Week of November 13

Nov 18th, 2011 2:26 PM EST

• Alicia and Diane have to team up with legal aid on the appeal of a death row prisoner so that the prisoner will tell them who killed 2 people so they can clear the name of their original client.
• Kalinda, in helping Alicia and Diane, goes to the ASA to sweet talk Cary but instead ends up sweet talking Cary’s latest love interest (and by sweet talk I mean full-on flirt with). The sexual tension between the two was amazing. Too bad Cary’s latest love interest said she isn’t a lesbian, to which Cary responds “I know a lot of people who weren’t anything until they met Kalinda.”
• Will is starting to get in a bit over his head with the whole Alicia/Peter dynamic.
• Peter’s mom, who for some strange reason still has a key to Alicia’s apartment, is starting to catch on that Alicia is sleeping with someone who isn’t Peter.
• Eli’s latest attempt to help with a political campaign kinda blows up in his face when he finds out the candidate he’s been brought is planning on running for state senate, the same seat his ex-wife is running for.

• It’s time for mash-up, so this year they host a mash off in which the Trouble Tones and New Directions compete head-to-head; New Directions performed a mash-up of 2 Hall & Oats songs “I Can’t Go For That” and “You Make My Dreams Come True” and the Trouble Tones perform a mash-up of 2 Adele songs “Rumour Has It” and “Someone Like You” (which is still #1 on iTunes).
• This episode was very much centered around the fighting between Finn and Santana leading to a fun game of dodgeball in which New Directions get their butts kicked and is accompanied by a mash-up of Blondie’s “One Way or Another” and Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”.
• Santana stepped up her verbal harassment of Finn which culminated in Finn outing Santana in the hallway for everyone to hear. He shouts down the hallway after her “Hey Santana, why don’t you just come out of the closet?”.
  • This whole event has sparked a lot of controversy, some think that Finn was justified in outing her because she was being so mean to him and others think that while Santana did take the insults too far, there is no justification for outing.
• Quinn goes to Shelby and asks to join the Trouble Tones. After much thought and Puck telling Shelby about all the mean things Quinn did with the books and hot sauce, Shelby tells Quinn not only can she not join the Trouble Tones but she is also no longer allowed to see Beth.
• Rachel drops out of the Senior class President race and endorses Kurt.
• Finn’s outing of Santana has some unforeseen consequences in which the niece of one of Sue’s opponents for Congress heard the conversation and now her opponent has incorporated it into one of his smear ads against Sue, claiming that not only does she support gays because she has a lesbian head cheerleader (with pictures of Santana and everything) she is also not married and could therefore be a lesbian herself. To watch the scene click here
• After performing “Rumour Has It”/”Someone Like You”, Santana confronts Finn and ends up slapping him.

The next episode is in two weeks

• Claire has the whole family helping to collect things for one of the neighbors who lost everything in a house fire
• Cam goes with Hailey and Alex to pick up a large truck to move all of the donations they have collected and Cam ends up having trouble with the truck
• Claire and Mitchell have a fight about how they chose favorite parents when they were young and so she is turning Mitchell’s new found friendship with Gloria into a fight.
• The muscles in Jay’s back begin to spasm from lifting to many boxes and Phil offers to give him a massage
• Phil is offered a partnership at a new real estate firm that is opening but he doesn’t know if he wants to take the risk. He goes to Jay for advice and Jay tells him to go for it

No Grey’s Anatomy this week or for the rest of the calendar year, all new episodes return in January

Week of November 6

Nov 11th, 2011 2:22 PM EST

• Lockhart Gardner is counsel for a man who is suing the government for illegally arresting and torturing him while he was a translator in Afghanistan.
• Alicia ends up in a sticky position where she either has to break attorney-client privilege or face jail time so she hires a lawyer who manages to stall long enough to make it go away.
• Diane is slowly starting to catch on that Will and Alicia are sleeping together so she renews the firm’s work place insurance, as part of it she makes everyone go through sexual harassment awareness training (including Will and Alicia).
• Peter starts to dig into some of Will’s past indiscretions and it has Will visibly upset.

• West Side Story was performed (sorta).
  • We got to see a full performance of the song “America”, part of “A Boy Like That”, part of “One Hand, One Heart”, and a bit of Rachel & Blaine rehearsing “Tonight”.
• Artie told Blaine and Rachel to lose their virginity because how can they do a play about sexual awakening without having had one themselves.
• Blaine visits the Warblers, who perform “Uptown Girl” and gets hit on by new Warbler, Sebastian.
• Sebastian invites both Kurt and Blaine to visit Scandals, the gay bar in West Lima. Here Kurt runs into Karofsky and they have a heart-to-heart.
• Finn invites Rachel over one night while Burt and Carol are away. They try to have sex but Rachel lets slip that she is doing it to improve her acting. Finn gets upset and storms off.
• Tina got a whole monologue this episode.
• Rachel and Finn, as well as Kurt and Blaine, end up having sex (at least we are told they have sex) in the last moments of the episode.

No Modern Family this week due to the Country Music Awards being on ABC.

• Meredith finds out that she and Derek aren’t getting Zola back and informs Derek that Zola was her baby, now she’s gone and Meredith doesn’t want more kids.
• Henry and Teddy are in the ER because Henry is coughing up blood. The Chief discovers it’s because he has a new tumor near his lung and they need to perform surgery to remove it.
  • Teddy doesn’t want the Chief to do it because he wouldn’t do it the way she would so she asks that Yang do it and they just wrap Henry’s face so she doesn’t know who the patient is.
  • The surgery ends up not going as planned and Henry ends up dying, but Teddy doesn’t know because she is in the middle of surgery.
• Alex and Meredith have to go off on a journey to pick up a newborn who’s esophagus and wind pipe are connected in the wrong spot so she isn’t getting any oxygen. Their ambulance ends up breaking down in the middle of the road, on top of a hill, in the middle of a blind turn.
• A woman Callie just discharged  is having her heart shredded by a screw that Jackson placed in her spine to help with her scoliosis and Callie is blaming herself. Teddy ends up operating with April.

This episode marked the last Grey’s Anatomy episode this year with all new episodes returning in January.

Week of October 30

Nov 4th, 2011 3:00 PM EST

• Alicia faces off with Cary in a case involving diplomatic immunity and China/Tiawan politics.
• Eli ends up having to reach out to his ex-wife to help Alicia with her case and afterwards his ex-wife wants Eli to begin vetting her to run for state senate.
  • Eli ends up finding out some things about his ex-wife that he would have rather not known.
• After putting Cary through the ringer a couple of times, Peter ends up promoting him to Deputy State’s Attorney.
• Will ends up asking Alicia if she wants him to meet her kids, she says no but can tell they want different things out of this relationship.

• Glee was finally back this week after a long hiatus.
• Santana is upset because now that Blaine is there, New Directions will be the Rachel and Blaine show.
• Brittany has an Irish foreign exchange student, Rory, living with her and thinks he is a leprechaun.
• Santana ends up being persuaded by Mercedes to leave the New Directions and takes Brittany with her to The Troubletones, Shelby’s glee club.
• Sue threatens to cut the funding for West Side Story so Will decides they are going to fundraise.
  • Kurt goes to his father to buy an ad in their brochure and he manages to find enough people who support the arts to fund the entire play.
• This leads Burt to decide to run against Sue for Congress as a write-in candidate.
• Santana and Brittany have dinner at Breadstix and end up determining it’s a date and that they are now officially dating.
• Rory joins New Directions.

• Cam and Mitchell have a bet going that Cam could pick up any woman he wanted to in a bar; Cam thinks he can do it, Mitchell thinks he can’t. Cam ends up picking up a woman who totally knows he is gay but wants to be friends because she wants a gay best friend. She agrees to play along and they convince Mitchell that she really did think he was straight.
• Hailey is trying to write an essay for her college application but does not know what to write for the “what obstacles have you over-come” question and accuses Claire of having sheltered her too much. In response, Claire drops her off in the middle of nowhere with nothing and tells her to find her way home. She eventually does but is pissed.
• Jay and Gloria end up having a fight because Jay doesn’t want to go salsa dancing with Gloria. She ends up going without him and not having any fun. As she goes to leave, Jay is standing behind her ready to dance the night away.

• Jackson cannot let go of what happened with Lexie at the softball game last week and it is starting to affect his work with Mark. He ends up choosing Mark over Lexie and breaking up with her.
• Meredith and Derek are having their court date for Zola in a couple of days and they are both super nervous.
• Cristina ends up babysitting a beating heart in a box and the Chief helps her with her surgery bucket list that teddy told her to write.
• George’s Mom is in the hospital which has Callie freaked out because she doesn’t know how to come out to her dead ex-husband’s mom. She eventually tells Mrs. O’Malley, who ends up being extremely interested in Sofia.
• Lexie ends up becoming attached to a patient in a way that reminded me of Izzie.
• Alex appears to be falling behind in getting a peds fellowship but ends up overhearing a potential candidate say Arizona couldn’t shut up about a guy who brought kids over from Africa (that would be Alex).