Anna Daniels
Cristina isn’t the only woman Owen romantically antagonizes throughout the series. We’ve already mentioned Teddy, who is clearly in love with Owen right from the beginning. Throughout Kim Raver’s fractured tenure on the series., Owen strings Teddy along time and time again. Though they finally get together at the end of the fifteenth season, Owen spends years toying with Teddy’s feelings, including during his ultimately doomed marriage to Dr. Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone).
A troubled former drug addict and the younger sister of the late Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), Amelia immediately strikes up a relationship with Owen, and the two hastily get married, but immediately run into problems. Owen eventually asks for a divorce due to Amelia’s increasingly erratic behavior and the fact that she can’t decide whether or not she wants children but, when it turns out that she has a brain tumor, it becomes clear that Owen was in the wrong all along.
Add in his terrible advice, such as when he encourages Dr. George O’Malley (T.R. Knight) and Dr. April Kepner (Sarah Drew) to enlist in the Army, leading to George’s death and the dissolution of April’s marriage, and it’s easy to see why Owen is definitely Grey’s Anatomy‘s worst character. A lot of great characters have made their way through the halls of Grey Sloan over the years but, unfortunately, Owen definitely isn’t one of them.
If you need to see why Owen is so awful for yourself, Grey’s Anatomy is streaming on Netflix and Hulu, and just concluded its sixteenth season.
Written by: Looper
