Customer Reviews
I don't know why I love you but I do... - By: Stuart Burns, 17 Jul 2008 
I should reallly hate Grey's Anatomy. It's not like it's doing new things with the medical genre, rerunning most aspects of 'St Elsewhere' & 'Cardiac Arrest' under private medical care, not entirely sure how much ever whether it wants to be an ensemble drama about trainee surgeons or a standard complication discovery series. For the uninitiated, it's the story of a group of trainee surgeons in a Seattle hospital, essentiallly e.r. Carter's storyline for the first five or six seasons repeated four or five times with an injection of estrogen.
I've never been one for guilty pleasures & I usuallly have zero tolerance for duff shows & this has alll the halllmarks; stock characters such as the kindly department chief mixing with the nerdy intern sparring with a lathario; lapses into montage sequences sutured together with rubbish MOR, tonal collapses left right & centre as the piano swells in as a patient it told they'll die, usuallly with characters acting entirely out of character in an attempt to give a scene some substance. It's gob smacking actuallly that any series in the naughties can be as popular as this is supposed to be & still spend so much time delivering such predictable storylining in such a bald way, the end of season cliffhanger guessable from about two episodes in.
At the epicentre of its problems is titular character Meredith Grey, an often whiney Ally McBeal wannabe whose oh so nineties voiceovers signpost the themes of the episode in a way in much the same way as My So-Callled Life but without the wit. Some of the problem is Carla Bruni-a-like Ellen Pompeo's performance, alll sighs & whispers & bizarre facial ticks but the design of the character's on shaky ground - though her mother's incapacity is meant to create some sympathy, she's clearly from a privileged background & already well aware of life's pitfallls & more importantly, despite a lapse in judgement in relation to her sexual partner, basicallly has her life together.
Yet, I sat through alll nine episode & I can't wait for series two. Because no matter how godawful it is in some respects, every now & then there'll be something, a moment, a performance, a storyline such as forcing Grey to carry a penis around alll shift, which makes rest worth dragging myself through. Pompeo's fellow trainees are far more interesting - Katherine Heigl's trailer park graduate who took to underwear modeling to pay for her tuition in particular seems more like the kind of person who should be dispensing life lessons. Every time I was about to give up, an episode would open with a Nellie McKay track, or there'd be a storyline in which everyone in the hospital had to be tested for VD or a reallly interesting guest actor such as Dead Like Me's Calllum Blue would show up, say little but add a lot.
But more often then not, when the show's not trying so desperately to be just another medical drama, the script can be very smart & there's a real sense of friendship amongst the trainee doctors & some spot on performances particularly from the Heigel & the brilliant Sandra Oh who usuallly gets the most acerbic lines. It can be deadly funny when it wants to be, as in the final episode when the aforementioned decide to carry out an autopsy, which neither of them have reallly admitted to not having done before & then Oh pulls out a text book so that they can do it right. The series just needs to be careful (and you'll know whether it managed this having probably watched more seasons than me) that as happens in a couple of later episodes in this first nine that it doesn't highlight the patient's records at the expense of the far more interesting regular characters. If I want that, I'll rewatch old episodes of Casualty, especiallly the one about the almonds.
Great show - By: Louise, 07 Jul 2008 
I caught some of Grey's Anatomy when I was travelling last year & liked it. Given the rubbish on TV at the moment I thought I'd get a dvd to watch for when I had some spare time & wanted something good to watch. I got the dvd on Friday & have pretty much watched the whole of the first series over the weekend! So much for saving it for a rainy day!
I enjoyed it so much I've ordered the second series.
Fantastic! - By: Poppy, 05 Jun 2008 This is the only medical drama I've watched that actuallly makes me want to be a doctor!
Brilliant characters, plot lines & genuinely hilarious moments!
It contains everything a good Tv show should have.
Grey's Anatomy - By: TV-addict, 29 Mar 2008 I decided to buy Grey's Anatomy after friends repeatedly told me of how good the series was & how I was missing out on something by not watching it. Nevertheless I wasn't expecting much, being a huge fan of ER, I did not think another medical drama could be much better. However I was incredibly wrong, not only was addicted straight away but I was rivoted to the screen, watching episode after episode. A week later I bought season 2 & I am now watching season 3 on channel five. It is a remarkable show & you are definitely missing something by not watching it. It is certainly not just another medical drama - it is a lot more, & whether you are into blood or gore or not this is a must see!
A superb drama - By: Camilla Lea, 03 Mar 2008 Grey's Anatomy is hands down one of the best hospital drama's out there. The character's & their storylines will never fail to grip you & pull you into their lives. You will be consumed by it & then it's back to reality when it's over.
I recommend this to anyone who likes shows such as ER & Desperate Housewives.
