The whole enterprise feels so similar to Grey's -- co-workers as family, love triangle, heroics on the job -- as to be unessential, which programming in the Peak TV era cannot afford to be.
Station is more a cheap facsimile of what made Grey's tick than a successful spinoff. It tries to ignite something new for the Grey's world, but just ends up flaming out.
Before the episode ends, there's also an escape so eye-popping and literally explosive, I haven't stopped thinking about it for nearly a week. "Stuck" is a lot in exactly the way you want your Thursday night Shonda Rhimes-produced soaps to be.
Like other Rhimes productions, the show is very much a work of capital-T Television, a turbocharged melodrama in which twists and surprises transpire with comforting predictability.
