Whew, what a plot twist!!
Exterior of the enjoyable shenanigans that concerned an underrated trio that I had no concept we would have liked this a lot in Bailey, Ben, and Carina, most of Station 19 Season 6 Episode 13 was simply okay.
However then they threw that Eli and Travis plot twist at us, and that is the way you get a woman’s consideration. Oh, this mess is delectable.
The strongest side of the hour was Carina and Bailey teaming as much as go to an agenda-pushing facility posing as a ladies’s well being clinic.
This season, it feels as if Station 19 and Gray’s Anatomy have lastly found out the way to work collectively and have cohesive storylines that interconnect.
Gray’s Anatomy has been on one in tackling the assault on ladies’s rights and healthcare, and so they have not stayed off the necks of these in opposition.
It is made for a really socially aware season that, for as soon as, would not really feel overtly preachy or performative. A few 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 ladies’s rights and struggle in opposition to the injustices imposed on many have made for a compelling, ongoing arc and positioned ladies like Bailey, Carina, and Addison in grave hazard.
They’ve caught their necks out and assumed some severe 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 virtually lethal.
Because of this, it wasn’t stunning 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 break day so he might tag alongside to make sure that Bailey and Carina had been okay.
Ben was traditional Ben throughout the ordeal. He fell into the entice of doing informal mansplaining concerning the present points as if practising docs like Bailey and Carina weren’t effectively conscious of all of the warnings and factoids he was sharing.
However his coronary heart was in place, and his concern was comprehensible given the circumstances.
Regardless of among the topic’s seriousness, Carina, Ben, and Bailey had been such a comedic trio that the present might take full benefit of that dynamic extra usually.
They had been hilarious collectively, particularly when Ben grew to become Ben DeLuca, posing as Carina’s husband whereas Bailey sat there as “only a good friend.”
And their fixed bickering as all of them tried to determine the way 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, nevertheless, was unbearable. Nonetheless, credit score the place it is due — the lady knew precisely what to and what to not say. She pivoted direct questions with skilled 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 approach to impose her ideas and opinions about having the infant as soon as she discovered 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 looking for an ally who would agree that Carina wanted to have a toddler.
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.
However essentially the most emotional second from that hour was when Carina broke down a bit after she faked the optimistic being pregnant check.
For somebody determined to have a toddler of her personal, it was heartbreaking that the primary time she’d see a optimistic 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 price 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 development, she bared her coronary heart out on the station. She’s open to doing no matter Carina must reassure her.
I might respect Maya’s vulnerability and honesty when she spoke about how she was attempting to construct one thing on a basis for them, even when it was unstable.
She might 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 isn’t usually individuals nail that distinction.
One way or the other, 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 method of easing again right into a protected, loving place of their relationship.
It is such an underrated transfer to make, and it is genuinely candy. The newborn factor nonetheless lingers over them, however it’ll be rather more satisfying in the event that they’re in the very best place when that second comes.
In fact, one can solely hope that the lure of payback or no matter else would not overtake Maya due to Dixon’s supply.
With the complete data that if Maya takes the bait, they’ll have undone all the great work they have been placing in, I need to consider that Maya won’t proceed to blackmail Ross or report her to the union.
Maya needs to be to date previous that proper now, and it is simply unhealthy type. She already got here to grips with how tousled it was that she gave Beckett that booze.
But when Dixon already has this grime, it will possible get out whether or not Maya is concerned or not. The query needs to be, what does he have to achieve from this apart from in search of revenge on Ross for daring to name his racist ass out for that stunt he and the officers did with that poor boy.
Will probably be devastating if Ross’ profession is ruined or if she has a fall from grace. Ross is an advanced character and sometimes polarizing, however she’s genuinely good individuals, and she or he would not deserve damage.
Issues 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 might 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.
However 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 large number, and the lads they had been attempting to avoid wasting had been annoying.
Theo was in all places and wavered between being too cocky and too uncertain.
However what precisely is occurring with Theo? He was once a really likable character who was compassionate, considerate, clever, intuitive, and a lot extra.
And this season, he is develop into an asshole. It has been creeping in little by little, however the worst components are when he is interacting with Vic. Their relationship feels randomly and abruptly rocky, and we do not know why.
However he is handled her terribly, and she or he wasn’t unsuitable when she identified that one thing is occurring with him, he isn’t letting her in, and she or he genuinely desires to know the way she may also help.
Theo has been chilly, distant, impolite, and bordering on merciless with Vic on a number of events. It is such a drastic change from this man who was one in every of her largest help techniques and the way this light method of cracking by her boundaries.
It is just like the sequence wants a gentle stream of a personality randomly changing into a jerk, and as soon as that individual will get on observe, they go 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 most likely 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.
In spite of everything that prep for questions and debates about subjects he isn’t well-versed in, he managed to win the gang over by fixing a hearth 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 most likely had them within the palm of his hand the entire time.
It was a celebratory second, however Travis and Eli’s celebration took a stunning flip.
Andy was too little too late getting again to Eli, and now he is fallen in mattress together with his shopper. And you understand what? I do not hate this.
Andy does deserve enjoyable and romance, whether or not it is informal or it evolves into one thing severe.
She deserves love, flirting, and man taking a real curiosity in her. And he or she ought to have somebody that she’s suitable with and who can stability her out and make issues fascinating.
Eli, as a potential relationship for Andy, at all times felt pressured. They did not precisely have romantic chemistry, and so they did not really feel like match for one another both.
It additionally did not bode effectively 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 would not need to be harm, however we hadn’t gotten far sufficient into no matter Andy and Eli might have been for one to really feel that she’d be immensely harm past transferring on rapidly.
However the scenario is messy nonetheless.
It might even have severe ramifications if Dixon by some means finds out and makes use of it in opposition to Travis. I’d assume that folks would not care about Travis’ love life, however who is aware of?
And wouldn’t it make it tougher or extra awkward for Eli and Travis to work collectively after they’d intercourse? I do not know.
However Eli looks like a a lot better match for Travis than Andy, and this plot twist is sweet.
I can 100% get behind an Eli and Travis pairing, and it has been a minute since Travis has had some romance or enjoyable. Signal me up!
Over to you, Station 19 Fanatics.
Had been 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 courting once more? What is the take care of Theo?
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