Grey's Anatomy

I have great weakness with musicals, I'm a sucker for musicals. But i guess serious TV shows turning musical, it just doesn't work out. Sure they have got great casts and has proven to have one of the best choices of musics for their tracks. But it ain't the same as having to have their characters sing those songs. They have great singers on their hand. Surely the episode must revolve around Callie, for Sara Ramirez has a Tony on her hands. And i did expected Bailey, Lexie, and Arizona to song a couple of tunes. It just doesn't work out with all the fuzz and the doctors bickering, rambling, and all the commotion inside the hospital, it makes the doctors looks like they aren't serious. One thing that made every episodes great is their background music. With every beat and rhythm that go with the rush and the adrenaline on their bodies, our heart beats faster, our minds stop as if it were to bleed, our bodies go numb with the chills of all their great episode. Hell i almost have a heart attack with all that shooting scenes. I cried my eyes out with a lot of their episodes. I laughed my a** off with all the funny lines and well written humors. This is one of the best show there is. But if you would tell me this is their best episode ever, i would hit you in the head and maybe you'll start to hear people sing. If you think this was superb, might i suggest buy yourself a dvd set of the whole series and watch it over again, you might've forgotten the bomb in the chest cavity, or when meredith drowned, or the one with Izzie and Danny Duquet and the lvad wire, and all of the freaking great episodes that made my heart (and am betting the rest of the world's as well) stopped. And what is up with the whole "oh-i'm-in-heaven" thing, with the god rays and stuff. This ain't no vanilla Sky. It's Grey's Anatomy. I hope they didn't just give in to the musical uber because of Glee's fame.(hell that show is stupid)... Buffy's is still by far the best TV Musical there is. Hell, i still have "Walk Through The Fire" on my playlist... Oh, and i thought Addison's gonna have a solo since they brought her in and she's a country singer herself. I had great fan watching that documentary style episode of theirs, the one where Mandy moore died, bring us more of those.
This is a beg to shonda rimes from the rest of us, please, Never Again!!!...

This episode only focuses on one case, a very difficult one. So I can really understand music as a filler, since this storyline is what is this half of the season about.
What I liked:
1) Sara Ramirez and Chyler Leigh both made beautiful performances and I was stunned.
2) I loved how characters reacted to this crisis. Cristina made a very difficult move and left us a very interesting storyline (so bad that this ends abruptly in early season 8, don't knowing exactly why...) regarding Teddy. There was also a quote from Meredith in the elevator about how infair fate is sometimes, tossing fire hoops on us from nowhere.
3) I remembered all early seasons, for that music sounded when critical moments of seasons 1/2 ocurred. It's good to see that this show still can provide magic that allows all old fans to return to those excellent seasons. Fortunately, those memories returned when I saw 8x13
I did not like:
1) That huge dance scene was all over the top. It was some kind of an enourmous elaborated clich.
2) The rest of the characters' voice...
There's no much else to say, since few things happened in this episode, and therefore not much to analise. I watched it twice, and the second was better -I could cope with it just fine, although I had a surgery on that thay!-. Maybe the collective hatred lies on the fact that nobody asked all writers to made a musical episode., and the season could have gonne perfectly developing this pregnancy twist differently.
All in all, I would what it again and again.

This episode is the absolute worst episode. Why did you turn this episode into a boring musical?

wowww wowww wowww luvdddddddd the episode.
1 of the bestttt Greys Anatomy episodes yet...sooo damn emotionally touching.
and the songs really make you cryyy out loud...if you really love the characters and especially love Callie it such a brilliant episodes.
Sara Ramirez voice is sooo damn mesmerizing...it really is.
bringing out the singing voices of our favouriteee doctors was ssuch a good idea..
screw the haters with the bad ratings...
i would loveeee to see another musical episode.
Great work guys.

This is the worst episode of Grey's anatomy yet .. so disappointing !!

I've watched Grey's since it first started, and I've been a huge fan. But I definitely feel that the show's quality has slowly been dropping over the past few seasons, and I think the biggest reason is because the show keeps adding new characters I couldn't care less about. And at the top of my least favourite characters list, is Callie. I realize she isn't a new character, but I have never liked her, so making her the centre of this episode (and season really) ruined it. The only good parts, were the scenes she wasn't in, and watching how all the other characters dealt with her situation. And the whole singing aspect of the episode... why?? it was so pointless. This whole Callie/Arizona/Mark story line is what made the seventh season the weakest yet.

In less than an hour this show unpicks all of the work that has gone into making this show believable to the audience. Our caring, dedicated professionals are revealed to be just con men. They are just actors working for money and willing to do anything to get it - including this trash. Shame on you all for not objecting to this show.

A truly awful attempt at goodness knows what. I advise fans not to watch this episode as it will ruin the show for you for ever.

Sara Ramirez - WOW WHAT A VOICE!!! Every single tune you sing I was mersmerised! You've voice is amazing!Would have preferred to not have The Story not broken into with dialogue which had nothing to do with the reason for the ep...maybe a little over the top with the singing at times but I found it at a whole different level - IT WASN'T GLEE - it's an "out of body" experience that WE ALL feel when we're at a desperate time in our lives. Well done writers, actors you're all talented beyong our expectations - I keep loving Greys!!!

I love grey'sanatomy, but this episode washorrible !,

there was a musical episode in "Scrubs" the same as this one, where a patienthears every one singing theirlines, but that one was the best episode of scrubs , they really did it right, i couldn't blink while watching.

but when grey's anatomy wanted to do the same, it was more thanawfuland i hope that i'll never ever see something like this again,becausei really LOVE grey's anatomy

Brilliant episode, cast can all sing. Sickening how multi talented and gorgeous they are. Cried buckets and laughed too. It had everything in it. Well done Grey's Anatomy, I could not have imagined this working in a million years but it does, it so does. I watch it over and over. It moves so well from scene to scene with songs so relevent and beautiful. I dont know the characters very well but I did not need to know too much for it to be amazing. I had to fight myself not to keep watching every episode from then on, but I really want to see it from the start first. Well done.

I love Grey's with all my heart and it's the best thing ever created. The actors are all extremely talented and I've only gotten more impressed and hooked onto the series with each episode. But honestly, 10 minutes into this episode, the minute Hunt opened his mouth, in the trauma room, to that tune... It's just wrong. And I cringed. More so when Lexie joined in while frantically searching for Mark. I just feel the need to reach over and cover their mouths to snap them out of the singing. Please, hear our pleas. Grey's is beyond amazing and just utterly perfect without this musical fad. If I'd wanted that I'd be watching Glee and not Grey's. So PLEASE. Leave Grey's the way it is. In all it's perfection and PLEASE! NEVER. AGAIN. Thank you.

Is it a sign of how bereft of material the writers for this show have that they had to create a musical episode? There was enough drama in the storyline itself without adding singing doctors to the list. My wife said the only thing that could make this worse is that they'll break into a dancing routine, and lo and behold Miranda & Eli go and do that some two minutes later.

Meredith near the close of the episode asks the question why is the universe so cruel to allow Cali to have a baby and not her, and you can understand her reasoning. But I personally felt that the trauma, pain, grief etc that this episode tried to deal with was belittled by the constant outbreak of singing.

I hope that they never do an episode like this again. Leave it to the Glee crowd please!

Was it actually the characters singing? Was it actually their voices recorded??

And I loved that episode!!! And those people who say its like Glee obviously haven't watched Glee! If you think about it, the idea is completely different. Just because they sing in an episode doesn't mean its copying Glee!

But anyways, does anyone know if its them singing? Obviously its recorded, but is it THEM singing the songs?



And OMG how and I supposed to say this is 100 words?!?!

Im just going to keep writing until it lets me publish this.



Oh my god!!!! Why on earth does it need to be 100 words??

I love GA... I didn't particularly love this episode. Personally, the musical didn't work for me. I love the voices of Callie and Lexie... but the musical parts really distructed me, and it looked so unreal:( Nice to see Adison, she should have had a bit more space though.

Although I love Callie, Arizona and Mark story, I miss Meredith and Cristina (and Alex)being in the front of the show. Their relationship is also a bit neglected. Meredith's and Derek's scene in the elevator was very nice. Cristina is my favorite. I just LOVE her caracter, and I love the episodes where she has more time, it made this episode better for me too.

I just have to mention that the writers love putting the main caracters in life danger. The death and danger of death is so much present with ALL of them. I almost stoped watching when they killed George. Everyone at one point is at the edge of death and it's not something I enjoy, especially as it repeats over and over. Who is still left, Mark, Lexie... will they have some accident or cancer??



That said, I do love this show, and can't wait for the next episode. It will be interesting what will be the development with Meredith and Derek and the baby trying...

Musical episode, really? No other ideas?

In a medical drama where doctors/nurses randomly hook up (Lexie&Jackson,Bailey&Eli,April&Stark,Karev&Lucy), doctors also get shot, run into car accidents and eventually die if they're no longer good to the show, the writers come up with a musical episode where everybody get to sing (even Meredith who sings like she narrates) to cover up a really recycling storyline: Callie got an accident, Callie was saved by the most excellent doctors and Callie fix her relationship with Arizona ... ...



It has become from boring to painful to watch Grey's recently and I wonder when ABC will call up an end to this ... ...

Grey's Anatomy: The Musical!



Calliope means muse of music. Amazing cover of Chasing Cars.



Breathe (2 AM) = Love



Dr. Hunt's "how we operate" was oddly sexy. "wait" was also impressive.



Running on sunshine = hot. Alex = hotter. Meredith's voice is super cute. Universe & U awesome lesbian love song!



Grace was amazing. How to Save a Life was BEYOND amazing!



Ellen Pompeo is a great actress! The Story gave me chills! Definitely one of the best episodes ever!



So overall an amazing episode, perhaps not best still amazing. Just remember Shonda this something that can only be pulled off ONCE! Buy the soundtrack on iTunes!

If a show is going to do a musical episode, as is becoming the hip thing to do, it must really go the extra mile.



It's simply not good enough to re-record famous songs and have a few characters lip sync.



Joss Wheedon wrote an entire score for the Buffy Musical episode. Laziness will not be tolerated. If the music does not add to the plotline, do not include it.



Either you find music that completely fits the moment (not just the chorus), or you have people singing songs for the sake of singing them, rather than furthering the plot (as with Scrubs for the most part).



Some moments of some of these songs fit, but the majority of it just got in the way, and ended up looking like actors singing along to the regular background music.



It was distracting, not genius.



Grey's Anatomy is an amazing show, and this was beneath the standard it has set itself.



I'm sure most of the actors must have thought "What on earth am I singing this for?"



There are literally gazillions of music artists worldwide. With enough forethought I'm sure more pertinent lyrics could have been sourced. And if not, I'm sure with a little encouragement the artists would have allowed for some tampering.



These are the days of Glee. Songs for singing sake can exist there. But in Seattle Grace, there's no real excuse for it. Certainly the comatose state Kali was in might justify some weirdness, just as brain tumours and near death moments allow for us to sustain our disbelief, but this was just not good enough.



Poorly executed, like a bad music video, when there was so much room for brilliance.



So very disappointing.

OMG! This was just embarrassing!

I can believe they agreed to do this!

I was laughing from start to end, I almost felt that the actors were embarrassed by their colleagues whenever someone went possessed and star singing out of the blue!

Just ridiculous! "Running on Sunshine" was probably one of the top worst sequences in TV history!

Maybe if it was only Chasing cars and How to save a life sang just by Callie, it would be more acceptable, but the whole musical thing and the fact that they all had to sing, was just a Grey`s killer! Not to mention that the story was really predictable!

Very disappointing to say the least. I kept thinking to myself throughout the whole show, is it over yet? I found myself multi-tasking and wanting to press mute during every singing part, which is basically the entire episode. People don't watch Grey's Anatomy to hear the cast sing, they need to stick with what they are good at, DRAMA, not singing. It was cheesy, and cheapen the integrity of the show. I hope they never do this again because if they do, it will be the last episode I watch of Grey's Anatomy because I didn't start watching the show for this!

Was really disappointed throughout with all the singing until the very end when "Callie" Sang. She is BRILLIANT. Really loved her version of "The Story". Downloaded it from iTUNES and have been listening to it over and over again! Should have a number 1 hit with it. Wouldn't continue to watch the next season of Greys if singing was to become and every episode occassion. Bailey singing....nah it just didn't work for me. It would have been yet another fantastic episode if it wasn't for, yes you guessed it....the singing. Sara Ramirez saved this episode. Without her I think there would have been a lot of annoyed viewer.

This episode was very good, it did its job when the point and feelings of each character that is effected through this event is most important. from the start of the episode to finish it was clean and acceptable content as far as how the viewers should look at it from the victim's stand. People need to realize that not everyone experiences the same "near death" feelings or how should it be shown. this episode actually was the best so far due to how relate able the situation is to the population from every point of view, the two moms the dad, the dad's ex-girlfriend( who was in love with him). how a student teacher relationship is changed. the boss/ wife thing. egos. the issues that everyone never thinks of until something horrible happens, i.e save the baby or the mother. people say crap about people singing? really? is that your only issue?, because i say tough up and let it go and look at this episode at a different angle. please dont hate this episode because of the "singing". hate it for other legit issues effecting the story line.







P.S love the song choices.

Ridiculous script. Only Sara Ramirez' voice save.



I became completly dissapointed with this episode, so weak, just the cliche plot of a dying caracter.



The musics tottaly out of the contexts, beautiful songs, but just not connected with the moments.



Was forced, was boring...



Owen is just a TERRIBLE singer and great part of the cast too. Just Sara Ramirez and Lexie saves in my opinion.



All the hospital dedicated just for one patient. Everybody sick on Seattle died on that day.



"Our friend is dying, let's make out."



I'm talking about the music "Walking on sunshine". What it was doing there????



Absurd.



Completly NON sense.



One of the worst episodes of ALL THE TIME.



Shonda, please wake up and bring to us nice histories as in the old times.

I am all for shows pushing boundaries and trying new things, but this just didn't work for me. Yes they are lovely songs, and the majority of the cast have lovely singing voices, but it just felt so forced and out of context. The only song that I found myself liking was "How to Save a Life" and thats mainly because they all had their masks on, so I could pretend they were all singing along in their heads!!!

There were a few beautiful and touching moments to the episode....

Mark and Arizona finally making some kind of peace between them (with both of them realising that the other is actually important in all of this)

The elevator bit with Meredith and Derek (Always with the elevator!!!) was just lovely. Sometimes Mer can be a bit too pulled together and its nice to be reminded that she still has her issues, her dark and twisty issues!



On the whole I just don't think the singing really added and aided the storyline and it just became a distraction, pulling focus away from what should have been a gripping and gut-wrenching storyline...

No, this was not a medical version of Glee. In other words, contrary to some who have labeled it such, this episode was not a "musical." Let's get that clear right from the start. This was Calliope's out of body experience. Her name means "music" if you were paying attention to the dialogue at all. Of course it's going to be musical! It's about Callie's perspective. And with her voice she certainly pulled her part off without a hitch. Every cast member was given Callie's permission to be musical in her out of body experience... and I thought it worked very well. Why? Because these actors and actresses are extremely talented. Not just anyone could have pulled off a concept such as this. It is a credit to the entire cast and crew that this episode was given wings to fly. I say kudos and bravo. Was it perfect? Of course not. But it was done with excellence and strong vocal performances throughout. Some of the voices were more suited to background vocals versus solos and they were appropriately used sparingly in that way. And some cast members who probably could not sing did not sing at all. Which shows that they really did know what they were doing after all.

RIDICULOUS!!!!!! Worst episode eveeeeeer!! This is not supposed to be a musical!

every time that Hunt (Kevin McKidd) started to sing it made me laugh soooooo much. The only thing that saved is that Sara Ramirez' voice is amazing! and it was a great story. I wach Grey's Anatomy for a long long time and i've never seen a episode as bad as this one, hope it never happends again...



Now, lets wait for the next episode and hope it gets better! This episode had everything to be awesome, but this songs were terrible!



Ps.: sorry for my bad english, its because i'm not american, or any place that speaks english.. '-'

OMG! I have watched every episode of these Dr's on constant heat, keeping my lady company as she enjoys this mindless dessert after a long day's work. Ordinarily, I admittedly enjoy the escapism the story lines had to offer. However, this was the most pathetic idea ever to have the cast do a musical. I wanted to slash my wrists - had I really wanted to lose all my will to live, I would have put myself through Australia again, this time knowing what to expect! I half expected Hugh Jackman to pop out from a hospital bed to do a medley with Dr Torres..

Making the show a musical just stole any remaining credibility the show had to being a medical drama, and broke any realism of the show. Besides the soapy-styled relationship stories between the characters, the medical stories always had some credibility up to this point.

Just not to miss out on the story, we had our thumbs on the fast forward button to speed through the singing (Sara Ramirez: great voice but rather go to Broadway to be appreciated there).After this episode, Greys Anatomy is now a complete joke. Idea for the next episode: how about the hobbits joining in another musical doing a phantom of the opera bit? Why not? Seems everything goes right now with Greys..

If I wanted to watch Glee, or other singing shows I would. This episode was absolutely ruined by all the singing, if it had just been Sara Ramirez (Callie Torres) singing the one song that might have been tolerable, but the entire plot and tragedy of this episode was overshadowed by the terrible singing of overplayed and tired songs. Some actors have no business singing, I couldn't help but cringe and laugh at the same time during what was supposed to be a touching moment because Ellen Pompeo (Merideth Grey) was "singing." I would just start to enjoy the story when more singing would happen. UGH

So my background is musical theatre and I have loved almost every tv show musical you can name: Buffy the vampire slayer, Xena and Scrubs. But this had nothing on them. It was a weak imitation of what other shows had done and it was poorly executed.



Now I dont watch Grey's religiously and while I cant speak for the show on the whole it was definately not the shows finest hour. My issue was that unlike the musical TV episodes listed above the show assumed the style of a musical BUT did not conform to the genre of the musical which made this episode pointless.



Case and point: in a musical the songs progress the story and assist it in getting its point across. It the words of one of my favourite musical lyricist Howard Ashman: A song comes in a musical when you have run out of ways to say things in words and the only way to express your feelings about a situation is through song. Grey's doesn't even try to employ songs that assist its story. Instead the songs start and then we cut away to the 'more important' dialogue that actually progresses the plot. Ergo a musical of Grey's is a pointless exercise. Had the songs been written brand new or real thought had gone into which songs could be used to move the plot forward effectively then I would have enjoyed this but it was just awful.



The ordering of songs was also very badly done. We got no release from sad, slow ballads for the first 12 or so minutes and that made it very hard to sit and watch. Musicals need variety and in Grey's we get one random 'lets all have sex and be lovey dovey' number to break up all the ballads that got exhaustive. Also to much of one artist and not enough of the other performers. Overall a poor take on the genre of the musical and an episode that is very forgetable. I wont be crossing over to Greys any time soon.

If you didn't like this episode then you haven't been a fan since the beginning and more importantly, you didn't "get it". All of the songs were used in episodes throughout the show's run. Hearing those songs brought up the emotions from their original appearance in the series and tied it together with the present. I will admit that Hunt singing was a little reminiscent of Lee Marvin in Paint Your Wagon , but I thought he pulled it off. I had not read any of the spoilers or seen any of the previews, so I came into the episode clear of expectations. Truth be told I had forgotten how the previous episode ended. So many people have preconceptions about what shows "should be" that they can't appreciate when a cast stretches itself and pulls off something extraordinary. Want ordinary? Go watch reruns of ER.

Song Beneath the Song, they made it a fu..ing musical, the worst one I have ever seen, awful lots of songs, it is not the same as it used to be! This episode is seriously scr..d up. Dont watch it if you like this series! You have nothing to lose - definitely not if they keep it in this spirit..

Song Beneath the Song, they made it a fu..ing musical, the worst one I have ever seen, awful lots of songs, it is not the same as it used to be! This episode is seriously scr..d up. Dont watch it if you like this series! You have nothing to lose - definitely not if they keep it in this spirit..