(S02E25) Boy, oh boy. I've gotta tell you, for the first 55 minutes of this next-to-last episode (Day one of what ABC calls the "two-day season finale"), I wanted to just reach through the screen and crack some skulls, as the Jerky Boys used to say. Izzie's so emotionally involved with Denny that she's willing to risk his life and her career just so he gets a heart Burke and Alex are wrangling over at another hospital. Denny, who is ready to check out after all of this exhaustion, allows himself to go along with Izzie because he cares for her so much. Derek is so jealous and angry with Meredith's involvement with McVet that he basically ignores Addison, who is his actual wife. And Cristina is so busy smarting that Burke for chosing Alex over her for the transplant harvestation, that she's seriously going to use his work decision as a criteria for breaking up the best thing that's ever happened to her. Work lives and personal lives are intermingling to the point where any shred of medical realism Grey's had left was being destroyed.

Then the last five minutes of the show just sucked me right back in. Now I want to see tomorrow's season finale so much, I could plotz.