Customer Reviews

Highly Recommend! - By: Amy "It’s good to be clever, but not to show it", 05 Sep 2008
I was given this as a present recently, & i have to admit it never really appealed to me as i am a huge fan of Scrubs & 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 & 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 & 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 & Ellen Pompeo.

Fantastic medical drama!!

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A Must-Buy! - By: S. Brown, 21 Aug 2008
Initially I was put off watching Grey'a Anatomy due to the fact that it is a medical drama & I am incredibly squeamish! However, having received the season 1 boxset as a present, I decided to give it a go & as soon as episode 1 had finished I was enthralled. Despite it being setin 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 happensin their lives which I feel makes the series successful. I now love Grey's Anatomy & have watched every episode almost back to back for the last two days & 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 & I promise you that you will not regret it!

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sucha good start.. - By: R. Cortinovis, 13 Aug 2008
only few episodes & that's why i gave it a 4 stars but love the program & can't wait for more...

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I don't know why I love you but I do... - By: Stuart Burns, 17 Jul 2008
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' & '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 surgeonsin 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 & I usually have zero tolerance for duff shows & 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 & centre as the piano swellsin as a patient it told they'll die, usually with characters acting entirely out of characterin an attempt to give a scene some substance. It's gob smacking actually that any seriesin the naughties can be as popular as this is supposed to be & still spend so much time delivering such predictable storyliningin 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 episodein a wayin 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 & whispers & 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 & already well aware of life's pitfalls & more importantly, despite a lapsein judgementin relation to her sexual partner, basically has her life together.

Yet, I sat through all nine episode & I can't wait for series two. Because no matter how godawful it isin some respects, every now & 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 tuitionin 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 storylinein which everyonein 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 & there's a real sense of friendship amongst the trainee doctors & some spot on performances particularly from the Heigel & the brilliant Sandra Oh who usually gets the most acerbic lines. It can be deadly funny when it wants to be, asin the final episode when the aforementioned decide to carry out an autopsy, which neither of them have really admitted to not having done before & 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 happensin a couple of later episodesin 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.

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Great show - By: Louise, 07 Jul 2008
I caught some of Grey's Anatomy when I was travelling last year & 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 & wanted something good to watch. I got the dvd on Friday & 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.