Grey's Anatomy - Complete Season 1 [2005]

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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 8717418087371 Format: Box set Label: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Number Of Items: 3 Publisher: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2006-07-10 Running Time: 370 Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Editorial Reviews: 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 last spring 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
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Highly Recommend! Comment: I was given this as a present recently, and i have to admit it never really appealed to me as i am a huge fan of Scrubs and always maintained it was the best programme on television....How wrong was i. After watching Grey's anatomy season 1 i have become totally addicted and have recently purchased season 2 from amazon.co.uk (brilliant service!) I am also currently awaiting the arrival of Seasons 3+4. In a nutshell if you like scrubs and house md you'll love this, it's basically a combination of both! However T.R Knight is not great but the rest of the cast make up for this, especially Sandra Oh and Ellen Pompeo. Fantastic medical drama!! Customer Rating: Summary: A Must-Buy! Comment: Initially I was put off watching Grey'a Anatomy due to the fact that it is a medical drama and I am incredibly squeamish! However, having received the season 1 boxset as a present, I decided to give it a go and as soon as episode 1 had finished I was enthralled. Despite it being set in a hospital, this series also concentrates on the relationships between the interns. The characters are just really likeable which makes the viewer actually care about what happens in their lives which I feel makes the series successful. I now love Grey's Anatomy and have watched every episode almost back to back for the last two days and cannot wait to buy series 2 so I can have another marathon Grey's Anatomy viewing! Looking at the reviews, you can see that the majority of reviews show 5 stars which shows the wide appeal of the series. If you are not sure about buying this boxset, I highly recommend that you do so and I promise you that you will not regret it! Customer Rating: Summary: sucha good start.. Comment: only few episodes and that's why i gave it a 4 stars but love the program and can't wait for more... Customer Rating: Summary: I don't know why I love you but I do... Comment: I should really hate Grey's Anatomy. It's not like it's doing new things with the medical genre, rerunning most aspects of 'St Elsewhere' and 'Cardiac Arrest' under private medical care, not entirely sure how much ever whether it wants to be an ensemble drama about trainee surgeons or a standard complication discovery series. For the uninitiated, it's the story of a group of trainee surgeons in a Seattle hospital, essentially e.r. Carter's storyline for the first five or six seasons repeated four or five times with an injection of estrogen. I've never been one for guilty pleasures and I usually have zero tolerance for duff shows and this has all the hallmarks; stock characters such as the kindly department chief mixing with the nerdy intern sparring with a lathario; lapses into montage sequences sutured together with rubbish MOR, tonal collapses left right and centre as the piano swells in as a patient it told they'll die, usually with characters acting entirely out of character in an attempt to give a scene some substance. It's gob smacking actually that any series in the naughties can be as popular as this is supposed to be and still spend so much time delivering such predictable storylining in such a bald way, the end of season cliffhanger guessable from about two episodes in. At the epicentre of its problems is titular character Meredith Grey, an often whiney Ally McBeal wannabe whose oh so nineties voiceovers signpost the themes of the episode in a way in much the same way as My So-Called Life but without the wit. Some of the problem is Carla Bruni-a-like Ellen Pompeo's performance, all sighs and whispers and bizarre facial ticks but the design of the character's on shaky ground - though her mother's incapacity is meant to create some sympathy, she's clearly from a privileged background and already well aware of life's pitfalls and more importantly, despite a lapse in judgement in relation to her sexual partner, basically has her life together. Yet, I sat through all nine episode and I can't wait for series two. Because no matter how godawful it is in some respects, every now and then there'll be something, a moment, a performance, a storyline such as forcing Grey to carry a penis around all shift, which makes rest worth dragging myself through. Pompeo's fellow trainees are far more interesting - Katherine Heigl's trailer park graduate who took to underwear modeling to pay for her tuition in particular seems more like the kind of person who should be dispensing life lessons. Every time I was about to give up, an episode would open with a Nellie McKay track, or there'd be a storyline in which everyone in the hospital had to be tested for VD or a really interesting guest actor such as Dead Like Me's Callum Blue would show up, say little but add a lot. But more often then not, when the show's not trying so desperately to be just another medical drama, the script can be very smart and there's a real sense of friendship amongst the trainee doctors and some spot on performances particularly from the Heigel and the brilliant Sandra Oh who usually gets the most acerbic lines. It can be deadly funny when it wants to be, as in the final episode when the aforementioned decide to carry out an autopsy, which neither of them have really admitted to not having done before and then Oh pulls out a text book so that they can do it right. The series just needs to be careful (and you'll know whether it managed this having probably watched more seasons than me) that as happens in a couple of later episodes in this first nine that it doesn't highlight the patient's records at the expense of the far more interesting regular characters. If I want that, I'll rewatch old episodes of Casualty, especially the one about the almonds. Customer Rating: Summary: Great show Comment: I caught some of Grey's Anatomy when I was travelling last year and liked it. Given the rubbish on TV at the moment I thought I'd get a dvd to watch for when I had some spare time and wanted something good to watch. I got the dvd on Friday and have pretty much watched the whole of the first series over the weekend! So much for saving it for a rainy day! I enjoyed it so much I've ordered the second series. More Reviews