Grey's Anatomy: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best
14. Season 7
The final season to feature Shonda Rhimes as showrunner, Grey's seventh batch of episodes offered some of the series' most prominent storylines, though for all its emotional highs remains a chapter of jarring stuffiness.
Overflowing with melodrama and far too many characters, the season's big focus is Callie Torres, whose relationships with Mark Sloan and Arizona Robbins give it its emotional centre. Unfortunately, as entertainingly tragic and empowering as Callie's journey into motherhood and marriage is, it's not always seamless.
There are moments when the love triangle becomes tiresome and certain episodes drag out their friction, sometimes in such a way that jolts you out of the reality of their situation. The same is true of Meredith and Derek's relationship, which takes a big step but suffers a major setback when Mer tampers with their Alzheimer's research.
A season of frequent brilliance - other highlights being Sara Ramirez's stunning singing voice, Mark and Lexie's fraught will-they-won't-they, and Cristina's PTSD following season six's mass shooting - but tedious repetition, Rhimes's swan song is whole lotta drama, not enough cohesion.