r/greysanatomy • • 5d ago

EPISODE DISCUSSION S23E2 Slippin’ and Slidin’ Live Episode Discussion Spoiler

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Welcome back everyone! Please remember the rules: all spoilers are welcome here, spoilers still have to be explicitly warned for in the general sub, and keep new ep discussion to this thread for the first couple days.

Episode title: Slippin’ and Slidin’

Original Airdate: October 22nd, 2026

Song title inspiration: Slippin’ and Slidin’ by Little Richard

Episode summary: As Bailey adjusts to student life, she and Blue respond to a fraternity hazing mishap. Meredith juggles Boston and Seattle as she advocates for a young patient, and Amelia and Toni support Jo.

Episode trailer on YouTube

Skip back to last week’s premiere discussion

Jump ahead to next week’s live discussion of

Still no official update on the number of episodes to expect from the season or the expected course of holiday break. Crickets on the subject of the spin-off too! But we’ll keep listening.


r/greysanatomy • • 13d ago

MOD STUFF Grey's Anatomy Returns October 15th - Rule & Etiquette Refresher

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Hello all,

With the premiere happening tomorrow I just wanted to take the time to remind you that the premiere is happening tomorrow :)

Also I wanted to go over a few things that we with common sense know, but just a reminder on rules and customs. If anything is on this list that isn't in the official rules it will be soon.

Please keep any posts about the newest episode in the stickied discussion thread

This is in particular common with low-effort posts. A character will do something out of pocket or unexpected and we'll get 12 posts saying "REALLY?" about one singular action. Let me be clear, we don't expect every post and comment to be high-brow analysis, but give it some effort. If that's all your post is, then it needs to be a comment. We reserve the right to remove these as needed.

If you see a post that has this issue and hasn't been removed, please report it Moderators do not go patrolling the streets of /r/greysanatomy like you may think. If you report it it will alert us and we will look at it asap. Also, we may leave it up if we feel it is appropriate to do so.

Be Nice to each other Not much to say. Pretend they're sitting across the table from you usually solves that problem.

Explicit spoilers in the title

Just a refresher on this. Don't say explicit spoilers in the title. Just had to ban someone for this a moment ago. This applies to ALL spoilers - even something from season 1. We understand that an old spoiler may be old news, but it's really not that hard to figure out how to word something that doesn't say an exact spoiler in the title.

Have fun everyone and enjoy the premiere!


r/greysanatomy • • 1h ago

DISCUSSION Why is Meredith so awful to Amelia?

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Doing a rewatch and I can’t understand the animosity Meredith has towards Amelia. Yes, Amelia seems neurotic and annoying at times, but Meredith is just so mean to her. I think it was inexcusable that Meredith didn’t call Amelia when Derek was dying in the hospital. The rest of Derek’s family may have been too far away to make it in time, but Amelia was there, she deserved to see her brother before he was taken off life support. Then there’s this scene where Meredith just stomps all over her. What was the point of making their relationship so contentious? It makes Meredith seem terrible.


r/greysanatomy • • 10h ago

MEDIA appreciation post for bailey and her alice cullen hair

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387 Upvotes

I swear this was the best her hair wasss I love and miss it. I wonder IF alice was actually their inspiration for this style!


r/greysanatomy • • 8h ago

DISCUSSION Good things about Merder

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I realized they’re is a lot of hate going on to merder, so I wanted to create a little dynamic 🙃 say one good thing about merder or your favorite scene with them! Please if u have nothing positive to say about Derek or merder overall go to another place, there’s tons of places to talk crap about them or Derek.


r/greysanatomy • • 10h ago

I think about this scene regularly, so powerful

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I know there’s a lot of Owen hate, but wow this quote was so comforting to me. What an incredible scene with incredible actors.


r/greysanatomy • • 16h ago

DISCUSSION The most in-character exit

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r/greysanatomy • • 13h ago

FIRST TIME WATCHER I hate Alex Karev with the heat of a thousand suns (no spoilers please)

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First time watcher, at S2:E23 and I had to come here to vent.

I think Alex Karev might be one of the most unlikeable characters I’ve ever had the displeasure of watching.

Everyone’s always banging on about how “it’s a good thing he’s so good looking, because his personality is so bad”

He’s not even hot.

I can’t believe I have to get through another 14 seasons with this absolute weapon.

Conversely, I would die for Yang, Burke, and Bailey. Those are my persons.


r/greysanatomy • • 12h ago

SPOILERS I loved the outcome of the custody battle

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Didn't want to spoil too much in the title, but i was very happy with the results of the custody battle between Robbins and Torres. I was expecting it to head in the direction of Callie getting sole custody due to the "Robbins is an absent mother" angle they went after in court, but in all reality, Callie introduced this child to Penny only a few months prior. Callie wanted to move across the country and take sole custody just because she wanted to jump into this relatively new relationship. It made a lot more sense to leave her in Seattle, where her original support system is, not to move across the country because Mommy's new girlfriend got a job. What did you guys think about it?


r/greysanatomy • • 16h ago

DISCUSSION They had so much potential

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r/greysanatomy • • 8h ago

FIRST TIME WATCHER surgeons in the ER

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I'm confused about why they have surgical interns, residents, and attendings working in the ER doing random stuff. I watched all of ER all the way through several times and I got the impressions that surgeons are only brought in to evaluate surgical candidates as needed, that they are too specialized and valuable to deal with ordinary ER stuff. I see them doing tasks that I'd expect the nurses to do. Do I just not understand how hospitals work? Also do they not do rotations with interns at Seattle Grace? (I realize ER is very very old.)


r/greysanatomy • • 9h ago

Hot take: Cristina is awful to Burke

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I’m going to get downvoted to hell, but man I’m rewatching greys after many years. I’m appalled at how awful Cristina is to Burke. She is completely uninterested in him as a person, she just loves that he’s a great surgeon. He tries to get to know her, to be close with her friends, to cook for her - and she is weirded out by anything kind he does and actively is mean to him. I don’t think Burke is perfect at all, but he deserves better than this. She can’t even be by his side when he gets shot!!!!!

I know this is probably a very unpopular opinion. I can’t help it!


r/greysanatomy • • 5h ago

Spoilers They did Cristina dirty Spoiler Alert Spoiler

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She was a robot, so they should have told her it was Henry. She would have gave her all in her magical way and if he still died, would have felt less guilty, because she knows what giving everything was from the time she held her fathers heart as a child. JMO


r/greysanatomy • • 10h ago

DISCUSSION i miss them ((tw for possible spoilers)) Spoiler

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probably my favorite canon lesbian relationship besides calzona, but it still sucks to remember the way they ended when their relationship was just beginning 💔

I cant stand jules and winston together, it's just another "attending x intern" trope and it's getting old

I wish they would bring back mika ☹️☹️☹️ I miss them together ☹️☹️☹️☹️

also quick question but do they have a ship name? does anyone know?


r/greysanatomy • • 1d ago

DISCUSSION Another 'bring back Derek, he's been working for the Government' post

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No, but for real though: The show Patrick Dempsey is on isn't getting great reviews so maybe he'll need work in the not too distant future. But here's how his return could play out.

Grey's has had pretty much all of the major FEMA disasters possible - Fire; Gunman; Cyber attack; Bomb; Severe weather etc. The one's it HAS NOT had so far are terrorist attack or death of an internationally known person or major public figure.

So imagine Seattle Grace Mercy West Grey Sloan, a Cather8ne Fox Foundation hospital gets a call that the POTUS is on his way with his doctor after experiencing a major medical incident and he needs the very best of the best to operate on him, so of course that's where he's being brought. And then he turns up (extra bonus points if this is on Meredith and nick's wedding day) with his doctor Derek Shepherd who has been in deep cover R&D for Defense brain injury treatment recovery or something really flashy ever since season 11.

  • That's why Amelia wasn't called when Derek died, supposedly of a brain injury, because as a neurosurgeon she would have picked up whatever was supposedly wrong with him (more complicated than Mer's knowledge) was fake, and cover would have been blown.
  • That's why they never did a CT scan, because it wouldn't have picked anything up.
  • That's why perfect Penny was so deer in the headlights and freaked out despite being a good enough Doctor to get a premier grant - She knew something wasn't right with what was going on.
  • That's why the doctor at Meredith's hearing had a seizure when he realised she knew who he was, because he was in on it and thought his cover was about to be blown.

Just a complete conspiracy theory I had to explain that Derek really could have faked his death (or had it faked) and that he could come back. With the way Grey's is going, it's not entirely impossible...

Shonda, call me :-)


r/greysanatomy • • 16h ago

DISCUSSION Maybe I missed it… but why did Hahn hate Yang so much?

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I’m on my third rewatch, so I think I didn’t miss anything… but maybe I did. In the episodes I’m watching now, she just treats her like garbage.


r/greysanatomy • • 8h ago

DISCUSSION Why the beach? Spoiler

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I don’t know if this has been discussed before, I know it’s old news, but it was what officially turned me off greys.

Why on earth, when Meredith was critically ill with covid in S17, did she see Derek and George…on a beach?

This absolutely drives me crazy.

Firstly, the beach was never a particularly important place to any of them. I would have forgiven the show, for instance, if they were on a ferry boat. Some place that held meaning to the characters and symbolism for a liminal space between life and death. But… a beach?

Secondly, we have precedent in S3.17 in Some Kind of Miracle that the afterlife limbo is depicted as the hospital/OR.

Likewise, when Izzie has her near death experience, she sees George in the elevator of the hospital.

These near death visions always centre on the hospital as that liminal space.

And would it not have been more impactful for covid infected Meredith to “wake up” feeling well in an empty hospital, wander the halls to the OR gallery and see… Derek operating on someone? Saying “it’s a beautiful day to save lives?”

Idk it just feels like such a missed opportunity and extremely lazy to set these massive episodes where both Derek and George featured after years of being off the show on a beach.

Am I the only one that feels this way?


r/greysanatomy • • 4h ago

DISCUSSION What's everyone's honest opinion on Callie Torres? Spoiler

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I love Callie, but I have a complicated relationship with her as a character. 😭

I love how deeply she loves her people and how hard she's willing to fight for them. When she cares about someone, she really shows up for them, and I think that's one of her best qualities.

However, her impulsivity and immaturity have frustrated me throughout her arc. I also didn't like how she sometimes seemed to expect Arizona to want children simply because that's what Callie wanted or because having kids was considered the standard. Wanting children is completely valid, but so is not wanting them, and I think that difference deserved more understanding from both sides.

And the custody battle? I hated what Callie did there. I understand that she was hurting and wanted to move forward with her life, but taking Sofia across the country would have had a huge impact on her daughter. Sofia wasn't just part of Callie's life; she had another parent, too. I don't think Callie's feelings justified making a decision that could disrupt Sofia's relationship with Arizona and Sofia's life overall.

Overall, I love Callie's character arc, but I feel like the custody battle damaged the way I viewed her. I still love her, but her impulsivity and immaturity are flaws I can't ignore.

What do you all think? Do you love Callie, dislike her, or fall somewhere in between? And what do you think about her actions during the custody battle?


r/greysanatomy • • 6h ago

Meredith and DeLuca

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I’m in my first watch, just started episode 2 of season 16. I just do not believe in their relationshi and I felt the same way about George and Callie. It just seemed so forced, just like Meredith and DeLuca. And up to this point, this show seems to be very woke now 😂


r/greysanatomy • • 5h ago

New to the series and I love George O'Malley

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He's just such a sweet person and I feel like he never gets treated well. I'm on season 2 and I'm trying to predict what everyone specializes in and I think George goes into Peds. Can someone tell me (no spoilers) if I'm close?


r/greysanatomy • • 10h ago

EPISODE DISCUSSION Izzie & O’Malley

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They are both so insufferable omg ? Like they should’ve been in the show longer so they could’ve got shot in that one episode because w t f .
Both went on with that whack ass affair that didn’t last …
They way they both treated mer after he had sex with her knowing she was in a vulnerable state. Izzie saying she’ll choose her side??

This show pisses me off.


r/greysanatomy • • 1d ago

What ever happened to this diva

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I'm rewatching Grey's and Patricia is so iconic, what happened to her? I don't remember when she stopped appearing


r/greysanatomy • • 11h ago

CAST DISCUSSION Jesse Williams

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...really preformed when bargaining with God to save April.

Say what you want about the characters, but JESSE KILLED IT.

So good.

That's it. That's the post.


r/greysanatomy • • 17h ago

DISCUSSION Which scene really gets you every time?

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I’m on what must be my tenth rewatch, and this scene still breaks me every single time. It’s such a powerful intense scene with amazing acting. Big Jim comforting Marshall 🥺 I just can’t.


r/greysanatomy • • 4h ago

FIRST TIME WATCHER Holy Smokes!

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I’m on season 6 episode 23 Sanctuary. This is just nuts!