Figment of Speech
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2021
Oh maybe they did it last year, too, but I'm talking about season 13, which aired in 2016-17. I started watching an episode of the day of the show since last fall, so I'm not current yet. Just a few more months, though.I noticed that too. I assumed it was to help stay within COVID protocols when filming during the pandemic. Station 19 was doing it as well.
This was the season where Catherine Avery thinks there's something wrong with the resident program and makes Bailey hire Eliza Minnick to figure out the problem. All the residents love her, and most of the attendings hate her and side with Webber, who gets pushed out of his position as residency director. So the entire surgical program gets fragmented into factions. I was thinking that the shift toward that style of capsule storytelling — instead of the show's usual ensemble style — was supposed to be symbolic of that fragmentation.