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This season, I am not only hate-watching "Grey's Anatomy" (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4), but I'm arguing with my daughter about it. A lot.
We both are "Grey's" hate watchers. We know we should have given up on the show years ago, but we keep watching it. (No, that doesn't make either of us particularly proud. Or smart.)
This bad show got worse at the end of last season when Alex (Justin Chambers), mistakenly believing that Andrew (Giacomo Gianniotti) was about to have sex with Jo (Camilla Luddington), beat the hell out of him. Seriously injured him.
It's the latest ridiculous "Grey's Anatomy" plotline. It's badly written baloney. If this show had any grounding in reality at all, Alex would have been fired by the hospital and he'd be convicted of the felony with which he's been charged.
But … he's my daughter's favorite character. And she is annoyed with me when I say (repeatedly), "Lock him up!"
I'll be saying it again tonight, I'm sure. In a clip from the episode, Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) expresses her anger at Alex.
"I'm still mad," she says. "You beat up my roommate."
"So that's why you're mad?" Alex asks. "Some guy you barely know who pays you rent got beat up?"
Andrew didn't just get beat up. Alex beat him up, nearly costing him an eye. And, again, for no good reason.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Arizona asks.
I want to ask the writers the same question.
Elsewhere on TV ...
• Baseball playoffs: Toronto Blue Jays at Texas Rangers (2:30 p.m., TBS); Boston Red Sox at Cleveland Indians (6 p.m., TBS)
• NFL (6:25 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): Phoenix Cardinals at San Francisco 49ers
• "Superstore" (7 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): Jonah refuses to sell guns in the store, prompting an open-carry protest.
• "Rosewood" (7 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13): Rosewood and Villa go to New York to investigate the death of her husband.
• High school football (7 p.m., Ch. 14): Highland Rams at Davis Darts
• "iHeartRadio Music Festival" (7 p.m., CW/Ch. 30): Performers include Billy Idol, Britney Spears, Drake, Pitbull, Sting, U2 and Usher. (Taped)
• Women's college volleyball (7 p.m., BYUtv): Saint Mary's at BYU
• "Project Runway" (7 and 8:32 p.m., Lifetime): Contestants have to create swimsuits.
• "The Good Place" (7:30 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): Chidi reluctantly agrees to teach Eleanor about ethics.
• "Notorious" (8 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): Julia airs a tape of a legendary rock star/humanitarian who's in coma — a tape of him behaving badly with women backstage at a concert; Jake represents the tape's distributor.
• "Chicago Med" (8 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): An Indonesian man brings a myster illness to the hospital
• "Pitch" (8 p.m., FoxCh. 13): Ginny's ex-boyfriend plays for the opposing team. And it's terrible.
• Women's soccer (8 p.m., ESPNU): BYU at Loyola Marymount
• "How to Get Away With Murder" (9 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): An unlikely source leads to a startling discovery by Laurel.
• "The Blacklist" (9 p.m., NBC/Ch. 5): Red and the task force attempt to chase down criminal who finances crimes for profit.
• "Better Things" (11 p.m., FX): Sam has a snack and Max thinks about stuff.