...is “the most powerful hour of TV I've ever been a part of”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/krista-vernoff-teases-powerful-grey-s-anatomy-episode-ever-1197037

“With the Supreme Court situation happened this year, I wrote the writers and I said, 'We have to do something about consent,'" says showrunner Krista Vernoff. "It hurts me too much. We have to do something.' It was the only time I can point to where I came at them with an issue and the story evolved,” Vernoff said. “What these great writers brought to it is so much character and so much humanity and so much heart.”

What they don't realize is how it's old news now...smh.

these timely episodes might be fun right now but they are going to get old quick

Shonda Rhimes pushed back and "declined" ABC's Standard and Practices' notes on Thursday's "powerful" Grey's Anatomy episode (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/greys-anatomy-how-shonda-rhimes-fought-abc-powerful-consent-episode-1197667)

Hours before Grey's Anatomy aired Thursday's episode on consent inspired by Christine Blasey Ford's testimony, showrunner Krista Vernoff tweeted for parents to "please heed the viewer discretion warnin (https://twitter.com/KristaVernoff/status/1111387348846034944)g. Consider watching before your kids do, or at least, watch with them. It’s heavy and different than what we have been doing and could be too much for a 12 or 14 year old to process." Vernoff and writer Elisabeth Finch decided to do a graphic episode inspired by the Brett Kavanaugh accuser's testimony after visiting UCLA's Rape Treatment Center. But Vernoff says the show received pushback from ABC's Standards and Practices department, prompting Rhimes' to decline the feedback. "Shonda wrote back a pretty passionate response of the myriad ways that networks are willing to show actual violence but that what we were doing here was the medical process that happens in the wake of violence and they were trying to tell us we couldn't show it," says Vernoff. "She said, 'Respectfully, I decline these notes.' That ultimately ABC understood that she was right. I really give them credit that they came back and said, 'You're right. You can proceed as scripted.' We then extended the invitation to that ABC Broadcast S&P executive to be part of the wall of women and she came."

Camilla Luddington on last night's Grey's Anatomy: "I do remember thinking, 'Oh my God. This is going to be a crazy experience'" (https://www.etonline.com/greys-anatomy-camilla-luddington-jo-episode-haunts-season-15)

"I remember asking for the script early because I remember being told that I was basically in every scene. I wanted to have enough time to prepare," says the actress of last night's "powerful" episode. "I remember on our lunch break being in my trailer reading it -- I have never physically shook reading a script -- but I remember my hands shaking the script as I was reading it."