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Grey's Anatomy executive producer Krista Vernoff has announced that the series will address the health crisis caused by the coronavirus.
by Melanie Bonvard
The coronavirus pandemic will be at the heart of the series Grey's Anatomy. Actress Ellen Pompeo mentioned it a few months ago and it looks like it's official. Series producer Krista Vernoff revealed the information during the Quaranstreaming: Comfort TV That Keeps Us Going, organized by the Television Academy: "We are definitely going to tackle this pandemic. You can't be a long-running medical series and not talk about real life." she explains. To make the episodes that will address the health crisis as realistic as possible, the writers met real doctors who practice during the pandemic. If every year, the production calls on the experience of doctors in the field, this year we see that the tone is totally different in view of the multiple testimonies collected: "Every year doctors come to tell us their story, and usually they tell us their funniest or craziest stories. This year it feels more like therapy."
Krista Vernoff claims to have witnessed truly poignant conversations and testimonies where reality is a real slap in the face: “The doctors come and we're the first people they talk to about this kind of experience. They literally shake and try not to cry, they're pale, and they talk about it like a war, a war that they have not been trained. " She also returned to the character of Owen who, in all likelihood, will act as a counterbalance to the difficult management of the medical profession during this dark period: "One of our big conversations about Owen's character is that he's actually trained for it in a way that most other doctors aren't."
For Krista Vernoff it is a real responsibility for the production to deal with this subject within Grey's Anatomy : "I feel our series has the opportunity and the responsibility to tell some of these stories." Rest assured, the producer promises humor and some romance for season 17, whose filming has not yet started. The biggest challenge for the writers will be to succeed in combining the current health context with the usual tone of Grey's Anatomy.