Product Description
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The cleverly written series follows five first-year interns and
their supervisors at Seattle Grace Hospital as they train to
become the future generation of surgeons. We witness them
juggling their careers with love dilemmas, family issues and
relationships. Ellen Pompeo (Catch Me If You Can, Old School)
stars as Meredith Grey, the daughter of a renowned surgeon and
former employee at the hospital, as she struggles to fulfil her
own ambitions in her mothers formidable shadow. Along with her
fellow interns, Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigle), George O'Malley
(T.R Knight), Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) and the feisty
Cristina Yang, played by the Award Winning Sandra Oh, she is
thrown into hospital life at the deep end. She must all deal with
life and death situations whilst trying to maintain a grip on her
personal life. The intense drama of day-to-day life in the
hospital is matched with intelligent dialogue, sexy antics and
plenty of giggles. With relationships and personal dramas adding
to the pressure of becoming successful doctors, Miranda Bailey
(Chandra Wilson), a senior doctor nicknamed "The Nazi" is on hand
to whip the interns into shape. Working along-side her is the
flirtatious and talented Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), an
established doctor whose attraction to Meredith makes working
life complicated for them both.
Special Edition Includes:
* New Collector's Edition silver foil packaging
* New Bonus Features: "Second Opinion: A Look Back At Season 1"
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Just when you wanted to say "Oh no, not another hospital drama,"
Grey's Anatomy turns into one of the most addicting series on
television. With no big stars and no hype, the ABC series debuted
as a mid-season replacement and became a bonafide smash in its
nine-episode season. The series, a hybrid of House's medical
detectives and Dawson's Creek's hormones and catchy pop-rock
soundtrack, follows five competitive surgical interns at the
fictional Seattle Grace Hospital. There's optimistic ex-model
Izzie (Katherine Heigl), bumbling do-gooder George (T.R. Knight),
competitive glacier Cristina (Sandra Oh), cocky womanizer Alex
(Justin Chambers), and the show's namesake, Meredith Grey (Ellen
Pompeo), whose medical career is complicated by her famous
surgeon mother who now lives with Alzheimer's, and her
frowned-upon relationship with another surgeon, Derek Shepherd
(Patrick Dempsey, enjoying the best career revival since Rob
Lowe). The doctors juggle romance and foster friendships while
trying not to stab each other in the back over surgeries. Grey's
Anatomy's first season, while entertaining, went a little far
trying to find its groove, overdosing on Meredith's overly
simplistic voice-overs ("At the end of the day... faith is a
funny thing"), and musical montages. It has the usual trappings
of a hospital drama (unusual cases, such as the patient with the
70-pound tumor, and trysts in the on-call room), but with more
warm fuzzies and light touches. Pompeo, who can sound just like
Renee Zellweger if you close your eyes, is likeable but not
strong enough of a presence compared to her co-stars. Luckily the
quirky dialogue and stellar acting by the ethnically diverse
cast, particularly by Chandra Wilson (Dr. Bailey, aka "the Nazi")
and Oh, who won a Golden Globe for best supporting actress, more
than make up for it. --Ellen A. Kim