Grey’s Anatomy Season 19 Episode 12 Review: Pick Yourself Up

Is there anyone tougher than Addison Montgomery? 

Grey’s Anatomy Season 19 Episode 12, “Pick Yourself Up,” begins with Addison and Tia being treated for their injuries after the cliffhanger from Grey’s Anatomy Season 19 Episode 11.

For better or worse, we’re not left hanging knowing whether or not Addison will be okay. She’s quick to say herself that the car didn’t hit her as bad and that it’s only her shoulder that’s injured.

Instead, Tia is her main concern. Addison is such a passionate doctor, and she always has been. It feels natural to see her back working at Grey Sloan, and especially with Meredith gone, it feels like she’s at the center of everything. That could be a great thing if her presence wasn’t still temporary.

What Addison brings to the cast is remarkable — her energy, the kind of care she gives, her reputation, everything. But it’s also odd to have this much focus on her knowing she’s just going to be leaving again. I’m curious how often she’ll pop back up, since it seems there’s certainly plenty of opportunity for her to do so. 

Even better — it would be great to have her come back permanently somehow. 

The interns have a chance to learn plenty from Addison while she’s there, injured yet still working, focusing now on Tia and on her baby in the NICU. Simone speaks for the entire audience, I think, when she says she held her breath waiting to see if that tiny baby would be okay.

It also brings back memories of Alex Karev, and of Addison teaching Izzie a hard lesson about working with infants. Once again, Grey’s is re-capturing the magic of the early days.

It feels like way with Jules’ roommates, too. It’s such an interesting detail about her character, and further, it’s just a fun, ultimately positive piece of storytelling that offers some levity for the episode.

The more the show focuses on the patients like this, and the lessons they’re able to teach the doctors about their daily lives, the better. This is what Grey’s Anatomy is supposed to be like.

Meanwhile, Maggie and Winston are continuing to struggle, and it looks like they’ve hit something they won’t be able to come back from.

The article about Maggie and Winston’s heart procedure has been written to make it sound like Maggie gets all the credit, which isn’t correct, and apparently, isn’t how Maggie stated it to be.

Yet, knowing a bit about Maggie’s ego, it’s not farfetched the think she may not have made it as clear as she should have.

Either way, the drama between these two isn’t fun to watch. It never has been, and it’s gotten old quickly. I presume this is going to set up Maggie’s exit from the series somehow, and that’s disappointing. But we’ll see what happens.

Other thoughts:

• Jo collapsing in tears and Link being there for her speaks volumes. It’s a powerful moment that sure makes it feel like these two belong together.   
• It’s a small moment, but Richard helping Yasuda through a panic attack is another great scene. He walks her through strategies and gives her some wisdom about how her job isn’t supposed to be like this. Granted, he might want to consider what hospital they’re working at, considering its history. But that’s a different point altogether.

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Grey’s Anatomy airs Thursdays at 9/8c on ABC.

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