Grey's Anatomy Season 13 Episode 23 Review: True Colors
Jasmine Blu at May 11, 2017 11:44 pm.  Updated at May 12, 2017 12:04 am.

Holy fudge that was an explosive hour!

Yes, I know, that was an awful joke, but what can I say? I have a dark sense of humor, and joking helps me cope. After everything they threw at us on Grey's Anatomy Season 13 Episode 23, coping is essential.

Kevin McKidd does such a good job directing, doesn't he?

This season of Grey's Anatomy has done the thing I absolutely abhor. It started off strong, devolved into something akin to a hot mess in the middle, and now it's coming in hot for the end of the season. Oops! I did it again. Anyway, we can all agree that Grey's Anatomy Season 13 has not been its best, and that has been disappointing. 

So, now, we have this "Megan is alive" reveal. Most of us pretty much predicted she was alive a long time ago, and we have been impatiently waiting for them to get to the revelation since last season.

Just like we have been waiting for something about Jo's husband since last season. Seriously, we were waiting sooooo long. I was channeling Judge Judy. Get on with it, already!

Naturally, Grey's Anatomy dumped both on us in the penultimate episode of the season despite not having consistent storylines leading up to either of them. Hours worth of hospital politics was more important, I guess.

Because we saw the Megan reveal coming for so long, it didn't hit the shocking mark, but it made up for it with the emotional impact. Can someone hold Owen? Kevin McKidd killed me. I am writing this from beyond the grave.

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This was one of those rare weeks in our favorite fictional  Seattle hospital in which we caught sight of Owen Hunt  again, albeit in a painfully complicated story directed by Kevin McKidd himself. But this is  Grey's Anatomy so what other kind of story is there in  that universe? Considering we're almost to the end of  the season, Owen's fans should count themselves lucky that he wasn't in the hospital when a vengeful patient set himself on fire while trying to escape, causing a large explosion. Okay, let's go back to the beginning of the  hour so that y'all know how we got here.

The main focus of Owen's reappearance seemed to be a step forward in the storyline of his Missing In Action  ister Megan disguised as a further test to his marriage  with Amelia. Unfortunately, we had to wait a while to hear  what message was delivered by the two army personnel who  showed up on Owen's doorstep as he got ready for work.  Considering one of them was a chaplain, we knew it  wasn't going to be any kind of good news. Viewers were  meant to be inside Owen's shock, as instead of hearing  the news as it was delivered in that opening scene, we heard him walk through the hospital  shrouded in a static-laden buzz that seemed to indicate  Owen's shattered attempt at processing what had  happened.

Owen's abrupt behavior surprised April as she attempted to treat a choking infant in the Emergency Room. His hard  slaps on the infant's back dislodged the coin on which  she'd choked and got us to, of course, Amelia performing the neurological consult he gruffly recommended before  stepping away. This gave her a perfect excuse to find Owen, clearly freaked out, in an exam room to deliver the parents' request to speak to him further. In another stalemate move on the Owen and Amelia chess board, rather  than investigate why he seemed so off his game, she simply  got irritated and left the room after delivering the  message.

When he caught up to the baby's parents and the mother  thanked him with a tearful hug for saving her child's  life, Owen fled from the emotional closeness and hid out in  another empty exam room. This time Amelia followed him and  asked what was going on. Oh, and just in case this story  wasn't complicated enough, this was just after she  finished encouraging Meredith again to move forward with  Nathan. Owen finally choked out that he had news about  Megan, and, wait for it...she's alive! While I'm  grateful Owen has a storyline and that, perhaps, he and  Amelia might, just might, remember how to talk to each other, it's distressing how his story looped us back to  Meredith's story in a typical Grey's house of cards.  Are we destined to see Meredith on the dark and twisty road  again? Let's hope not, but since this is Grey's,  that might be a vain hope.

Soon we saw Amelia take charge as Owen began to crumble  under the weight of the situation. While the two of them were at Meredith's house trying to track down information on whether or not it was indeed Megan who was being transported to an Army hospital in Germany, we soon saw allusions to Owen's past, parts of which were news  to Amelia. After Teddy, former Seattle surgeon who served  overseas with Owen, Megan, and Nathan, confirmed that Owen's sister had been found, Amelia set about having  her transferred to Seattle. She was also smart enough to  call in the leading expert in PTSD to help Owen deal with  the guilt he soon showed us at having moved on with his life  while his sister had been held hostage for nearly 10  years.

Once Meredith arrived home with the kids the rest of the  story was set into motion as Amelia related the truth of  Megan's reappearance. Meredith then took it upon herself to  return to the hospital so as to share this news with  Nathan. And wouldn't you know it, just as Meredith got out of her car a fiery explosion shook the hospital. Guess  next week must be the season finale, huh?

Elsewhere in the hospital: Meredith and Nathan woke up together and Maggie noticed their coziness at work; Alex tracked down Jo's husband, a fellow doctor, with likely to be disastrous results given his imaginings of what might happen when he confronted him; Richard approved  Stephanie's return to work after a short round of  therapy; Arizona and Eliza woke up together so they seemed  to be going strong; two patients of the week came in  unconscious and partially disrobed after a car crash;  Jackson and Maggie continued to bond; Eliza put Stephanie on  scut duty monitoring the male patient in the car accident who grew creepy and combative as it came to light he'd  tried to rape the woman in the car; the hospital went into lockdown as they tried to find him after he took Stephanie  hostage in an attempt to escape; and that's where that  explosion came from as he tried to set a fire to get the  doors to unlock again and, with Stephanie's assistance,  ended up setting himself aflame.

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Behind-the-scenes of "True Colors" directed by Kevin McKidd.
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| press release | promo | photos | sneak peek 1 | sneak peek 2 |

| press release | promo | photos | sneak peek 1 | sneak peek 2 |

| press release | promo | photos | sneak peek 1 | sneak peek 2 |

| press release | promo | photos | sneak peek 1 | sneak peek 2 |

| press release | promo | photos | sneak peek 1 | sneak peek 2 |

| press release | promo | photos | sneak peek 1 | sneak peek 2 |