Spoiler alert! This story incorporates spoilers for Gray’s Anatomy’s March 30 episode “Decide Your self Up.”
Final week’s episode of Gray’s Anatomy ended on an enormous cliffhanger that had followers questioning if the present was going to be shedding one other beloved solid member — after Ellen Pompeo left the present and forward of Kelly McCreary’s introduced exit — when Kate Walsh’s Addison Montgomery was run down by an anti-abortion protester. Gray’s viewers weren’t the one ones left at the hours of darkness, although, as Station 19 ended with Maya Bishop and Ben Warren actually operating throughout Seattle to make sure their wives have been OK, and their presence at Gray Sloan Memorial proved that crossovers between the 2 reveals will be efficient even with out selling it as an enormous occasion.
Gray’s Anatomy trolled its followers a bit bit with its Addison cliffhanger, making us assume the OB/GYN could be preventing for her life in “Decide Your self Up.” However choose herself up she did, struggling solely a dislocated shoulder, and she or he was again saving infants’ lives inside minutes. However we didn’t know that getting into, and neither did Maya (Danielle Savre) and Ben (Jason George), who had solely heard that a number of docs have been injured by protesters.
There have been a variety of opinions concerning the Gray’s Anatomy and Station 19 crossovers for the reason that firefighter spinoff was created in 2018. Normally the present promotes some sort of enormous two-hour occasion, the place the firefighters are concerned in some form of rescue, with the victims being handed over to the surgeons for the second hour. This has led to complaints of not being an actual crossover or disappointment when first-hour cliffhangers aren’t addressed within the second half.
“Decide Your self Up” was an instance of a small crossover executed proper, the place Station 19 followers didn’t essentially miss something in the event that they didn’t watch Gray’s Anatomy, however we have been handled to some nice moments between the 2 firefighters (and little Pru!). Regardless that the episodes weren’t promoted as a crossover, it simply made sense that after an assault on the hospital, Maya and Ben could be there — particularly given the truth that they couldn’t attain Carina DeLuca (Stefania Spampinato) or Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) by cellphone to search out out what had occurred.
As soon as they have been there and had confirmed the protection of Carina and Bailey, Ben identified that what they’d felt was what their wives handled daily, since their job consisted of operating into fires. He informed Maya:
It’s a scary day. Guess that is what it feels wish to be married to us. While you and I discovered that one thing had occurred on the clinic, we each ran right here. We needed to know that they have been OK. We needed to see it. Effectively, we try this to them every day.
It additionally appeared like Maya bought a recent dose of respect for what Carina does for a residing, as she famous:
Carina’s delivering a child. She operated on the physician who bought hit, she delivered that physician’s child, and now she’s delivering one other child, and she or he’s a miracle employee. I don’t cease to consider it sufficient, however my spouse is a bringer of life. I’m sorry, I simply wanted to listen to her voice.
That’s excellent news for Marina followers, who’ve seen the couple weathering some actually robust occasions on Station 19. For the followers’ sake, I hope they did grasp round for Gray’s Anatomy. There are possible some who assume crossovers aren’t price doing if there aren’t huge, life-threatening stakes concerned, however I feel Maya and Ben’s presence on the hospital introduced an authenticity to their relationships, and I wouldn’t thoughts extra little crossovers of that sort. And if I had a say in it, little Miss Pru (Janai Kaylani) would present up in each episode of each reveals.
Gray’s Anatomy will return at 9 p.m. ET Thursday, March 30, on ABC. Remember to try our 2023 TV schedule to see what premieres are headed our method.
