Why There Is No New Grey’s Anatomy This Week (November 28) & When Season 21, Episode 9 Releases

The long-running medical drama doesn’t return on November 28 – here is when Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 9 releases and what to expect from its return story-wise. Grey’s Anatomy season 21 took off right after the events of season 20’s finale, with a restructure of Grey Sloan’s management that meant Grey’s Anatomy season 21 characters had to earn back their positions. They spent the first half of Grey’s Anatomy season 21 doing so, while the medical drama also set up the major departures of Levi Schmitt and Mika Yasuda, which took center stage in season 21, episodes 7 and 8.

If Grey’s Anatomy season 21’s premiere focused more on Meredith and Catherine’s feud and how it affected the whole hospital, the center of attention of Grey’s Anatomy season 21’s story shifted as the two returned to their bases. Indeed, season 21 brought back Owen and Teddy’s renewed marital problems, let Simone and Lucas’s relationship progress and dropped a twin-pregnancy-sized hurdle in Link and Jo’s lives, all storylines advanced simultaneously with setting up Mika and Levi’s departures. With the cast exits out of the way, Grey’s Anatomy season 21 will have to face its midseason cliffhanger finale’s consequences when it returns.

Why There Is No New Grey’s Anatomy Tonight (November 28, 2024)

An Iconic Disney Film Airs On ABC Instead

Grey’s Anatomy season 21’s midseason finale aired last week, on November 21. This marked the beginning of the medical drama’s winter break, just in time for a different programming to appear on ABC in line with the weekend festivities. While network sitcoms will return to ABC before the beginning of the winter break, Grey’s Anatomy season 21 won’t like many of network dramas.

In Grey’s Anatomy’s place, 1964’s Mary Poppins will air on ABC in honor of 60 years since the Disney film was released. The iconic musical fantasy comedy starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke as Mary Poppins and Bert will take the slots of 9-1-1, Doctor Odyssey and Grey’s Anatomy on November 28, working perfectly in the background of the day of festivities and family reunions.

When Will Grey’s Anatomy Season 21, Episode 9 Release?

Grey’s Anatomy Season 21, Episode 9 Returns In March 2025

Grey’s Anatomy returns to ABC with season 21, episode 9 on March 6, 2025. The name and the synopsis of the episode have yet to be announced, making it difficult to ascertain what the episode will focus on. However, Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 9’s trailer already released, hinting at the midseason finale’s cliffhanger ending finally getting an answer about who got shot and at the return of key characters unseen since season 21’s beginning.

What To Expect From Grey’s Anatomy Season 21, Episode 9

The Episode Will Have To Clarify The Fate Of 1 Intern & Attending

Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 8 concluded Mika’s storyline definitively, giving her a good reason to abandon Grey Sloan Memorial even if that meant ending things with Jules in the worst way possible. Similarly, it’s unlikely for Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 9 to retrace Levi’s steps after his exit storyline gave him the best possible ending, working to earn the chance to be accepted into his dream fellowship and doing so with his new love interest at his side. However, Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 9 will have big answers to give about the midseason finale’s last ten seconds.

Very little happened during the armed robbery at the convenience store in Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 8. Jo and Lucas were bound to be discovered, but when they were, the robber only kept them under his watch as he pushed for the customer assistant to open the safe. Her idea to use the baseball bat against a gun, even missing the robber, nonetheless complicated the already dire situation, prompting the physical altercation between Lucas and the robber until the fateful gunshot. When it returns, Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 9 will have to clarify what happened to Lucas Adams.

Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 9’s trailer also hinted at Jo’s condition being serious, as Bailey’s talk with Link proved. Bailey went through a painful miscarriage in Grey’s Anatomy season 16, and her reminding Link to “pull himself together” to support Jo heavily hints at Link and Jo possibly losing the pregnancy. Lucas being part of the altercation with the gunman will evidently involve Amelia and Simone in the drama, but the biggest surprise from Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 9’s trailer is the continuation of Meredith and Richard’s fight from season 21, episode 3, revealing Meredith’s return to Seattle.