http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/12/GREYS-ANATOMY----Let-The-Truth-Sting.aspx As Doctor Karev inserted a needle into a patient’s eye on tonight’s episode of GREY’S ANATOMY, I couldn’t help wishing that I were in the patient’s shoes. A needle to the eye would have been preferable to sitting through the goopy whimsy of most of tonight’s episode. It wasn’t all bad, so let me start with the good. Sandra Oh must be popular in the writers’ room; they really do give her the best stuff. Tonight she realizes that M. Grey is sleeping with Shepard again (although I find it hard to believe that she had thought they had ever stopped sleeping together.) This annoys Yang, because she realizes Meredith didn’t tell her to protect her feeling. So as revenge she pretends to be sad and steals Meredith’s surgery. Well played Yang. She also gets a good punch at Izzy in. Declaring that she was getting over Burke her way, she says “I’m not going to lie on the bathroom floor all day, I’m not Izzy.” The other good part of tonight’s episode was Meredith Grey. In season’s past she has been the most annoying part of the show. But this season things are really coming together for her. Her plotlines aren’t quite so ridiculous and sentimental. And Ellen Pompeo is playing her with a streak of “no nonsense” a mile wide. I like the less maudlin Meredith- the one who deals with what others throw at her, instead of throwing things at people. Things come to a head with her sister Lexie, tonight, and after some strong words from Bailey, she does the right thing. She sits Lexie down and goes over the evens the preceded Lexie’s mother’s death, calmly and honestly. There’s no fake tear when she tells her half-sister that she was “very fond” of her mother. 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/2007/10/12/GREYS-ANATOMY----Let-The-Truth-Sting.aspx 77 60