[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Grey’s Anatomy Season 21 premiere “If Walls Could Talk.”]
In terms of Gray’s Anatomy, you may by no means get too snug. All through 21 seasons, loads of beloved characters have been killed off in devastating methods, which is why I’m beginning to get very anxious after the Season 21 premiere.
It’s been a sizzling minute since Gray’s Anatomy had a significant demise amongst its workers, the final vital one being Deluca’s (Giacomo Gianniotti) stabbing in Season 17. 4 seasons later, there have been many shut calls — Meredith’s (Ellen Pompeo) battle with COVID, Teddy’s (Kim Raver) dental an infection gone fallacious — however everybody has survived to apply medication one other day.
Within the first episode, Catherine (Debbie Allen) collapses in entrance of Meredith. Regardless of their ongoing rift, Meredith flies into motion to maintain Catherine. When she wakes up, Meredith tells Catherine she’s bought a blood clot stemming from her most cancers. Regardless of the tumor on her backbone and sure needing a liver transplant, Catherine is adamant about not pursuing any invasive procedures.
Catherine doesn’t need her most cancers to outline her, but when she waits too lengthy to inform Richard (James Pickens Jr.) and Jackson (Jesse Williams) about what’s actually happening, will it’s too late? Jackson is again for an unknown set of episodes. Catherine’s well being might take a flip for the more serious if she continues to keep away from something invasive, which may maintain Jackson in Seattle. Catherine has all the cash on the planet, however most cancers doesn’t play by the foundations.
Midori Francis and Jake Borelli are additionally anticipated to exit someday in Season 21. Within the premiere episode, there’s actually no trace about how they’ll be written out. Mika and Jules (Adelaide Kane) share a steamy kiss whereas Schmitt debates switching out of the peds specialty.
Will each Mika and Schmitt be written off into the sundown? It might have made sense if Mika had taken Lucas’ (Niko Terho) job alternative in Chicago, however that doesn’t appear to be the trail the present is taking this season.
With two main exits on the horizon, it received’t shock me if one character’s journey on Gray’s Anatomy ends in tragedy. The present has by no means been afraid of a surprising demise, that’s for certain. Nobody is ever actually protected at Gray Sloan. (I’ve by no means been the identical since Mark Sloan’s demise.)
Then once more, the Gray Sloan workers has suffered sufficient physician deaths to warrant a federal investigation. Fortunately, showrunner Meg Marinis hinted that Mika and Schmitt will (in all probability) get alternatives elsewhere.
“Their tales this 12 months actually honor the characters that we constructed,” she informed Parade. “Persons are going to be hooked into these tales from the very starting. It’s Gray’s Anatomy. Our characters come and go right here. When you’re a part of the household, you’re all the time a part of the household.”
Nonetheless, she informed Shondaland that occasions that “occur round mid-season” will take our “characters again down once more.” A heartbreaking demise would shake the present Gray Sloan workers to their core.
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Gray’s Anatomy, Season 21, Thursdays, 10/9c, ABC
