Gray’s Anatomy did the unthinkable with its Season 17 premiere:
It introduced Patrick Dempsey again as Derek Shepherd.
When you watch Grey’s Anatomy online, you realize Derek remains to be very a lot useless, so Dempsey won’t be staging a full-time return, sadly.
However he can be round for a number of episodes but, it appears.
“We are going to see extra of [Derek] this season,” showrunner Krisa Vernoff advised the Los Angeles Occasions. “This was not only a cameo. He’ll seem three extra occasions.”
Hooray, proper?
Derek appeared to Meredith as what gave the impression to be a figment of her creativeness when she was discovered chilly within the hospital car parking zone.
In the identical interview with the Los Angeles Occasions, Vernoff stated that to be able to pull off the large return, the whole lot was stored beneath wraps.
In reality, the scene was written to be a reunion between Meredith and her late mom Ellis Gray.
Whereas that might have nonetheless been a wild flip of occasions, we predict we communicate for nearly each Gray’s Anatomy fan there’s once we say that Derek’s return was higher.
“We did not inform the writers for the longest time. When she’s strolling and he or she appears to be like as somebody is looking to her, and he or she goes, ‘Derek?’ Within the script, I had it as Ellis Gray,” Vernoff stated.
“And he or she goes, ‘Mother?’ We learn it on the desk that means.
“No one knew what we had been doing — to the purpose that when the crew confirmed up on the day we shot the scene, no one knew. It was high secret.”
Dempsey stated that his return took place when Pompeo approached him with the thought of a return.
“I’ve been monitoring what Gray’s had been doing with giving masks, and ensuring that individuals had the proper tools, and it got here from that place,” the actor advised Deadline.
Eagle-eyed followers went again in Derek’s Instagram pictures and located a photograph of what Dempsey on the identical seaside with the identical face masks as within the behind the scene pictures.
Might he have been making an attempt to ship a touch to followers?
Positive appears that means.
What did you consider the emotional revelation?
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Catch the subsequent episode of Gray’s Anatomy on Thursday at 9/8c.
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