By Lauren Mitchell, Staff Writer
It’s back! After 132 days of hiatus, the 12th season of the prominent ABC medical drama at Grey Sloan memorial hospital, Grey’s Anatomy has finally returned to our televisions. Personally, the season 12 premiere was one of the best, definitely a 10 out of 10. I recommend watching it live, and if you don’t have time, make time (yup, it’s that good)!!!
Since 2005, the show’s creator, showrunner, part time director, Shonda Rhimes, who has also produced shows like Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder has been changing the face of television and creating a new genre of drama, incorporating so many different aspects and lessons into a one hour episode, although most fans hate Shonda for killing literally 90 percent of characters and always in a gut-wrenching way.
The season 12 premiere titled “SLEDGEHAMMER” was directed by Kevin McKidd, who plays Owen Hunt on Grey’s and occasionally directs for the show, and he did an amazing job entering new horizons for all of the characters and beginning new story lines and arcs.
After the recent death of leading man, Derek Shepherd, who died in episode 11×21, most viewers didn’t think Grey’s could continue. Yes, Grey’s won’t be the same but as far as we can tell by the premiere, the 5 star quality of the show continues to power on. Grey’s Anatomy is notorious for their devastating and heart breaking episodes, but it’s slowly turning into a show with more of a rom-com vibe.
In the premiere, your favorite kind of not really sisters Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone), and Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary) move in together and the problems don’t stop from there. From smashing down walls and putting things where they don’t belong, tensions continue to rise between Meredith and Amelia, putting Maggie in the middle of the battle. This is solved by the end of the episode when Maggie holds an intervention for the two, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this storyline goes more than one episode. And for Doctor Bailey, the whole world was smiling ear to ear when she finally gets the chief of surgery position she has been striving towards since season 1 episode 1.
This episode goes deep into our hearts when the entire cast reveals their bullying stories, after having two patients who attempted suicide so they could be together and get away from the horrible things bullies did to them. We discover a lot about Maggie Pierce, who has only been on the show for one season. She had been bullied very badly and her story was just heart breaking, but this also uncovered that some characters, like Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) and Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez) were the bullies when they were growing up, both for different reasons of their own.
In the episode, some of the couples we can’t live without strived, but others crumbled. For example, Owen and Amelia kiss, and it is one of the cutest things, ever! But, for some couples, like Jackson (Jesse Williams) and April (Sarah Drew), there are problems. April
finally returns from war, and as the audience expects a big return party of something cute and dramatic, it just ends with Jackson sleeping at the hospital and April sleeping at home, saying they might talk tomorrow… very disappointing considering we have all loved Jackson and April for years!
Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw, daughter of Kate Capshaw and daughter in law to Steven Spielberg) searches and searches, and after many rude turn downs, she finally finds a roommate, who is a new intern at the hospital.