Covid-19 infects TV plots

'I think we have a responsibility to really show what these health care workers have been going through,' 'Grey's Anantomy' star Ellen Pompeo says. Photo: Handout

With Covid upending every aspect of viewers' lives, some TV shows - from the obvious medical dramas to sitcoms - have woven the pandemic into their latest seasons' storylines, but a handful have avoided it altogether.

In the opening scenes of the latest season of long-running hospital drama Grey's Anatomy, Meredith Grey enjoys a quiet moment alone on a beach.