A Little Humor – Station 19 Season 5 Episode 15
Did Andy manage to bounce back?
Station 19 Season 5 Episode 15 found our heroine coming to terms with a horrifying trauma.
Meanwhile, a dangerous event brought Teddy and Helm from Grey Sloan into the mix.
Elsewhere, Ben struggled to come to terms with what happened with Baby Pru.
He was called to the hospital when things changed for Bailey.
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It was such an incredibly heavy hour with a subject they handled beautifully.
Jaina Lee Ortiz deserves nothing but praise for her incredible performance throughout Station 19 Season 5 Episode 15.
Her powerful performance coincided with an equally powerful hour of Station 19 and one of the series’ best.
Sexual assault is an issue that’s difficult to capture on television in a manner that feels authentic and raw but not exploitative, and fortunately, the hour captured the right tone.
From the opening moments to the shocking and dramatic ending, we were right there with Andy as she endured another traumatic event that shouldn’t hit so close to home but always does.
Why? Because as the statistics go, one in every six women has been the victim of sexual assault.
Truthfully, it’s like a sick, twisted rite of passage of womanhood because if one is fortunate enough to have never been a victim of it, you can typically bet that they know someone who has.
It was a topical subject to explore, and the timing couldn’t be any better as April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. And Station 19 pieced together a well-written hour that realistically and gracefully covered the topic.
One of the strongest aspects was how they interweaved what Andy experienced in the present with flashbacks to her past.
The events of both timelines unfurled and then intersected. We learned a lot about Helena in those flashbacks, and it was interesting to see her in a flattering light which contrasted with Pruitt.
Memories are a hell of a thing, and sometimes it requires the fog of childhood to life before we can see things clearer. Andy’s perception of her mother has always been warped, and she’s often thought the world of Pruitt.
The flashbacks added more context to things, and it worked seamlessly with the rest of the hour. You didn’t doubt for a second how much Helena loved Andy.
Her reaction to a young Andy scuffed up was so visceral that you knew it came from a darker place where she experienced her own things.
I loved when she shut down the notion that the boy that pushed and hurt Andy did it because “he liked her.” It’s such a pervasive and disturbing notion that’s so deeply embedded into the fabric of society that no one bats an eye at it.
Why do we teach young girls that a boy expresses his love through violence and violation? And in the same breath, judge women when they’ve internalized this warped view of love?
I loved when she shut down the notion that the boy that pushed and hurt Andy did it because “he liked her.” It’s such a pervasive and disturbing notion that’s so deeply embedded into the fabric of society that no one bats an eye at it.
Why do we teach young girls that a boy expresses his love through violence and violation? And in the same breath, judge women when they’ve internalized this warped view of love?