2008 Woodie Awards
Grey's Anatomy
The Big Picture
Amy McIntosh
Issue date: 11/8/07 Section: Features
For some people, Thursday is the beginning of the weekend. For others, it is the annoying "one more day" until-Friday. But the most important thing that Thursday represents is a new episode of "Grey's Anatomy," which clearly makes Thursday the best day of the week.
"Grey's" is a difficult show to describe. If someone asks, "What's it about?" It is almost impossible to give a short description. So much happens in one season, even in one episode, that it's hard to keep it all straight. It is not uncommon to finish an episode where the most dramatic twists and turns happen in the last 30 seconds. The end credits roll and the viewers are left with their mouths agape, turning to each other saying, "What just happened?"
It is a show that is hard to resist, with Meredith and McDreamy's on-again-off-again relationship, George's affair with Izzie, McSteamy's affairs with, well, everyone, Cristina's fiancé who left her and Alex's relationship with a married ex-patient of his. Oh, and then there's the medical stuff.
The show is named after a classic medical textbook, so one might expect some medicine somewhere within the 44-minute episodes. After all, the show is set in a hospital and the main characters are all surgeons and surgical interns. Series creator Shonda Rimes, who was responsible for the writing of Crossroads, the 2002 Britney Spears classic, redeems herself by including just the right amount of scalpels and scandals in each episode to satisfy even the pickiest viewer.
Of course, the medical cases that come through the doors of Seattle Grace Hospital are anything but normal. A season two episode featured a man who swallowed ten doll heads. Also that season, viewers sat on the edge of their seats during two episodes about a man with a live bomb inside of him. In season three, a patient's toxic blood had the surgeons shaky and nauseous, forcing them to take over the beds of hospital's free clinic.
As for the main characters, everyone has his or her favorites. There is Meredith Grey (played by Ellen Pompeo), the main character for whom the show is named. She provides insightful monologues at the beginning and end of each episode to get the show rolling. Most of her time at the hospital is spent swooning over McDreamy, also known as Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) or complaining about McDreamy to her BFF Cristina (Sandra Oh). Cristina's fiancé Preston Burke, played by Isaiah Washington, left her at the altar, moved out of his apartment and never returned to the hospital. This may have something to do with the fact that producers fired Washington from the show after the third season.
"Grey's" is a difficult show to describe. If someone asks, "What's it about?" It is almost impossible to give a short description. So much happens in one season, even in one episode, that it's hard to keep it all straight. It is not uncommon to finish an episode where the most dramatic twists and turns happen in the last 30 seconds. The end credits roll and the viewers are left with their mouths agape, turning to each other saying, "What just happened?"
It is a show that is hard to resist, with Meredith and McDreamy's on-again-off-again relationship, George's affair with Izzie, McSteamy's affairs with, well, everyone, Cristina's fiancé who left her and Alex's relationship with a married ex-patient of his. Oh, and then there's the medical stuff.
The show is named after a classic medical textbook, so one might expect some medicine somewhere within the 44-minute episodes. After all, the show is set in a hospital and the main characters are all surgeons and surgical interns. Series creator Shonda Rimes, who was responsible for the writing of Crossroads, the 2002 Britney Spears classic, redeems herself by including just the right amount of scalpels and scandals in each episode to satisfy even the pickiest viewer.
Of course, the medical cases that come through the doors of Seattle Grace Hospital are anything but normal. A season two episode featured a man who swallowed ten doll heads. Also that season, viewers sat on the edge of their seats during two episodes about a man with a live bomb inside of him. In season three, a patient's toxic blood had the surgeons shaky and nauseous, forcing them to take over the beds of hospital's free clinic.
As for the main characters, everyone has his or her favorites. There is Meredith Grey (played by Ellen Pompeo), the main character for whom the show is named. She provides insightful monologues at the beginning and end of each episode to get the show rolling. Most of her time at the hospital is spent swooning over McDreamy, also known as Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) or complaining about McDreamy to her BFF Cristina (Sandra Oh). Cristina's fiancé Preston Burke, played by Isaiah Washington, left her at the altar, moved out of his apartment and never returned to the hospital. This may have something to do with the fact that producers fired Washington from the show after the third season.
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