Grey’s Anatomy Season Seven (2011) - Review

Season seven of Grey’s Anatomy starts off and continues to be a recovery from the season six finale. Richard Webber continues to recover from alcoholism, Meredith tries to recover from her miscarriage, Cristina is trying but fails to recover from having a gun pointed right at her while operating, and of course, all those from Mercy West are still trying to recover from all the friends they have lost in that episode. Overall, 11 characters died in that shooting, and it seems as though Shonda Rhimes herself thought to give the audience a break this season as well. 

Off the bat, we see Derek driving at an extremely fast speed after recovering from the shot, only to resign as chief and have Richard Webber take over. We see throughout the last season, as well as this season, that he disliked being in management and missed feeling the rush of the OR, hence the fast driving.

That was a little off character, but given that he had just gotten shot, it is only fitting that he does something quite extreme such as this one. 

The most affected character from the shooting the fans get to see is Cristina Yang. She hesitates to go into any operating room, and when she does, a surgical item is dropped and makes an abrupt noise, to which we find Cristina hiding under a table and unable to get up. That was dubbed as a brilliant portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder, and both Sandra Oh and Shonda Rhimes take credit for that.