It ought to come as no shock that TV’s main medical dramas are planning to incorporate COVID-19 into their storylines; from New Amsterdam to The Good Doctor to after all, the mom of all of them Grey’s Anatomy, it might be tough and probably even foolish for a present set in a modern-day hospital to faux the continued coronavirus disaster is not occurring. How they will make the pandemic a part of their storylines and season openers is one other matter altogether, although, and whereas most exhibits have not but began filming new episodes, they’re exhausting at work determining methods to write the largest medical occasion of our time into their sequence.
Beforehand, Entertainment Weekly reported that Gray’s govt producer Krista Vernoff had mentioned the COVID storylines would not be all bleak, with the present possible revealing the “pleasure and enjoyable available in [medical professionals] who’re quarantining away from the hospital”; now, a brand new report is saying that the COVID tales we’ll see will bounce forward additional than the place we left medical doctors of Gray Sloan final season.
Talking to ET Online, Giacomo Gianniotti revealed that Gray’s will kick off Season 17 “a month and a half” into the pandemic.
“It’ll happen a little bit past the place we left off within the final season. We’d have some flashbacks. We’d have some issues the place we’re referencing final season, simply to have context main up. However we’re going to have a little bit leap after we begin this season by way of time,” he defined.
Gianniotti additionally mentioned that whereas he hasn’t acquired any scripts, and manufacturing — beforehand supposed to start out in August however now hoping to renew in September — continues to be up within the air, he thinks his character Andrew DeLuca will do properly with this new problem.
“I believe he thrives in chaos and he definitely proved that in previous seasons that when there’s quite a bit happening, he steps up,” he defined. “That is going to be an clearly traumatic scenario, however I believe an thrilling one the place he can actually shine after which thrive.”
Gray’s Anatomy Seasons 1-16 can be found on Netflix.
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