Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) True Colors (2017) User Reviews

Excellent episode

[LoveIsAStateOfMind · 10/10 · 14 May 2017]

And so after seasons and seasons of wondering when the writers were going to bring Owen's sister back from the dead, they have finally played that card. Just as Riggs/Meredith are building a relationship. Just as I am pretty sure that Meredith's nausea is a sign that she's pregnant (unless that's TPTB deliberately leaving a red herring).

I have no feelings about Owen/Amelia and all their drama but I loved their scenes together in this episode.

Great casting of Mr Schu as Jo's ex-husband. I loved how we got to see Alex's options of dealing with him play out and the consequences of each one. Clever writing/directing there. As to Jo herself I know Camilla Luddington is on maternity leave but it's weird that the show hasn't addressed Jo's continual absence from the hospital at all.

And then there's the case … first, can I just say the wandering kid is mega irritating. I know it sounds harsh but I am not invested in her survival.

I LOVE the twist on the couple have car sex on the side of the cliff and the fact that although he seemed like a sweet guy, all was not as it seemed. Excellent plot twist. Poor Edwards.

The writers get bonus points for referencing past characters: both Alex giving his fake surname as "Stevens" and Amelia talking to "Teddy" on the phone.

Wow!!!!

[katievfoxley · 10/10 · 23 July 2020]

The acting in this by Jerrika Hinton is amazing. An episode I will always remember.

Crazy Keith

[ZegMaarJus · 9/10 · 13 September 2023]

This Episode begins with Arizona and Eliza, they are waking up together. Alex is visiting Jo's husband Paul Stadler, he wants to confront him. Alison is puking blood, her life is in danger. Keith has been brought to the hospital, he had sex with Alison. Owen is acting weird today, it seems like his PTSD is back. Owen tells Amelia that Megan is still alive. Teddy confirmed to Amelia that Megan is still alive. Alison says that Keith was trying to rape her. Keith threatens Stephanie with a selfmade knife. The hospital goes in lockdown. Stephanie sets Keith on fire. A gas explosion takes place at the hospital. Keith died. Amazing Episode of Grey's Anatomy Season 13, spectacular Episode. Really nice pre-final of this Season. Looking forward to the Final!

I have never left a review on IMDB before...

[aoifecryan · 1/10 · 2 August 2020]

I have never left a review on IMDB before but I actually am so outraged at how bad this episode was that I have to because I can't believe it doesn't have a worse rating.

This was awfully written. From the beginning I knew the twist, it was so badly disguised by the exaggeration of all the other characters talking about whether it was "true love" or not.

And why God WHY did Stephanie think that the right thing to do was to set him on fire when the knife (which was the only thing he had to threaten her with since he was barely able to walk because he had a liver lac) was on the floor beside the liquid he used to light the fire!? She really decided "I see he's left the knife and lighter fluid on the floor with his back turned... I know! How about I squirt him with the lighter fluid and hope an ember falls onto it before he gets a chance to kill me with the knife I've ignored!"

And as if the decision to light him on fire wasn't bad enough, after he does indeed set on fire and runs and collapses beside the oxygen tanks Stephanie decides to run towards him away from the room she was protected in to do what exactly? Pull his flaming body away from the tanks before the place explodes? In what world would she have done that in time? I should really be asking in what world would a doctor not realise that a flaming body running around on a floor filled with oxygen tanks was a terrible,TERRIBLE idea!?

Seriously??

[shelltmarr · 2/10 · 15 November 2023]

Ok, this one pissed me off! I know, I know, it's just a tv show. But, are you kidding me?? The whole thing with Stephanie and Keith was ridiculous from the start!! I mean, nobody thought to give security a description of Keith? Or at the very least, Stephanie?? And the way he took her captive. You've got a very sick, weak, unsteady patient. The minute he pulled that scalpel out, she should've shoved him away and ran!! Or, when they almost ran into Ben, she couldn't scream?? I know that she was in a scary situation, but give me a break! The way media portrays women. We are not meek, timid people that can't stand up for ourselves! I'm not gonna even get in to the rest of the nonsense in the episode, cause I just can't.

Grey's Anatomy finally jumped the shark

[emperorsclothes · 11 May 2017]

This series has been constantly going downhill, but this last episode was just so unbelievably stupid and far fetched on almost every plot point. Edwards going to move the burning rapist from some explosive tanks is just so phuking stupid. And, why she didn't grab the knife or shove him away or lock herself and the girl in a room or anything but what happened... Jumped the shark- done.

Another episode lacking proper research for realism

[warthogcc · 3/10 · 8 November 2019]

I'll keep it simple on this one. Edwards violates security protocol by sharing vital security information with the crazy guy. She did this by telling him, under what circumstances, the doors would be opened. (When she said security or a fire.)

I have worked in all kinds of secure environments, especially hospitals. And in EVERY case, I had to sign a document stating that I would not reveal security information or protocols to those that do not have clearance, especially patients and their families, or visitors. So basically Edwards spilling her beans and telling him how to get the doors open would not happen in the real world.

Maybe if under stress or under threat we might do so our of fear. But he didn't even ask HOW to get the doors open. He only demanded that she open them herself. Then she simply shared this information with him. Funny part is, he wasn't even holding the scalpel to her throat anymore. So it's not as if he persuaded her to tell him either. She very quickly volunteered the info.

And why would a torch igniter be in a hospital with oxygen and other flammables all around? This is unrealistic as well. Sure they use them in laboratories. But they don't have oxygen pipes going throughout the entire building in the floors and walls like hospitals do.

Absolutely bad writing.

Soap Opera drama

[montsesolisr · 5/10 · 20 April 2024]

The drama is fine, Grey's hasn't vern the most true to life show throughout the last 13 seasons and it's very much a soap opera drama, but this was other level, I am talking Mexican Rosa de Guadalupe unbelievable and unrealistic drama.

First, it was clear that the twist was going to be that the couple wasn't a couple and there was something shady. However, this was the tip of the iceberg of the craziness.

Just last season a big storyline was how through the security cameras, they could see every floor and exit to try to find a kid AND with those cameras they saw Ben making a mistake with that whole elevator thing. Therefore, it makes NO SENSE, not even "Grey's Anatomy" sense that they didn't use the cameras to look for the perp and Stephanie.

Then Stephanie being completely under the control of a guy who had bern intubated and unconscious just minutes before, with a fresh wound, who can barely walk and is using a scalpel (in the best scenario, a self-crafted knife in the worst) as a weapon. She literally can just push him with lots of strength and he will have zero control over her. In several occasions, she has an out. When she sees Ben, I mean even from the first moment when she fins out who the patient is, it's seconds after she is told when she is SHOVED into a wall and NO ONE SAW OR HEARD? Not the 5 people that just passed them and talked to them?

Anyway, she is completely subdued, she shares security information (which tbh seems very unlikely to have been true) and when she decides to defend herself, instead of taking the scalpel on the floor, which she knows exactly how to use to immobilize the perp without killing him or to actually get him to die, she ends up choosing to set him on fire, without even her controlling the actual flame or fire and getting lucky that a spark might fly off and get him?!

Also knowing there's the flammable room there. I mean even hitting him with the IV stick on the head would have been a better option. Ok, now he is on fire and SHE gets out of a safer room to try to avoid the evident explosion about to happen?! LIKE WHAT?

Considering the Alex and Owen's storylines to be interesting, they really messed up this episode. It could have been great with more of a focus on that or with just better and smarter writing.

Feels disrespectful to the audience to give such easy and silly plots.