A few months have passed, but the eighth season premiere basically picked up right where the seventh season finale finished.
Christina and Meredith are back to being Meredith and Christina; Christina can’t get an abortion and Meredith is still standing by her reasoning that lead to ruining Derek’s Alzheimer’s clinical trial.
Derek and Owen are wondering what is going on with their wives and are angry with them, yet they are building Derek and Meredith’s dream house on his land.
Teddy and Henry, the man who is technically her husband, are still sleeping together. Lexi and Jackson are still sleeping together, trying to forget about Meredith’s eight-month-old baby girl, Zola, crying in the next room. Callie and Arizona are still raising a three-month old baby girl, too.
April is still too sweet to be the chief resident, and she becomes more in over her head as the show progresses. Bailey is still as tough as nails. Everyone still has a vendetta toward Alex. Mark is still hung up on Lexi. Chief Webber is still hung up on Meredith’s clinical trial screw up.
A random couple is introduced in the beginning as what seems to be an objective correlative for all the failing marriages on the show, but they soon become patients due a road crumbling that forms a massive hole.
Callie and Owen rushed to the scene thinking they were going to get the husband and wife out of the hole. Unfortunately they need to amputate the wife’s leg to get her out of the 40-foot hole. The ground around and inside the hole is too unstable for them to go into it, so they soon realize they are going to have to walk her husband through the process of amputating his wife’s leg.
Alex arrives quickly on the scene to help, and he begins to save a boy’s life. All other doctors are back at Seattle Grace tending to the incoming victims of the road debacle.
Chief Webber fires Meredith and Derek doesn’t really care.
“What did you think was going to happen?†he asked her.
Meredith is having a really difficult time understanding it, especially since she can’t quite leave the hospital. This event, coupled with their separation, has their social worker questioning whether the couple is suitable parents for Zola.
When the fifth-year residents become so agitated with each other that they can’t focus, stay organized or even work together, Bailey decides now is the time to pull a “Gunther.†No one seems to have a chance to be the “Gunther†but Christina, yet she almost kills someone.
Teddy’s husband Henry comes in for a simple procedure a few weeks early, but the thought of her husband dying unnerves her greatly. She knows something is not right with her husband and completely freaks out, as a wife.
Meredith’s poor decision making abilities lead her to make another decision that’s not so wise. She hangs out with Zola in a bottom corner of the hospital for several hours, mainly worrying her husband and the social worker.
Some of the characters’ surface problems seem to be somewhat resolved by the end of the very long two hours, and some of their problems seem like they will never be resolved. The underlying issues will most likely not be resolved until, at the soonest, the mid-season finale. Creator Shonda Rhimes tends to do keep every dramatic plot point going as long as possible, sometimes to the point of extreme annoyance.
A fair amount of humor and enough tense, dramatic moments remind me of the first season. It’s exciting and frightening and makes me smile a little bit along the way. If you’ve been a loyal viewer since season one, used to be addicted but have fallen by the wayside or have never watched it, this season premiere will hook you. Hopefully, the season will reflect its premiere.
This article originally appeared on AllMediaNY.com
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