Thursday Night TV

Every Thursday night for the past few years I have watched Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice. This year they added another show that I watch to that line up, The Big Bang Theory. I have to say this right now that at some point I have loved each one of these shows at one time or another, but this year, well, I’m just not feeling them.

First up was The Big Bang Theory. The show last night opened up with a classic Sheldon and Lenard scene. I enjoyed this scene because we haven’t really seen much of the relationship between these two characters much in recent episodes, and I feel like it the show needs to bring it back to them to make it interesting. I loved the story line with Howard and Bernadette; I think that they are a really awesome couple. I also really like that they have made Bernadette resemble Howard’s mother, it makes sense that Howard would pick someone like his mother since he is such a mama’s boy. I found the storyline with Will Wheaton to be underwhelming. I don’t believe that Wheaton would have given in on the feud so easily, and Sheldon didn’t freak out enough when the mint action figure got ripped opened. Over all this episode was fine, it held my attention and I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t as good as it could have been.

Next up was Grey’s Anatomy. I have been having a love hate relationship with Grey’s since the beginning of the last season. I find that the writing is not as good as it used to be, and that the plots are lacking the interesting twists and learning experiences that they used to have. Last night’s plot revolved around two cases; the first was the “shocking” penis transplant. Yes, you heard me a penis transplant, if that isn’t grasping for straws then I don’t know what is. The only part of this case that I enjoyed was that Debbie Allen guest stared as Jackson Avery’s mother and was the head surgeon on the case. Debbie Allen is so cool, such a great actor and I really enjoyed seeing her as Katharine Avery. I liked that the mother-and-son relationship was believable, but didn’t really understand why Jackson felt that he had to ship Lexi off to save her from the crazy mother. Katherine Avery was cool, under control, driven, and definitely not crazy. The Jackson worrying about the impression she would make was overdone. The other case was one that involved Zola the baby that Meredith and Derek want to adopt. She had a seizure and was brought to the hospital to be treated by Alex and Arizona. Of course, they weren’t to tell Meredith and Derek that Zola was being treated because it would put the adoption in jeopardy, but of course Alex told they anyway. In the end Zola was fine, and the adoption agent saw Meredith and Derek holding hands in the elevator looking upset at the end of the episode. It’s obvious that they will get custody of Zola in the end, but I guess they really need to drag it out. The one thing that I wondered throughout this episode is why Kristina always steps up and helps out with Zola, but she doesn’t want to have a child of her own. It’s nice to see the writers move the plot along, and making it seem possible that reconciliation between Meredith and Derek might be coming soon. Unfortunately, it was sort of slow and predictable. I miss old Grey’s Anatomy.

Then we get to Private Practice, and the uterus transplant. I am not kidding you one bit, it was a penis transplant followed by a uterus transplant. I honestly let out a sigh when they said uterus transplant; either the two shows planned to much or not enough, but it was overkill. I really didn’t enjoy this episode; I was bored and didn’t really pay close attention to the plot. It seems that Private Practice is just trying to outdo Grey’s Anatomy in shock factor, and it is failing painfully. I think that the writers need to bring Private Practice back to what it was originally, a show that focused on a small practice and its patients.

I hope that The Big Bang Theory, Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice get better as the seasons move on. The writers of all three shows need to step it up this year. I’m looking for interesting plots, twist that I don’t see coming, and more emotion. I’m not going to stop watching these shows, let’s face it, I’m too curious to see what is going to happen next.