Grey’s Anatomy: Why Sandra Oh’s Cristina Left In Season 10
Grey’s Anatomy said goodbye to one of its most beloved characters in season 10: Sandra Oh’s Cristina Yang. Here’s why she left the show.
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One of Grey’s Anatomy’s most popular and beloved characters, Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) left the series in season 10 – and here’s why. Created by Shonda Rhimes, Grey’s Anatomy made its debut on ABC in 2005 and started as a mid-season replacement. However, it was so well-received it has lived on for over 10 seasons, though that also means that many characters introduced in season 1 have left, either because they died or because they moved on to bigger and better opportunities.
Grey’s Anatomy follows the basic idea of medical dramas: the ups and downs of surgical interns, residents, and attendings who do their best to juggle their careers and professional lives. The main setting of the series is the fictional Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital (formerly Seattle Grace Hospital), though it has branched out and covered stories in other hospitals. Grey’s Anatomy is led by Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), who viewers have followed from her days as an intern to becoming Head of General Surgery. One of the interns that joined the hospital at the same time as Meredith was Cristina Yang, who became Meredith’s best friend.
Like most of the main characters in Grey’s Anatomy, Cristina Yang’s life was a roller coaster, and her main storylines were those involving Preston Burke and Owen Hunt, both very complicated relationships. Cristina is very focused and competitive, and even though she’s a very skilled and knowledgeable doctor, she often struggled to convey her emotions and found it very hard to empathize with patients. Cristina learned a lot over the course of 10 seasons, and her time under Teddy Altman’s watch helped her a lot as she made her understand she had to learn to be patient and compassionate. Cristina left in season 10 after Preston Burke (years after their relationship ended abruptly) offered her his job as the head of a hospital in Switzerland. Cristina took the offer, and so she moved to Zurich.
Sandra Oh’s departure from the series was announced in 2013. Oh was one of the cast members who signed a two-year deal in 2012 sealing her return for season 10, but not after it. In an interview with THR in 2013, Oh shared that she began thinking about leaving the show when she and her castmates signed the aforementioned deal, and explained that she felt that, creatively, she had already given the character her all, and was ready to let Cristina go. However, that doesn’t mean saying goodbye to her co-stars was easy, sharing she didn’t feel the decision was real when she told them she was leaving. Luckily, Shonda Rhimes was very supportive of her decision, and so Cristina Yang, unlike other characters from season 1, got a proper ending where she didn’t die.
Grey’s Anatomy isn’t exactly the best when writing characters off, as the writers’ go-to solution tends to be to kill them, but Cristina’s ending was more fitting with her character. Cristina had worked hard all her life, and a big opportunity in one of the best medical research facilities for cardiothoracic surgery in the world was exactly what she deserved – even if the offer came from Preston Burke.
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