Unbelievable but true: The famous hospital series Grey’s Anatomy returned for its 21st season in the USA last night. Lead actress Meredith’s “exit from the series” has now been forgotten. Ellen Pompeo is in 7 of the 18 episodes and is still an integral part of her own series.
The carousel of departing and returning characters is intended to bring a breath of fresh air – but who remembers an almost forgotten character after a 17-year break? In the end, another twist turns out to be the most interesting reason to stick with it.
Grey’s Anatomy Season 21 brings series character back after 17 years and turns heroine into villain
The 20th season of Grey’s Anatomy was shortened to ten episodes in the wake of the Hollywood strike and threatened to burn everything down in the season finale. There will be no mass layoffs of the entire workforce at the start of season 21, but gaps will still remain if Catherine Fox (Debbie Allen) retains the cost-effective assistant doctors, but is concerned about the dismissal of experienced doctors such as Dr. Altman, Dr. Hunt, Dr. Shepherd and Dr. Bailey holds on. Catherine may have once heroically revolutionized Gray Sloan Hospital, but now the series makes her the villainwho cares more about saving money and being right than people.
At least Dr. But Miranda Bailey (what would Grey’s Anatomy be without the consistency of Chandra Wilson?) can’t just be driven away. Thanks to a loophole, she continues to work at her clinic in the hospital, but is no longer allowed to operate or instruct the offspring. That’s why a new manager comes into play for the young interns, who have been shaking up the cast since season 19. That’s how new it is Dr. Sydney Heron (Kali Rocha) However, not at all, because it was already part of the series in eight episodes in seasons 2 to 4. 17 years later she is backto take the irritated trainees by the hand with giggles, hugs and incompetence as a counter-proposal to Bailey.
And Dr. Heron isn’t the only one returning in season 21: Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams)who left the series after Season 19, stops by for a guest appearance to light up Meredith’s ass on behalf of his mother, Catherine. Also returns Ben Warren (Jason George) finally returned to the hospital after the end of the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off Seattle Firefighters. After all, what does fickle career decisions mean (doctor, firefighter, now doctor again) if this means you can stick to your old, familiar staff?
Grey’s Anatomy takes its own escapades in season 21 with humor
When climate-protecting bungee jumpers are installed in car windshields and a patient goes missing because she gets lost in the hospital ceiling, everything is actually the same in season 21. Or as Dr. Heron puts it: “This has never happened here before – which is strange because strange things happen here all the time.” At least Grey’s Anatomy proves this at the start humor to his usual crazy accidents and character developments Fight boredom with absurdities.
And otherwise? Jo (Camilla Luddington) finally tells Link (Chris Carmack) that she pregnant is, while the other gives useful advice with Harry Potter Quidditch metaphors. Kwan (Harry Shum Jr.) meets his ex-fiancée who asks him about a… Memory loss forgot years ago. Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.) doubts his abilities as he gets older, but Dr. Ndugu (Anthony Hill) is not forced into surgery to expose himself, but because he just wants tips from him.
From the announced exit There is still no sign of Schmitt (Jake Borelli) and Yasuda (Midori Francis) in season 21 when he gives relationship advice to his best friend Jo and the other is making out with Jules (Adelaide Kane) again.
Season 21 of Grey’s Anatomy starts with a blackmail that tempts us to stay tuned
The shocking trailer slap from Bailey to Catherine turns out to be just a dream sequence in episode 1. Grey’s Anatomy probably doesn’t want to go so far as to get physical when Miranda gets ready to fight. The true and so far most interesting fight of season 21 However, part of it takes place behind the scenes: When the newly crowned villain Catherine Fox collapses in front of Meredith, it becomes clear that her aggressive cancer is back and that she hasn’t told her husband Richard or their son Jackson anything about it.
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Catherine then blackmails Meredith not to tell anyone about her deteriorating health, otherwise she will fire everyone for good. But those blackmail apparently doesn’t just flow in one direction: At the end, Meredith announces that everyone has their jobs back, even if her controversial Alzheimer’s research will now go in a “different direction.” Did the otherwise unbending main character of Grey’s Anatomy betray her own values? And, conversely, did she buy the jobs of her colleagues with her silence about Catherine’s illness?
Here, Grey’s Anatomy enters an interesting moral gray area at the start of season 21. Because on the surface, the series, with its usual escapades and dalliances, probably delivers exactly what most fans still want to see after almost 20 years of running the series. But underneath there is suddenly the potential for a new era: a promising pact with the devil. Who wouldn’t want to keep watching?
In Germany, Grey’s Anatomy’s 21st season does not yet have a start date on Disney+, Joyn and ProSieben. We expect it to return at the usual distance from the US broadcast, i.e. in spring 2025.