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‘Grey’s Anatomy’: Will the Blizzard Bring Meredith and McWidow Together? – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

The last Greys Anatomy episode of February 2020 could be an important one for Meredith Grey. Shes spending even more time with Cormac Hayes (Richard Flood), aka McWidow. Will Snowblind be the episode that finally establishes a romantic connection between them?

Just as fans were getting accustomed to MerLuca (the portmanteau for Merediths relationship with Andrew DeLuca, the chief resident at Grey Sloan), someone new walks in. In the mid-season finale, Meredith returns to the hospital, not long after her breakup with DeLuca. She then begins working with Hayes, who has taken over Alex Karevs position as head of pediatrics.

The two spend a day working together, though they clash at first. Throughout all of this, Meredith has been texting with her best friend, Cristina Yang, who has been living in and working in Europe for years. She tells Meredith she has sent her a package to cheer her up after her split. As it turns out, Hayes is the package.

Even though they dont get along at first, Meredith soon learns that she and the new doctor have a lot in common. While working together, he confesses that he, too, is a single parent. His wife passed away from cancer two years ago. In another episode, we meet his two teenage sons.

Though Meredith isnt necessarily drawn to him in a romantic way just yet, its easy to see how the writers are laying the groundwork. Her issues with DeLuca come back to how he doesnt feel that he can measure up to her, as he is younger and less accomplished, and doesnt understand what shes been through. McWidow, on the other hand, is proving to be the opposite.

Meredith and DeLuca have been able to mend fences over the past couple of weeks. In Save the Last Dance for Me, theyre shown having resumed the more fun aspects of their relationship, but they dont establish what they are to one another. This all boiled over in last weeks episode, A Diagnosis.

Though Meredith is worried about him, DeLuca cant stop obsessing over the case hes been working on. He interrupts her conversation with Hayes, and speaks in Italian (something they do just to one another). As it turns out, Hayes also speaks Italian, and tells DeLuca to Learn some d*** respect. Later, DeLuca breaks up with Meredith again.

This weeks episode is another Station 19 crossover event, The Blizzard. In the Greys Anatomy episode, titled Snowblind, Hayes has a young patient who is waiting on a liver. But the storm has caused roads to be shut down. So DeLuca volunteers to go out and get it on his own.

Last weeks episode was clearly a set-up for a Meredith-Hayes-DeLuca storyline. Will Meredith become more impressed with Hayes as they work together, or will his heroic act remind her of why she cares so much about DeLuca? Well find out on Feb. 27, 2020.

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BRUMMETT ONLINE: Anatomy of a smear – Arkansas Online

State Sen. Bart Hester of Cave Springs in Benton County, a pleasant extremist who probably will be the next president pro tempore of the Senate, says there's no difference between savage liberal attacks on conservative judges and his calling the Arkansas Supreme Court "a friend of the child rapist."

There is a difference, though.

The most serious attacks on any appellate justice from the left that I can recall were directed toward Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. They had to do with women accusing him of drunken adolescent sexual assault, and with whom one believed. It concerned whether Kavanaugh was worthy amid such charges to join the nation's highest court.

Last week, Hester publicly called the Arkansas Supreme Court a "friend of the child rapist" because of a legal technicality that a 4-3 majority found it necessary to apply under the law in remanding a gruesome child murder case to Benton County for retrial.

Kavanaugh was smeared, you might say, in the course of a background check for his confirmation. The entire Arkansas Supreme Court was smeared, you might say, for applying the law and doing its job.

If you're going to smear somebody, the context is better in the confirmation process.

Hester brought up the matter when a Supreme Court contract for architectural services came before his committee. He didn't tie the contract to his displeasure. He merely used the contract as an opening to express his overheated displeasure.

What the four state Supreme Court justices decided was that the Benton County court should not, by state law, have used a rape of a 6-year-old child occurring on a camping trip in Missouri as an essentially compounding factor proving capital murder in Arkansas, where the child died of horrid complications the next day.

The court majority sent the case back for Benton County to conduct a retrial.

State law requires certain compounding factors to be proven to elevate a murder conviction to capital murder. In this case, the prosecutor cited two such factors--one murder with rape and the other murder with child abuse.

It was not known on which the jury relied in returning a capital murder conviction. For that reason, the four judges said they couldn't be sure the capital murder determination wasn't based on a factor that the applicable Arkansas law didn't allow to be used.

It was a strictly legal ruling, not an exercise in friendship toward a child rapist. Most thinking adults can see that. It in no way meant the local court couldn't take the case back and win a capital murder conviction on the child abuse factor alone. And the retrial gets underway this week.

The three Supreme Court justices voting the other way did not agree with the legal point. But none of them referred to their four colleagues as friends of child rapists.

Hester's lamentation is that the horrific matter had to be relived at a second trial when the only issue was, as he put it, that the Supreme Court got "confused" about a state line.

The four justices weren't confused. They saw the law clearly. And, paining them though I presume it did, they applied it.

"I simply believe we need more justices from the side of three and less justices [he meant fewer] from the side of the four," Hester wrote to me Sunday. "As to whether or not they can be criticized, I have watched your side savagely attack justices with whom they disagree. So, I think the truth is that it's not questioning justices you find offensive. It's criticizing liberal justices."

Notice that Hester's construction of the issue is all about the prevailing and bitter ideological divide. But not everything falls along that handy continuum.

We're talking about appropriateness and proportion.

In that regard, current Senate leader Jim Hendren and House Speaker Matthew Shepherd--asked by a reporter for reaction to Hester's smear--cut the young senator slack. Shepherd said there is free speech and Hendren said it's hard to say anymore what if anything is beyond the pale rhetorically.

They go easy on Hester because he is a good-hearted team player within the insular legislative culture, or so I'm told.

Hester is the current majority leader of the Senate and likely to be elected to succeed Hendren as president pro tempore, meaning the leader of the entire Senate, in the regular session of 2021.

Reasonable legislative colleagues tell me Hester can be reasoned with.

Four state Supreme Court justices might have reason to believe Hester cannot always be reasoned with, or at least reasonable.

For the record, to be clear: I have little regard for the Arkansas Supreme Court. I think the members are mostly Republican partisans living several tiers below the elite of the Arkansas Bar. But I wish to stipulate that I don't think there is a friend of a child rapist among them.

And I also think the prevailing four got the central issue of this case right, uncomfortable though their work sometimes must be.

John Brummett, whose column appears regularly in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is a member of the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame. Email him at jbrummett@arkansasonline.com. Read his @johnbrummett Twitter feed.

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SEIU’s Fight for $15 and the Anatomy of a Union Campaign – Capital Research Center

Since 2012, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its affiliates may have spent over $180 million on the so-called Fight for $15 campaign to raise the minimum wage and unionize restaurants. This estimate, commissioned by the International Franchise Association (IFA), was based on the annual reports that the SEIU and its subordinate unions filed with the U.S. Department of Labor, pursuant to the Labor Management and Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.

This union transparency law recently turned 60, and the Labor Department has proposed expanding reporting requirements to the intermediate bodies of government worker unions. These reports can help the general public and interested observers piece together just how a corporate campaign such as the Fight for $15 operates.

Corporate Campaigns

But before one gets there, first recall what a corporate campaign is.

The SEIU prefers not to secure monopoly representation privileges (unionization of a workplace) by a secret-ballot vote, not least because it can lose a secret-ballot vote. Instead, it prefers the card check under a neutrality agreementpublic solicitation of employee signatures on union membership cards that the employer concedes to take as evidence of union support. This is easier for a union because the employer does not present union-skeptical arguments to employees to rebut the unions sales pitch and because the public solicitation enables union supporters and organizers to publicly pressure workers skeptical of unionizing without giving the skeptics a private place to make their true feelings known.

But to get to the neutrality agreement, the employer must agree to give up its rights and the rights of its employees. To secure that concession, the union targets the employers brand and good name with a corporate campaign.

The Fight For $15 Campaign

Fight for $15 is a classic corporate campaign with a twist: The target corporation (McDonalds first, other quick-service restaurants later) must first control the workers the union wants to organize. In the case of quick-service restaurants, the workers typically work for independent franchisees. The SEIUs solution was to tie the corporate campaign to a legal campaign, pushing the Obama administrationnominated National Labor Relations Board to recognize the national brands as joint employers with the local franchises. The union had identified joint employer liability to pressure the national brands to agree to neutrality agreements, easing the path to massive unionization campaigns and potentially hundreds of millions in annual union revenues from dues and mandatory fees.

That raises the question of how much the SEIU has spent on its effort. Critics of the union have tracked the unions expenditures on grants to worker centers and left-progressive agitation groups that support union campaigns. The SEIU has also paid media consultants such as BerlinRosen, who orchestrated the fast food strikes, which were an important part of the early corporate campaign. (The Associated Press reported on the strikes, observing that it wasnt clear how many [fast-food-strike] participants were fast-food workers, rather than campaign organizers, supporters or members of the public relations firm that has been coordinating media efforts.) The SEIU also has spent money setting up worker organizing committees, protolabor unions, which have been replaced by the SEIU-affiliated National Fast Food Workers Union to represent the soon-to-be-unionized workers.

As of 2017, observers estimated SEIU had spent $90 million on the campaign. After adding up spending by lower-level SEIU unions, SEIU expenditures in 2018, and spending on law firms at home and abroad, the IFA-commissioned report estimated that total spending has exceeded $180 million. With these two estimates as upper and lower bounds, the SEIU has clearly spent enormous sums of money on the corporate campaign.

Whats the Objective?

And for what? The SEIU has won a few legislative victories in deeply union-favorable jurisdictions such as Seattle and New York, but the National Fast Food Workers Union reported no members as of 2018, and the Trump administrationnominated National Labor Relations Board has issued a rule restoring the longstanding precedent on joint employer that the union wanted overturned.

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‘Super-honored’: OUWB department chair named fellow of the American Association for Anatomy – News at OU

The chair of Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicines Department of Foundational Medical Studies has been named a fellow of the American Association for Anatomy.

The organization announced on Feb. 19 that Douglas Gould, Ph.D., professor of Anatomy and Neuroscience and chair of the Department of Foundational Medical Studies, OUWB, is a member of the latest class of eight fellows.

He is the second OUWB faculty member to earn the distinction with the American Association for Anatomy (AAA). Judith Venuti, Ph.D., professor, OUWB Department of Foundational Medical Studies was awarded the honor in 2012.

Its a recognition from my peers that the work Ive spent 25 years doing is appreciatedthat it wasnt all just for my career, but that it also has value for others, Gould said.

In announcing the latest class of fellows, AAA issued a press release that said, The rank of fellow of the American Association for Anatomy (FAAA) is designed to honor distinguished members who have demonstrated excellence in science and in their overall contributions to the anatomical sciences.

Best decision I ever made

Gould joined the OUWB faculty in July, 2012.

He had been at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, where he was a professor and the director of the Division of Anatomy for six years.

Before Ohio State, Gould was an associate professor at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine for nine years.

Throughout his career, Goulds scholarly endeavors have focused on the design, creation, implementation and evaluation of learning tools for the modern medical student. He has secured almost $1 million total in funding from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation for his medical education scholarly work.

He has served as editor-in-chief for the Medical Science Educator, and he currently serves as the associate editor for all anatomy-related submissions to MedEdPortal.

Further, Gould has published more than 30 peer-reviewed manuscripts, given some 70 presentations, and has authored and edited 10 texts and ancillary learning tools.

Gould calls moving to OUWB the best decision I ever made.

One reason?

What he identifies as a hyper-collegial, friendly, and supportive culture.

I always tell people Ive never worked anywhere like (OUWB), he said. We have the largest cadre of dedicated medical educators in one place and for the most part, they are all on one floorand its created this hyper-collegial, friendly, supportive culture.

Gould was named chair of the Department of Foundational Medical Studies in 2017 after Venuti stepped down. He said he was prepared for the role, in part, as a result of a ton of leadership training via organizations such as the Association for Academic Leadership and Academic Impressions.

Im a firm believer that you can never get enough leadership training, he said.

Since becoming department chair, Gould said a major point-of-pride has been his formation and implementation of the schools Leadership Institute for Faculty Development.

He said hes also been intent on maintaining OUWBs culture, promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, and taken steps to bolster the schools research work.

I wanted to make sure that the 36 medical educators who are here dont end up suffering the same fate that I endured while coming up through the academic ranks, he said. That is, youre working with 30 or so colleagues that are NIH-funded and without funding, your voice doesnt carry the same weight. When decisions are made, youre not in the mix.

To increase collaborative scholarly efforts, Gould organized OUWB faculty into scholarly interest groups (there are now seven). Gould said the requirement is that faculty members need to join at least one of the groups, but noted that several faculty members are in multiple groups.

The scholarly groups meet monthly and Gould said he has high expectations for the quantity and rigor of educational scholarship produced by the department as a result of the program.

With this many people marching in the same direction, we should be tearing it up, making real waves, he said.

Super-honored

Gould said he has been involved with numerous professional development organizations during his career. He started spending more time with the American Association for Anatomy when he was at Ohio State and has been with the organization for about 20 years.

He said being named a fellow gives him a great sense of satisfaction.

I think they are recognizing my scholarly contributions and the service I put in for the organization and the profession as a whole, Gould said. It feels great and Im super-honored.

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BWW Review: Alice Birch’s ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE, A Verbal Chamber Trio Themed On A Neurological Legacy – Broadway World

"The text has been 'scored'," states the script for British playwright Alice Birch's Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning Anatomy of a Suicide, a fascinating, tragic piece about a neurological legacy shared by three generations of women, now receiving a fine American premiere at the Atlantic's Linda Gross Theater.

Mapped out like a chamber trio, each page of text contains up to three columns of dialogue, representing up to three scenes that play simultaneously, with lines, beats and hesitations precisely marked so that that author dictates exactly what is heard when.

Sometimes scenes mesh and cohabitate generously. Sometimes they collide, and when they do, those foolish enough to try and follow it all at the same time will surely suffer a metal jam-up, but through tone and staging, director Lileana Blain-Cruz effectively guides our attention, though naturally, audience members may tend to focus on the scenes played closest to them.

The triptych is played out on designer Mariana Sanchez's neutrally institutional set, with the most prominent, and given the title of the play, the most ominous visual being the upstage clawfoot bathtub.

It begins in a hospital corridor where Carol's (Carla Gugino) bandaged wrists provide all the exposition needed. Her husband's (Richard Topol) attempts at support are perceived by her as an annoyance and the birth of their daughter Anna seems an unwanted anchor, adding a guilty consequence to Carol's giving in to the desire her disease fuels.

Precocious young Anna is played by Ava Briglia, and her presence informs our view of the character as an adult (Celeste Arias), who endures drug addiction and has a child with her filmmaker husband Jamie (Julian Elijah Martinez).

That child, Bonnie (Gabby Beans), grows up to be a doctor, whose protective emotional shall tests the open-hearted romantic persistence of the smitten patient (Jo Mei) she hesitantly starts dating.

If the characters aren't written with substantial depth, that's not a flaw. The focus is on finding clues within the simultaneously played stories that draw parallels, and suggest inherited characteristics, among the three main women.

Supporting actors play multiple parts and keeping track of who's who can get confusing (Whose little kid is Briglia in this scene?), but ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE is worth the extra concentration.

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Opinion: The anatomy of a mediocre squad – The Spurs Web

Since the Special One arrived we have lost to Liverpool, Bayern, Man United, Leipzig and Chelsea twice. Scored two goals in those six games. Well always have Olympiacos and City, I guess. To be fair to the manager in the prior regime we were losing to the likes of Newcastle and Brighton by the end.

But injuries asideand how realistic is to expect even the one goal we did score without Kane, Son, Eriksen, Dele and with an attack force that has barely played together?the flaws in this team are all too apparent. Mourinho has a damned if he does/doesnt situation. He can decide to keep the game contained and play passively until his supposedly best defender allows Olivier Giroud to walk past him and the next thing you know the other Belgian is spinning like a top away from the Frenchmans second effort and we are behind. Or he could have them play like they seem to do in the final 15 minutes these daysand maybe wed all feel better, but the scoreline would likely end up 4-2 instead of 2-1, and no points would have been gained either.

Our defendingand this begins in the middle of the pitchis simply substandard. Neither Belgian seems capable of a first-rate performance anymore. Davies and Tanganga on the wings are adequate; Sanchez is probably our best but what can one man do? And particularly when his midfielders are failing to mark or giving the ball away. Chelsea did what Leipzig did, pressed us almost into submission. I thought Lo Celsoaside from his fortunate escape from red for a stomp on Azpilicuetaand Ndombele were merely average yesterday; Winks was less than that until the final twenty minutesI am developing a serious doubt as to whether this particular academy product is capable of sustaining quality play at this level. Oh how we miss Mousa Dembele! So our midfield was overrun for much of the first half and then again to start the secondand our defenders are simply always going to concede goals these days when possession is so tilted.

On attack Bergwijn was not surprisingly bullied a fair amount yesterday; Lucas cannot be effective as a hold-up player given his size, things got better once Aurier, Lamela and Dele arrived but the game was lost by then. This team bears no resemblance to the one that was a serious title threat in 2015-17; the rot is apparent and I would suspect at least two new defenders, if not three, must arrive in the summer for Spurs to have any chance at a trophy next season. And Im not sure Harry Kane will wait that longif he recovers in time for the Eurosand plays wellI would think his agent will begin to rustle around for a new home unless Levy is extremely proactive in terms of improvements.

As for Jose; yes, I would like to see more intent from the get-go in these big games. He doesnt have the defence necessary to keep a game closewe were lucky much more than good in holding City off. Our only hope in the return fixture in Germany will be to light up their defence and probably also for a serious cup run or the dwindling chance at Top Four (I cant see fifth being good enough for City is likely to tie up their mess in court long enough to play in the Champions League next season). But he is not the problemlets hope he can be part of the solution.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 16: Character development has had the most painful death on the show – MEAWW

Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) almost drowned in Season 3. The intense shooting scene of Season 6. Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) watching as Izzy Stevens (Katherine Heigl) almost died at the end of Season 5. The devastating plane crash in Season 8 which killed Mark Sloane (Eric Dane) and Lexie Grey (Chyler Leigh). Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) aborting her child because she did not want children. This isn't just delirious ramblings, this is recalling the times the ABC medical drama 'Grey's Anatomy' had powerful storylines, hard-hitting dialogues and characters of varying shades of grey.

Sixteen seasons were spent in astounding character development. And Season 16 is just burning it all to the ground. Well, to be fair, the last few seasons have been quietly digging the grave that the show has now found itself in.

The show is known for the painful and horrifying deaths of its characters. However, the show has managed to kill off its characters, even when they're alive. The most complex and intriguing characters like Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) and Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) are part of stale, romantic and entangled plots that actually serve no purpose. And that's a royal shame, especially for those who have kept up with the show from the first day. Try comparing the Owen of the earlier seasons (preferably 6-10), to the one you see now. The military doctor, who became head of trauma and had suffered enormously in his life. He worked hard to overcome his deep-seated trauma. And now he's just caught up in one romantic drama after another.

And his relationship with Cristina was not just a will they-won't-they. Their love was flawed and haunting, with moments of pain and tears. This was also partly due to Cristina's dynamic character. The allure of Cristina's character lay in her constant tussle to be the best cardiothoracic surgeon, more so than just falling in love and settling down. She was a woman who was wrestling with her ambition. It's not that she loved Owen or even Burke (Isaiah Washington) less, it's that she loved her work more.

'Grey's Anatomy' broke away from the run-of-the-mill dramas when it addressed the fact that a woman did not have to settle down and have a child. She could have a fulfilled life, with or without getting married. Having a child wasn't the be-all or end-all for a woman. This was such a relief, considering many shows portrayed women not wanting children and then finally reconciling to the idea of one. In an intense scene, Meredith tells Owen that she knows what it is to be a child, not wanted by the mother. She requests Owen to ensure Cristina doesn't go ahead with the pregnancy, as she would never be able to accept the fact that she loved her work more than her.

Where did all that character development go? Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) and April Kepner's (Sarah Drew) love story was struck down. There was a time when Jackson had depth and feeling and his story arcs were not just about shuttling between women. Considering Williams is known for his emotional intensity, why don't they put him to more instructive use? Remember how Jackson finally resorts to praying when he thinks that April was dying?

Catherine Fox has turned downright diabolical and Andrew DeLuca is now whiny, while Meredith has to put up with it. Moreover, Meredith seems to be getting phased out in her own show. Alex has left the show and fingers crossed, we hope that his character gets an honorable exit. Might as well kill him, because making him ghost his wife Jo (Camilla Luddington) and best friend Meredith is so unlikely, as the writers spent years honing his character.

The stories in the show are now just staid romantic angles. Nico and Schmitt are the LGBQ couple, replacing Callie Torres (Sarah Ramirez) and Arizona Robbins, but they have none of that vigor. Callie and Arizona's storylines weren't just about dealing with coming out, they had so much more to deal with. Even the patients' stories don't evoke much emotion.

'Grey's Anatomy' airs on ABC Thursdays at 9pm.

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Is Your Favourite Greys Anatomy Couple Really Over Forever? – Refinery29

Maggie is the one who spends Diagnosis trying to help her sister metabolize her pain over the Link situation. It would be easy for Greys to have Maggie, in this case the voice of reason, fully turn on Link because he made her sister sad. However, Maggie doesnt. During the meatiest part of the conversation when Maggie finally learns about the Owen part of the pregnancy equation Maggie explains why Links reaction to the messy paternity twist is sensible. She reminds Amelia that she and Owen have a complicated relationship, to put things mildly.

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Fans Reveal Frustration Over ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ ‘Station 19’ Crossovers Weekly – TV Shows Ace

Most fans of Greys Anatomy have watched the show for years. Recently they added a spin-off calledStation 19. A lot of people watch both shows, but not everyone jumped on board with the new series. Now fans are sharing their frustration over the fact that they are basically a crossover every week.

Some weeks they callGreys Anatomy andStation 19 a crossover. Other weeks, it just happens to be that way. This season they have really started making the two hours worth of television seem like one big show. One big part of it is that Avery is now dating a character onStation 19 meaning that he will show up on that series a lot.

This week they are advertising a blizzard crossover event. When the episode is revealed that way, fans know they have to watch both. Other weeks you could be confused if you only watch one or decide to watchGreys first.

Fans are not very happy about the way that this is happening lately. Some like to watch both shows and others only watch one of them. The other thing is that if you use a DVR normally you could choose which one you would prefer to watch first. That isnt an option anymore. You now need to watchStation 19 first so you arent confused.

This seems like it is a way to bring in new viewers, but instead, it appears they are turning off some of their faithful fans.Greys Anatomy has been able to make it through a few really big cast changes. Now with the exit of Justin Chambers basically being ignored and the crossover events some fans are just done.

After a promo for both shows aired duringThe Bachelor, fans went to Twitter to air their frustrations. Here are a few of the tweets from fans.

I watch Grey's Anatomy I do NOT watch Station19! I gave Station19 a chance on the night it first aired back after the car crashed through the Windows of the bar but I soon realized that Station19 didn't do much of anything after getting that door unstuck therefore it is boring!

~Jasmine~~M~~Murray~ (@JasMarieMurray) February 24, 2020

So I havent watched Greys Anatomy all season. do I need to watch Station 19 and Greys back to back for each new episode? @GreysABC @Station19

Diamond Dawn (@DropOfADime_) February 25, 2020

Stop with the Station 19/Greys Anatomy cross overs!!

Meredith Mannier (@MereMannier) February 17, 2020

The viewers will just have to wait and see if the writers listen and decide to changes things up. For now, dont miss new episodes of Greys AnatomyandStation 19 on Thursday nights on ABC. You will probably need to watch both.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’: Will Alex Cheat on Jo? Fans Aren’t Buying This Storyline – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

[Spoiler alert: Greys Anatomy Season 16, Episode 14.] Greys Anatomy Season 16 has been a wild ride, but not in the way fans originally expected. Midway through the season, Justin Chambers who played Alex announced his departure from the show. The ABC series hasnt formally addressed why the character is ghosting his friends and family. Then in the Feb. 20 episode titled Diagnosis Alexs wife, Jo (Camilla Luddington), began insinuating the worst, speculating Alex might be having an affair. But is Alex cheating on Jo in Greys Anatomy? Even the idea seems too crazy for fans, especially given Alexs character development for the past 15 years.

Alex has been in Iowa since the Greys Anatomy Season 16 winter finale. He originally left Seattle to take care of his mom. Most characters seemed to accept this fact, noting Alex will one day return. But eventually, Jo begins to question whether her husband will ever come back.

In Diagnosis, a man is brought to Grey Sloan Memorial after jumping in front of a bear to save his wife. The case makes Jo realize how much she misses her husband. She also wonders whether there will be a sudden attack on her relationship with Alex, too. Link (Chris Carmack) calms his friend down, reminding her about what a great guy Alex is.

Later, the doctors find out the wife was cheating on her husband, escalading Jos fears. My worst-case scenario is off the charts right now because this patient is cheating on her husband right under his nose she reconnected with an ex from high school and then one thing led to another, Jo tells Owen (Kevin McKidd) in surgery.

She then theorizes Alex will do the same. But like Link, Owen tells Jo to place her trust in Alex and reinforces the peds surgeon wont screw it up.

Towards the end of the episode, the husband dies and Jo breaks down. She calls Alex and reaches his voicemail.

Hey Alex. I need you to call me, I need to hear your voice. I need to know whats going on, Jo says and starts to cry. Whatever it is, I need to know. I want to know. Because I would jump in front of a bear for you, Alex. Please call me.

Following the Feb. 20 episode, Greys Anatomy fans were firm on one stance Alex would never cheat on Jo.

The fact those writers really want jo to believe that Alex would ever cheat on her, a fan on Twitter wrote. This is the same guy that for all the time they broke up never dared looked at another woman. Please make it make sense.

Alex would never cheat on jo, another fan tweeted. WTF are they trying to do? make that a storyline? Cause he would NEVER.

Meanwhile, other fans had differing opinions, noting Jos conversation with Owen could foreshadow whats to come. Now, some people think Alex met up with Izzie (Katherine Heigl) and one thing led to another. And to no ones surprise, fans werent on board.

Jo talking about Alex cheating has got me real nervous that theyre gonna try to make him cheat on her with izzie and thats his exit and I am not here for it if thats the case, a fan wrote.

But even if Alex doesnt have an affair with Izzie, Greys Anatomy writers will feel the wrath of fans if they choose to go down the cheating path.

I swear if Alex is cheating, I will quit greys, a fan wrote on Reddit.

Years and years of character development would be flushed down the drain, another fan added.

For now, Greys Anatomy fans will have to be patient as the Shondaland drama carves out Alexs exit. In an interview with Variety, showrunner Krista Vernoff revealed the series will address the departure, but it will take some time.

It was a very careful threading of a needle, where we are giving a little bit of information and pain to Jo, Vernoff said. Were, episode by episode, illuminating the story of where Alex is. And it takes us quite a few more episodes to get there and to give the audience clarity.

Meanwhile, Luddington teased multiple wild storylines in Greys Anatomy moving forward.

YOU GUYS! Im currently on the floor reading these scripts right now, the actress wrote on Twitter, along with #cantgetup.

Unfortunately, Luddington didnt confirm whether or not those particular storylines deal with Jo and Alex. And as always, Greys Anatomy fans will just have to hold on tight for the ride. So stay tuned.

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