It was a harsh winter of 2011 or so. A high school student, free of worries such as paying bills and testing the car, I went to the VOD library and found a miracle. Grey’s Anatomy. I saw doctors, action, and a bunch of words that I didn’t know in English, and I realized that I had a mission: to complete everything that I had missed since the start of the series in 2005, and to become, myself, a part of the closed and exclusive community. and so it was.
I slowly realized that I had made a mistake. Every season, sometimes more than once, the ivory tower of the production directed by Shonda Rhimes decided to kill off one of the main characters and break my heart. They were (spoiler alert) George O’Malley, Lexi Gray, Mark Sloan aka McStymi, and these are just a few of them whose stain left me badly scarred. Then it was the turn of Dr. Derek Shepard, from our acquaintances from Dreamy and Meredith’s husband, who we will get to soon, and without any doubt they broke my heart with a quick smash against the wall. to break up.
At that moment I decided that I was not attached to the characters anymore. It didn’t work, nor did it really help, because Grey’s Anatomy hid quite a few personal and collective tragedies, in the form of a plane crash, a general fire at the hospital, the danger of a building collapsing, and other worldly ills. But who remained alive more than ever throughout the 407 episodes of the series even though she was also a witness to all the disasters I listed and a few more that I didn’t? Very true, Meredith Grey.
A little background. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), head of department at the hospital, progressed through the series up the hierarchy, the daughter of a father who abandoned her and a mother who was a doctor herself and didn’t really take an active interest in her. From the first scene in the first season, which opens with the start of her internship, everything is going to happen around the hospital; The loves, the difficulties, the fights, the separations, the great successes, the painful failures and the stories that the working souls preferred to leave in the computer room. We saw everything, we were excited, we were angry, we were happy and we hated it. But mostly we were disappointed, or at least I was.
God forbid I don’t forget the good time together, in which I spent at least three hours every day with the group of doctors at the Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital in Seattle. But too long series that make themselves suffer from the ‘hip and brave’ syndrome that I saw with my aunt in the kibbutz when I was 8 years old, draw extreme reactions and forget the best of them. And of course there is.
You must be wondering why I started with this extortionate confession. Well, after 18 years at the hospital, Dr. Meredith Gray, the name and face of the most famous medical drama in the United States, is leaving the hospital. Shocking. In the festive episode, which is available starting today on yes VOD and will be broadcast tomorrow on yes TV DRAMA , you can join Meredith’s farewell event from her loved ones, including Dr. Miranda Bailey and Dr. Richard Weber who were there all along, and among them also Dr. Nick Marsh, the object of her love who tried to dissuade her from her decision.
Another spoiler from the parting moments: at the end of the episode, the seventh in season 19, Gray summarizes her time in the hospital in a fiery speech, emphasizing: “So the end of my story is really not happily ever after to this day, I’m still alive and I’m still here – and the sun shines on my life”. As the other thread, the name of the episode is, of course, “I’ll Follow The Sun”.
For those who I managed to bash, it was of course not on purpose, but you should know that this is not the absolute end of Meredith: Pompeo posted on her Instagram account that she may still return to the series in guest appearances, and what is certain – she remains as a producer and will even accompany the segments between the scenes with her voice.
Well, what do I say and what will I say? I admit, I was sad, even after everything I said before. It’s the end of an era where we knew that no matter what happened in and out of the hospital, Meredith was here to stay. And yes, in today’s troubled times, I don’t think there is anyone who doesn’t wish for a bit of routine. Dr. Gray, I thank you for the long hours of staring at the screen, the amazement every time at how immune you are, and personally, for helping me decide that being a doctor is the job of others other than me. And one more thing to all the actors, producers, editors, photographers And the staff – thank you for making me the hypochondriac I am today. It’s priceless.