Greys Anatomys Season 17 Koracick Twist Fixed His Broken Character Arc

Grey’s Anatomy’s Season 17 Koracick Twist Fixed His Broken Character Arc

Grey’s Anatomy season 17 saw the departure of Tom Koracick, but a last minute twist in the finale was the perfect way to save his faltering arc.

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Greys Anatomys Season 17 Koracick Twist Fixed His Broken Character Arc

Season 17 of Grey’s Anatomy fixed an ongoing issue with Tom Koracick by having him leave as a main character and then return in an unexpected twist. Long presented in the same sort of acerbic, snarky way his Ally McBeal character Richard Fish, Greg Germann’s brilliant but somewhat broken neurosurgeon was something of a firebrand, but season 17’s drama changed him as a character.

Forced to confront who he was as a person – partly thanks to his affair with Teddy exploding in his face, inevitably and partly because of his near-death experience with Covid-19 – Koracick took stock and seemed to change. Previously he’d appeared unconcerned about making friends of the internal politics of popularity at Grey Sloan and had been the proverbial cat among the pigeons on his appointment by Catherine Fox. He’d shown flashes of humanity, particularly when the tragedy of his son’s death was made clear, but for a while, Korackick was as close to a pantomime villain as Grey’s Anatomy has had for some time.

In the strange logic of the show, though, the fallout of Tom and Teddy’s relationship required that the former endured punishment at least equal to the emotional impact on his lover (because Shondaland’s flagship has a twisted morality sometimes) and Koracick was almost killed off. In his illness, Koracick learned humanity and humility and eventually took off to follow Jackson Avery on his mission to do greater good working for his family’s foundation. That would be Koracick’s new cross to bear as he stepped away from the frontline and it was a welcome sight, because season 17 had, frankly, run out of things for him to do by that point. In his final episodes, he became a supporting player, relegated to a sort of limbo before the twist that he had bought Jo’s hospital shares and would return in Grey’s Anatomy season 18 as a guest star and board member. That is exactly the refresher he needs and the power position he deserves to really shine as the irritant character he once was.

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Because, of course, while Koracick has always been prickly, he’s also been comic relief, which Grey’s Anatomy has been rather thin on. Schmidt has been something of a loveable clown and there’s been situational comedy in passing, but Koracick felt like he was crafted with that purpose in mind. He was there, by design, to rock the boat, which he did rather too well for Owen and Teddy’s relationship, but he added welcome friction in a team that had suffered less of the trademark Grey’s Anatomy disaster’s for a number of seasons (before the pandemic completely changed the show’s trajectory). With Catherine Fox playing more of a guest role, Koracick became her man on the ground, clashing with familiar faces and shaking up dynamics. His departure to “do good” might have dealt with a loose end as the show lost sight of how to use him as his arc changed his personality, but the twist gave him something of his old potential back.

Removing Tom from the main game of Grey’s Anatomy but bringing him back as a shareholder and board member both benefits his personal growth arc (because he can still focus his time on progress) and also means he can still be the funny, biting bit-part character he worked as initially. He sprinkles on some of that old Cristina Yang magic, and with Meredith’s best friend now seriously unlikely ever to return, that’s very much a welcome development before Grey’s Anatomy ends.

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