That’s a wrap. Season 17 of Grey’s Anatomy was anything else however uneventful, and in relation to Meredith Grey’s dramatic story line, things could have (*17*).
The ABC display’s season finale aired on Thursday, June 3, closing out a whirlwind adventure as Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) healed from her lengthy coronavirus battle. In the ultimate moments of the episode, Meredith walks out of a a hit transplant surgical procedure and announces in a voiceover, “I’m still alive.”
Executive producer Meg Marinis, who cowrote the overall episode, published that the ending lovers watched wasn’t the original one the group had in mind.
“We first of all wrote Meredith’s clap-out to be when she was once discharged from the hospital, in Episode 1715,” Marinis informed Deadline in an interview printed Thursday evening. “But we quickly discovered that second gave the look of the tip of the season, so we got here up with the intense concept of Meredith escaping her personal clap-out, which felt very Meredith Grey to us.”
Earlier on in the season, Meredith didn’t obtain the traditional spherical of applause for cured patients after her months-long battle with COVID-19 was over. Instead, she was given the standing-O after she and Teddy (Kim Raver) carried out a double lung transplant surgical operation.
“So many people had struggled with Covid, and she or he didn’t wish to feel any other than any person else,” Marinis described of the emotional second. “So we made up our minds to clap Meredith out of the OR as a substitute, which felt like without equal victory to her journey this season.”
Meredith’s final scene wrapped the season on a positive note. “That shot of Meredith, within the OR Corridor, surrounded via her other people, giggling and smiling in her scrub cap … it provides me all of the feels,” the producer said. “It gives me hope after such a arduous year.”
While it is going to have seemed to many longtime viewers that season 17 could be the clinical drama’s closing, the network renewed it for an 18th season in May. Pompeo, 51, previously teased that there’s “no end in sight” for the Grey’s team.
“I gotta keep doing it, man, because we’re touching lives and creating a difference,” she mentioned during a 2018 look on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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Pompeo is ready to inform extra of her personality’s tale, but there’s one physician fans gained’t be seeing again next season. Jesse Williams, who played Jackson Avery for 12 seasons, announced his departure from the show remaining month.
“My final day there, the team and solid give me this incredibly considerate, moving customized box stuffed with letters and memorabilia from each and every member of the family. … Heartfelt letters and pictures,” he informed Entertainment Weekly of his emotional exit. “I’ve were given my original lab coat, stethoscope, and ID card, scrub tops and some of these mementoes. It was in reality sweet. I’m having a look at it at this time, it’s sitting on my countertop. It’s in point of fact, really sweet private stuff, anecdotes. It was once truly one thing. I’m incredibly thankful.”
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