The Brilliant Sandra Oh And Ellen Pompeo

The Grey's Anatomy season finale was all about our beloved 'twisted sisters', Cristina Yang and Meredith Grey, and some brilliant acting from Sandra Oh and Ellen Pompeo. Here is a roundup of some reviews of Sandra's (and co-stars Ellen Pompeo and Chandra Wilson's) performance in the season finale.

• All in all, it was a very well-done finale, but it got away from the writers just a little at the end. With the shooter seemingly everywhere you didn't want him and everyone trapped with precisely the most dramatic person possible, it got a little ridiculous. But in the end, the acting — including big nights for Chandra Wilson, Sandra Oh and Ellen Pompeo — carried it off. - MSNBC

• Unfortunately for Langston, he doesn't have Cristina Yang to come to his rescue, as she did on Grey's by operating on Derek. The finale boasted fine work from all of the show's regulars, including from the always wonderful Chandra Wilson and the sometimes unfairly undervalued Ellen Pompeo. But it was a particularly good episode for Sandra Oh, capping what has been a very good season. - USA Today

• We have one word to sum up last night's season finale of Grey's Anatomy: Emmys. Emmys all around. One for Ellen Pompeo. One for Sandra Oh. One For Chandra Wilson. One for Mandy Moore . The list goes on and on and on. - Perez Hilton

• Amazing acting all around, from Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey to Sandra Oh (give this woman an Emmy nod) and Chandra Wilson. Uniformly great performances that pulled you in and remained believable. Yes, everyone has been traumatized. Yes, Derek and Alex may have long recoveries. Yes, Meredith lost the baby she only just realized she wanted. And, yes, several characters seem like they'll be permanently changed(*). (*) Again, I can't understate how good Oh was here, or how well-written Cristina was as she finally came into her own. The moment when she told Meredith she was a very good surgeon "for a resident" was such a perfect lowering of all the shields the character has kept up for six seasons, and her refusal to put down her scalpel even as she was nakedly terrified by Clark's gun was a fantastic sequence for Oh. - Zap2It

• There was no opportunity for suspense, or tears, or anger, or horror, or some good old-fashioned monologuing left unexplored. Huge stakes, huge emotions, great performances from everybody (though I would say Chandra Wilson and Sandra Oh were particularly great... - HitFix

• The Grey’s Anatomy two-hour season finale took off with a bang Thursday as viewers watched a mad man shoot his way through Seattle Grace Hospital in his vengeful hunt for Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey). An episode that brought out the best in favorites Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), Alex (Justin Chambers), Miranda (Chandra Wilson) and Callie (Sara Ramirez), at one point it had me on my feet shouting “Dr. Yang (Sandra Oh) is the shit!” - Daytime Confidential

• Who would live? Who would die? Who would rise to the occasion? Who would crumple in defeat? The acting was uniformly outstanding, with Sandra Oh and Chandra Wilson as particular stand outs. - Fancast

• Still, it was a brilliant season finale, well-written by creator Shonda Rimes, beautifully acted (especially by Sandra Oh). - JoyHog

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It Is The End Of A Triangle

Great news, Yang/Hunt(ers)! It took a while, but the not-so-popular Cristina/Owen/Teddy triangle is officially over, according to Grey's boss Shonda Rhimes herself, who had a post-season finale chat with EW's Michael Ausiello:

Kim Raver has already been upgraded to a series regular, but some are questioning Teddy’s future now that Owen has chosen Cristina.
RHIMES: This whole idea that Teddy only exists [as part of a triangle is ludicrous]. Teddy is Cristina’s teacher. Derek would be dead if Cristina had not had Teddy around. That’s how I look at it. I will say it again, the studio and network have to renew everyone’s options, and they have not done so yet. But it is my intention that we will see Teddy next year.

When Owen chose Cristina, he really chose her, right?
RHIMES: Yes. He definitely chose her.

So that triangle is, for all intents and purposes, over.
RHIMES: That triangle is done.

But Cristina broke up with Owen in that episode.
RHIMES: That is true.

So they’re not technically together.
RHIMES: I tried really hard to get in an Owen-Cristina scene where he holds her after Derek survived. But all my [medical advisers] kept saying, “If Owen holds Cristina, she can no longer operate on Derek. She’s become unsterile.” There was a big fight about it and finally I had to go with “the look.” And I felt like Sandra [Oh] and Kevin [McKidd] adequately and brilliantly portrayed in “the look” that there was still something there.

You previously teased this episode as a game-changer. How has the game been changed?
RHIMES: Here’s why I said that: When you face a situation like this — when the entire hospital has turned into a crime scene — everyone you know has faced life or death. It’s an incredibly traumatic event. Everything you knew, believed, felt, and required of the characters in terms of what their stories have been or what you believed about them no longer exists. Part of what’s interesting about next season is that we can start anywhere — in any emotional state — and almost anything can happen because we just came out of this. It’s not like tomorrow they come back being the exact same characters. They’re all sort of fundamentally changed.

Cristina Yang Graduates!

An excerpt from the Grey's writers' blog where Shonda Rhimes talks about the season finale episodes Sanctuary and Death and All His Friends:

Cristina. This finale, especially the second half, belongs to Cristina. Owen chooses her, did you see that? Owen, faced with life or death, knows what he wants and what he wants is some Cristina Yang. But more importantly, Cristina truly comes into her own as a heart surgeon. She’s had numerous teachers, all kinds of setbacks but she finally had the right teacher, she had Teddy, and when she says to herself “pig or cow, Cristina” as she stands over Derek’s chest cavity…that was her graduation. When she refuses to stop operating with a gun literally pressed to her head, that was her commencement. Another part of her graduation? The girl who always had a hard time giving of herself emotionally gives like crazy in this episode. She is willing to die to save Derek because she loves Meredith so much and she promised Mer that she would do her very best work. Cristina Yang graduated tonight. Toss your caps in her honor.

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Sandra Oh Talks Grey's Anatomy Season Finale

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10 Minutes From The Grey's Anatomy Season Finale

ABC has released the first 10 minutes from the Grey's Anatomy season finale, which you can view below if you live in the US:




UPDATE: And if you live outside the US you can now watch it here

Grey's Anatomy: 6.23/6.24 'Sanctuary'/'Death And All His Friends' - Sneak Peeks

Sneak peeks from the Grey's Anatomy season finale:

GREY'S ANATOMY - ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" concludes the season with a two-hour shocker, THURSDAY, MAY 20. In the first hour, entitled "Sanctuary" (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET), Seattle Grace Hospital is hit with a crisis like no other in its history. Then, in the second hour, "Death and All His Friends" (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET), Cristina and Meredith's surgical skills are put to the ultimate test.