http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/05/GREYS-ANATOMY----LoveAddiction.aspx After an anemic season premier, GREY’S ANATOMY gets back on track with its second episode. It’s got just enough drama to keep this fish on the hook, while being paced at a reasonable rate.  There’s a fight, some tears and even a baby that has a stroke! Much of screwball tone is set by the initial appearance of Dr. Yang in the “A” story. Sitting in an apartment full of useless wedding gifts she decides to use them to get better surgeries. Yang is at her best when she’s finagling and barking orders at her interns. You can tell that this is what makes her tick. The melodrama never sat well on her shoulders, and in this episode she gets a chance to shrug off Burke defection like a bad joke. No tears, no absurd scenes. Well, one absurd scene, but Sandra Oh plays it so perfectly it goes down easy. That scene is the one we wait all episode for, though this being GREY’S, we know it’s not going to be what we expect. Mama Burke, played with as much dignity as possible by Diahann Carroll, mysteriously shows up at the hospital and asks for Christina. Yang hates scenes, unlike everyone else on the show, and spends most of the episode avoiding her. Grey is sent to see why she is there and is reprimanded for her behavior at the non-wedding. O’Malley runs into her and is reprimanded for being in a marriage that isn’t working. Shepard runs into her and is reprimanded for being Shepard. But to Yang, Mama Burke apologizes and tells Yang she wishes she were more like her. (It could never just be what they set it up to be, could it? Having the reverse happen makes it almost as predictable though, when you do it all the time as they do on GREYS.) Yang handles this fairly enormous revelation with brusque aplomb and even gets Mama to get rid of all the silly gifts.  Well played, Yang. She almost made me forget that Burke couldn’t be there himself not because he’s mad at her for not loving him enough, but because the actor who played him, Isaiah Washington, made a lot of really insensitive comments about gay people and is now over on THE BIONIC WOMAN. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/05/GREYS-ANATOMY----LoveAddiction.aspx 77 60