The Morning After

Last night, I thought we had another good episode of Grey's Anatomy. It dealt a lot with the fallout from Izzie and George's night of sex.

The night began with Izzie waking up and realizing that she'd slept with George. "Wow, you and George were really going at it last night," said Meredith in the kitchen — funny line, shocking even, but it turned out Meredith meant drinking! Nobody knew they slept together except Izzie. George, we learn upon his awakening, blacked out the entire hookup. Now, what's great about Izzie, she seems to have fallen in love with George somewhere along the road to morning without even realizing it. However, now we can make sense of why she was so angry over his marriage to Callie. For them it may not make sense, though, because to paraphrase George, he's George, and she's Izzie.

Izzie shined today, because her speeches were so well written, and Katherine Heigl is a fantastic actress. "Hours of our lives, many hours that are all I can think about," Izzie wailed to George the next morning, "and you seriously don't remember?" The tears that dotted Heigl's eyes for one shot before this outburst were an emotional highpoint of the show. No, this hookup doesn't make much sense, but damned if Izzie and Heigl aren't out to make you buy it.

Katherine Heigl had a bunch of great scenes tonight; she was alternately goofy and tragic as Izzie confessed her liaison to Addison, quizzed her fellow interns on the science of blacking out, and tried unsuccessfully to sidle up to George after he finally remembered what had happened the night before. At the end of the night she gave a speech to a girl named Nina, a dead ringer for a young Angela from The Office whose mother just died of statue disease, or some ailment like that. "If you fall down, you won't turn to stone," said Izzie to Nina, but really to George. "Messing up, it's what makes a person." After that, she wanted to tell Callie, but George said no way. So they're keeping it a secret. I give it an episode and a half before it's out, tops. Grey's can't resist drama like that.

So Heigl had another wild, ultimately stellar night, ably managing to go wherever the writers wanted her to go. Mostly everyone else was good. I really like what ther are doing with Karev his devotion to Jane Doe. Sure he may have gone too soft right now, but it's good to see another side of him. When Addison dropped in on him late in the night, the fire between them was so doused it was hard to remember that they'd almost hooked up, which made me wonder if Kate Walsh will have anything left to do on this show before she decamps for her own spin-off later this year. Burke also gave ominous rumblings about not wanting to go back to the way things were with the now-antsy Cristina; she wants to "rewind," while he wants to "'go forward."' She did seem to acquiesce at the end, as she laid out Cristina-ish conditions for their wedding. Frankly, I'm tired of this push-pull between the two. We get it, Christina is the way she is and Burke is the opposite, let's move on now.

I am really missing Bailey, though. Why has she been missing so much from the last few episodes? She had one good speech tonight, yapping at Mark about not being able to focus on the future because she has to work in the "right now." Mark had a great episode tonight — bumbling and funny. He aced his interview for the Chief's job by stealing Bailey's "right now" idea. I hope we get to learn more about him other than he is self-proclaimed man-whore and in love with Addison.

Meanwhile, Derek was distracted from the interview process because he is concerned with Meredith. He feels worried that Meredith, who is a very strong swimmer, wanted to "give up" when she fell in the river an allowed herself to nearly drown. I wonder what they intend to do with this. Is he afraid Meredith is on the verge of some sort of breakdown or something?

Well guys, that's it for now. See you at the next episode!