A wild world it’s certainly.
Between a worldwide pandemic, tons of relationship drama, and a tiger on the unfastened, issues can undoubtedly be categorized as such.
Whereas there was an overemphasis on the wilder elements, Station 19 Season 4 Episode 2 was nonetheless a stable follow-up to the season opener and did an honest job in setting the tone for the season.
Elena could also be a chunk of labor, however at the very least Andy nonetheless has some good kin left in her nook.
This installment centered on Andy reconnecting together with her estranged household, and to say it went 10 occasions higher than her reunion with Elena could be an understatement.
Andy: The whole lot’s precisely like after we have been youngsters.
Johnny: Why change factor, proper?
Andy: I adore it. Thanks a lot, however actually you didn’t should undergo all this hassle.
Michelle: She thinks we did this all for her.
Sandra: Honey, we do that each weekend, however now you’re going to have to affix us.
Michelle: Now, they’re gonna make you even while you don’t wish to.
Andy: In fact you all by no means stopped doing this. You simply stopped inviting me.
Sandra: Elena, that was a wierd state of affairs.
Johnny: However we’re your loved ones, and we love you, and that by no means modified.
Sandra: Andy, I do know what that face means.
Andy: No, it’s positive. It’s no matter.
Sandra: No, it wasn’t positive, and it’s not no matter, however know we’ve got you again.
Whereas there was nonetheless some resentment over Sandra, Johnny, and Michelle abruptly leaving her life and never telling her the reality, this household reunion was precisely what Andy wanted.
In contrast to Elena, Sandra and co. apologized for his or her actions and left Andy know that whereas she might have forgotten her, they by no means forgot her.
The small revelations that Sandra, Johnny, and Michelle had secretly been holding observe of Andy and exhibiting as much as help her was a significant gesture to the lieutenant, who had assumed her household had deserted her.
What was much more consequential was Michelle revealing she had tried to inform Andy the reality all these years in the past, and it was for that purpose that Pruitt determined to chop off contact with Elena’s household.
Each of these discoveries, and the benefit with which the household fell again into previous patterns, was a serious turning level for Andy.
Ever since Pruitt died, Andy has been clinging to this notion that she’s been on their own.
It began when she misplaced Ryan and worsened when she discovered her father would quickly observe.
That concern was a part of the rationale she jumped at marrying Sullivan, so she would not should be alone when her father ultimately handed.
Nonetheless, now that Andy has some semblance of household again in her life, it takes a number of the stress of her and Sullivan’s relationship.
Michelle: I missed you a lot.
Andy: Properly, you can have reached out. So many occasions you can have reached out. Why didn’t anybody inform me the reality?
Michelle: Andy, I attempted to. That’s why we by no means noticed you once more.
Sullivan not must be all the pieces for Andy, and that’ll assist their marriage in the long term.
After the 90 days are up, the pair can attempt to get again to simply being husband and spouse, not the top all be all for the opposite, which is not wholesome for both of them.
On a barely totally different observe, it was simply good to see Andy glad and carefree for a change.
She’s had the burden of the world on her shoulders for therefore lengthy.
So it was nice for her to lastly get the prospect to loosen up and simply take pleasure in herself.
Sure, her issues will not simply magically disappear now that she’s reconnected together with her household, however it was good they took a backseat for a day.
As for Sullivan, he spent the episode begrudgingly working the steps.
It is comprehensible that he is having second ideas about his separation, questioning if it is actually needed.
Sullivan: I miss my spouse. Do you actually assume this separation factor is critical?
Amelia: I’m undecided of something, however I do know if the connection is robust, it might probably survive a short lived separation in service of your sobriety. And I do know that for those who’re staying sober in your spouse, the primary time you might have a combat, you’ll have an excuse to make use of medicine, so the purpose of the separation is to be taught to remain sober for your self.
Nonetheless, fortunately, Amelia was there to remind him what was what.
She’s not an knowledgeable by any means, however as a lady who has relapsed just a few occasions and had her justifiable share of relationship woes, she’s undoubtedly an authority determine and somebody who Sullivan ought to take heed to.
As beforehand mentioned, Sullivan and Andy taking a while aside is the perfect factor for each of them proper now.
Sullivan must deal with his sobriety, and Amelia was proper in that Andy cannot be the rationale Sullivan stays sober.
He has to work this system himself and put within the effort if he needs to stay clear.
Nobody stated this was going to be a straightforward job however prioritizing his sobriety above all else is an efficient first step.
He additionally now has one other individual in his nook within the former of Richard Webber, his new sponsor.
Like Sullivan, I would assumed that Amelia was his sponsor, however her reasoning for why she wasn’t and could not be make sense, and for a No. 2 selection there is no such thing as a one higher than Richard.
Maya: So, what’s occurring there?
Jack: We’re hanging out. OK, why is everybody on this fireplace station obsessive about who I spend time with?
Maya: As a result of who you spend time with often has catastrophic outcomes for the remainder of us.
Jack: Like with you?
Maya: Precisely. Spending time together with her how?
Jack: I convey her groceries, and Marcus talks my face off about his video video games. Not precisely the tour de affair you’re imagining.
Maya: However realizing you, it’s solely a matter of time.
Jack: No, she feels extra like a sister.
Maya: However she’s not a sister. She’s a younger sizzling straight girl, and you needn’t to faux that she isn’t.
Jack: Why?
Maya: As a result of in any other case you may unintentionally slip and fall and land in her mattress.
Jack: I’m fairly certain my captain’s not imagined to be speaking to me like that.
Maya: It’s security recommendation. That’s all.
Richard’s been battling his alcoholism for many years and was the one who helped Amelia when she relapsed on Grey’s Anatomy.
He is an ideal choose, and him opening up first reveals he is an excellent higher sponsor.
Now, it would not be Station 19 with out relationship drama, and this episode there was a lot.
Beginning with Maya and Carina, after getting off to a rocky begin on Station 19 Season 3, the pair are stronger than ever.
They have been desparately lacking one another, and that separation took extra of a toll on Carina, who has needed to take care of dropping moms and their infants throughout their pandemic.
Carina has at all times been extra of an upbeat character, so watching her attain her breaking level was unhappy.
Her ache was palpable, and it was reminder that the pandemic results the lives of docs in methods we do not assume.
She and Maya had been making an attempt to do the accountable factor and hold aside, however it was clear neither was glad.
Whereas it was noble they have been making an attempt to emulate Bailey and Ben, Ben was proper in that his and Bailey’s state of affairs was totally different than theirs.
Carina: Each, I’m guessing.
Maya: What?
Carina: I missed you, and I introduced you one thing.
Maya: I’m strolling away from you earlier than I begin breaking all the principles.
Carina: Good.
Maya: Transfer in with me.
Carina: What?
Maya: Quarantining is principally simply shifting in collectively, however I don’t wish to simply principally do something with you. I wish to do all the pieces for actual. I do know we’ve got barely spent three days collectively since I broke your belief, however I’m hoping that me asking you to maneuver in with me is an indication that I’m all the way in which in.
Carina: Really, um, I got here right here to ask you the very same factor.
For Bailey and Ben, it made extra sense for them to maintain their distance, however that might not be essentially true for Maya and Carina.
Quarantining Transferring in collectively is an enormous step, and there’ll undoubtedly be some rising pains, however this resolution will inject some a lot wanted happiness into their, and at a time like this, who can fault them.
As for Dean and Vic, the non-couple began the episode off on fairly dangerous phrases, however all of that was magically solved when Dean saved her from being a tiger’s lunch.
I assume that is all it takes at the present time to be let off the hook; you simply have to forestall an escaped unique animal from killing your bestie that you just’re secretly in love with.
Whereas it is good that they made up, it simply felt compelled.
Vic had purpose to be mad at Dean, particularly after she discovered he and Sasha broke up.
And although him saving her life does put issues into perspective, she should not have left hom off that simply.
She deserved an precise clarification from Dean about his wishy-washy decision-making as of late, however she’s not going to get a solution till Dean is able to admit his like to her.
Telling Vic the reality will complicate their friendship, however after all the pieces Vic did to assist him and Prue out, she greater than deserves it.
Dean: I simply couldn’t hold residing together with her. There was no approach.
Jack: So, you’re not gonna…
Dean: And I can’t inform her why I requested her to go away, or why I broke up with Sasha, so she simply thinks I’m an ass, which is like, I assume I’m simply imagined to dwell with that.
Jack: What’s the choice?
Dean: The choice is inform her the reality, I assume.
He might not be prepared to take action, however in some unspecified time in the future, he’ll should.
There is no approach Vic does not discover out by some means someway this season that Dean’s in love together with her, and it will be higher coming from him.
With Vic now formally unencumbered, she and Dean do have a shot at happiness, if solely he has the braveness to make the primary transfer.
Lastly, Jack and Nora’s non-relationship did not get a lot clarification this episode, however we did be taught that Jack does take care of her.
Maya was proper in that he wants to appreciate how Nora may even see issues and determine what he needs earlier than somebody will get damage.
Nora is not like a few of Jack’s different flings: She has a baby and an abusive ex.
Getting concerned with Jack is a bit more sophisticated than a easy romp within the sack, so it was thoughtful that Jack realized that and wished to do issues in another way.
Of all of the characters, Jack is likely one of the ones who’s grown the many of the course of the sequence and is a greater man for it.
Some stray ideas:
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Solely within the Gray’s Anatomy universe would a tiger be on the lose. That plot level was so incredulous and inane, and but nonetheless extremely entertaining.
Possibly it is as a result of the world is utter chaos proper now that an escaped unique animal truly makes for some distracting fodder, regardless of how implausible that it ended up at Station 19.
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The blokes giving Ben a tough time about being the dad of the group is fairly humorous. I am undecided if these jokes have at all times been round or simply lately ramped up, however it’s all in good enjoyable and really entertaining.
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Travis continues to be coping with the fallout from studying his father is homosexual, and this episode it affected him whereas on shift. Being a firefighter could be harmful, and Travis must type out his emotions earlier than it will get him killed.
Hopefully, he’ll confront his father sooner as a result of Travis deserves solutions and the prospect to vent and name his father out for the hypocrasy.
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Bear in mind after we have been promised a lighter tone this season? Not likely seeing how a pandemic qualifies as lighter.
So what did you assume, Station 19 Fanatics?
How do you are feeling about Andy reconnecting together with her household?
Will Sullivan keep sober?
What are your ideas on all the connection drama?
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