Spoiler alert: The following contains particulars from the Season 20 premiere of “Grey’s Anatomy.”

A malfunctioning self-driving vehicle repeatedly ramming into an ambulance. 5 interns virtually on the chopping block after the pointless dying of a affected individual. An attending surgeon on dying’s door over a unusual dental complication.

Positive, ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” (Thursdays, 8 EDT/PDT) began its unprecedented twentieth season – and with it, its bizarre head-scratching, high-drama extreme jinks. Due to the aftermath of ultimate 12 months’s actors’ and writers’ strikes, the 20th season consists of solely 10 episodes, half of the on a regular basis 20-episode run for the longest-running primetime medical drama. It’s a welcome change for this fan, who’s seen all 420 episodes on the very least as quickly as, if not quite a lot of events.

“It does will allow you to inform a couple of completely completely different tales that presumably you wouldn’t be succesful to tell in a 20-or-plus season,” says authorities producer Meg Marinis. “Points are far more speedy.”

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The season kicks off correct the place the Season 19 finale ended. Teddy (Kim Raver) is throughout the midst of a major properly being catastrophe. She in the long run lives after an emergent valve various ensuing from bacterial endocarditis. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) walks once more her controversial take that a few years of Alzheimer’s evaluation are mistaken, although she asks Amelia (Caterina Scorsone) to keep up investigating on the aspect. The interns’ love lives and careers are in limbo ― similar to when Izzie (Katherine Heigl) decrease the LVAD wire in Season 2 ― nevertheless no one loses their job. In its place, Nick (Scott Speedman) resigns as residency director and a well-recognized face, Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson), takes his place.

Longtime followers will uncover that the season premiere feels an horrible like its pilot episode from 2005, with Bailey uttering a extremely acquainted 5 phrases: “I’ve 5 pointers …” These had been the first traces she suggested then-interns Meredith, George (T.R. Knight), Izzie and Cristina (Sandra Oh). Goosebumps shot up and down my arms: “Grey’s” felt once more, for the first time in awhile.

“Bailey is simply not going to make it simple for these interns,” Marinis teases. She’s labored on the current since Season 3, and ensures additional Easter eggs all via the season. The theme of the season? Once more to fundamentals, after some heavy moments throughout the characters’ lives: a near-death experience, a non-wedding and a near-alcoholism relapse, for starters. “Loads occurred throughout the finale that it’s going to take awhile to unpack all of it,” Marinis says.

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Whereas fewer episodes is admittedly “a bummer,” Marinis says the writing workers wielded their scalpels ― er, pencils ― to their profit.

“We’ve got certainly not gotten this opportunity to do it that method,” she supplies. “Season 1 was fast, nevertheless that was on account of it was a model new sequence. Since then, we’ve got always had these truly prolonged seasons. We took the possibility to tell a pair tales in one other manner, which cannot have labored over higher than 10 episodes.”

Followers can rely on to see Meredith return (she’s scheduled to look in three additional episodes). “We’re so grateful that (Pompeo) continues to be so invested throughout the current,” Marinis says. Ditto Nick. “They merely had this wonderful chemistry and this wonderful forwards and backwards. And I actually really feel similar to the character moreover challenges her in a way.” Whereas the interns are literally lovable, “Grey’s” desires a dose of its eponymous “Grey” often to tie the current collectively.

What else can we look ahead to? Appearances from characters Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw) – who left in Season 14 ― with a serendipitous storyline you’ll have to attend and stay up for your self, and Nico Kim (Alex Landi), who catches up with ex Levi (Jake Borelli).

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How ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ (could) end

Any “Grey’s” fan is conscious of individuals are shocked the current continues to be on. And some of them assume it’s extreme time the current shut down its ORs for good (myself included). Marinis truly imagines what a perfect closing shot could look like, nevertheless producers had been pondering that 10 years up to now, too, and the current lasted one different decade anyway.

“That imaginative and prescient has to range, on account of our characters change and our tales change. I’ve imagined only a few other ways of the way it may end, nevertheless clearly I would confirm in with (creator Shonda Rhimes), and we might make it attainable for her imaginative and prescient and my imaginative and prescient align.”

For now, merely know that “Grey’s” will stick with it giving conventional “Grey’s.” Even when it seems as ridiculous as a self-driving vehicle repeatedly smacking that ambulance.