fan of “Grey’s Anatomy” Midway through Season 11 of Shonda Rhimes’ long-running medical drama, Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd, played by Patrick Dempsey, appears onscreen with his secret lover-turned-wife Meredith Gray (Ellen Pompeo). People were shocked when he died. beside him. Although first introduced as a one-night stand in the show’s first season, Derek turned out to be one of its most important characters (though the series premiered in 2005 as a modest mid-season stand-in). ). The series stars him as a brilliant, world-class neurosurgeon who woos a first-year intern (Meredith), but it’s revealed on the show that he has an estranged wife. (To be fair, Kate Walsh appears as Addison Shepard, wearing a giant fur coat and saying that Meredith “must be the woman I’m sleeping with.”) [her] “Husband” is wonderfulEven if it made Derek look really smacked. )
Throughout the series, Meredith and Derek battle their ups and downs, date other people, and argue about the future. Finallythey get married (on a post-it note), adopt a child, have two more, and become a happy family. So what’s the problem? At Shondaland, we can do anything. everytime I’ll make a mistake. But why exactly did Dempsey leave the show, and why did Rhimes choose to kill Derek instead of just abandoning him? (Simply put, Shonda Rhimes is a God of Revenge But I’ll get back to that.)
In which episode of Grey’s Anatomy does Derek Shepherd die?
In the 21st episode of season 11, “Grey’s Anatomy” killed off one of its original characters in a particularly brutal way. The story is as follows. In the aptly named piece “How to Save a Life” (taken from a song by The Fray that soundtracks a major episode in season 2), Derek is on his way to the airport when he spots a speeding car. Immediately after that, a two-car accident occurred on the side of the road. As a doctor, he naturally stops and helps. Among the wreckage, he finds mother and daughter Sarah (Che Landon) and Winnie (Savannah Paige Ray) trapped inside the SUV, and after freeing them, he stops the speeding car. When they checked, they found a teenage couple. The girl, Alana (Allie Grant), is shaken but appears unharmed, but her boyfriend Charlie (Robbie Rasmussen), who was driving, is not happy. (Also, their car explodes, because it’s Shonda Rhimes) really like Drama. )
Like any good doctor, Derek gets everyone to safety and when the ambulance arrives, he jumps into his car and helps them get in. All is well, and he plans to fly to Washington, D.C., to quit his job in medical research at the request of the President of the United States (Fitzgerald Grant, played by Rhimes’ Tony Goldwyn, who is never named). other “Scandal”). Then disaster strikes…again.
How does Derek Shepherd die on Grey’s Anatomy?
Patrick Dempsey’s real-life obsession with professional car racing can be traced through the story of his character on Grey’s Anatomy. There’s a whole subplot at the beginning of season 7 where Derek Shepherd keeps getting arrested for reckless driving. do It’s kind of a point to note that Shonda Rhimes, the aforementioned Grey’s Anatomy god of vengeance, is back to write her first episode since Season 8 just to kill off Derek in an insane way. I feel like I’m being car accident. After leaving the scene of an unrelated car accident, Derek is hit by a semi-truck on the driver’s side and is rushed to a small, under-equipped teaching hospital in rural Washington state.
From the moment the truck crashes into his car, Derek never utters a word out loud on screen again. In voiceover, Dempsey narrates Derek’s internal monologue, begging the (mostly) incompetent doctors to get a head CT scan as soon as possible. Despite the objections of surgical resident Dr. Penelope Blake (Rhymes regular Samantha Sloyan), they decide to attend to the trauma, and by the time the neurosurgeon arrives, Derek has his pupil blown out and is declared brain dead. It was done. Meredith arrives at the hospital with her two children and agrees to remove Derek from life support, telling the staff that they should have done a head CT scan. (Dr. Blake reappears later in the series, much to Meredith’s chagrin.) It’s a truly heartbreaking sequence of events, but the saddest moment is definitely Meredith telling Derek it’s okay. It’s a moment. He can go, and she’s okay.
What Patrick Dempsey said about leaving Grey’s Anatomy
“How to Save a Life” aired in 2015, and a year later, Patrick Dempsey said: people magazine To promote his film Bridget Jones’ Baby, he spoke at length to the media about his departure during the process. “I’m so grateful for ‘Grey’s Anatomy,'” Dempsey said at the time. “It gave me the opportunity to do all sorts of things. But it also came at a cost.”
“I think after a certain point, no matter how much money you make, you want to be in control of your own schedule,” Dempsey says, and that’s understandable. Due to the amount of time it took to play Derek Shepherd, the actor rarely saw his wife and children. “It’s been long enough. It’s time to move on to other things and other interests. I probably should have moved on a few years earlier. I ended up staying a little longer than I should have.”
Dempsey also said something interesting. That means Dempsey and Shonda Rhimes made the decision together to kill off Derek and kept it a secret from the rest of the cast and crew, so they didn’t even have a table for Derek’s final match. episode. “It was obvious that we were both ready. But we kept it very quiet,” Dempsey revealed. “I knew he was going to be gone, but I didn’t know how she was going to take it. Shonda just said, ‘I’m going to do it in a really nice way,’ and she did what she had to do. I I thought, ‘That was really interesting, and it was beautiful and symbolic in a lot of ways. ”
Was Patrick Dempsey’s on-set behavior the real reason he quit Grey’s Anatomy?
Despite Patrick Dempsey’s comments on the “beautiful and iconic” ending Shonda Rhimes wrote for Derek Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy, Dempsey’s actions on set had something to do with it. Rumors have been flying around for years that it might be. Excerpt from Lynette Rice’s oral history about the show, “How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy.” hollywood reporter When the book was released in 2021, Dempsey was an absolute terror behind the scenes.
“There was a personnel issue,” executive producer James D. Parriott said in the book. “It wasn’t sexual in any way. He was kind of terrorizing the set. “Some of the cast members had all kinds of PTSD with him.” Interviews with the writer, Rhimes, and Dempsey himself explain that this was due to Dempsey’s star power. and The fact that Rhimes wrote Derek as an ideal man made him a kind of intimidating presence, but unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be where the story ends. Co-stars such as Tina Majorino and Brooke Smith praised him and said he was a great colleague, but others did not feel the same way.
Apparently, Dempsey started complaining about having to stay late on set, which irritated the other actors, especially lead actress Ellen Pompeo…and executive producer Janine Renshaw said Dempsey had to stay late on the set. He said it was obvious he wanted to go out and spend time with his family. Then other actors on the show would complain. About Dempsey and an anonymous “longtime crew member” said it clearly got to him. “He was just locked out in the cold. His behavior wasn’t great, but he had nowhere to go. He was so miserable. He didn’t have anyone to talk to. ”In the end, Dempsey realized that he had stayed on to earn a portion of the generous salary offered by ABC, and it was time to move on, but he did He reappears on the show several years after his exit.
Will Patrick Dempsey return to ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ after season 11?
Season 17 of Grey’s Anatomy aired in the fall of 2020, so it’s safe to say it was a very strange time for the show’s story. and Audiences are staying at home thanks to the ongoing lockdown and the raging coronavirus pandemic. Frankly, this series handled it as well as it could. Dressing the characters in full medical protective gear made sense for the story, and in many ways the medical drama was obligated to deal with a real-life pandemic. The show wasn’t like that. have To put Meredith Gray into a coronavirus-related coma and create a dream beach in Meredith’s mind where dead characters return to fight…but for some reason, it happened.
So Patrick Dempsey returns to Grey’s Anatomy – in a dream he appears on the beach and reunites with Meredith (they even have a real “wedding” that never happened in real life). In an interview with varietyDempsey said that reuniting with Ellen Pompeo was very emotional (in a good way) and that he loved the way then-showrunner Krista Vernoff found a way to have him appear again. “I thought it was a beautiful way to end it,” Dempsey told Mark Malkin. “The idea was to give people hope because they are such an iconic couple.” We have lost so many people this year. Thinking that angels are all around us and taking care of us is a good message to send to such a dark world in which we live. So it was a beautiful ending to this story for all of us. I’m very grateful that we were able to do that and I’m glad that the fans really liked it.”
“Grey’s Anatomy” is available to stream on both Hulu and Netflix.
