Grey’s Anatomy’s season 17 premiere.
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Watching the 17th season of
Grey’s Anatomy over a couple of weeks, around a month after my Covid-19 vaccination became fully effective, was a strangely retraumatizing experience.
When the season debuted in November 2020, many Americans were still in quarantine, and Covid-19 cases in the US were about to spike again. But I watched 16 episodes of it in May and June 2021, as cases were on a steep decline and vaccinations were on the rise. Life was returning to a semblance of normal, where we all tried to figure out the etiquette of who should still wear face masks and when. It played as an extremely recent period piece for me, and watching it was weird and discomfiting.
Lexie isn't the only one who turns up tonight's Grey's Anatoy's latest episode. Meredith Grey's dead sister, Lexie Grey, stars in Meredith's COVID fever beach dream on tonight's episode of Grey's Anatomy.