Thursday, April 06, 2006
Watch out Holby City...
MEDICAL! Grey's Anatomy, Five, 10.00pm
...the new docs are in town. It might not have had quite the same amount of international hype as its US stablemates Lost and Desperate Housewives, but this show about a group of medical interns has become quite the potboiler in America, complete with streams of fans who overidentify with the female characters and fall in love with the male ones. And that's just the gays. Ha, we're hilarious!
Meredith Gray (for it is her name wot is in the punning title, innit) is one of the interns starting a new job in a hospital, and in a whoops-a-daisy, happens-to-us-all-the-time sort of way, has a fling with a hot male doctor only to find that he's her new boss. Of course. So, there's one avenue of dramatic conflict set up, what about the rest? Well, we quite love Sandra Oh as the no-nonsense Cristina, largely because any female character with a barbed tongue and a nice line in acidic put-downs always gets on our good side straight away. Izzie the beautiful, no-one-respects-me-for-my-brains-because-I'm-oh-so-luscious intern is good value too, even if we don't find that we have vast amounts of sympathy for that predicament. They do, at least, make up for the central character of Meredith, who we found kind of boring during the first episode.
To be honest, we weren't all that grabbed by the first episode generally when we watched it on Living TV a few months back. It does reward perseverance, though - as things develop it gets soapier and you do find that you get quite drawn in by all the melodrama. And, on a completely shallow level, we'll happily come back for Patrick Dempsey, who plays "Dr McDreamy", aka Dr Derek Shepherd, he of once-boning-Meredith fame. (You may recognise him from a number of other roles: for us, it was the role of Will's cute-but-closeted sports reporter boyfriend on Will & Grace.)
Oh, and one more thing: the show was created by Shonda Rhimes, the writer of the Britney Spears movie Crossroads. If you have a special place in your heart for that movie (we certainly do), you'll feel compelled to at least give this a go.
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this is actually the highest rated show in the us, getting higher figures then both desperate housewives and the sopranos on a sunday night. the fact that it is on Five means that this is not likely to happen now and I have a feeling that this is going to be on of those shows that's huge in the states but never really takes off in the u.k.
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