I might have written off Grey’s Anatomy’s Scott Marcus as a one-and-done guest doctor if he had only appeared in March 6’s midseason premiere. But the baby-faced OB/GYN resident was back in action in April 3’s “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” Are you thinking what I am?
Yeah, I have a hunch that the long-running — and just-renewed — medical drama is taking the newbie out for a test drive to see how viewers respond. So it begs the question: What do we make of him? Colleague Jo, we’re well aware, can barely stand to look at “his overachieving stupid prodigy face.”
I get it — Marcus can be a lot. And not necessarily a lot of anything you want. He calls surgeries “surges” (ugh), “sharked” a procedure from Jo to keep the mom-to-be from having to be on her feet for an extended period and, upon learning that the father of her twins was fellow M.D. Link, responded, “Oooh, hospital babies. Are you gonna name ’em Grey and Sloan?”
“Read the room,” I wanted to say. “Or better yet, leave it.”
But there may be more to Marcus than meets the eye. He does seem to know his stuff. (He helped safeguard Jo and Link’s babies as well as the expectant mother herself following the fall finale’s shooting and its aftermath.) And when Wilson scolded Doogie Howser 2.0 over poaching her procedure — “I can advocate for myself” — he explained that he’d just been trying to help and apologized. Didn’t even balk when she criticized his term for surgeries. Not audibly, anyway.
So what’s your take on the character played by Igby Rigney (Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher)? Are you curious enough to want to know more, or do you already know more than you want to? Vote in the poll above, then sound off in the comments below.
