Let's all stand and applause for this ravishing, completely addicting, soul-satisfying medical drama, Grey's Anatomy, for not just being great - but actually for making me want to go back watching television again. Honestly, I not such a type of TV-guy, and sometimes detest some TV series for being so clumsy, mushy and drop-down unentertaining. But, just when I thought that Grey's would be another medical-hospital drama again (ER anyone?), it proved my severe psycho-analysis horribly wrong again. I will say this once and for all, GREY'S ANATOMY ROCKS! And there's no other TV series today that would make me just sit in front of the TV for like hours and hours, watching the whole DVD thing instead of waiting every Thursday night to sit down and have some throwback fun (well, of course, I admit, Desperate Housewives is entertaining too, you know). What's so great in Grey's was that it's so unexpectedly fresh, even though you know it's another hospital drama, blending in some amazing humor (in which you really laugh your heart out), interesting plot lines (including very surreal, but very believable patient cases like tumors and stuff), and wonderfully written dialogues. It's not your ordinary soap opera. It's a series, and it felt like a very, very long movie in that case. And I just love it, and I can't stop watching it and it would really make me go nuts if I won't see finish Season 2 right away.
Grey's Anatomy is such a big smash in international cable television, conquering TV ratings like royalty. It's a bonafide TV blockbuster. It follows five newly graduated medicine M.D.s, and were hired as surgical interns only to compete with each other in the famous Seattle Grace Hospital. The I'm-a-model-who-paved-my-way-to-med-school Isobel "Izzie" Stevens, to the lovestruck syph-boy George O'Malley, then the very professional, close-minded Christina Yang, the horrible jerky a-hole Alex Karev, and finally the famous, competitive and superbly intelligent but easily weakens when it's heart that speaks, Meredith Grey. They're newbies, who doesn't get any much sleep, afraid to have people die under their care, fail on surgical tests, and try to act like "Hey, this is not an E.R. spin-off!". There's also another thing which makes this series so delicious, it's the actors in it and the characters they play. Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey is just plainly great. She gives a delightful balance between being a strong person and at the same time a knee-shaker. Sandra Oh as Christina Yang is the most talented actor in this series. God knows why. You'll also find yourself, like me, watching out for her scenes. She's Asian, and I'm just so proud. No wonder she grabbed that Golden Globe supporting nod. Katherine Heigl playing Izzie Steven is undeniably cool. Watch out for that scene where her lingerie ad came out in the magazine and everyone are just too dumbstruck to notice that the new intern was a former Bethany Whisper model. T. R. Knight is just so pathetic as George O'Malley, who has a big thing on Meredith, and just too stubborn to say anything, which makes him more interesting to look at, more funnier at the thought. Lastly, Alex Karev, the medical bully, played by Justin Chambers, was really hateful but sometimes sweet that you can't predict at all. Sounds cocky, really. Patrick Dempsey was equaly awesome as Dr. Derek Shepherd. The quirku dialogues help everything out, especially with Chandra Wilson as the termed "Nazi" Dr. Bailey, and Isaiah Washington as Dr. Burke. With an ethnically diverse cast, you can't just help but watching really.
OK, what I felt really good about this series was that it was able to blend so many fantastic elements that most series lack. It's a medical drama alright, and the brilliant stuff here was that it was able to blend such a witty kind of humor, and a splendid tangled love story. It also gives thrills, especially during operations. Before, I hate the scenario of hospitals and surgical rooms, but after Grey's, I do somehow like the atmosphere of it. The anxiety on the air, the balance between life and death. Grey's Anatomy has indeed made us realise audience that hospitals, within it's own walls, they witness different stories of different lives that we could relate to our own. And hospitals are not just the like the place where sick people try to find cure, but also about people who finds the true meaning of life amidst the threat of death, mortality and the dangers of surgery. In which these people finds strength, courage, bravery and willpower to do anything they can to save human lives, and to give them an every ounce of chance that life is indeed worth living whatever may be the reasons. Also, one could not really expect that love also blossoms within the confines of surgery rooms, MIR scanning rooms and hospital beds. Beyond the talkings of surgeons while operating a patient, the stolen glances, the silent whispers and casual chatting, lies a wonderful story of the struggle of love, life and the impact of death. We somehow become engaged in such amusing love webs, and the stories of the patients. We somehow tend to empathize Meredith Grey for her battle for survival in the nasty clutches of the surgical wars, her Mom's Alzheimer's capacities, her battle for staying rational, and most of all her battle with her heart with her boss Dr. Shepherd AKA Mr McDreamy. We also want to pat a hand against Christina Yang, who's just so closed-minded that she often seizes all in her brain without saying a word anything at all about her personal life. We also wanted to be there beside George O'Malley, convincing to not stay as martyr as he could be and just utter what he really feels. And also to Izzie Stevens, who's so filled with amazing dialogues, the funny ones along with Sandra Oh, and we just laugh with her, withstanding her cuteness. And lastly, we just want to stand in front of Karev telling him to shut up and stop being a jerk. We laugh at their stories, we sympathize their hardships, we smile with their dialogues, and sometimes in the different stories of the patients, we really get involved and cry if we want to.
It's about being professional and trying to deal with their own personal lives. It's about trying to understand every way before acting really and trying to solve everything out even though you know the chances are not that great. It's battle of the heart and mind, Grey's Anatomy is the perfect habitat for everyone who's living their lives in the way they believed it to be.
Oh, by the way, Grey's Anatomy boast a very fine soundtrack. A bit hippy, pop-rock classy-kind of style that really draw breaths every time music starts. I just do believe it has one of the best TV soundtrack today. Kudos to everyone in Grey's. VERDICT: The best series currently running today. (Haha, Grey's Anatomy is the only series I've been watching like mad, so sorry for other series in which I haven't watched yet.) Also! The season finale is just as stupefying as it could be!

Rating: A+