I was forced to dig for the subtitles, but there you go, you're simply incorrect about where the mother was:

The mother wasn't there. She'd left and came back because she had a 'feeling something was terribly wrong'. That's actually one of the things that gave me the impression. The teen also phrased one of her questions ambiguously. But then they showed her clearly happy to see her baby during the surgery.

No, she was just consistently shown to use sex to get information out of people. The sibling thing is a new twist.

I commented about it on an earlier episode. It's *ridiculous*.

Somehow the set-up for the pregnant teen made me think they were leading up to a reveal that she'd done it to herself. I'm glad they didn't, but I kept expecting Karev to say he knows the teen is suicidal and shouldn't stay pregnant.

I said the same thing watching it. They should have had Brenneman do it and lampshade the similarity.

Spineless, as evidenced by all her plotlines so far with a few scenes serving as exceptions.

Alicia thanks Cary for telling the truth, and he practically spits in her face.

That's a pity, because I wasn't expressing a judgment but a personal reaction, and the point was: I find him so successfully creepy that I don't really enjoy him on screen. It was still better than the acting of most of the people he shared the room with, and only highlighted how badly they act (or are directed, who…

I never liked Simm too much, but seeing him with this cast just made it more apparent how uninspired the acting of much of the main cast is.

2016: The year of Kalinda clones on new ABC shows. See also: Bridey and Felicity from The Catch.

"the scenes aren’t coming off as male-gazey to me"

Meredith stuff was the best. Her interactions with Maggie, with children and with Stephanie - difficult to choose which part I liked most.

That's only* because I'm think piece-ing about different things, duh ;)

It is actually possible to get a joke and not find it funny, or at least not be impressed with it. It's pretty disingenuous to claim that people who disliked that plotline did so because they didn't get it. I, for one, got what the show was doing, I thought it wasn't quite successful in doing it, though YMMV.

And The Fosters! ;)

I suppose we're given to think that those previous events of rule breaking were either brought on by more extreme circumstances (e.g. conflict between professional and private lives in cases of Izzie and Meredith) or at least were the first offences, after which the characters learned to do better. In Ben's case, it's…

But to the extent that they can go directly against the client's wishes? Maybe I'm too used to legal ethics on TV shows now (defend the client even if scumbag), but the lengths they went to to completely fuck over the person who hired them just made it seem like the worst advertising ever. And it seemed treated so…

Mireille Enos and Peter Krause are so captivating in these scenes slathered with tension and unspoken feelings

I am by no means a stan of this show (and during the Olitz section of the last two seasons I was close to quitting a few times) but I have to say I actually enjoyed the recent developments in characterisation (although not so much the awful visuals).