It feels so good to have a new episode of Grey’s Anatomy! And last night’s episode did not disappoint! It was funny and heartbreaking all at the same time.

For those that missed it, or want to revisit the episode, here’s my recap of the episode.

5.20 “Sweet Surrender”

Original airdate: April 23, 2009

We open with Meredith and Derek in bed. Meredith is examining her wedding ring from all angles. Meanwhile, Izzie is getting her chemo, while Alex sits at her side, looking around at all of the other patients. Arizona and Callie run into each other in the stairwell and kiss. While Cristina sees Owen and avoids him.

In bed together, Meredith and Derek discuss the wedding. Meredith wants a simple wedding. She doesn’t want to wear a big poofy dress and Derek recommends they get married naked, in a field. Mer says she’s gotten Izzie to plan the wedding and that at least now they have a theme: simplicity.

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Grey’s Anatomy continues to impress me even more than usual. I almost don’t even know what to say about that episode. I thought it was amazing from start to finish.

If you’ve missed it, or can’t see it from where you are, here’s a brief recap:

“Elevator Love Letter” | Original airdate: 03/26/09

Izzie’s been admitted into Seattle Grace (as we saw last week), and Alex watches over her, from afar. Callie and Arizona dance around the living room (so we can assume that they’re together?) And Cristina and Owen (platonically) fall asleep. But the spinning of the fan seems to affect Owen in a terrible way, and Cristina wakes to find him strangling her. Thankfully, Callie hears the commotion and thinks to knock and enter. This wakes Owen up and Cristina breaks free.

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I hope that by now everyone’s gotten a chance to watch last night’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy “Stand By Me.” What an awesome episode that was! I know a lot of people have lost faith in the show, but I really think they’ve been knocking it out of the ballpark lately. This last episode was truly wonderful.

A brief recap of the episode is after the jump!

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ABC aired the sixteenth episode of Grey’s Anatomy’s fifth season last night and I have to say I thought it was a really great episode. It had its light moments, it had its intense moments, and I thought it was a really wonderful hour of television.

The main story from last night’s episode was Derek’s struggle with his own guilt. He messed up during surgery last week and this error ultimately cost a woman her life. To go along with this theme of mistakes, we saw Izzie dealing with messed up test results, and Cristina and Hunt dealing with another surgeon’s errors.

Other storylines from the episode:

• Mark finally tells Derek about Lexie -which leads to the bloody fist fight on the bridge. I thought it was clear that Derek wasn’t really angry at Mark necessarily. Ausiello said that Derek was angry at Addison, but I think Derek was really angry at himself.
• Callie finally stops avoiding Arizona and asks her out, only to get turned down.
• Bailey is on her way to applying for that fellowship and trying desperately to gather some recommendation letters. The one that really matters - the Chief’s - isn’t what she hoped it would be.

So let’s recap:

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The storyline for the Grey’s Anatomy/Private Practice crossover was set in motion at the end of Grey’s Anatomy, but both shows remained pretty independent of each other. It looks like the real crossover will begin next week.

Here’s what happened during last night’s Grey’s Anatomy episode “Beat Your Heart Out”:

“Beat Your Heart Out”

Original airdate: 02/05/09

Denny seems to have officially walked into the light (hopefully for good?) and Izzie is left trying to figure out what might be wrong with her. At the beginning of the episode she’s seen trying to draw her own blood. She’s interrupted by the arrival of her interns.

Meanwhile, Cristina walks into the on-call room to find Owen sleeping and he jumps and she jumps and they both try to ignore the sexual tension while simultaneously adding to it. Owen tells Cristina that she should wear her hair up more often because he likes the back of her neck.

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5.13 Stairway to Heaven

Written by: Mark Wilding

Directed by: Allison Liddi-Brown

Original airdate: January 22, 2009

Ellen Pompeo took the day off from doing the voice over narration for last night’s episode and passed the baton over to Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who served as our otherworldly voice of wisdom.

The episode begins with Izzie brushing her teeth and of course Denny’s there watching her. We move on to Meredith who’s watching the monitors, and one can guess she’s waiting on William to crash. William, meanwhile, is still banging his head and bleeding profusely. His monitors eventually begin to beep and nurses rush to his aid. Sadie appears and asks Meredith if she’s going to check in on her patient, but Meredith pretty much tells her to go away and pretend nothing weird is going on.

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Tonight Grey’s will conclude the story arc that began with episode 5.11 “Wish You Were Here” in which we met serial killer William Dunn and the young boy Jackson. We’ll find out if Derek will stand back and allow Dunn to save the little boy or if he’ll stop at nothing to make sure Dunn dies in prison.

Here’s what’s coming up on tonight’s episode, “Stairway to Heaven”:

• Jackson’s condition gets worse and Bailey becomes desperate to save him
• All of Seattle Grace steps up to find the boy a new set of organs; Meredith already has a williing donor in mind: serial killer, William Dunn
• Mark suffers a compromising injury
• Cristina tries to avoid Owen

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5.12 “Sympathy for the Devil”

Original airdate: January 15, 2009

Written by: Jenna Bans

Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc

We open with Bailey watching over Jackson (the little kid that needs a transplant from 5.11 Wish You Were Here). She’s called Dr. Arizona Robbins at 2:30 in the morning to discuss some ideas for getting Jackson bumped up on the list, but Dr. Robbins thinks getting paged 911 at 2:30am just to have a chat is insane troll logic. She marches off to get some sleep.

Derek shows up at the hospital to check up on William Dunn (Eric Stoltz) who’s got “a brain thing” that could kill him if not operated. William seems keen on the idea of dying from the brain thing, rather than going back to prison and getting executed. Derek isn’t sympathetic. But Dunn says, “I might as well die on your watch.”

Back at Casa de Everyone, Mark is in Lexie’s room (a.k.a. the attic) annoyed that everyone’s downstairs so he can’t sneak out. Lexie tells him that they’re cleaning for Derek’s mom (though by ‘they’ she means Izzie). Mark panics because Mrs. Shepherd raised him and taught him right from wrong and yadda-yadda so she can’t know that he’s sleeping with a fetus (a.k.a. Lexie), because that’s somehow worse than sleeping with his best friend’s wife (I’m guessing…)

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Grey’s Anatomy is back! Finally, after many weeks of anxious anticipation, we’ve gotten a new episode. Was it worth the wait?

5.11 “Wish You Were Here”

Original Airdate: 1/8/09

This week’s episode picks up pretty much where things left off, maybe a day or two later. Cristina and Meredith are still mad at each other, Lexie and Mark must deal with the aftermath of their “teaching” session, Callie still has the hots for Sadie, MerDer is still MerDer, Cristina and Hunt are taking things slow, so slow that it’s almost as if they’re not moving at all, Izzie is still seeing Denny and dating Alex, and George … *crickets chirp.*

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Last night’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy saw quite a few romantic storylines either develop or move forward. And I have to say I really enjoyed the episode overall.

“All By Myself” focuses mainly on the first solo surgery. Yang is picked by the attendings as the best possible candidate for the job, but due to last week’s mishap she’s forced to give up her spot to a fellow resident. The episode follows Yang as she struggles with the decision of who to pick.

Major storylines presented in this episode:

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