Thursday night’s episode of Grey's Anatomy, Season 8, Episode 12: "Hope for the Hopeless," was full of everything that we love about Grey’s: tons of medical scenes, weird/interesting cases, and just the right mix of behind-the-stethoscope drama.
Almost everyone had something big and medical-y on their plate this episode. Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) was preparing for his 10,000th surgery, Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) and Lexie Grey (Chyler Leigh) failed to perform a surgery on a young boy, and Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) and Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) tried to steal a patient because Teddy turned into a surgery-crazed workaholic under the extreme stress of losing her husband.
In non-medical drama news: April Kepner (Sarah Drew) began the search for a new place to live, Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) planned baby Zola’s b-day party and debated what speciality to pick, Mark Sloan (Eric Dane) became even more silver-foxy, and Adele (Loretta Devine) returns to the hospital and thinks that Richard is leaving her.
The theme of this episode was all about people lying to those that they love to protect them (and/or themselves). There were a few tear-jerking moments, particularly the scene where Derek’s young patient has to pretend that he doesn’t know that he is going to die so as not to upset his distraught mom. And, we have to admit, it was...well, refreshing isn’t the right word but interesting to see Cristina and Owen drama bubble back up to the surface. Now that the MerDerZol storyline is wrapped up we can finally see the fallout from The Thing That Cristina Did.
We give this episode a rating of 4 stars. How would you rete this episode? Use the rating below.
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