Grey’s Anatomy Season 20 Finale Threatens to Burn Everything Down – But There’s Hope for Rescue

Grey’s Anatomy’s 20th season only had 10 episodes due to the Hollywood double strike last year, so the current season ended tonight in the USA before it could even start in Germany (estimated in September). The fire department spin-off Seattle Firefighters, on the other hand, ignites one last major fire in the finale before bowing out. We’ll tell you who’s leaving, who’s staying, and what the future of Shonda Rhimes’ series universe looks like. Warning, spoilers for the Grey’s Anatomy season 20 finale and Seattle Firefighters series finale follow.

Grey’s Anatomy opens the door again for arsonist Meredith in the season 20 finale

“Burn it Down” (Burn it down) is the name of the 10th episode of the 20th season of Grey’s Anatomy, and this already foreshadows the cliffhanger threat on which the season finale will end 42 minutes later. But first, the situation at Grey Sloan Hospital comes to a head with all the conflicts that have built up beforehand. Just like the forest fire that is raging around Seattle and inundating the doctors with a flood of new patients, the last episode also heats up privately.

First of all, Meredith busted
(We remember: Grey’s Anatomy didn’t dare say goodbye to Ellen Pompeo completely). Her secret Alzheimer’s research, with Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) and Teddy (Kim Raver) as co-conspirators, did have a breakthrough, but now it has come to the attention of head honcho Catherine Fox (Debbie Allen). And the queen is not amused. Teddy has lost her job as hospital director and Meredith is supposed to hand over her research, which is financed with money from the Fox Foundation, to Tom Koracick (Greg Germann).

As the daughter of her mother Ellis Grey, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease but was extremely strong-willed, Meredith then follows the Middle way between burning down and saving: She publishes her results online and makes them available to the public. This will certainly have consequences. But given the announced move of Meredith and Nick (Scott Speedman) to Seattle’s Chesnut Hill neighborhood, these consequences will probably continue to unfold with guest appearances in the series. Meredith still has Grey’s Anatomy firmly under her control.

Grey’s Anatomy risks its entire workforce at the end of season 20

Meanwhile, Dr. Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) is thinking out loud that it might be time for retirement. The happy Jo Wilson (Camilla Luddington) learns after a breakdown that she has been killed by Link (Chris Carmack). pregnant We learn in the emergency room that junior doctor Kwan (Harry Shum Jr.) apparently has a fiancée who can no longer remember himafter a coma has cost her many of her memories. Meanwhile, the young doctors Yasuda (Midori Francis) and Jules (Adelaide Kane) surprisingly get so close that they almost kiss. Season 21 is already setting up its further conflicts.

Ultimately, all the junior doctors pass their exams and can continue their medical training. Even Nico, who is close to failing a year, makes it and would no longer have to consider leaving Seattle and moving to Maggie’s (Kelly McCreary) hospital in Chicago… if it weren’t for Catherine Fox, who fully embraces her villain role in season 20. After the patient’s death at the end of the last season, she threatens to deny Nico further training. However, his colleagues stand up for him and also threatens to terminate her contract collectively if she is thrown out: not only the young doctors, but also Dr. Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson).

The 20th season of Grey’s Anatomy ends with the Question whether Catherine Fox will lay off her entire staffby letting the bluff go its way. Not letting Grey’s Anatomy end with the cliffhanger of a potential character death is a welcome change. Nevertheless, the threat lacks sharpness when the end of the spin-off sets the course clearly in a different direction shortly afterwards.

Grey’s Anatomy spin-off Seattle Firefighters ends with tearful visions of the future and a returnee

After 7 seasons, the spin-off series Seattle Firefighters has reached its end. With one more season than the previous spin-off Private Practice, the firefighters take off their hats (or helmets) to put out one last big fire in the season finale. While they are out in the inferno of the forest fire and are only saved from a fiery death by a few aluminum blankets, the series gives us a farewell flash-forwards with a Insight into the potential future of all characters Fire Station 19:

Andy (Jaina Lee Ortiz) fulfills her dream of becoming the top fire chief and starts dating Jack (Grey Damon) again. Maya (Danielle Savre) becomes captain and has three children with Carina (Stefania Spampinato). Robert Sullivan (Boris Kodjoe) finally marries Natasha Ross (Merle Dandridge), while Beckett (Josh Randall) gets together with Sullivan’s sister. Hughes (Barrett Doss) says goodbye to the team for a fresh start, along with her best friend Travis (Jay Hayden). There is room to laugh, cry and hug one more time for the happy ending. Especially when the dead Dean (Okieriete Onaodowan) comes back in a dream vision.

However, the most significant is the Decision by Ben Warren (Jason George) to leave the fire station to return to his medical training. This may seem fickle after switching to the fire service seven seasons ago, but it will probably keep the actor at the side of Miranda Bailey in Grey’s Anatomy after the end of Seattle Firefighters. It is a prepared Series changewhich also invalidates the season finale of the parent series: Because when her husband “returns home”, Bailey is unlikely to leave the series. (In addition, Just Jared has already confirmed the return of the long-standing cast.)

It has been known for some time that Grey’s Anatomy will continue with season 21 and Seattle Firefighters will end with season 7. According to The Wrap, series producer Betsy Beers has already Suggestions for the next spin-off demanded. Despite all the (empty) threats to set itself on fire, the world of Grey’s Anatomy is not going to burn down so easily.

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