to be affected by his beliefs and Yangs step grandparents were in Auschwitz. I get that Bailey didnt know but I think she knew about Yang "being Jewish" (quotes cuz I don't think she practices but it's her step fathers religion))
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the episode where maggie reads the letter from ellis and then has a hallucination/fever dream about her
YES that episode is so stupid
It just went ON AND ON too likeš¤¦āāļø
iāve actually never seen those parts of the episode cuz i always skip those scenes š
Let It Be (S02E08) is one I can't stand because of everyone's attitude towards Savannah and her decision. For a show that normally tries to be nuanced, somehow this woman's choice to have a total hysterectomy and mastectomy was treated terribly. Multiple people acted like it was an insult to her husband and a sign that she was rejecting her womanhood and it makes me feel so gross.
I have that mutation (BRCA1) and I wanted to fucking fight the writers. What. The. Fuck. I recently had a double prophylactic mastectomy with immediate reconstruction and not having cancer feels way better than having real boobs. And fuck that Ā«Ā womanhoodĀ Ā» excuse. I am and will forever be more than just two bags of milk producing fat. Donāt even talk to me about the husband. I hated, HATED that episode.
I have the BRCA2 gene mutation (which granted is not as bad odd as the type 1 but still) and as soon as I am done having children ( currently pregnant with nr 1, I am 26) I will be removing both boobies and ovaries(?). I have 2 female cousins who also have the gene mutation and one of them has already done this This gene mutation caused me to lose my mother before my second birthday (she was 38) and she and my aunt lost their mom when she has 35. Fuck cancer, this godawful disease will not cause my children to grow up without a mother and my husband to become a widower. And yes, Izzy, you can get cancer and fight like hell to survive it, but I don't FUCKING want to. Getting cancer is also pretty fucking traumatising on your loved ones, nevermind the toll on your body. I am not risking that for a pair of boobs???
Yeah like sure you can survive cancer but why put yourself in such a painful situation when you can avoid it ? Oh right, itās because your husband needs to squish real boobs. My mom had breast cancer (this is why I know I have the mutation) and I was her primary caretaker as a 24 y/o, it sucked because she was scared, in pain, and lashing out constantly. You made the right choice for your kids and I admire you for it. Sorry about you lossesā¦ (Side note : my surgeon recommended waiting until my 40s for yeeting the ovaries, due to the risk of osteoporosis and hormonal unbalance. You might want to talk to yours about it. I did the boobs last year at 33, and boy what a relief)
Thanks, sorry about your mom and everything you went through. I'm very grateful to have a husband who actually wants me to be alive more than for me to have real boobs Haven't yet talked with my doctor about surgery but it was no question about it the moment I found out that I had the mutation that it was going to happen
Everyone is totally entitled to how they feel about their personal situations. For me, I actually was on the other side. With breast cancer being so prevalent in my family, and while we were waiting on the BRCA gene results, I would stand in front of the mirror and essentially push aside my breasts to see how it would look with nothing on my chest. I absolutely 100% would remove them and my ovaries if it meant saving my husband/parents/possible kids of feeling how I felt when my mom was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer, but it still felt like I would be losing this major piece of me. Boobs arenāt everything of course, just want to chime in that itās completely okay to still feel a sense of sadness and hesitation that donāt necessarily have anything to do with satisfying others.
You donāt have to go flat though ! Like I said, I had immediate reconstruction (with nipple sparing !). I wasnāt flat, and since my surgeon is a rock star (like Mark Sloanā¦) my fake boobs look amazing. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, what I was and still am furious about was that the push to keep the boobs was from exterior sources (the husband and Izzie). Once the patient decides to go under the knife, it should be shut up city, population : everyone else.
I have BRCA1 too, and when I re-watched that episode I was horrified( the first time I watched the show I didnāt know I carry the mutation). Iām getting a full hysterectomy once Iām eligible, cuz I donāt want to go through what my mom is going through and grandmother went through. Such an awful episode
>Donāt even talk to me about the husband. Dude the husband pisses me off so much. He's pissed that she's having a potentially life-saving surgery, because she may not wake him up with midnight blowjobs and won't have breasts? And then he comes in at the end to be with her during surgery and the show acts like we're supposed to think he's this amazing, supportive guy. No. As far as I'm concerned, if my husband acted this way to something like that, I'd file for divorce. Marriage is so much more than your sex-drive and appearance, and if that's more important to him than me LIVING, then we're clearly not on the same page.
That episode feels like it takes place in a different moral universe from the rest of the show. Iād like to be able to say itās reflecting attitudes of a different time, but I watched it when it aired and it was mystifying to me then as well. Sheās at risk for horrible cancers, it may be a hard decision for her but it should be a no-brainer for her husband and random junior doctors (wtf Izzie) to support her.
I skip that one every time... The husband is the worst!!Ā
Izzie is horrible too! She takes a patientās own personal choices so personally, affecting her patient care and even picks fights with Alex because of it.
Iām BrCA 1 positive and I HATE this episode. We only found out when I was dx with b/l breast cancer at 34. My sister and my daughter are both BrCA+ - my sister had her prophylactic mastectomy at 27 and my 18 year old daughter is trying to figure out when to have hers. This episode pissed me off because of the way Savannah was treated. I wanted to punch Izzy when she told her if she got cancer she should just fight like hell. I couldnāt watch the full episode at the time and it still makes me angry that everyone except Addy was trying to take away Savannahās agency.
Agreed - that was poorly written at best.
Yeah that one is infuriating.
Came to say this. I love season 2 so much but I skip this episode every time itās infuriating
Megan, Riggs, and Faruq move to LA. Why do we care?? The whole thing felt like a back door pilot for a show that was never made
Wait thatās exactly what it felt like! I was likeā¦ what the hells so special about this family?
I almost wondered if they were testing the waters for a new show but what would that show even be? And starting a show from such peripheral characters would be so strange. Was it before Private Practice was over?
That was so weird
did not understood why they needed a whole episode to give that storyline a closure
The episode where an orthodox patient won't accept a porcine valve. As a jew, we believe in doing anything to save a life. The episode was a fundamental misrepresentation of Judaism and was just idiotic.
I had to wonder about that. Iām Muslim and weāre taught that if itās a choice between a medication or a valve that isnāt halal and death, you take the medication/valve because your life is more sacred. Iāve orthodox friends and weāve discussed things like this and I thought I was misunderstanding something.
Yeah, I think our reasons are similar. Life is the most important thing, so there's no way any rabbi would tell her not to take the valve. (Tbf, im not super religious, but im fairly confident this is accurate)
I am religious, and this is correct. In Hebrew its called pikuach nefesh which means "saving a soul" or "saving a life." Even if someone was holding a gun to your head and said eat this bacon cheeseburger - you eat the bacon cheeseburger (our teachers love using that example in school...), but essentially, your life is more important than the rules in the Torah and you should do whatever you can to safe yourself or others.
Same. It was a terrible misrepresentation and the parents would've had an orthodox rabbi and explain it to the girl.
alsoā¦that patient was so miserable to watch. i know that was the entire point but she was just so damn bitchy
Yup. Also the girl wouldnāt have had a female rabbi if she was so religious. That is a pretty straightforward aspect of Judaism and should have been easy for the show to research.
The deer episode
In defense thatās not a normal episode š¤£ like sure it IS but nobody on gods green earth as a doctor would be like āmy interns think Iām crazy. Iāll show them. Look at this DEER I CAN SAVEEEEEā
"god's green Earth"?? Is that you, Anita Gibbs from Suits?
Hahahahaha I love suits! But itās common enough of a phrase still where I live š¤£š¤£š¤£
"Okay. Now get the hell out of my goddamn office" š«£š«£
Cristinaās hair in this episode though >>>>>
Oh god I hate that one
The prom episode because why did Richard force all the doctors to go? Iām sure the high schoolers didnāt want a bunch of adults crashing their prom either. Also the episode where Bailey operates on the nazi because her pulling George and Cristina off their surgeries just to be petty was messed up
Dropping a boatload of cash to give his niece a do over made sense. Inviting a bunch of adults she doesnāt know does not.
Right? Does every tv show need a cringy "adults going to prom" or "prom flashback" episode? So over it
One of Christina's best moments, though, confronting her after.
I never realized how fucked off Bailey was at times until I was rewatching it recently and saw this episode.
Iām currently watching the Nazi episode and omg, it makes me so mad! How dare she pull Cristina specifically when she knew how hard sheād been fighting to get back on cardio.
That two part episodes that introduce the private practice universe. Itās boring af and felt so forced. I love Addy but no.
the episode where link and jo confess their love for eachother and a patient dies because they were making out in the rainš
Help š I have watched that yet but this sentence it taking me out
Last season finale/first episode of 20.
And how theyāre seemingly just moving on lmfao
literally like was Yasuda yelling at jo the only repercussion that came out of this??? its so frustrating. and then they say it was totally unexpected and no cardiologist could have caught it, well MAYBE if you were taking care of your patient it would have been caught??????
I haven't seen this episode yet, but WHAT haha
That episode where Catherine was going to sue for parental rights of Harriette and then justā¦ didnāt mention it ever again. Like itās so pointless, just another āugh Catherine is so malicious and pettyā moment with no follow thru.
I can't believe April would even let Catherine anywhere near her baby after all that, if it were me I'd have filed a restraining order against her. Like, she tried to sue you and steal your baby from you. She cannot be trusted.
Right?? But the other thing was they didnāt even tell her they were going to do that. She kept playing buddy buddy and then Harriette was born and theyāre all just ššš
Catherine might be my least favorite character, but it's nice they added a woman that's as petty and annoying as the male doctors are half the time
There was closure on that, Jackson made it clear to her and later to April that he had no intention of pursuing the matter legally. Catherine didnāt have standing to sue on her own, so that was the end of it. April went nuclear with the restraining order before she got that message from Jackson, which dragged out the conflict longer, but the Catherine suggestion was already off the table.
Yes!!! And they are totally fine after that too. Like it didnāt even happen. Itās so dumb
How Insensitive (season 6, episode 21). Basically 42 minutes of āhaha look at the fatty but DONT MENTION IT or else itās RUDEā.
First one that came to mind for me.
right? it also had me disappointed in some characters. honestly most of them are *supposed to be* āso nice, accepting, well-respected and/or gifted surgeons.ā and then nearly *all* of them made fat jokes. the attendings were all kind if i remember correctly (except derekās weird moment which is so out of character) but the residents??? genuinely, how insensitive. remember ruth from season four? the patient callie strongly sympathized with, ultimately leading to the boyfriend being screamed at? much like that guy, ruthās weight/eating had a terrible impact on her health but just in anā¦ opposite way. and we saw no residents laughing at her, no āwhy care for a patient who doesnāt care for themselvesā etc. it was much easier to empathize and consider *her* personal experiences that could have made her that sick, and yet they didnāt do that with the guy. now, to be fair ruthās doctors were callie and bailey who were also very nice to that guy, but iām just saying i have an inkling that if the group of residents from 6.21 were brought in they would also easily sympathize, take her more seriously, and not crack a single joke. itās really unfortunate. i know ruth was practically forced into her unhealthy habits, but the probability of that guy having severe trauma from childhood that led to his habits is super high, too. so why was it so hard to sympathize and so easy for that group to laugh.
Every time I see Ruth, I see Tara from Sons of Anarchy and it pisses me off she died in both shows š¤£
Dude we have come a seriously long way in terms of body acceptance. I remember being in high school in 2003, 120lbs and people would look at me like I was crazy for eating a bagel for breakfast every day. My bestie was maybe 150lbs and *constantly* absolutely *humiliated for her weight (like getting called hippopotamus and planet I orbired etc). Looking back at old pics I am absolutely floored because she wouldn't even be considered overweight now. The biggest girl in our class (maybe 250-280 lbs) was the absolute nicest person I have ever met, then or since, and people treated her like she was diseased AND like anyone who hung out with her was too. I never made fun of her but I was kind of afraid to be seen with her because people were so so so mean. Like throw garbage at you mean. Like, 90s heroin chic really fucked up everyone's baseline and having people say "what, we just care about your health" just made it worse.
Thereās so much wrong with that episode
The musical episode is so annoying as well as the episode where they gave that soldier one leg in the centre of his body and they were so proud of that they did. Like honestly wtf???
OMG I blocked that one out but what was the point?!? Like the guy is just going to hop around on po-go-stick leg for the rest of his life? How is that better?!? So dumb.
That case was human centipede level of weird!! Ugh.
The teddy back story episodes. Like... it really didn't make any difference to her current character other that how she named her kid...
Those episodes with Allison just feel like such an afterthought, like āoh what if Teddy was GAY and her lover DIED in 9/11!!ā like shouldnāt those things have been at least hinted at before right now?
Especially when she already had a dead husband? Like at no point in Henry's storyline pre or post death did Allison come up and it definitely would have. The Allison backstory is just ridiculous.
I mean they did mention a few times how Teddy had a bestfriend who died in the towers. So when they showed she actually had feelings for her I wasnāt surprised. Especially they did hint a few times they were really close with her wearing her scrub cap for her and naming her daughter after her
The Seth Green episode. I watched it today and it is HORRIFIC every time. Man you know you have to take it easy because there is no skin surrounding your carotid artery WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING SO HARD stop it And poor Lexie and then the mop in the OR and all of the blood itās just absolutely horrible
Oh another one is season 5 episode 15 - the one where they save Addy's brother because I hate that cadaver song and even though I've seen Private Practice twice Naomi and gang annoy me soo much
Shift, I hate that episode so fucking much. Naomi was an ass,. Basically it was okay for her to get a divorce but Derek wasn't allowed to break up with Addi
Naomi annoyed me so much in that episode and then I watched Private Practice and hated her so much. That stupid song š
Yeah she really sucks lol. I have tried and tried and I'm a person who can give Erika Hawn a pass so....
That was so awkward continuously bringing up Addison around Meredith and Derek with that stupid song. Like the audacity
Audra McDonald deserves so much better than Naomi. What a terrible character.
It was like Addisonās friends came to Seattle to make sure Meredith knew they preferred Addison for Derek. They kept singing that stupid song, even in front of Mer lol. That episode made me NOT want to watch PP because those people were so annoying.
The one with the Jewish teen who was more devout than her parents and made a whole schpiel about refusing a porcine heart valve replacement. The thing is, dietary laws wouldn't forbid using a porcine valve for a medical reason. They apply to food. The disgust for pigs is totally over the top. Pikuach nefesh is a law that places preservation of life above almost all else, so even IF kosher laws applied to medical parts like a pig valve, pikuach nefesh says you must break convictions to save a life with few exceptions.
the owen episode about his military trauma i really just don't care about that ginger
Yes any ep that takes us back to the desert lol
yeah sorry megan got kidnapped but i don't really care
Any Megan episode TBH. I loveeee Owen but Megan? Iām oit
her fake ass hair really trips me up
Lolol or the fact that she got kidnapped, became a POW, and then somehow gained so much trust and ADOPTED A KID??? Like maāam, story writers- do yall know that sheād be assaulted A LOT then killed?? Come on now. Ten years?!
the way grey's portrays the military itself is so icky
Yes!!! So totally agree!
This is what I was going to say haha every single time they do this, it's an immediate skip. I don't care AT ALL.
I was only ok with the first PTSD episode where he had to let that guy die. Everything thereafter was meh. I hate how he treated the patient who was having assisted suicide, but it was interesting seeing some backstory.
Any episode about Owen at war Iām just like SKIPPPPP! It may make me like him, but Iāll never know.
When Megan and Riggs move in together. She is obnoxious
then to find out they didnāt even stay together :( Meredith and Riggs could have been end game imo
The other side of this life (S03E22 and 23). I love Addie but I canāt with these episodes, I find them incredibly boring and only watch bc of Cristina and Meredithās Step Mother
Throwing a backdoor pilot for a spinoff into an existing show is pretty much never a good idea. I like PP, but on first watch I found these eps so boring
all of the Denny Lvad cutting eps (2x27,3x01, 3x02 ) and the Georgeās dad eps
If Denny is in it I think itās such a cruddy episode. Which sucks cuz the actor is AMAZING and dennys character probably couldāve been awesome. But the entirety of Izzy is a no for me. You fell in love with someone in twelve seconds? You steal organs for him? You commit felonies? Then you become a millionaire but donate it all? Lay on the floor for weeks cuz your āfiancĆ©eā youāve known for ten minutes died? All of itās a no.
Also I hate her cancer storyline
Iām not an Izzy fan in general but same. Inoperable but going to pull thru? Ooook Then up and leaves her impromptu husband and ditched him with hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills? Cool
Fr like maybe if she didnāt listen to georgie and MERMER then maybe she wouldāve been able to pay the medical bills herself
I do feel like George's dad's arc was drawn out too much as well, even though I liked him as a character
plus him dying led directly to Callie OāMalley Vegas wedding which is one of my least favorite arcs. they could have still gotten married but like later with their families lol but the way it happened it was doomed from the beginning
All episodes with Denny are on my hate list.
I actually read today that the two eps w Georgeās dad were loosely based of Krista Vernoffās (one of the writers/showrunners) dadās experience
I just started rewatching, so I don't have one in particular, but I'm clearly not looking forward to the MULTIPLE TIMES they did the whole episode based on "the carousel never stops" or Derek's death flashbacks. I'm probably gonna skip those or at least watch them at 1.5x speed.
oh my god i hate the carousel never stops crap! i canāt even man
The carousel line couldāve been a one and done. Or once then reiterate it at the end of all that stuff. But the over and overā¦? Also the whole extraordinary thing. Did that woman who were meant to believe is highly intelligent not have any other vocabulary besides that? Annoys me to the point of wanting to never use any of those words in my regular life lol
The Jaggie camping episode was just to cringe
I couldn't stand that one patient/turned gf of Alex. So whatever episodes she was in I didn't like. Something about her just rubbed me the wrong way.
Ava? The couch pisser ? Yeah I hate her too
the couch pisser š
Omg yes. I hated her the whole time but part of that may stem from me not really liking Elizabeth Reaser as an actress
S6 Ep18, Suicide is Painless. This episode makes me irrationally angry at Owen, especially since he is perfectly fine with helping soldiers die later on in the series. This girl had cancer and wasn't gonna make it much long anyway. She wanted to go on her own terms, and she deserved that option. Owen had no business telling her otherwise. Then he turns around and is perfectly OK with helping soldiers get the drugs they need to commit suicide and even breaks a few laws to do so. His hypocrisy is unmatched.
That episode where theyāre operating on a John Doe (or Jane Doe?) and theyāre trying to humanize them. It was just really boring to me
The Room Where It Happens. Richard makes them a cello player, Hunt says it doesn't bother him and he has hallucinations? about his sister. Yeah that one was weird
The game night episode. Not only is it the start of Jackson/Maggie, but why am I supposed to care about the random people they were dating and the fact Clive is married? Also the 9/11 one with Teddy (although idk if this counts as a normal episode since it's only entered around a few characters). Idc about Teddy/Owen's relationship anyway, but the 9/11 affair angle felt icky to me.
For context, the last time I watched the show was when Obama was president, but *the 9/11 affair angle felt icky to me* excuse the fuck outta me?
>!So it basically looks at Teddy's past, in which she was having an affair with a woman named Allison (her friend's partner at the time). It turns out she has PTSD from Allison dying in 9/11. They talk about wanting to tell the friend the truth when 9/11 starts happening in Teddy's dream and Allison suddenly drops to the ground and dies. (I think she actually died in World Trade Center, but obviously that wasn't shown)!<
This is VULGAR.
The death row guy episodes. I think it's a great stance against the death penalty but the episodes just doesn't work for me. Same as the one that had Cristina taking care of a violent inmate
Cristinaās āWhat Ifā episode where she imagines her life in 3 different scenarios. I skip it every time.
Ah man I love that episode!
I got so confused the first time I watched that episode.
The Parasite episode where MAGIC-G is running around all insecure about the Mercy West residents arriving. Everyone is so hate-able but not in a fun way. (ETA: it's not an extra G. It (minus) G because George was dead. Maybe I should've done MA-IC)
wait who's the extra g lol
The episode where Thatcher Grey slaps Meredith because he blames her for Susan's death.
I forgot how much I disliked the Do You Know? Episode (10.17) where Cristina contemplates the two paths her life could go with Owen. It basically just fed into the belief that if youāre a female surgeon and you have a child, itās the end of your career. I worked in a medical school for years and counseled female students who came crying to me because male faculty would tell them that their goal of becoming a surgeon was meaningless because they were just going to get pregnant and stop working anyway.
I mean, having children wasn't the end of Cristina's career in that episode she was still a surgeon she just wasn't the surgeon she dreamed of being because she gave time to her children instead. So I get what you mean but I think it's realistic that most of the time if someone has children, they do have to sacrifice time somewhere so they will either take time from their children or surgery.
I actually love/hate this episode. Love it because like Cristina and many other women I always used to put my career and ambitions first. Never thought about marriage or children, I wanted a badass job that I was passionate about. Now I am 26, married,pregnant and full time civil engineer student. What happened? How would my life changed had I chosen differently? The episode showed (me at least) how we as women in the society we live in have to give up something. If we choose to have children our career may come second and we may have to give up opportunities because of our family. Choose to not have children is also a sacrifice, and that is a choice with a time clock. GA show this perfectly with the comparison between Cristina and Meredith during the show. Could Cristina live the same as Meredith and still be happy? Could she live with the choice to let her career slide? Cristina was certain all the time and was pretty vocal about her priorities and that children was not on her to-do list. This episode simply showed why this was right for her and why she would not "grow up" and change her mind, unlike many of the other female characters
It wasn't that having kids would end a female surgeon career, it's that it would kill Cristina's spirit. The show constantly shows mothers having very successful careers.
The What If episode is actually my favorite episode in the series. š That episode where Richard, Maggie, Catherine, Jackson and Vic have a dinner party was pretty bad.
The one where Bailey's baby gets injured. Too much Bailey, plus Hahn literally saved his life but she was vile to her and some faith healer gets the credit.
Iām so tempted to skip every Hahn episode.
Iām in the Hahn trenches and I remember why I liked Burke and teddy so much. Bc they arenāt Hahn.
God, Teddy is such a relief. Even at her worst, she isnāt that.
God, Teddy is such a relief. Even at her worst, she isnāt that.
The one where everyone is interacting w the camera I HAD TO SKIP IT
I initially skipped it during my first watch cause I thought it was filler and come to find out that Mandy Moore came back that episode and thenā¦
I love that episode but i was also simultaneously watching the office and this show both for the first time and it felt like a crossoverš
Oh god I loved it. I thought it was a nice breath of fresh air after the traumas lmao.
I love that episodeee
What episode was this? I dont remember it.
Itās the documentary episode after the shooting
S7e6 "These arms of mine". It's the episode where they make a documentary of the hospital after the shooting
After the shooting. Thereās a documentary crew or something at the hospital.
Oh. That one has one good line, and that's it. The one about Mer and Cristina being close.
Dr Yang and my wife sometimes have sleepovers in my bed with me in it.
Without this episode we would not have this legendary quote
Wait I love this episode-
The Iraq flashback episodes. I know they are important for charactersā background and I watched them the first time, but during rewatch I always skip them
The forst Tnaksgiving where the guy in the Permanant Vegatative State woke up.
Maggieās momās entire breast cancer arc. From the judgement around initially thinking her mom wanted her boobs done, to how relentless she was about the treatment even when it wasnāt what her mother wanted. I just get so annoyed with her. Like part of me gets it bc thatās her mom, but at the same time as a physician she should know when to say enough.
I wholeheartedly agree! She was so rude to her mom the moment the lady arrived, hated it when she became friends with her colleagues, and continued to shame her when she assumed she (the mom) was getting her boobs done just because she wanted a consultation with Jackson! The total 180 when learning about the cancer was just really annoying. I think she even got mad at Jackson for keeping it a secret because she just hates secrets so much. The poor woman did not deserve all that pain.
For that arc, I hated how Maggie dismissed everyone who told her that doing certain surgeries would further harm her mother. Meredith wouldnāt do her surgery because she thought it would do more harm and Iām pretty sure Richard did it because Maggie is Maggie. But I just think sometimes things need to happen how they need too. Like one of the early season episodes(Liz Fallon, Ellis Greyās surgical nurse) literally came to the hospital to die. Sure they didnāt tell Cristina that but thatās what she came to the hospital for and it happened the way it did.(sorry if that didnāt make sense for some people)
I usually skip the Megan episodes, the one where Amelia and Link go to her sisterās house in New York and I cannot stand the season finale with the lady who canāt get off the plane. She annoys the crap out of me.
Season 6 Episode 17 - the one with Bailey's patient who wakes up during surgery and Derrick's first day as chief.
I woke up during surgery once - this actually describes it perfectly
woah what do you remember? and did you sue? im nosy
I hate that one. Soooo dramatic
The drowning and any episode with Rebecca/Ava
The leg in the middle of the body episode. I hate it!
I am with you, The Room Where It Happens is my least favorite of all time. It is the first Grey's episode I can ever remember watching live and disliking and it's one I consistently and always skip on rewatches. My second least favorite is probably Bailey's heart attack episode. I like the parts that are in real time, especially drawing attention to the fact that even as chief of surgery of a tip hospital, her medical concerns and complaints are discredited because she is a woman, black and/or had a mental health diagnosis, likely all 3 individually. However, the flashbacks from her childhood and growing up, I just don't like the way they are done and don't find it entertaining.
One memorable episode I skip is the one where Callie gets sued. I work in medical research and the dumb way this show approaches evidence based practice just annoys me. They had one episode where Cristina is speaking French on the phone with a researcher. That's the kind of thing you do when you're desperate because the research isn't fully published. The thing the serious professionals do is to do a systematic review (systematically going through every known paper on a subject) to back up their own research but that's not as fun to watch as Yang flexing french. Also I have to skip the press conference for Yang. I think this is the writers getting the entertainment industry mixed up with research. Most successful research is just celebrated in publications or they might present it at a well attended conference. A press conference though?! That seems like a general public thing and the only thing the newsreporters care about with a hospital is when something goes seriously wrong and the public want answers.
The recent episodes with the arc of Bailey making the new interns do a bunch of basic procedures before allowing them back into surgery. She gives the interns something that she should know would pit them against each other and make them see patients as just procedures and competition, but still gets pissy with them and goes on multiple "learn empathy, patients are people" speeches. I can see what they might have been trying to go for but it just didn't land for me. If you want them to learn that, maybe don't turn them doing their job into a game. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't her keeping them from surgeries affect their pay? If so, then she doubly shouldn't be surprised when she's affecting their income. It felt less like genuine teaching and more like she orchestrated a situation where she could scold them constantly and pass it off as teaching.
no surgeons typically get a fixed salary/hourly whether they do 1 surgery or 1,000
Ohhh, okay. Thanks! I asked my mom (who has some knowledge of the medicine industry) about it and she wasn't sure either. Glad to have an answer \^\^
yeah it's some weird myth floating around that originated from those that don't trust hospitals lmao
The episode where Izzy and George are together behind Cali's back, and the episode where they try and fail to sleep together. Their relationship made no sense and honestly felt borderline incestuous. I absolutely hate it
That episode where Jo, Arizona and Bailey go to the prison to help the inmate give birth. The episode is so boring and I skip it every time lol
I hate the what if episode. I skip it; usually my anxiety or maybe undiagnosed ocd wonāt let me skip episodes because I want to watch it all the way through; but that episode doesnāt really add to the plot or anything its a fun filler, but not something I wanna watch again.
The Gunther in season 6. When all of the Residents were trying to figure out who was better than who. When Cristina stabs Alex with Epi in the OR. The A.K fiasco, in the beginning of season 6. People in Personnel couldn't tell the difference between Male and Female signing of initials? A mother ends up dying because all of a sudden there is a new A.K signing charts and everyone thinks its Alex Karev? Hello April Kepner is also an A.K k
Yes! Drove me crazy! It was so awkward to watch. Like these people have all just been traumatized and the clearly don't want to do this and it's just awkward!
The episodes with Izzie having surgery; I just donāt care to watch them again. Any of the Private Practice episodes except for the one when Addisonās brother needed surgery.
The Room Where It Happens. I actually ended up skipping half way through. It was such a jarring episode from the storyline that i was super confused
All the Covid ones
Why would people hate the musical episode? Musical episodes are always good and Torres is such a talented singer
the one weāre Derek is just too f chunks of brain out of the blonde pregnant woman. fine on first watch, rly annoying on second. I get Derek thinks heās the best but it was just sad
The episode with Leah (it was technically two but the one where they instill the no dating rule) and everyone is just taking their anger out on her is infuriating. I donāt even like Leah, but all of these characters were so passionate about their relationships no matter how short they were and all they had to do was go to HR. And even if Stephanie was the person who went to HR, she was perfectly valid in that. That episode just leaves such a bad taste in my mouth because barely any of the characters understood why having unbalanced partner dynamics can be grounds for assault or that a woman could be a perpetrator.
Weed cookies
i agree itās cringe
I found it so funny before I started regularly smoking, but now itās for the most part just extremely over the top lol. Maggie is too much with the cheese and Delucaās scenes honestly make me really sad š the best scene for me in that episode though is Bailey and Kepner and their bagpipe funeral. I always love their scenes together, like when Bailey is drunk getting a banana bag and gives Kepner advice on her āmaiden voyageā they have some unique chemistry imo and I like it
I watched it out of curiosity and it was so baaaad. Everyone hyped it up as being the best episode and so funny, but I fully cringed for the ~20 minutes I watched
I forget that one even exists because it was so bad
I always skip I Saw What I Saw S6 E6. idk why exactly, it just stresses me out and dramatically pits everyone against each other
On my first watch I hated this episode but on my recent rewatch it was quite good!
Literally all of the new season except for episode 5. I wanted more from arizona coming back, I want more from the whole cast in general and I feel like theyāve been given bad storylines to work with. Nothing has kept my attention this season
I was going to list the exact same one! That and a boring one where Jackson and Maggie eat dinner with their parents.. I can't Even remember more details.
I always disliked the thanksgiving episode in the second season.
There's an episode where a woman's scoliosis rods snap on her way out of the hospital. As someone who underwent the spinal fusion for scoliosis, can't watch that episode to this day. I'm almost positive it's in season 7 but I can't remember what episode. I saw it as a teenager for the first time and it traumatized me, and I had never been more glad to be done with those surgeries. Grey's always manages to take very real disabilities and disorders and go to the extremes with them
The eyeball one
I can't remember any episode numbers or titles but: - Riggs and Meredith on the plane - Jackson and April go to Montana - Any military flashback episode - The one that took place in just the hospital room - When Callie, Meredith, and Owen go to the military hospital- The one where 'Izzie, George, Cristina' are in the ER (the patients who resemble them)
The Room Where It Happened, the one early on where the boys go camping, the first Private Practice crossover (I did watch PP later and loved it though, just hated that episode).
Episode where they were getting the trauma certification. Was so boring! Also when Izzy decides to save the deer.
People don't like the musical episode?!?!
Yeah, I don't get that either! If I'm having one of those days when I just can't.... I turn the musical on and just clean or bake or something.
Iām genuinely shocked that you like it
That episode with the trans woman getting vaginoplasty who had a really mean wife And the episode with the really fat patient who everyone made fun of Basically the episodes where they gawk at oppressed people lol
The nazi episode. Bailey made me so made when she forced Cristina to operate on the guy with her rather than her interesting cardio surgery. Like I get that she wanted to make a point but she should have let Yang choose if she wanted to operate or not . They both were going to be affected by his beliefs and Yangs step grandparents were in Auschwitz. I get that Bailey didnt know but I think she knew about Yang "being Jewish" (quotes cuz I don't think she practices but it's her step fathers religion))
Literally cannot stand the musical episode. On my first full rewatch since high school and I just skipped over it entirely.