{"id":309751,"date":"2025-10-17T03:51:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309751\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:51:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:51:22","slug":"caterina-scorsone-takes-a-break-will-amelia-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309751\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterina Scorsone Takes A Break; Will Amelia Return?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Episode 2202, \u201cWe Built This City,\u201d of ABC\u2019s Grey\u2019s Anatomy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tEXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: The deadly explosion in the Season 21 finale of Grey\u2019s Anatomy left all of the doctors at Grey Sloan reeling. No one felt the impact more than Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone<\/a>), whose patient Dylan\u2019s mother was responsible for the blast. Not able to cope despite an intervention by Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Maggie (Kelly McCreary), Amelia announced at the end of tonight\u2019s episode that she is taking a sabbatical. (You can read Deadline\u2019s recap here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThat sets a lengthy hiatus for longtime Grey\u2019s Anatomy series regular cast member Scorsone. According to sources, it will span the next eight episodes, with the actress returning in 2026.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Deadline has reported, starting in 2024-25, Grey\u2019s Anatomy reduced the minimum guarantees for its veteran cast members to 14 out of the show\u2019s 18 episodes per season, a cost-saving measure employed by a number of long-running series, including the Dick Wolf dramas. It resulted in Grey\u2019s long-tenured cast members not appearing in four episodes each, usually sprinkled throughout the season. <\/p>\n

\n\tThat again is the case for 2025-26, I hear, with the veterans doing 14 out of 18 episodes except for Scorsone who will be doing 10 out of 18. The reduction was built into Amelia\u2019s storyline as she goes on sabbatical, with the off episodes believed to be consecutive. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe move is said to be specific to this season. Scorsone remains a series regular, and Amelia, first introduced in Season 7 of Grey\u2019s after making her debut on spinoff Private Practice, remains a fan favorite character and one deeply rooted in the show\u2019s mythology as the sister of Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) and sister-in-law to Meredith. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tABC\u2019s \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 stars Caterina Scorsone as Amelia Shepherd. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDisney\/Nino Mu\u00f1oz<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview after the Season 21 finale<\/a>, Deadline asked Grey\u2019s Anatomy executive producer\/showrunner Meg Marinis about the Season 22 plans for Amelia who is overdue for a strong arc after she was not given a lot to do last season.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe was very medical this season,\u201d Marinis said at the time. \u201cWe\u2019ll see if her strive and desire to keep taking on medical cases, we\u2019ll see if that continues after what happens to Dylan. I think that\u2019s a moment of hubris for her. She took on something that, there\u2019s a possibility she shouldn\u2019t have operated on that girl to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe last line has been at the heart of Amelia\u2019s emotional struggles as she blames her decision to take on Dylan\u2019s case for everything that happened, including the death of her friend, Dr. Monica Beltran. Compounding her grief is the fact that, as Amelia revealed in tonight\u2019s episode, after two surgeries, Dylan remains locked in awake in her body, can\u2019t blink and is looking at spending her life in a longterm care facility.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe will hopefully improve later this season, before or after Amelia makes her return. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Episode 2202, \u201cWe Built This City,\u201d of ABC\u2019s Grey\u2019s Anatomy. EXCLUSIVE:…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":309752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[156496,171,14820,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-309751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-caterina-scorsone","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-greys-anatomy","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115387478384755179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}