I mean, that part about Jo making this enormous ask of Link (and Amelia) should’ve at least been its own episode. We then run through several months in which Jo discovers that there is a family willing to foster and then adopt Luna, Jo asking her best friend Link to foster Luna until she can legally adopt her (that poor family!) and him saying yes, Jo getting an unceremonious phone call to learn that she’s going to be allowed to adopt, and then Jo and Luna moving into Jackson’s old apartment in April 2021. In August 2020, we find Jo vowing to figure out a way to adopt Luna (and also get the hell out of that tiny apartment with Schmitt and Helm). Last week, we left Jo devastated after her application to become Luna’s legal guardian was denied when she didn’t pass the background check. The show has been slowly (so freaking slowly) been building to this outcome all season with very little movement, and then in these last two episodes of the season rushed through huge story beats. Justice for Maggie and Winston in season 18, you know?Īnd then there’s Jo. Give me something to work with here, Grey’s! The wedding seems like a great party, but it was missing some emotional poignancy.
Or, like, just one quick convo with her dad about her late mother. I know it’s cliché, but Maggie Pierce deserves some wedding clichés. Unfortunately, we get very little wedding content! Give me a heart-to-heart between Maggie and Meredith - they’ve been through so much and can finally celebrate something together! Or a heart-to-heart between Meredith and Winston in which she welcomes him to the family but also threatens him if he ever hurts Mags. I know we’ve all become averse to beaches on Grey’s Anatomy at this point, but it is a beautiful-looking wedding. Then, in April 2021, they have the beach wedding of their dreams. So, that whole story line from last week is basically erased and the two decide to wait until things safely open up again. Instead, we jump right into that little backyard family-only wedding that Maggie and Winston decided to have because they didn’t want to wait to get hitched … only to have Maggie’s dad and Winston’s grandmother stand up and declare that this wedding is sad and Maggie and Winston deserve better. I’m not saying we need a full-on Wedding Episode … although, maybe I am saying that? We’ve been through a lot this year and we deserve all the joy we can get. The first: Maggie Pierce got married, friends! She seems so happy and so in love and it is all very nice. There are two story lines in the finale in particular that were done a disservice by racing from August 2020 to April 2021. Too slow! Too fast! The pacing of season 17 was wild in every direction.
It’s not that Grey’s can’t do this fast-forward through time effectively - it worked quite well when they sped through time right after McDreamy got T-boned by a truck and Mer fled Seattle, for instance - it’s just that here, it only makes it more glaring that certain story lines were dragged out beyond their expiration date while others were shortchanged. Grey’s Anatomy is doubling down on its race to end season 17: Last week, we were hopping from week to week this time around, it’s month to month.