Season 17 of Grey’s Anatomy will be a strangely retraumatizing experience!
The season finale of the popular TV show that fast-forwarded through eight months of the pandemic, from July 2020 to present-day April 2021, and the major life events for the Grey Sloan Memorial doctors over that period, including two attempts at a Maggie-Winston wedding, one Owen-Teddy proposal and adoption for Jo who became Luna’s mom. Also one of the finale’s biggest twists might just be all about a new love interest.
Season 17, which showrunner Krista Vernoff and Pompeo as dedicated health care professionals, was set a few months in the past as Grey shares the harsh truth of how the novel coronavirus pandemic impacted frontline employees. Pompeo spent the bulk of the pandemic-shortened 17-episode season filming scenes from a hospital bed — where Meredith was on a vent after contracting COVID-19, and visiting loved ones from her past on the beach as she fought for her life.
As for what’s ahead, the finale is set to stage exploring Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) as a single mother battling her past, a potential romance between Link (Chris Carmack) and new mother Jo (Camilla Luddington), and a wedding between Teddy and Owen (Kevin McKidd). Meanwhile, Meredith and Cormac (Richard Flood) continued to flirt, almost hinting at a destined romantic storyline.
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