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Grey’s Anatomy on ABC

This week a number season finales aired, and two landmark series came to a close.  After five seasons of confounding twists and turns, Lost finally reached the end of the road.  And 24 finally ran out the clock after eight seasons of Jack Bauer’s own brand of enhanced interrogation techniques.

But surprisingly, it was Grey’s Anatomy – a show more at ease with raciness than brutality – that deserved the title of Worst TV Show of the Week for its depictions of extreme violence during the season finale that aired on May 20^th.

The episode centered on a crazed gunman shooting the staff of Seattle Grace Hospital.  Distraught over his wife’s death, Gary Clark seeks revenge against the doctors he is convinced killer her – specifically, Derek Shepherd, Lexie Grey and Richard Webber.  Clark, however, begins to shoot doctors indiscriminately shortly after entering the hospital.  His first victim is young intern, Reed Adamson, whom he shoots at point blank range in the middle of her forehead.  Dr. Alex Karev enters the room to see Reed lying on the ground.  The gunman shoots Alex in the chest and walks off.  A short time later, Reed’s best friend, Dr. April Kepner, literally stumbles upon Reed’s murder.  April busily scribbles in her notebook while she walks and trips over Reed’s cadaver.  As April lifts herself off the floor, she realizes she is covered in blood.  She looks down at her best-friend’s lifeless face, a gaping gunshot wound on Reed’s head, surrounded by a pool of blood. 

The hospital is in “lock-down” and the SWAT team arrives to clear the floors.  Meanwhile, the staff members hold tight in various rooms while Clark continues his killing spree.  Dr. Charles Percy unwittingly admits that he is a surgeon and Clark subsequently shoots him in the stomach.  Clark eventually finds Lexie Grey, one of his intended targets, but the SWAT team shoots Clark before he can finish her off.  Clark, however, does successfully track down Derek.  During a tense stand-off, Clark shoots Derek in the chest. 

With various characters sustaining life-threatening injuries, much of the episode is devoted to giving them the urgent care that they need to survive.  But with the hospital turned into a war zone, some victims simply run out of time. 

In the end, with only one bullet left, Clark decides to turn the gun on himself rather than kill Dr. Webber, his last intended target.

Grey’s Anatomy, by its very nature as a medical-drama, uses life-and-death situations to play upon the audience’s emotions.  Though the show is certainly no stranger to gore, the blood-soaked carnage of this episode was beyond the pale of everything else that aired this week. 

For extremely violent content, Grey’s Anatomy has been named Worst TV Show of the Week.