This review contains SPOILERS for Grey's Anatomy Season 21, episode 15 "Bust Your Windows."
When you're able to watch Grey's Anatomy live as it airs, episode by episode, week by week, the road toward whatever crushing disaster awaits the inevitable season finale feels like a slow burn. But the closer you get to that final destination, the more you can start to see the various pieces falling into place. Even if you don't know exactly what's coming, you know "something" is. You're looking for clues, too. All of us are.
And the clues are certainly there, if we look hard enough. Simone's career looking brighter and brighter every day is already causing her to pause at the thought of a rapidly-changing future with Lucas. Lucas being now in danger of over-confidence -- again. Teddy and Owen still in that seemingly endless rough patch in their marriage. Link and Jo being just a little bit too happy and comfortable in the lead-up to the birth of their twins. The list goes on.
The reality, of course, is that some things we think are going to go terribly wrong aren't -- and therefore some things we don't see coming are going to surprise us, and not in a fun way. You might believe that Jo and the twins are safe, having already survived one trauma too many in this half of the season alone. But that's how they get you. They make you believe you have nothing to worry about, and then your worries become reality.
While the show continues to expertly juggle its sizable cast of characters, coupling them off as it sees fit (do Jules and Winston have a ship name yet? Keep me posted), it does make you wonder how long things can stay this way. We've evolved past unnecessary, barely believable deaths -- for the most part -- in every finale. But it's also been a while since someone in the "main" cast has left the series via the fictional morgue.
I'd say I'm not here to speculate, but who am I kidding? I've fallen in love with all of these interns, and I desperately need them all to stay. If you, too, are worried about Blue, please invite me to your preparatory virtual support groups. I'll bring snacks.