Grey’s Anatomy continues to be going, and has simply began its nineteenth season. During the just about twenty years it has been working, there’s been love, loss of life, tragedy (a number of tragedy, if we’re being sincere), intercourse, and plenty of, many medical doctors going via all types of experiences within the hospital. Its protagonist, Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), has endured probably the most tragedies, one thing the present would possibly acknowledge as some indicators are making us surprise if she’s leaving Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Let’s have a look at the entire present, and determine that are Grey’s Anatomy‘s finest seasons, ranked.
10/10 Season 9
This season could be the saddest in all of Grey’s historical past (and that’s saying one thing), as all our medical doctors have bodily and psychological scars after the aircraft accident that ended season eight. The season begins with the loss of life of Mark Sloane (Eric Dane), and will get darker from there: Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) is having issues dealing with the lack of her leg, Derek (Patrick Dempsey) has issues regaining using his hand, and Meredith makes use of all her angst and trauma over Lexie’s (Chyler Leigh) loss of life within the new crop of interns. The season ends on a brighter be aware, because the hospital is purchased by the medical doctors who had the accident, and so they renamed it Grey Sloane Memorial. Also, Meredith will get pregnant.
9/10 Season 11
This is the season the place Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd dies, in one of many saddest tv episodes ever, as we hearken to the voiceover narrate the errors the medical doctors are making, and being the primary to grasp that he will die. Other necessary moments of the season are additionally on the unhappy facet: Jackson (Jesse Williams) and April Kepner (Sarah Drew) are having their child, which is simply going to stay for a few hours, and the destruction of Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona’s marriage. As at all times, the present tries to carry some hope in the long run. Meredith is pregnant with Derek’s child; she’s visited by Derek’s sister, Dr. Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone), and he or she will get a brand new half-sister in Dr. Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary). Maggie is the lovechild of Meredith’s mom and the chief, Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr.).
8/10 Season 10
This season is remembered because the one which ends with Cristina Yang’s (Sandra Oh) leaving the hospital (and the present). The entire season made it clear that she had outgrown Grey Sloane Memorial, and was destined for greater issues, as was the actress, as Oh was, certainly, the perfect actress in the entire forged (Killing Eve confirmed how way more she was in a position to do with an excellent script). Although her departure broke all our hearts, there was additionally some excellent news. This is the season the place Meredith and Derek undertake their daughter, Zola, and it’s additionally the time when Jackson interrupts April’s marriage ceremony to proclaim his love for her, and so they each elope collectively. One lovely send-off and two new beginnings is a fairly good and optimistic season in Grey’s phrases.
7/10 Season 5
By this season, Grey’s Anatomy knew what it was, and each actor understood their characters completely, so it was time to do some extra adventurous issues whereas maintaining all the things that had labored earlier than. That made season 5 one among contrasts. It had some nice concepts, like Derek and Meredith getting engaged, and Izzie (Katherine Heigl) and Alex (Justin Chambers) getting married as she fights her most cancers. It additionally had very dangerous ones, like getting George (T.R. Knight), one of many authentic 5 residents, hit by a bus, and, particularly, Denny Duquette (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as a ghost who nonetheless can have ghost intercourse with Izzie.
6/10 Season 4
In this season, our interns are rising up and have simply change into residents. Well, all apart from George, in what appears to be like extra like an outdoor determination to have somebody we all know with the brand new crop of interns, that one thing that might occur to O’Malley. With this new batch of interns, Grey’s Anatomy began introducing new characters; one thing it nonetheless does. One of those interns is Lexie Grey, Meredith’s half-sister. Season 4 has most of our favourite surgeons from the entire present seem collectively, whereas everyone seems to be making dangerous romantic choices: Meredith and Derek break up, George and Izzie have an affair, and Callie begins having doubts about her sexuality.
5/10 Season 8
Season eight has many disagreements between our favourite characters. Meredith and Derek are on the outs for some time as a result of she tampered together with his Alzheimer’s medical trial. That determination additionally creates a battle between her, Alex, and Bailey. There are additionally issues in Cristina and Owen’s (Kevin McKidd) marriage as they’ve reverse views on having youngsters. If all that wasn’t sufficient, that is the season that ends with the scary, tragic aircraft crash. An occasion that might change the present without end.
4/10 Season 1
The one which began all of it, the place we adopted the lives and careers of Meredith, Cristina, Izzie, George, and Alex, whereas we acquired to know each different necessary character within the present, particularly the unimaginable Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) a.ok.a. The Nazi. It additionally had the perfect concept ever, in casting Patrick Dempsey as Ellen Pompeo’s romantic counterpart, as a result of Meredith and Derek have been the engine on which the present ran on for a lot of seasons. There have been additionally many affairs all through the hospital, Harry Werksman stated within the e-book Not Just Sex: An Oral History of Grey’s Anatomy’s Trickiest Medical Scenes: “I was the one who gave the staff syphilis. I just happened to have read, prior to writing the episode, about an outbreak of syphilis among the staff at a hospital in New Hampshire. It happened exactly the way we did it on the show, where there was a nurse who was sleeping with doctors.”
3/10 Season 3
In season three, all the things nonetheless felt fairly new, and the present knew methods to shock us with distinctive episodes, just like the one the place there was a ferry boat crash. That accident helped begin most of the season’s plots. It additionally was one of many near-death experiences Meredith had on Grey’s Anatomy. This season introduces us to Mark “McSteamy” Sloane, who’s in Seattle to get Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) again earlier than she leaves for her spinoff Private Practice. As at all times, there’s some tragedy. Meredith’s mom dies, George’s father does too, and Preston Burke (Isaiah Washington) leaves Cristina on the altar, making a stunning ending for a present that had already discovered its groove, whereas saying goodbye, for the primary time, to a forged member that had been there from the beginning.
2/10 Season 6
Season six was Grey’s Anatomy virtually on the peak of its powers. It had tragedy, love, intercourse, heartache, powerful profession choices, and an lively shooter roaming the hospital in an exciting two-part season finale. This is the season the place everyone is mourning George’s loss of life and the one the place, after surviving her most cancers, Izzie leaves with out her husband, Alex. It has the merger between the 2 hospitals, which brings some new blood with Jackson and April, and that tense, season finale, the place anybody might die.
1/10 Season 2
This is the season that made Grey’s Anatomy the hit sensation it was and nonetheless is. After a primary season that established its character and tone, these 27 episodes have been hitting on all cylinders, as it has among the finest episodes in the entire collection. Especially the love triangle between Meredith, Derek, and his estranged spouse, Addison, the place we might see and perceive all sides, however we knew Meredith and Derek belonged collectively. About their simple chemistry, Patrick Dempsey instructed Entertainment Weekly: “With Ellen, there was the magic. I just played with her. We were just present to each other and listening to each other. It was always very magical”
Many of probably the most memorable moments that folks nonetheless speak about occurred throughout this season. The tragic love story between Izzie and Denny; the post-Super Bowl episode with Cristina Ricci, the place Meredith has her fingers holding a bomb inside a affected person; the 2 prepare crash victims linked by a pole via each their chests; Bailey having her child whereas her husband is having mind surgical procedure… we might maintain going as this was the season of this medical present that, virtually twenty years later, continues to be going.