Sophia Bush Comes to Grey’s Anatomy to Throw A Queer Wrench In the Works
Now listen, I’m not here to ONLY tell you about last week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy, but I really want to talk about last week’s Grey’s Anatomy. First of all, it was extremely gay. They really brought in all the big gay guns, just to double down by bringing in recently-out Sophia Bush to play a queer woman with an open relationship here to remind everyone that Teddy is, in fact, still bisexual.
For the first 90% of this episode, I was in heaven. Helm actually had scenes, some of which were saying goodbye to one of my least favorite characters of this season, Levi. (I used to like him fine but he has been failing up so hard it’s starting to piss me off.) We had Natalie Morales just being casually cool and giving out good advice. Amelia got to be the adult in a situation, helping Jo learn how to accept help, showing her own personal growth. And Jules and Mika had a very hot moment where Jules said she wanted to kiss Mica for a very long time, but unfortunately Mika was already scrubbed in for surgery.
And then, Sophia Bush comes in as Dr. Cass Beckman and kisses Teddy full on the mouth! It was so sexy and BONUS, Owen was pissed about it. Maybe this will be the wake-up call Teddy needs to realize that Owen suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks and she deserves better. The ONLY good thing about Owen’s reaction, which of course was to throw a tantrum and stomp off instead of having an adult conversation, is that if this was 10 years ago, a woman’s husband wouldn’t have considered it cheating since it was just another woman. At least Owen has the good sense to a) remember his wife is bisexual, b) know that Dr. Beckman is hot and charming enough to be an actual threat to their marriage. I actually have no idea if Dr. Beckman is sticking around or if she was designed as a one-episode plot grenade, but I do hope she returns, because it’s a win-win. Either Teddy dumps Owen so she can keep making out with Cass, or we get some genuine representation of how a healthy, communicative open marriage could work. And then maybe, if we’re lucky, Dr. Lauren Boswell could come back and date Cass and I could finally have the on-screen relationship I’ve been waiting for since One Tree Hill.
Anyway all my gay hopes and dreams were crushed when Mika and her sister got in a car crash at the end of the episode. I don’t know if all the other gay stuff was to remind them that they have enough other queer characters that burying a gay wouldn’t be a huge deal, narratively, and as much as I appreciate the attempt at a one in, one out approach, I thought Mika was just going to quit to take care of her sister. I don’t want her to DIE. I’m naively hoping she just like busted up one of her hands enough that she can’t be a surgeon anymore but can still be alive and happy offscreen somewhere, but knowing this show, I won’t hold my breath.
An Ambulance Full of More Gay Pop Culture News:
+ A Black trans woman (finally) took over the role of Marshmallow on Bob’s Burgers, and she sang for us in last night’s episode
+ Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Kehlani, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, Doechii, Willow , St. Vincent, Clairo, Anitta, Madison Beer, and Beyoncé among artists nominated for Grammy awards
+ Agatha All Along submitted to awards shows as a “comedy” instead of a “limited series” which could mean nothing (The Bear is also a “comedy’ despite being decidedly not) but also could hint to a potential second season
+ Susan Sarandon is open to dating someone of any gender
+ Here’s a new Thunderbolts trailer, featuring Florence “queer vibes no proof” Pugh and Hannah “played queer on Killjoys” John-Kamen
+ Even the people IN Lady Gaga’s Joker movie didn’t like it
+ Gwendlyn Brown, the daughter of one of the Sister Wives guys, Kody Brown, is engaged to a woman and her father is okay with it
+ Laverne Cox is posted about her post-election fears and her plans for the future post-election
+ Chappell Roan continues to be over people’s shit, commenting “y’all suck for this” on a Billboard instagram post about her
+ Upcoming Greek film Bearcave is about a “romantic adventure” between two women who were once childhood friends
Comments
Are there any plans to bring back Boob(s On Your) Tube? The weekly roundup was not just fun to read, but helped me decide what queer content to watch and what to skip.
I second the comment above, what happened to Boobs on your tube?
Also, I’m not feeling optimistic about Yasuda on grey’s anatomy, I remember reading somewhere that she was leaving the show.
Knowing that, I’m not sure how I feel about the last episode, I can’t take my mind off the fact that maybe the show gave us a very gay episode so we’d forgive them for killing another lesbian, I don’t know, something feels off.
On the other hand if they do get rid of Owen and Levi, I might just forgive them!
I basically only watched Midori Francis’ scenes with Rene Rapp in Sex lives… And now that she’s on Greys but also leaving in a similar situation, like oh great chemistry with her and her romantic interest and you just want to see more of the story and then she dips. Like iconic behaviour. She’s like, oh allow me to be THE one that got away, thank you very much.. I don’t even mind not getting the satisfaction of getting to see those realationships play out on screen because I find it so hilarious as choice from an picking projects standpoint. Needless to say I am very much on board.
I started watching Greys in its second season I think when I was in middle school (it introduced me to Tegan and Sara too and Where does the good go is still one of my favorite songs of theirs) but I have to admit that it’s a show that dip in an out of and they almost hooked my back in with Mika and Jules but nooo I have escaped yay!
I do wanna share an annectode about wild stuff happening IRL. I see a lot of people being angry at the storyltelling that oh you were setting up a great way for her to leave the show.. But honestly, I do like the fact that they are presenting an instance of pushing yourself to the brink with tragic consequences. I’m all for hard work and being ambitious but driving after not sleeping for maybe over 24 hours is a bad choice and it is the sort of choice that would result in an accident. As much as I love the characters and how painful it is to see them go thought something like this, it’s a great cautionary tale. But also the plane crash thing from seeeasons ago sort of happened to a friend of a friend.
Like I am friends with a doctor (a primary physician than you very much) but back when she was still a student, there was a similar incident happening. It was a helicopter crash during a medical internvention and several people died including one of her classmates (who really shouldn’t have been there.. like it wasn’t the kind of gig you take a student to). I just met her after she came back from the funeral and it was awkward and she was telling me about the situation and I paused.. And I hope I tried to say the right thing like oh that’s terrible such a tragedy on no but my brain was screaming ! SEEE THE PLANE CRASH WAS A PLAUSABLE STORYLINE !! And I did finally tell her that and she laughed and said that yeah she was thinking about that the whole time as well and we both laughed about it. Needless to sayu it’s been over 8 years and we’re no longer neighbours but we still are friends soo..