Well hello, friends!
I am so sorry I haven’t been around the last few weeks – my promise to be catching you up on ABC’s Thursday night line-up did not go well. But I’m here now! And this week is a serious one.
Grey’s Anatomy
If you’ve been keeping up with Grey’s Anatomy, you know that Doctor Herman has a pretty serious brain tumor – one she wasn’t planning on treating. Dr. Herman had a plan to let the tumor end her life, and was going to train Arizona to be her successor. And then, in an act of defiance, Arizona showed Dr. Herman’s scans to Amelia Shepherd, who has been obsessing over whether or not she can remove the tumor. It’s all she wants to do, and the most recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy focuses on a talk Amelia gives at the hospital to the other doctors.
As the crowd gets bigger, so do Amelia’s insecurities. It doesn’t help that Hunt is making her nervous with his flirting, or that Herman is refusing to attend radiation Amelia believes will help reduce the size of the tumor and instead is completing as many surgeries possible with Arizona. Herman bounces back and forth between attending radiation and not, but in the end it doesn’t help in the way Amelia hoped that it would. The tumor breaches the optic nerve, and begins blurring Herman’s vision. The operation has to be done.
Just before Herman reveals to Amelia that her vision is blurring, Amelia nearly has a meltdown. Her insecurities get the best of her, and she believes that Derek should be doing the surgery instead. She’s wrong, though, and seems to be ready to do the surgery once she discovers it must be done.
Next week, we’ll see Amelia take on the surgery of a lifetime, while Arizona handles patients that she and Herman were previously handling together. Grey’s Anatomy is truly testing our favorite doctors, and soon we’ll see if they can pass those tests.
Scandal
Scandal wasn’t on this week (How to Get Away With Murder was two-hours), but if you’re still catching up, the show has been a wild ride. Olivia was kidnapped, the Vice-President turned out to be an absolutely evil being, Mellie revealed she wants to be President of the United States (which I fully support), and an old gladiator made a pretty significant appearance. Catch up, because I have a feeling this season is going to get even more intense.
How to Get Away With Murder
The first season of Shonda Rhimes’ newest show ended on Thursday, and with a pretty serious bang. Not only were Annalise and the Keating Five working on a case with a priest who murdered another priest, but they continue to learn more about what happened the night that Lila died. After Wes and Laurel discover that Rebecca’s former neighbor is in a mental institution due to a drug overdose, they begin digging to see what more information they can find. The more Wes digs through Lila’s case, the more he begins to worry that he never should have trusted Rebecca.
When Wes and Laurel reveal their concerns to Michaela and Connor, they decide as a group that they must speak to Rebecca. And this is where things start to go very bad, very quickly.
Throughout the episode, we learn more about what happened the night that Lila died. We learn that Rebecca really did sleep with Griffin, and that Lila caught them. We learn that Sam left Yale to speak to Lila. We learn that all of the things that we assumed were not true because Sam killed Lila have turned out to be true.
When Rebecca tells Wes and the others that she knows where the cop is that saw them coming out of Annalise’s house on the night that Sam died, they do the only thing they know how to do – they tie her up, and they call Annalise.
Annalise returns Rebecca to her house, and the group proceeds to state their case as if they are the prosecution. They truly believe that Rebecca has killed Lila, and that Sam maybe didn’t deserve to die. They fight. They accuse. They say things they’ll never be able to take back.
In the end, Annalise tells them that all they have is speculation. Wes gets Rebecca to admit that she was in the water tank with Lila, but she insists that she found her there. And then we learn who killed her. We discover Sam was behind it, but it wasn’t his hands that strangled her.
It was Franks.
On top of all of this, Rebecca disappears. Oliver and Connor get tested, and Oliver discovers he is HIV positive. And then, just when we think there’s nothing else left, we find Rebecca. Under the basement stairs, with her blood on Frank’s hands.
These shows give me heart palpitations. What did you think of this week? What do you think will happen next week on Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, and what do you think we can expect next season from How to Get Away With Murder?
Live, Love, Learn,
Melissa & The Write Teacher(s)