Warning: This post contains spoilers about the Dec. 3 episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Grey's Anatomy has done it again.

On the heels of Derek's (Patrick Dempsey) shocking return, the show brought back another fan favorite, this time going even further back into the series' history. With Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) still battling COVID-19 — and now sleeping much of the day — we got another glimpse into her dream world, the same one where her husband greeted her on the beach weeks ago.

But this time, her visit led her to another familiar face. When she turned to a nearby lifeguard tower, she found... GEORGE O'MALLEY (T.R. Knight). George was an original intern alongside Meredith when the show first began, and for the first five seasons, he was one of Meredith's best friends. (And at one point, he was in love with her.)

Knight hadn't appeared on the series' since George's shocking death — he was dragged under a bus after saving a stranger — in the season 5 finale. (No, we're not counting that time they used old footage of him.)

As the episode continued, George and Meredith got to catch up. He told her that her kids were "great." How does he know? "I check in sometimes," he said. When Meredith asked him if she gets to decide if she stays or goes back to her kids, George didn't think so. Destroying all of us, he told her, "I would've stayed if I could've."

The duo then took a stroll on the beach to discuss grief and that one time everyone laughed at George's funeral. (He loved it.)

In the end, Meredith got the chance to tell George that his heroism set an example that she couldn't ignore after he died. As she told him, "You changed my life, George."

Knight took to Instagram to say, "George O'Malley will always claim my heart." See his post, as well as some photos from the episode, below:

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This story originally appeared on: EW - Author:Samantha Highfill

It's not a heavenly day for Superstore fans. NBC has announced that the beloved comedy will come to an end with the conclusion of season 6.

The series, which follows a group of Cloud 9 employees as they experience what it's like to work at a big box store, has dealt with a number of changes recently. Most notably, series star America Ferrera exited the show at the start of the current season, which also pivoted to cover the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Superstore has always been a signature NBC series that has never failed to make us laugh while also thoughtfully examining important issues people care deeply about," NBC's President of Scripted Content Lisa Katz, Presiden said in a statement. "This has been an amazing group of writers, producers, actors and crew to work with and we are incredibly grateful for all their contributions. This show will forever hold its place among the top workplace comedies for which we have a cherished history."

Universal Television President Erin Underhill added, "We are incredibly proud of this show and the stories we were able to tell within the walls of Cloud 9. We want to thank Justin Spitzer, who created this show, current showrunners Jonathan Green and Gabe Miller, all the writers, cast and crew. Not only did they bring us a comedy full of heart and humor, but Superstore also became one of the most socially impactful series on television."

Following its winter hiatus, Superstore will return on Thursday, Jan. 14 before ending in the spring with a total of 113 episodes.

"We’re grateful to Universal Television and NBC for letting us make 113 episodes of a show we’re so proud of, and for giving us the chance to work with such an incredibly talented group of actors, writers and crew," executive producers Justin Spitzer, Gabe Miller and Jonathan Green said in a statement. "We’re thankful most of all to the viewers who’ve stuck with us for the past six years (or discovered us somewhere along the way). We’ll do our best to go out strong and give you the satisfying ending you deserve."

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This story originally appeared on: EW - Author:Samantha Highfill

Julianna Margulies is saying goodbye to the courtroom and hello to the newsroom.

The Good Wife star is joining the second season of The Morning Show. The Emmy Award-winning Apple TV+ series stars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon as the co-anchors of the titular news series. Witherspoon's character, Bradley Jackson, joined Aniston's Alex Levy in the drama's first season after Alex's longtime co-anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) was accused of sexual misconduct.

Together, Alex and Bradley navigate the cutthroat world of morning news. (And together, they take down the world of morning news when necessary. Or at least that's what they did in the season 1 finale.)

Margulies joins the cast, which also includes Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, and others, as Laura Peterson, an anchor at UBA news.

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This story originally appeared on: EW - Author:Samantha Highfill

Warning: This post contains spoilers from the season finale of The Undoing.

The Undoing revealed its killer in its season finale. After six episodes of twists and turns, we wound up back at the show's first suspect: Jonathan Fraser (Hugh Grant) killed Elena Alves (Matilda De Angelis).

After Grace (Nicole Kidman) took him down on the stand, Jonathan — realizing he was going to be convicted — took his son, Henry (Noah Jupe), for one last drive to make sure he understood his legacy. Then, he was planning to jump off a bridge. But when Grace arrived, Jonathan didn't go through with it, and he ended the series in handcuffs.

EW spoke with the guilty party himself, Hugh Grant, about playing Jonathan.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: At what point did you know he was guilty? Was that part of the initial pitch?

HUGH GRANT: I was sent episode 1, which is all they had written at that stage, and of course my first question was, "Well, did he do it?" And the answer was yes. And that's what made me want to do it because it's an infinitely juicier prospect for an actor to be a narcissistic sociopath than just the good doctor husband who shagged the wrong woman and spends six episodes apologizing.

That was one of my questions: Is he a sociopath? Does he feel empathy? I imagine you had to decide for yourself exactly what you were playing.

Yes, because I needed to be as convincing as I possibly could when I'm expressing love for my wife and my son, for instance. The true psychopath can't do that, they don't feel any love for anyone else, especially the narcissistic ones. I needed to be convincing for the sake of the story. If he's not convincing, everyone's going to say, "Well, it's him," because the circumstantial evidence was heavily stacked against him anyway. I had to be as convincing as possible, so all that told me was that I had to go right to the most extreme end of these types of characters where they are. And I did the research, they can be incredibly plausible, to the point where they actually believe their own lies. So he believes that he didn't do it, even though he knows intellectually that he did. In terms of his feelings for his wife and his child, I think that's all part of the narcissism. He loves them loving him, that's like rocket fuel to him. He must have it. That's why he's so desperate in the car at the end to make sure his boy is going to love him even after I'm found guilty and sent to prison or commit suicide or whatever I'm intending to do there. He's also such a narcissist that he can't accept the fact that he might be a psychopath. He must be a wonderful loving father and husband and so he acts it in a desperate bid to convince himself that he's this person. But deep down he knows who he is — he's a completely cold-hearted, narcissistic, violent, terrifying human being.

But then he doesn't jump when Grace shows up, which I thought was interesting, because arguably, the selfish thing to do would be to jump. But he stepped down.

Yes, I think because he would not like to die with his wife thinking he was a selfish bastard who killed himself in front of his son. He still wants their love and approval, because this is part of his narcissism and it's so extreme by that point, that when he gets down off the rail and walks toward Grace, he's actually smiling because he thinks yeah, maybe I'm going to get a hug here and I can still charm this woman back into my orbit. And, of course, she recoils and takes the boy away. I think that's the first time, really, in Jonathan's life that he's completely failed and rejected.

I loved him telling his son that it wasn't the "real me" who killed Elena. It was a look into how he's been compartmentalizing everything all season.

Yes, exactly. He can no longer pretend it didn't happen. He says, "Sometimes we lose ourselves" and he's got almost a medical justification for it, like it's a dropout of personality and just because we've done that we must not think our normal personality doesn't exist. But it's all bulls---.

Nicole has talked about the intensity of director Susanne Bier's directing style. What was the actual filming of those moments like for you?

Susanne didn't shove the lens right up my nostrils and in my eyeball like she did with Grace because it's Grace's story, really. So I wasn't intimidated by her camera work. I was a little intimidated by the whole finale because it had been hotly debated and rewritten and reconceived and the question was: Would it work? Particularly when the stage direction is "he's losing it." That's extremely dangerous. You can be ridiculous in a millisecond. Then I proposed this idea that they sing this song — which is actually a song my cousins and I used to sing as kids on holiday at the seaside in England — and having shot it, I've spent the last year and a half thinking, "Oh, we shouldn't have done that, that's going to be ridiculous." But actually, I think it does work, especially because Susanne has very cleverly put it in counterpoint to the actual killing. The cutting between that silly song and me smashing poor Elena's head is pretty good.

So when he takes Henry on that drive, is any part of that out of love for his son?

I went through phases of thinking maybe Jonathan's narcissistic sociopathy is as a result of damage and if it's a result of damage then pre-damage, he might've been capable of human emotions and there might be a flicker of that real stuff for his son. But if I'm really honest, it's all about Jonathan and his apparent love of his son is really just a love of his son's love for him and addiction to it.

I'm so fascinated by the idea that you could know someone for so long, and not know they're a psychopath until something like an affair triggers it.

Yeah, it's terrifying. I think that's partly what made the series quite compelling to people is that lurking dread of, "My God, do I really know anyone? Do I know my wife? Do I know my father? Do I know my son? Could they secretly be absolutely diabolical deep down?" What would happen if we looked at everyone's internet history, what terrible dark secrets would we find in people we love? I think that's part of the lure of entertaining films and television.

So much of the series' big twist was on your shoulders. Did you feel a pressure to make the audience believe Jonathan wasn't guilty?

I didn't have to make people think he's innocent, I just had to make them think, like Grace, that they're open to the possibility that he's innocent. And in that, I realized, reading Twitter over the last six weeks, I was helped by the fact that audiences are so canny and experienced now that they all took the view: Well it can't be the most obvious suspect because that's too obvious, it's boring. It must be something much cleverer than that. Which then made me dread the screening of last night's episode because I thought they'll be so disappointed because it's just the man hiding in plain sight, but on the whole I think they liked it. 

Sometimes the obvious choice is the biggest twist.

It's also the end of the true story of this film, which is, "Do we really know the people we think we know?" Grace the psychiatrist at the beginning of the show is lecturing her patients about, "Well, you kind of knew your husband wasn't as nice as you thought he was, but you blinded yourself to it." Of course, she's done exactly that to herself. So this is the correct ending to that story, as it was the ending to the novel. I think the whodunnit element was all a lot of fun and juicy and brilliantly conceived by David Kelley, but it's not ultimately the point of the film.

Many people are calling this your greatest performance. Did it feel special making it?

I knew it was very high pedigree and I was privileged to be a part of it. You can't get a better television writer than David Kelley, Susanna Bier is an aristocrat of cinema, and Nicole Kidman, who comes dripping with Oscars, and Donald Sutherland, everyone. It was classy. It was a strange part in that really, I only got to play the true Jonathan for one scene, which is when I go around and have sex with Elena and then kill her. That's the real unmasked Jonathan. The rest of the time it's all about masks and how many masks he's wearing.

That's true. So many actors talk about the difference between television and film is that in television, you get to live with a character for longer. But you really just got to live with a character's lies for longer.

Yeah, exactly. Levels and levels of lies. I always have thousands of notes all over my script. They're explaining to me what the character's thinking and their motives for everything they do and say. With this character, I had to have a double set because there were two people having thoughts. One was real Jonathan, who I called John Boy, J.B., and he knew he was guilty and he knows he's a monster. And then there was I.J., Innocent Jonathan, who is just interested in deceiving people and actually believes his own lies. And they overlap, but they're not the same person and so it was quite a difficult mind f--- actually, trying to navigate my way through how I'm feeling in any given moment. But always there was this imperative that I couldn't give the game away to the TV audience.

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Who killed Elena Alves? That was the mystery at the center of HBO's The Undoing, which stars Nicole Kidman as Grace Fraser, a woman who finds out her husband, Jonathan (Hugh Grant), has been lying to her in more ways than one. From the series' first episode, Jonathan was suspected to be the murderer, but along the way, it was unclear if that was just the police's first guess.

However, in the limited series' finale, we finally learned the truth: Jonathan did, in fact, kill Elena. When his lover started to get a little too close to his family, he drew the line. And when the confrontation became physical, he beat her to death.

When it became clear that he wasn't going to win the court case — largely thank to Grace's testimony — Jonathan kidnapped his son, Henry (Noah Jupe), and nearly committed suicide before Grace showed up and stopped him. The series ended with Jonathan in handcuffs.

See some of the best reactions to the dramatic finale below.

This story originally appeared on: EW - Author:Samantha Highfill

Never Have I Ever

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Never have I ever… started production on season 2!

Following its renewal in July, Netflix's hit comedy series Never Have I Ever is officially back in production on its second season. The new season, which is filming in Los Angeles, will feature returning cast members Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Ramona Young, Lee Rodriguez, Darren Barnet, Jaren Lewison, Poorna Jagannathan, and Richa Moorjani.

Additionally, Netflix has announced that Megan Suri is joining the cast as a recurring guest star. She will play Aneesa, a new Indian student at Sherman Oaks High whose confidence and radiance will pose an immediate threat to Devi (Ramakrishnan).

Let's not forget that Devi ended season 1 with some seriously complicated relationship drama: Just as Paxton (Barnet) was finally ready to confess his feelings, she kissed Ben (Lewison). If she thought high school was difficult before, wait until she discovers the sharp edges of a love triangle.

No word yet on whether Devi's love life will still be narrated by John McEnroe, though he has expressed interest in returning.

See the cast's video about being back in production below:

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As hard as it is to believe, Jensen Ackles has taken off Dean Winchester's boots for the last time. Following the filming of the Supernatural series finale, Ackles talked about what an emotional moment it was for him to remove the boots he'd worn for 15 years of saving people, hunting things. But with Ackles next project already lined up, he might not miss those boots for long.

Back in August, it was revealed that Ackles' first post-Supernatural project would be joining season 3 of The Boys, which is the latest project from Supernatural creator Eric Kripke. Ackles is set to play Soldier Boy, the original superhero, and he has a little something in common with Dean Winchester.

"I somehow managed to end with the same kind of boots for Soldier Boy that I wore as Dean Winchester," Ackles tells EW. "Different color but same boot."

The decision came about during one of Ackles' many costume fittings. "They had given me a variety [of boots]," Ackles says. But when he spotted the Winchester-approved footwear, he knew he had to choose them.

For the full story, watch the video above.

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Dean Winchester's boots aren't where they're supposed to be. After 15 years of fighting monsters, they're ... in Austin, Texas?

"There was a moment in my trailer when I took off my boots for the last time," Supernatural star Jensen Ackles tells EW of his last day shooting the series. Ackles has worn through four pairs of what he calls "indestructible work boots" during his time as Dean, and on his last day on set, he vividly remembers taking them off for the last time and even snapping a picture of the moment. He was, as he puts it, "literally, like, hanging up my boots." That was a major moment for the actor, who took that final pair of boots home with him to Austin.

But that was only one moment in a series of many. As Supernatural heads toward the finish line, EW spoke with Ackles about what it was like to visit the writers' room, why he struggled with the show's ending at first, and the "emotional pride" he felt during his final day on set.

Watch the full video interview above.

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