Really looking to give the gays everything that they want. That’s what Grey’s Anatomy is really going for here. Did I mention that Allison is played by none other than Sherri Saum (that’s The Fosters’ Lena Adams Foster to you). And in case you forgot this apartment belonged to lesbians, let the Ani DiFranco singing “32 Flavors” in the background remind you. At first Allison worried that the two would get too close, but Teddy was straight after all. She wasn’t making a lot of money yet, so her best friend Allison offered Teddy a room in the apartment she shared with her then-girlfriend, Claire. In 2001, Teddy was settling in to her life as an attending surgeon. Did she not also leave, in her own way? Did she not run away to stitch up wounded soldiers in the field, so she could feel like she was helping, somehow? So she could feel anything other than grief and sadness? Teddy’s shocked that Claire ever left New York! But Claire couldn’t shake the mourning from after the towers fell she said it embedded itself into the city’s marrow. Claire, with her obviously gay haircut, lets us know that she now runs a small private practice with her wife down south. Over here in 2020, Teddy runs in to Claire, an old friend from New York, at a medical conference in Los Angeles (the world of Grey’s hasn’t yet been affected by the pandemic, so the rest of us should still stay at home). Teddy Altman, there was a sixth no one told us until now: That best friend who died in when the second tower fell? The one who loved birds? That was Allison. You see, for the five things we’ve always known about Dr. And sure, what we learned about Teddy in last night’s Grey’s Anatomy is actually a flashback. But what made it so moving, and from a storytelling perspective so brilliant, is that this reveal made everything else we’ve ever known about Teddy make more sense. Maybe we couldn’t explain it, but something about Teddy, even after all these years, always felt like she should play for the home team. Or in Seasons Six - Eight, ditch Owen Hunt and make out with Cristina Yang instead (catching a pattern here?). There is not a queer woman I know who hasn’t rooted for Teddy Altman to break up with Owen Hunt for good and just make out with Amelia Shepherd instead.
#TEDDY ALTMAN FULL#
Way back in Season Six of Grey’s Anatomy - a full ten years ago! - here were the first five things we ever learned about Dr.
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