Television: Grey's Anatomy

Last week was the 2-hour season premier of Grey's Anatomy.  I sort of listened to it while I worked on the computer.  Regardless of all it's flaws, I'm hooked.

Last night (Oct 8, '09) I broke down and watched it in its entirety.  I correctly predicted that Little Grey would not be a match for her father's liver and that Meredith would be a match and in the end donate a portion of her liver.  The cynic in me thought her father would die anyway and Meredith would have gone through that whole operation for nothing, but he lived.  I guess they're going to let Meredith finally come to terms with her father. There were a couple more predictable events in the show; hopefully as the season drags on it will get better.

Grey's Anatomy started going downhill Season 1 when they hosted a high school prom in the hospital.  Oh, yeah, that was totally believable.  Then it redeemed itself with the dramatic scene of Izzy falling apart when her sick-guy (Denny) died, but I had the distinct feeling kids out of high school were writing the script.

The next major flaw was the season where Izzy fell for George.  George?  Oh, yeah, that's going to happen.  Izzy and George, come on.  Izzy played it well, but did any viewer out there for one second find that pairing believable?  I wish they had done more with George and his wife instead of making her gay.

Speaking of gay, my boyfriend always goes on-line and checks out actors and actresses and reads up on what is going to happen.  He looked up Grey's Anatomy and comes to me, guess who on the show is gay.

Me:  In real life or on the show?
Him:  In real life.
Me:  I have no clue and I don't care.
Him:  Come on, guess.  Just one guess, come on.
Me:  George?
Him:  Bingo!

What I didn't understand is since they are exploring gay relationships, why they didn't just make George gay.  Let him and Callie deal with that one.  Oh well, he's dead and the show goes on.  Maybe in typical soap opera fashion they'll bring him back alive somehow.

My favorite character on the show is Sandra Oh.  I just like her, I liked her in the movie Sideways too.  That was a good movie.  You know how they're doing product placement in TV and movies.  Whenever I'm watching something and I see product placement, I yell out, "Product Placement!"  My boyfriend snarls at me to shut-up.  Well, the movie Sideways was like a total product placement for Napa Valley. Afterwards I just wanted to go out and drink wine.

So anyway, I really liked the romance Sandra Oh had with that black guy who turned out to be a homophobe so they fired him.  Now that George is gone maybe they'll bring him back so Sandra Oh can choose between him and that rough and tumble red-haired army guy.  I can never remember these people's names.  That would certainly heat up Grey's lukewarm seasonal start.