Grey's Anatomy S18 Finale Revealed How Bad Meredith's Ellis Curse Is
Warning! SPOILERS about Grey’s Anatomy season 18 ahead.
The announcement of Kate Burton returning to portray Ellis Grey in Grey’s Anatomy season 18 had many speculate Meredith was close to being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, but the reason behind her presence actually pointed to how bad Meredith’s Ellis curse still is. Ellis and Meredith’s relationship with her were much more central in Grey’s Anatomy seasons 1 to 3, although Ellis reappeared regularly throughout the show. As Meredith’s career progressed, though, despite her success being increasingly compared to her mother’s, it'd be easy to think Meredith was finally freed of the expectations to obtain Ellis Grey’s greatness.
While viewers always saw Meredith as a character in her own right and her successes and mistakes as a product of Meredith’s choices rather than overplaying Ellis’ influence on them, Grey’s Anatomy season 18 showed how firm the grip Ellis’ image had on Meredith still was for her daughter. Despite going to Minnesota to meet with David Hamilton (Peter Gallagher) to see the newly built Grey Center in Ellis’ honor, Meredith’s nightmares of Ellis were almost nonexistent when she started her work in Minnesota, while much more present in Seattle. Meredith’s fear of not doing useful work with the extra time she had been given after her Covid-19 illness was voiced by her at the start of Grey’s Anatomy season 18, but it seemed that her problem with dreaming and seeing Ellis had less to do with that and more with comparing her life and career choices to those of her mother’s.
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