Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes opened up on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy about the two-part plane-crash story that killed Lexie Grey and Mark Sloan — a storyline she now says felt “like a freaking snuff film” on rewatch. The rare revisit prompted a candid look at how she writes devastating moments and why she stays “keeper of the story.”

What Shonda Rhimes saw on rewatch — and why it shocked her

Rhimes told Cooper, “I haven’t really watched the show.” She recently sampled “select pieces of episodes” and returned to the Season 8 finale and Season 9 premiere that center on the Boise flight and its aftermath. After watching, she said, “I watched that episode, and I was horrified. I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is like a freaking snuff film.’”

The episodes — the Season 8 final

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