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“Shonda, girl, how come you didn’t write any episodes of Grey’s this season?”
I get asked this question A LOT here on Twitter. So I thought I better answer it. Because I also get a lot of tweets suggesting that I have forgotten my Grey’s Anatomy baby now that I have my Scandal baby. Which is crazy. Since everyone knows that mothers don’t forget their first born kids just because they have more kids. You know that. So that is not the reason.
Here’s why:
I have an AWESOME writing staff.
Unlike most shows, my staff has been with me for years. Years and year and years. I mean, on a lot of shows, they have whole rooms of new writers every single season. On Grey’s, I have mostly writers who have been on the show since Season 1 and Season 2. We’re bonded. We’re a family. And they all speak “Shonda” fluently. There’s Tony and Joan who run the writers room (Tony, FYI, directed the musical episode that some of you love so much). There’s Stacy McKee who has been with GA since Season 1 and wrote the amazing documentary episode (These Arms of Mine) that continues to be one of my favorite episodes of all time. There’s Zoanne Clack (also here since Season 1! and she’s a DOCTOR!) who wrote The Time Warp episode where we got to see mumbling Miranda Bailey — another of my all time favorites. We’ve got brilliantly funny Bill Harper who wrote If/Then, the awesome alternate universe episode. There’s Debora Cahn (who — get this — LIVES IN NEW YORK CITY and just calls us on the phone to talk stuff over and then WRITES these amazing scripts) who, until this season, is the only person besides me to write a GA season finale (seasons 5 and 7 in case you were wondering). The list goes on and on.
These are amazing brilliant people. They are MY people. After 8 seasons, we’re at the place where I can sit in the writers room and discuss what should happen with the characters, what their arcs are, act out some scenes and then go away and come back to find a fully formed script written by one of my very talented writers that is pretty much exactly how I would have written the very same story. And then I can give notes and tweak it and sit down and rewrite some of the big scenes that I can’t describe to anyone because I just hear them in my head. It’s a wonderful gift to be able to work with such a talented writing staff whom I have known for so many seasons and whom I trust so unreservedly with this baby I’ve got called Grey’s Anatomy.
It’s a gift. Especially in a year in which I had three shows. In a year in which I had to end of my shows. Ending Private Practice was so emotional for me and the Grey’s writers gave me the time and space to grieve my show and do what needed to be done. And I had a new show that was getting a full season order for the first time. That needed to be done correctly. And having those Grey’s writers on my team made it possible to do that. I also had a new baby. An actual Tiny Human that needed me A LOT. And the Grey’s Writers Room rallied around that too (they also smooched on my baby and walked her and carried her and sang to her because they are fabulous people and also because they are obsessed with babies).
My point is, I’m lucky. And I’m grateful. Because these people rock. And they excel at their jobs. And sometimes they are better at being me than I am.
This year’s finale was written by Stacy McKee. It’s brilliant. And very well-done. And exactly how I would have written it. Which probably means some of you are gonna be furious with us all summer long and some of you are gonna love us.
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Just because I felt like it: Here’s is a picture of a portion of Meredith and Derek’s bedroom. You can see that we removed the portion of the wall in the OLD house where Derek drew the tumor and moved it to the new house. Which was something I insisted on.
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Hey TWEEPLES! GREY SLOAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IS TWEETING!
Something fun is happening right now (right this very second!) in the world of Grey’s Anatomy. To coincide with the re-naming of Seattle Grace as the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, all of the characters from Grey’s Anatomy are now on twitter and will be actively tweeting each Thursday night during the west coast airing of Grey’s Anatomy.
(Okay, and remember: these are CHARACTERS. They are not real people. This is just an awesome way to add to your GA viewing experience. So the tweets have been written by some awesome people who work in the Grey’s Writers Bungalow — yay!)
So, all of you Grey’s lovers out there, if you want to know what our characters are thinking when they’re NOT on-screen, go to this page and follow them. We’re all very excited to see how this will turn out!!!!
Love this! (without the edges cut off!)
So here’s what happens when awesome CNN journalist (and fellow Dartmouth alum) @jaketapper and I are left to our own devices on the Oval Office set at #Scandal. We play a game I like to call I AM PRESIDENT. It’s a really good game. If you had your own fake Oval Office, I bet you’d play too…
EXCLUSIVE FOR GLADIATORS: And once again, EVERYTHING CHANGES. #AmericasBaby #Scandal #GameChanger @ScandalABC
Okay, so tonight the finale of Private Practice aired.
Calling it a finale is weird because when you watch it, it’s kind of…NOT a finale.
I mean it IS. We are done. It’s been crazy sad and strange to be done but we are. So it was the series finale. It’s just that, the episode when you watched it probably didn’t FEEL like a finale.
The entire SEASON was a finale. Each episode (dedicated to each character) worked to wrap up their series-long arcs. To complete them. To finish their stories. So we didn’t really need a big finish. The season itself was the big finish.
Also, I had a very strong desire to NOT end the show. Not in the traditional where characters die or move away or shut down the practice. I felt like I wanted them all to be happy. I felt like, after all our characters had been through, they deserved to be happy. And so I very much wanted you to leave the final episode with this one feeling: that life at Seaside Wellness is going to continue to go on just as it has for the past 6 seasons. That Addison and Sam and Charlotte and Violet and Cooper and Jake and Naomi and Amelia are going to continue living and working at the practice (and Sheldon’s going to sit on his beach in Fiji) and Mason and the rest of the kids are going to grow up and they’re all going to be happy. Or at least all right.
Life at Seaside Wellness is going to go on. We just aren’t going to get to see it anymore.
The script for the finale was long. Like, LOOOONG. Because I was in denial that it was all ending. Because I was freaking out. And because I was trying to smother any and all emotion I might have about it so that I could get through it. The script was LONG.
So some scenes were cut out of the final 42 minute show you watched. Some scenes that were cut were scenes that I loved.
Like Violet offering Charlotte and Cooper the use of Pete’s office to be a nursery and everybody bringing their kids to work everyday from now on. There was a great shot of the Cooplets and Lucas and little Henry at one year old all playing in Pete’s old office. Which felt very circle of life-y since Pete died at the beginning of this season.
I also had to cut Cooper and Charlotte booking a hotel room at the end to have a wild night of sex. But then they decided they were too exhausted for sex and all they admit to one another that all they want is sleep and room service and movies. And Charlotte uttered my favorite line ever: “I have never loved you more.” Cutting that almost killed me.
I cut Addison and Jake having wedding night sex and Amelia and James having an argument over his response to Sheldon’s grief. I cut a dinner scene with Jake and Naomi and Addison on the deck where they overhear and awkward fight between Sam and his girlfriend.
Sam…
You wanted him with Addison. A lot of you did. My sister did. She yelled at me about it almost every single day. But here’s the thing: Sam was Addison’s best friend’s husband. And while I adored them together, I wanted Addison to be able to truly be changed. And be fresh. And Sam…
I wanted Sam with Naomi. I just did. I love Naomi. When Audra left the show to return to New York to win another Tony and do what she does best, I was thrilled for her. But I was sad for Naomi. Because while I loved Fife and BOY did I love Fife…
Look, when you begin a show you have a vision in your head of how it’s going to end. And my vision of the end of this show was always about Sam realizing that he had been out there looking all around for something new and different when he should have been looking at home. Sam is guy who had a mid-life crisis and blew up his marriage and never understood why. And in my mind, end-game for Sam was always Naomi. I didn’t bank on Naomi going to New York. I didn’t bank on having to figure out how to do it so soon. But it had to be done. Sam had to get his house in order. For him. And for Addison.
I very much needed Addison to come full circle. To no longer think of herself as a cheater. To have grown up. To have…evolved.
And I needed her to get her best friend back by her side. Because I’m leaving. And so are you. We’re not watching her anymore. We’re Violet’s patient, we’re off to France. And if Addison’s life is going to be going on at Seaside Wellness without us, I wanted to know she had everything she needed to be okay. And now she does.
It’s imperfect logic, I know. But I’ve never ended a show before so…you know…cut me some slack. I’m flawed. I’m very flawed. Cut me some slack. Private Practice was our home. Now our home is gone.
111 episodes. We did our best to entertain you. We had a great time and we hope you did too. Truly, this cast and crew are perfect amazing people and you should follow them anywhere they go. I’m grateful for them and their talents and I’m grateful for you and your viewership.
It’s meant the world.
-Shonda
By REQUEST and for your viewing pleasure…
The Grey-Shepherd Family!
I FOUND IT! It took me a moment. We had to hunt it down. But FINALLY, per your request, I present to you here the coveted photo of Callie, Arizona and Sofia that resides in the Torres/Robbins bedroom!
