Disagree - I'm not 'handwaving away' but sympathising about why she feels as she does. The fact that she didn't take her child to hospital despite being a nurse is a major part of her PTSD/trauma…

Also, so glad this episode still aired - it's not Christmas yet! US TV programming/schedules are so bizarre. Shows go on break every 6-8 weeks, ufff.

Maybe so, but I also think there's a flaw in that I think it's a very gendered response: women tend to hate and blame the 'other woman' more or instead of their male partner compared to when men are cheated on by their female partners.

Precisely. Funny how people are so vile about Luisa even though everyone hates Noah, yet the responses to him aren't so extreme…

My thoughts exactly. Someone put them in sex ed classes so they can learn how to use protection…

She was nowhere near as cutting in her remarks with him as she was with Alison.

SAME.

Same re: her performance.

Well, then shouldn't she be equally pissed at her husband for doing the cheating? He cheated on Luisa, not Alison.

Luisa is completely unsympathetic towards the fact that Allison has a mental health condition and that's deplorable. I don't like Alison's storyline and think her reactions are OTT, but I can see and understand why she'd have residual trauma and anxiety. Luisa crosses the line from being protective to straight up…

Alison's actions are bizarre. The biggest worry you have when raising a child is whether or not your new born will make it through the night or suddenly stop breathing. Once you're past that, you worry a lot less and you take falls and mishaps as something that just happens. And so, I can't understand why, if falls…

I do - not so much the Mutter storyline (I hate most Mutter/Luisa/Petra/crime family storylines), but what it means for Rafael's sense of self and hopefully it becomes something to ground Luisa into the show. I feel like Luisa is absolutely wasted potential. She's a fantastic actress, but her characterisation is so…

See, AV Club. I just discovered a new show because you actually reviewed it. Then, I clicked on the page, so you got a page count. And now I'm commenting to tell you that I'm going to watch it and write comments upon finishing it.

See this great post on ethnic minority portrayals by user 'A Quiet Storm' - http://disq.us/p/1e079um

I don't think so - he seemed to almost patronise her. He 'saved' her and I felt like that made her pretty reliant and honestly quite weak.

Legit cannot remember this…
I don't get how you guys remember what happened in x episode in y series. Hat-tip.

I don't buy into that. In six hours of TV, I think they could have sold the boyfriend. At least enough for us to see that he isn't a jerk or a cheater, who doesn't 'save' or protect her but does hold her up as her support, and who generally makes her want to be a better person. Dean, Logan, and Jess were all terrible…

Can we talk about the scene where Rory and Lorelai reconcile?

I don't find Grey's that remarkable in terms of diversity (as in yes, it's diverse, but not quite so many ethnic groups in the mix in any one episode — it's usually sparingly throughout the series), but then again this was a 90-minute feature.

Agree - I hate it when ethnic minority characters are props/window dressing, but I thought it was an improvement given where this series was pre-2006.