Grey’s Anatomy fans are certain that the show is set to end following the latest episode, which saw Meredith Grey decide to move to Boston to try and find a cure for Alzheimer's - and many fans called the decision the beginning of the end of the popular show.
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Taking to Twitter, one person wrote: "This is really the end of an era, and I truly don’t know how to process this. #greysanatomy," while another fan added: "She’s leaving this is the end of Meredith Greys on #GreysAnatomy this is everything I CAAAANT." A third person tweeted: "When Meredith Grey leaves Grey+Sloan, an era will definitely have ended. Nothing will remain. No member of M.A.G.I.C. Nothing will be the same anymore."
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Another fan solemnly tweeted: "The beginning of the end of this great show has begun."
Ellen Pompeo is set to have a reduced role in season 19, and will appear in eight episodes while continuing to narrate each episode. Discussing her decision to take a step back, Kevin McKidd told E! News: "Ellen has been the captain of this ship all these years, and she’s about to start producing, so she needed to make room in her schedule for that.
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"The fact that she’s not leaving the show and is just gonna scale it back a bit—what I think is beautiful about it is that it still shows her love for the show."
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Ellen Pompeo has previously opened up about when she planned to leave the show, telling Variety back in 2020: "I didn’t ever think that I would stay on the show this long. It happened, and here I am. It’s been this incredible platform for me and allowed me to stay home with my kids so much and not travel and have the circus life of an actor.
"So I thought that it wasn’t the road less travelled, to stay on a television show for this many years, but actually it is the road less travelled. And so, that’s been ironic."
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