Grey's Anatomy Has Made Grey Sloan Meredith's Prison

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Warning: SPOILERS for Grey’s Anatomy season 18 episode 16 ahead.

Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital had always been Meredith Grey’s happy place, but Grey’s Anatomy season 18 effectively transformed the hospital into Meredith’s prison. Grey Sloan wasn’t just the place where Meredith grew as a surgeon through her residency or where she performed the surgery that won her the Harper Avery. Because her mother Ellis also worked there, Meredith had always seen Grey Sloan Memorial as her happy place, where nothing could go wrong, although it often did, as proven by Derek being shot in the chest in season 6 or Meredith herself almost dying from Covid in season 17. Despite all that, Meredith always came back to Grey Sloan, but Grey’s Anatomy season 18, episode 16 showed how Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital might have become Meredith’s prison.

While Grey’s Anatomy season 18 started with Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) choosing to work at the Grey Center with David Hamilton (Peter Gallagher) in Minnesota, this was mostly due to the fact that she couldn’t have missed the chance to work on a Parkinson’s trial. However, Meredith’s loyalty to Grey Sloan was never in doubt. Even when Hamilton offered Meredith a permanent position in Grey’s Anatomy season 18, episode 13, Meredith was ambivalent towards the offer because she didn’t like how Hamilton surprised her with it and because she was still very sure she would’ve returned to Grey Sloan Memorial after the trial. Things changed for Meredith on Grey's Anatomy in episodes 15 and 16, when she realized that since Grey Sloan was the place where she did her residency, people at Grey Sloan would never see the person she became but only who she was when she first started.

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