‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Finale: You’ve Got to Be Kidding Us
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Rasha Ali | May 18, 2017 @ 6:01 PM
Last Updated: May 18, 2017 @ 6:24 PM
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(Spoiler alert: Please do not read on if you haven’t watched the Season 13 finale of “Grey’s Anatomy.”)
So by now, “Grey’s Anatomy” fans are used to being taken on an emotional rollercoaster ride. The long-running show’s season finales are no exception. If anything, savvy watchers have probably stocked up on tissues, braced themselves in case they have to ball their eyes out and/or throw things at the TV.
Viewers may still be recovering from Thursday night’s stunning finale.
After coming this close to believing that this was the end for Dr. Stephanie Edwards (Jerrika Hinton) — because, one, there’s no way she was making it out of that fire alive, and two, Shonda Rhimes doesn’t like to sew things up neatly for her fanbase — we get thrown a curve ball. Edwards lives!
Oh happy day, let us rejoice because maybe, just maybe we’re not going to fill our tissues with tears and snot.
It looks like our girl Shonda had another thing coming. We thought, just because Edwards didn’t die, doesn’t mean she’s safe for another season. Apparently, Stephanie doesn’t want to be a doctor anymore, but instead wants to go frolic about and live her life, see the world and be selfish or whatever.
So, we had to bid a sad farewell to Edwards. Oh, but that’s not it.
Dr. Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) was on a Save-Stephanie-From-The-Fire mission and was running around in the burning hospital, much to Dr. Maggie Pierce’s (Kelly McCreary) and Dr. April Kepner’s (Sarah Drew), objections. When Avery reappeared from the burning hospital, Kepner and Pierce both began scolding him for trying to be a hero in that I’m-Gonna-Yell-At-You-Because-I-Love-You type of way and when in that moment, apparently Kepner saw a flicker of love — and truthfully, we did too –between Dr. Pierce and her husband Avery.
Kepner ended up telling Pierce to pretty much go ahead and have at him because they both seem to obviously like each other and it’s totally OK. Awkward.
And while the hospital was burning down with Stephanie and marriages were being broken, let’s not forget that Dr. Owen Hunt’s (Kevin McKidd) sister had been found alive — and she was also Dr. Nathan Riggs’ (Martin Henderson) girlfriend, whom he had cheated on. Yeah, it’s a lot to take in.
Megan Hunt, Owen’s sister and/or Nathan’s girlfriend, had disappeared when she was on military duty — she boarded a helicopter that was flying into unprotected airspace and it just vanished without a trace. She was presumed dead this entire time.
So now, not only does Owen have to deal with the trauma of his sister being found alive, Riggs also finds out that Megan, the love of his life whom he cheated on, is alive. Should be happy celebrations for all, right?
Well, Riggs is currently romantically involved with Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and he’s basically the first guy she’s ever let in to her life following Derek Shepherd’s (Patrick Dempsey) death — and now Riggs is gone to reunite with his formerly dead girlfriend Megan. Great. Just great. Literally, no one on this show is supposed to be happy and live a nice life.
So, even though no one tragically died during the season finale — except that gross, rapist guy whom we don’t give a flying f–k about — we still had a tough time coping with this episode. Stephanie almost dies, but doesn’t, but still leaves; Pierce is in love with Avery and vice versa (allegedly); Owen’s sister is alive and Riggs leaves a perfectly happy relationship with Meredith for his now-alive girlfriend.
How are we expected to deal with all this emotional trauma in one night?
Ugh. Please respect our privacy during this difficult time.
The 7 'Grey's Anatomy' Season Finales That Left Us Most Emotionally Scarred (Photos)
Even though practically every Grey's Anatomy season finale is dramatic as hell, not all of them left us curled up in a ball and a complete emotional wreck.
Here are the 7 that left us just completely shook.
Season 2 "Losing My Religion"
We're still crying just thinking about this episode.
This is the season where Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl) falls in love with her patient Denny Duquette (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who has a heart condition and is basically going to die, but Izzie tries to do everything she can -- at times even breaking the rules -- to save him.
Well the finale consists of Duquette dying, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek (Patrick Dempsey) having sex, Dr. Burke (Isaiah Washington) has a tremor in his hand and might not ever be able to operate again and Doc (Meredith and Derek's dog) was put down.
Season 1 "Who's Zoomin Who?
Given the way Season 1 ended, we should've known Shonda wasn't going to let us have any happy endings to "Grey's Anatomy."
So by this point, Derek and Meredith are pretty exclusively having sexual relations and all that jazz and not once did the former mention he had a wife so you can expect everyone's surprise when Addison Shepherd shows up at the end of the episode, greets the two lovebirds and tells Meredith: "Hi, I'm Addison Shepherd. And you must be the woman who's been screwing my husband?"
What a nice way to meet the wife of the man you're sleeping with and kind of in love with.
Season 3 "Didn't We Almost Have it All?"
Our person, Christina Yang, gets left at the altar by Dr. Preston Burke. That's all it took to break our hearts into tiny little sad pieces of despair.
He felt like he was forcing Yang to change and was like "OK, nevermind bye." Not verbatim, but you get it.
Season 5 "Now or Never"
So Izzie ends up having brain surgery to remove a tumor from her brain and meanwhile a John Doe is brought into the hospital -- he's rushed to the ER because he pushed a woman out of the way of an oncoming bus and took the hit himself.
While everyone is operating on John Doe trying to figure out who this hero is, Izzie ends up surviving the surgery but flatlines for a while until she's brought back to life. Good news, everything's going well so far.
Just kidding -- Meredith finds out that John Doe is actually George O'Malley (T.R. Knight) who ends up dying on the operating table.
Great.
Season 6 "Death and All His Friends"
We were all clutching our hearts and trying not to throw things at our TV during the Season 6 finale -- the one with the crazed gunman on the loose literally shooting whomever, whenever on site.
So besides everyone getting shot (Derek, Reed, Alex, Owen, Charles), Christina Yang (Sandra Oh) has to operate on Derek with a gun to her head and Meredith begging the gunman to shoot her instead. By the way, Meredith was pregnant at the time (she ended up miscarrying).
This episode was just stressful.
Season 8 "Flight"
To this day, we're still scared of flying because of this episode.
Pretty much all the characters we love hop on a small plane that ends up crashing and we're left with Lexie (Chyler Leigh) dying as Mark Sloan (Eric Dane) holds her hand and tells her he loves her. Oh and also Shepherd is missing with a disfigured hand and Meredith is out trying to find him.
This was literally the most dramatically intense episode ever and we will never forgive Shonda Rhimes for her ruthlessness on Season 8.
Season 9 "Perfect Storm"
OK, aside from the fact that Meredith Grey had to have a C-section in the freakin' dark due to a power outage from a hurricane, Dr. Richard Webber (James Pickens, Jr.) tries to restore power to the hospital and ends up face down in a puddle next to the dangerous electrical things.
Ugh. Why Shonda, why?!
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Even though practically every Grey's Anatomy season finale is dramatic as hell, not all of them left us curled up in a ball and a complete emotional wreck.
Here are the 7 that left us just completely shook.