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Grey’s Anatomy (2005)
A cold autumn / winter evening. We’ve been shopping (me and my best friend Adi) and we’re back home. Her home, the 4th floor apartment she used to live in, on top of me, as we like to kid, since I’m on the second floor. She’s bought a vegetarian lasagna and placed it in the oven to “cook”. After my usual comments that she’s eating like an herbivore, she does the smart thing and ignores me. While the meal is getting ready, we’re browsing through her collection of DVDs for something to watch.
Since we’re always interested in actually relaxing not thinking about even bigger problems than ours, it was clear we’re not in for a drama, but a comedy. After refusing to watch or re-watch some stuff, we settle for ‘Grey’s Anatomy‘ and she’s letting me know some friends told her it’s good.
The lasagna is ready now, so we’re keeping our hot meal under our noses and start eating, while watching the beginning.
In few minutes we realize this is not a comedy, as we wanted, but we’re so caught in the action, we can’t be bothered to push the stop button. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) is waking up after a hard night of boozing and some more. The gentleman who helped with the “some more” thing is still sleeping. She’s waking him up, scared she’s gonna be late for her first day at work.
We find out where she’s working immediately. She’s an intern or, as her resident Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) would say: “You’re grunts, nobodies, the bottom of the surgical food chain. You run labs, write orders, work every second night until you drop. And you don’t complain.”
We also meet her brothers in misery, the other interns: George O’Malley (T. R. Knight) – the cute guy who’s got a crush on her since day one, Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) – the former kid having to deal with his father alcoholism – now a grumpy mean guy still with a good heart, Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl) – the beautiful blond who’s paid her medical school studies by posing semi-naked in a magazine and Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) – the Asian girl the overachiever Beverly Hills kid, top of the class at Stanford.
All these “puppies” need someone to guide them, so, one level above Miranda even are the attending physicians Preston Burke (Isaiah Washington) and Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) who is, you might have guessed, the cute naked guy she kicked off her apartment few hours ago.
The entire plot is filled with ‘surprises’, just when you are getting comfortable with a “setting”, there’s something new. You will face a lot of mind blowing life situations, there’s quite some drama in it and, just when you’re wiping your tears, there’s some scene that makes you laugh yourself senseless. Comedy and drama are so well woven in this show, that you’ll never be too sad or overly amused.
From all the series I have watched (from what you’ll read here I kinda saw a lot of shows) this has been one of the best, if not number 1. At least for me, this has been an amazing way to spend some time. The soundtrack is sublime, I am using many of the songs in my car’s audio system. The acting is top notch, the plot is always interesting and unpredictable, the scenes are superb. I am sure it’s a series that “ate” a lot of money, when ABC aired it, but, with all the awards and hype it’s been a very lucrative project.
Many of my friends have watched this series, if you are from the few ones who never cared to give it a shot, please reconsider.
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