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Meredith and Cristina Will Always Be the Best Couple on 'Grey's Anatomy'


Tonight, Grey’s Anatomy will air its 300th episode. It’s a momentous occasion for a devoted fan like me, who has watched every single episode (and most more than once). I’ve stuck with the show through good and bad—from the first couple of seasons, when missing an episode kept you out of the pop-culture conversation, through the admittedly not-so-great middle years, and out the other side to today, when a large swath of people are shocked to find out the show’s still on the air.

We loyal fans have truly seen it all, especially when it comes to relationships. Der and Mer. Burke and Cristina. Meredith and the vet. Derek and Addie. Denny and Izzie. Alex and Izzie. Izzie and George. (I’m still annoyed about that one.) Callie and George. Arizona and Callie. McSteamy and Lexie. Jackson and April. April and that paramedic she left at the altar. Bailey and Ben. Alex and Jo…seriously, the limit does not exist when it comes to couples on this show.

But there is one pairing that reigns supreme: Meredith Grey and Cristina Yang.

Derek “McDreamy” Shepard may have been Meredith’s great love, but her “person” will always be Cristina—and vice versa. And that’s not just because (spoiler!) Derek’s dead. Like many great relationships that have come before, these two (played by Ellen Pompeo and Sandra Oh) got serious over cocktails. I can’t even imagine calling someone your “person” not being a part of the vernacular, and it’s all thanks to Yang and Grey.

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But being someone’s person is more than just hugs over boys, though those are super important. There’s a level of true and complete acceptance between Cristina and Meredith. They embrace each other’s perceived flaws—Cristina’s ambition, Meredith’s dark and twisty insides—sometimes even viewing them as strengths. That’s not to say that they haven’t had some emotionally-gutting fights, especially as Mer pursued both her career and a family at the same time. But never for a moment did I think they wouldn’t work it out.

These two will always choose each other—no “Pick Me, Choose Me, Love Me” speech required. The men in their lives, while loved wholly and deeply, come second and will often get the boot from their own beds if the ladies need each other. And they need each other a lot. I mean, a lot. They’ve gone through surgical residency, failed weddings, miscarriages, births, almost drownings, the death of parents and countless colleagues, friends and siblings, a hospital shooting, a plane crash, buying the hospital where they work (don’t ask!), and so many more crises that make for great TGIT viewing but can really test a relationship.

Through it all, Meredith and Cristina know that together they can face anything. Isn’t that everything you want out of a relationship? And when all else fails, they dance it out—like they did once last time before Cristina departed to take her dream job in Switzerland. Even her parting words to her forever bestie are perfect: “I gotta go. You stay here. You are a gifted surgeon with an extraordinary mind. Don’t let what he wants eclipse what you need. He’s very dreamy, but he’s not the sun. You are.” Swoon.

If only we could listen in on their FaceTime convos. Web spinoff perhaps, Shonda?

Until then, long live the Twisted Sisters.

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Shonda Rhimes and Ellen Pompeo Have a Pact About When They'll End 'Grey's Anatomy'


Grey’s Anatomy has been on the air for approximately 9 bazillion years. OK, that’s an exaggeration: It’s actually only been on for 12, but it feels like way more. And for good reason: The show has ripped through dozens of doctors, hundreds of over-the-top storylines, and thousands of steamy kissing scenes. One of the M.D.s was literally nicknamed “McSteamy,” people. What were you expecting?

Grey’s Anatomy‘s constantly-moving parts make it pretty confusing to follow, but there’s one constant that keeps fans comforted: Dr. Meredith Grey, the narrator of the series, played by Ellen Pompeo. She’s the thread that weaves each bonkers season of Grey’s Anatomy together. Without her, there’d be little narrative direction: Each episode would just be 42 minutes of random doctors sometimes doing their jobs but mostly boning. Meredith is an indispensable component.

And Rhimes will continue making Grey’s Anatomy so long as Pompeo wants to do it. That’s the only thing needed to keep the show going, according to her. When Pompeo wants to exit, that’s when Rhimes says she’ll end Grey’s Anatomy.

“Ellen and I have a pact that I’m going to do the show as long as she’s going to do the show,” Rhimes told E! News. “So the show will exist as long as both of us want to do it. If she wants to stop, we’re stopping. So I don’t know if we’ll see 600 [episodes], but I want to keep it feeling fresh. As long as there are fresh stories to tell and as long as we’re both excited about the stories being told, we’re in. So, we’ll see where that takes us.”

This makes sense, to be honest—and it’s sort of a given. I mean, Meredith Grey’s name is in the title of the show. It’d be ludicrous to produce it without her. The show would just be called….Anatomy…and that sounds ick.

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Even Fan Theories Can't Explain the Problematic Timeline of 'Grey's Anatomy'


At this point, Grey’s Anatomy, which returns tonight for its 14th season, is less of a show and more of a cultural institution. It’s the bedrock of the Shondaland empire, required viewing (and tweeting) for its legion of devoted fans, and the place young actors go for career-boosting arcs—much like ER before it or, on the East coast, Law & Order: SVU.

There was a time, however, when Grey’s was a show like (and unlike) any other, when it hadn’t been running for a thousand years and killed off a dozen main characters. A time when it was just this juicy drama starring really, really good-looking people that I would binge-watch with my camp friends at our semi-regular sleepovers. After those had petered out, I didn’t pay attention to the show until a couple months ago, when it was on at the gym and I found myself watching it; before I knew it, I had fallen down a hole and started the series from the beginning. (Side note: Grey’s is the perfect gym show because it’s addictive, chatty, and will make you terrified of death so you want to work out more.)

But friends, as I watched I noticed something that I never noticed before, but now it’s completely blown my mind and I can’t get past it: The first three seasons take place over the course of one calendar year. Just think about what that means for a second. That means by the time Burke leaves Christina at their wedding, he has known (not dated, not been engaged to, known) her for 12 months. Meanwhile, George falls in love with Meredith, sleeps with Meredith, loses his father, falls in love with Callie, marries Callie, and sleeps with Izzie between July and the next July, approximately. Let’s not even get into the Denny of it all.

If you watch the episodes week by week, you might think the show’s romances move kinda fast; if you look at it in terms of a single trip around the sun, they’re insane. These people start sleeping with each other within days of meeting one another, and they get married at an alarming rate. And apparently, it’s not only normal but good to not know if you want to be with someone on a week-to-week basis. From day one, these interns are like, “We gotta be extra smart and dedicated because there aren’t very many female interns and it’s a competitive program” before they immediately and ceaselessly start sleeping with their attendings and talking about it to anyone who will listen, ad nauseum. And then they break up a bunch! Over and over! In front of patients!

It makes sense that after a short first season (9 episodes) the writers would extend the intern year dynamic into the second season. They set up a pecking order and a chain of command, so, sure, they wanted to continue exploring that. But season 2 is also a whirlwind, including the fact that Bailey has a baby. If little Tuck was conceived on, say, the very first day of season 1 that means that by the middle of season 2, when Bailey delivers, nine months have passed, and the rest of season 2 and all of season 3 take place over the course of three more months?

And it doesn’t get better after season three: Seasons 4 and 5 are over the course of George’s second year as an intern, which means all of the many, many, many things that happen in the first five seasons of this show are supposed to be over two years. At the end of season five, these people have known each other for two years max.

I’m not alone in my confusion. After discovering this, I spent hours combing through timelines that superfans made online trying to make sense of it all, and it just doesn’t work, no matter how many convoluted fan theories—Lexie Grey doesn’t exist, for instance—you pile on top of it. Maybe the first seasons just exist on a different plane of existence. There are multiple references to Meredith being blonde even though she demonstrably isn’t and in the super early days, there was a cheesy theme song:

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Maybe (and most likely) the writers’ room just didn’t care. Or maybe—and hear me out here—Meredith’s arrival at Seattle Grace opened up a rift in the space-time continuum and suspended the laws of physics as we know them? Yeah, that’s probably it.



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This 'Grey's Anatomy' Season 14 Teaser Is Good News for Jackson and Maggie Shippers


Grey’s Anatomy returns for it’s 14th—yes, 14th—season on Thursday, September 28, and there are several questions on fans’ minds: Will Abigail Spencer be believable as Owen’s sister? (Remember, the actress who originated the role, Bridget Regan, couldn’t return due to scheduling conflicts.) How will the love triangle between Megan, Meredith, and Nathan unfold? And good God, will Jackson and Maggie get together?

Fans have been shipping “Jaggie” for a while now, but Jackson’s relationship with April has them wondering if they’re actually ever going to happen. The coupling seemed likely when April—who, remember, is Jackson’s ex-wife—told Maggie she thinks Jackson has feelings for her. The two did become close when Jackson treated Maggie’s dying mother, so it’s not far-fetched to think he started thinking of her romantically.

And this new #TGIT teaser is adding fuel to the fire. Granted, it’s just your standard trailer for Grey’s Anatomy—plus Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder, which also return September 28— but a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment suggests “Jaggie” is 100 percent on.

Around the 18-second mark, we see Jackson and Maggie warmly looking at each other and smiling. It isn’t much, but why would ABC include such a subtle moment in this splashy promo if it didn’t mean something huge?

Check it out for yourself, below:

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Kelly McCreary, who plays Maggie, opened up to Entertainment Weekly in August about a possible relationship between her character and Jackson. “What’s ironic is that all of the reasons the fans might not want Jackson and Maggie to get together are the exact things that make really great drama,” she said. “That’s true of life, too, the stuff that makes things a little bit messier is the stuff we think we don’t want, but ultimately makes us stronger, so if that’s where it goes, then there’s probably good story to mine and good lessons to teach there about humanity and God knows what else.”

Regardless of what happens, we’re more than ready for Grey’s Anatomy to come back. Is it September 28 yet?

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