Whew, what a plot twist!!
Outside of the enjoyable shenanigans that concerned an underrated trio that I had no concept we wanted this a lot in Bailey, Ben, and Carina, most of Station 19 Season 6 Episode 13 was simply okay.
But then they threw that Eli and Travis plot twist at us, and that is the way you get a lady’s consideration. Oh, this mess is delectable.
The strongest facet of the hour was Carina and Bailey teaming as much as go to an agenda-pushing facility posing as a girls’s well being clinic.
This season, it feels as if Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy have lastly discovered methods to work collectively and have cohesive storylines that interconnect.
Grey’s Anatomy has been on one in tackling the assault on girls’s rights and healthcare, they usually have not stayed off the necks of these in opposition.
It’s made for a really socially acutely aware season that, for as soon as, does not really feel overtly preachy or performative. Some of that has additionally spilled into Station 19, largely by Carina because the connector.
The storylines which have revolved round abortion and these docs’ tireless work to protect girls’s rights and struggle in opposition to the injustices imposed on many have made for a compelling, ongoing arc and positioned girls like Bailey, Carina, and Addison in grave hazard.
They’ve caught their necks out and assumed some critical dangers, and it is trigger for concern. We get hints of that when Maya and Ben are decided to get to their wives after a riot will get ugly and nearly lethal.
As a outcome, it wasn’t shocking that Bailey and Carina had been on a mission, and it certain as heck wasn’t a shock that Ben, nonetheless shaken from the incident on the hospital, took the day without work so he may tag alongside to make sure that Bailey and Carina had been okay.
Ben: You two appear like you are about to get into some hassle.
Bailey: We’re not going to get into hassle. We’re going to trigger hassle.
Ben was traditional Ben in the course of the ordeal. He fell into the lure of doing informal mansplaining concerning the present points as if working towards docs like Bailey and Carina weren’t nicely conscious of all of the warnings and factoids he was sharing.
But his coronary heart was in a very good place, and his concern was comprehensible given the circumstances.
Despite a few of the topic’s seriousness, Carina, Ben, and Bailey had been such a comedic trio that the present may take full benefit of that dynamic extra typically.
They had been hilarious collectively, particularly when Ben turned Ben DeLuca, posing as Carina’s husband whereas Bailey sat there as “just a friend.”
And their fixed bickering as all of them tried to determine methods to get Nancy to journey up and admit that she wasn’t a medical skilled and it wasn’t a healthcare facility was amusing.
Nancy, nonetheless, was unbearable. However, credit score the place it is due — the lady knew precisely what to and what to not say. She pivoted direct questions with knowledgeable precision, by no means doled out recommendation or used terminology that implied she was an precise physician, and skirted round something that would nail her down.
She was good, too rattling good, and it was sickening.
She went out of her technique to impose her ideas and opinions about having the newborn as soon as she realized that Carina was pregnant. She’d solely use the time period “fetus” and cheerfully chirped on about Carina having this child.
She was visibly disgusted when Carina talked about an abortion, then turned to everybody else within the room searching for an ally who would agree that Carina wanted to have a toddler.
Ben: How do you do it? How do you mislead weak individuals?
Nancy: I care about life.
It was terrible throughout, so it naturally did not take lengthy for all of the docs to snap in some unspecified time in the future, exposing themselves and getting escorted out of the constructing after Nancy taunted them with how the taxpayers had been supplying a facility like that.
Carina calling within the pro-choice protestors was a pleasant contact. They may additionally spend their time diverting future patrons to an precise clinic the place they might get balanced remedy and have their needs and autonomy revered.
But probably the most emotional second from that hour was when Carina broke down a bit after she faked the constructive being pregnant check.
For somebody determined to have a toddler of her personal, it was heartbreaking that the primary time she’d see a constructive being pregnant check, it was pretend and for one thing like that.
I felt for her at that second, and it hit you the way a lot Carina sacrifices for what she feels is correct and good and the nice private value it has on her.
On the Marina entrance, it was candy to see them get up collectively, even when it was imagined to be informal.
And maintaining with Maya’s real progress and progress, she bared her coronary heart out on the station. She’s open to doing no matter Carina must reassure her.
I may admire Maya’s vulnerability and honesty when she spoke about how she was making an attempt to construct one thing on a basis for them, even when it was unstable.
My first constructive being pregnant check, and it is not actual.
Carina
She may each acknowledge her wrongdoing and the place she tousled and failed whereas expressing how, on the time, she thought she was doing it for them, that means it got here from a honest place.
She owned and defined her actions with out excusing them. It’s not typically individuals nail that distinction.
Somehow, the present manages to place Marina again into an alluring gradual burn. Maya requested to this point her spouse, take her out on a pleasant one, and it is their manner of easing again right into a secure, loving place of their relationship.
It’s such an underrated transfer to make, and it is genuinely candy. The child factor nonetheless lingers over them, however it’ll be far more satisfying in the event that they’re in the absolute best place when that second comes.
Carina DeLuca, will you go on a date with me?
Maya
Of course, one can solely hope that the lure of payback or no matter else does not overtake Maya due to Dixon’s supply.
With the total data that if Maya takes the bait, they’ll have undone all the great work they have been placing in, I wish to imagine that Maya won’t proceed to blackmail Ross or report her to the union.
Maya ought to be to this point previous that proper now, and it is simply unhealthy kind. She already got here to grips with how tousled it was that she gave Beckett that booze.
But if Dixon already has this dust, it’s going to possible get out whether or not Maya is concerned or not. The query ought to be, what does he have to realize from this aside from looking for revenge on Ross for daring to name his racist ass out for that stunt he and the officers did with that poor boy.
It will likely be devastating if Ross’ profession is ruined or if she has a fall from grace. Ross is an advanced character and infrequently polarizing, however she’s genuinely good individuals, and she or he does not deserve smash.
Things are already difficult between her and Sullivan. From the sounds of Sullivan’s chat with Andy, he is nonetheless in his emotions about her not naming him interim captain, and Andy was puzzled by it too.
Sullivan may perceive why Andy declined the supply as a result of she needed to get the place extra completely as a result of she earned it and never as a result of she’s a backup plan.
But Sullivan was additionally first rate at extending some recommendation to Theo as he struggled with their first name with him as interim captain.
It was a multitude, and the lads they had been making an attempt to avoid wasting had been annoying.
Theo was all over and wavered between being too cocky and too not sure.
But what precisely is occurring with Theo? He was a really likable character who was compassionate, considerate, sensible, intuitive, and a lot extra.
And this season, he is turn out to be an asshole. It’s been creeping in little by little, however the worst elements are when he is interacting with Vic. Their relationship feels randomly and abruptly rocky, and we do not know why.
You had been chosen to be captain for a cause. Trust that!
Sullivan [to Theo]
But he is handled her terribly, and she or he wasn’t mistaken when she identified that one thing is occurring with him, he is not letting her in, and she or he genuinely desires to understand how she may help.
Theo has been chilly, distant, impolite, and bordering on merciless with Vic on a number of events. It’s such a drastic change from this man who was one in all her greatest assist programs and the way this mild manner of cracking by her boundaries.
It’s just like the sequence wants a gradual stream of a personality randomly changing into a jerk, and as soon as that particular person will get on observe, they move the dick virus to another person.
Maya and Jack are lastly again to being bearable, and now Theo is on the verge of being unbearable.
Dixon additionally prolonged his villain methods to the controversy and his smear marketing campaign in opposition to Travis.
By now, it is so obvious he will get off on bullying Travis, and their contents in all probability see by all of that too.
Travis retains discovering new methods to navigate the political spectrum whereas nonetheless being himself, and it really works out to his benefit, and the controversy is not any exception.
After all that prep for questions and debates about subjects he is not well-versed in, he managed to win the gang over by fixing a fireplace hazard and utilizing that scenario to ship a metaphor that was sincere about who he’s, his inexperience in comparison with profession politicians, and the way he plans to make issues higher.
His earnestness and honesty received the gang over immediately, and he in all probability had them within the palm of his hand the entire time.
It was a celebratory second, however Travis and Eli’s celebration took a shocking flip.
Andy was too little too late getting again to Eli, and now he is fallen in mattress together with his consumer. And what? I do not hate this.
Andy does deserve enjoyable and romance, whether or not it is informal or it evolves into one thing critical.
Andy: Why did not Ross ask you to do the job?
Sullivan: Why did not she ask you?
Andy: She did, and I mentioned no. I deserve an actual promotion. So the actual query is, why did not she ask you?
Sullivan: You’ll should ask her.
She deserves love, flirting, and a very good man taking a real curiosity in her. And she ought to have somebody that she’s suitable with and who can steadiness her out and make issues fascinating.
Eli, as a potential relationship for Andy, all the time felt compelled. They did not precisely have romantic chemistry, they usually did not really feel like a very good match for one another both.
It additionally did not bode nicely that every one of their backwards and forwards by no means felt prefer it amounted to a lot or would get anyplace.
The messy element of this isn’t realizing how Andy will really feel if she learns the reality about Eli and Travis. And I hope it won’t pressure her and Travis’ relationship.
Andy does not need to be harm, however we hadn’t gotten far sufficient into no matter Andy and Eli may have been for one to really feel that she’d be immensely harm past shifting on shortly.
But the scenario is messy nonetheless.
It may even have critical ramifications if Dixon one way or the other finds out and makes use of it in opposition to Travis. I’d assume that individuals would not care about Travis’ love life, however who is aware of?
And wouldn’t it make it more durable or extra awkward for Eli and Travis to work collectively after that they had intercourse? I do not know.
But Eli looks like a a lot better match for Travis than Andy, and this plot twist is nice.
I can 100% get behind an Eli and Travis pairing, and it has been a minute since Travis has had some romance or enjoyable. Sign me up!
Over to you, Station 19 Fanatics.
Were you shocked by the Eli/Travis hookup? Which ‘ship do you like: Andy and Eli or Eli and Travis? Do you approve of Marina taking issues gradual and relationship once more? What’s the cope with Theo?
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