Gray’s Anatomy is celebrating its twentieth anniversary as Season 21 performs out on the 2025 TV schedule, and through the years that Ellen Pompeo has been portraying Meredith Gray, she’s given beginning to 3 kids. Whereas not all superstar kiddos are invested of their dad and mom’ tasks, 15-year-old Stella does watch Gray’s Anatomy. Or, I suppose I ought to say the teenager used to watch, as a result of Pompeo revealed there was one scene that was so intense, it made her cease.
With all 20 accomplished seasons obtainable to stream, Gray’s Anatomy is without doubt one of the most rewatchable TV collection ever and top-of-the-line exhibits to binge on Netflix. Ellen Pompeo’s daughter took benefit of that Netflix subscription to look at the early days of Meredith Gray, however the actress mentioned on The Jennifer Hudson Present that one Season 5 episode put an finish to that. Pompeo instructed the host:
I watched just a few seasons together with her. And I feel she had it, like lots of people do, once they see 007. Once they see that George O’Malley died, they’re identical to, ‘I am achieved, I simply cannot do it anymore.’ So I feel she made it so far as that.
This response makes a lot sense to me. I used to be older than 15 when Season 5’s “Now or By no means” — certainly one of Gray’s Anatomy’s greatest episodes — first aired, and I’m undecided to this present day if I’ve absolutely recovered.
In probably the most surprising deaths of the collection, a person is dropped at the hospital after being hit and dragged by a bus. Unrecognizable from his accidents and unable to talk, the person takes Meredith’s hand and attracts George O’Malley’s nickname “007” on her palm to let her understand it’s him. Meredith gasps, screaming, “Oh God!” earlier than working by the halls shouting, “It’s George!”
Ellen Pompeo instructed People who Stella did the identical factor, saying:
Double-oh seven. Which, by the way in which, my daughter had the identical response when she noticed the 007. She actually cried. I needed to movie it and I could not maintain it collectively.
Truthfully, tears for days over right here. I can positively see how that episode may make somebody select to cease watching Gray’s Anatomy, although Stella in all probability skilled another uncomfortable moments even earlier than that one. Ellen Pompeo mentioned Stella was fairly unimpressed with Meredith begging a person to like her within the notorious “Choose me, select me, love me” scene.
There was additionally Meredith and George’s catastrophe intercourse to get by, and I’m certain Ellen Pompeo needed to reply some questions on the entire panties-on-the-bulletin-board scenario. And though it didn’t contain her personal mom, one has to surprise if Stella cringed as a lot as the remainder of us throughout Izzie and Denny’s ghost intercourse scene.
Gray’s Anatomy might have misplaced at the very least one viewer with that massive 007 twist, but when she ever desires to leap again into it, it’s there for her. Along with streaming on Netflix, all the collection can be obtainable with a Hulu subscription, together with Season 21, with episodes dropping the day after they air at 10 p.m. ET Thursdays on ABC.