Grey's Anatomy: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best

Grey's Anatomy's 13th season offers another big change, only this one is more meta than previous or future efforts. The arrival of consultant Eliza Minnick forces the hospital to clean old wounds and adapt to new practices, little of which sit well with the staff.

This development is the season's great strength and biggest weakness. Because whilst Minnick throws a wrench into the lives of the residents, pitting them against their interns and shaking up previously strong dynamics, Minnick herself dominates the screen without much depth of character (the same issue also true of Mer's new love interest, Nathan Riggs). 

This glaring issue aside, though, season 13 also takes some bold and exciting leaps, especially in regards to Karev facing jail time for beating DeLuca, and April and Jackson's attempts to adapt to life as parents. It also has a couple of almost-bottle episodes in place to separate its warring surgeons and give them room to breathe. 

Tackling post-partem depression, prison healthcare, and a literally explosive finale that puts a heroic Stephanie Edwards front-and-centre, season 14 is not without its flaws, but its emotional depth and challenging character arcs are enough for it to offer some of the show's most compelling late-era episodes.