Posts Tagged ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
Friday, October 26th, 2007
I knew it was wrong of me to get my hopes up. The season finale of Grey’s Anatomy was, like the second half of the series, a complete mess. It made a half-assed attempt to resolve some of the long-running plots but essentially provided no closure, little suspense and lots of groans. The combination of hospital action and personal sagas, which has been so deftly handled in previous outings, was pretty shambolic and all-in-all it was very depressing. Urgh.
So here’s what happened – the good, the bad and the very bad. And unfortunately for us fans, there was a lot of the latter two, and very little of the former. Again.
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Tags: actor, Addison Montgomery, Alex Karev, Callie Torres, climax, Cristina Yang, Derek Shepherd, doctors, Drama, finale, George O'Malley, Grey's Anatomy, hospital, interns, Isaiah Washington, Izzie Stephens, Lexie Grey, Mark Sloan, Miranda Bailey, Preston Burke, Richard Webber, season three, Seattle Grace, surgeons, television, the Chief, TV
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
We usually like to give a bit of advance warning when selecting programmes for our ‘set the video’ category, but such has been my utter disinterest in recent Grey’s Anatomy offerings that I completely forgot that tonight’s instalment is, in fact, the last in the series. With that realisation, I come to you as a GA fan so that we can cross our fingers, silently pray and do all that we can to hope that the season three climax is a marked improvement on the show’s recent slump. And so, as we hit the home stretch, how do we think it will end? Will Alex admit to his feelings for Jane Doe/ Eva/ Rebecca? Will the tiresome love triangle between Callie, Izzie and George finally come to an end and will the interns have passed their exams?
One of the problems that GA has developed is its swollen cast. Each character cannot possible be given the screen time they deserve and so, rather than more stream-lined efforts with smaller casts and more focused story-telling, the show desperately strives to cram in everyone and everything. All this means that some sagas will inevitably go unresolved tonight, and most probably bleed into season four, but there are at least two that require immediate attention: the exits of Addison and Burke.
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Tags: Burke, Drama, Grey's Anatomy, hospital, import, interns, Isaiah Washington, Living, medical, surgeons, television, TV
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
After last week’s less than subtle introduction to Private Practice, the upcoming Addison-based spin-off show, it was back to Seattle Grace for the penultimate episode in this faltering season of surgical shenanigans. The interns were busy preparing to take their intern exams, Burke was fretting over his upcoming nuptials to Cristina and Meredith had just lost her step-mother. It’s all in a days work for this lot.
The Alex/Jane Doe plot dragged its heels for another week, with the amnesiac revealing that she had regained her memory. She was called Rebecca Pope, had left her dull husband when injured in the ferry crash and had no intention of reclaiming a life she was happy to have left behind. Alex was stunned by the news, clearly hurt that she had concealed the information from him, as their patient/doctor relationship grew ever more complicated.
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Tags: American, doctors, Drama, Grey's Anatomy, hospital, import, interns, Living, medical, Meredith, Seattle Grace, surgeons, television, TV
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Now that we have our two leading characters (Jack, the anti-hero and the ‘quirky’ woman) confirmed in our formula to create a TV show, we need to work on the programmes set-up, and one detail springs to mind – the voice-over. A huge number of current US shows seem to favour the inclusion of a narrator, with the technique able to serve a number of purposes.
You want insight into a complicated and hard-to-relate-to character? I give you Dexter Morgan (Dexter). You’ve got a number of plot strands and need them to be neatly brought together? How’s about Mohinder Suresh (Heroes) or Mary Alice Young (Desperate Housewives)? And what of the more conventional sitcoms that invite us to root for our silly hero, like JD (Scrubs) or Earl Hickey (My Name is Earl)?
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Tags: American, Comedy, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Drama, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, import, Men In Trees, My Name is Earl, narrator, Scrubs, sitcoms, television, TV, US, voice-over
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
If I was in a generous mood I might claim that last night’s Grey’s Anatomy was an improvement on recent episodes. Sadly, I’m not and it wasn’t. Thankfully there was slightly less of the George/Callie/Izzie love triangle and a bit more of the neglected characters – Bailey, Sloan and Addison, but such slight changes are not enough to save a show dangerously on the slide.
Obviously I still watch it and will continue to do so. I understand that even at its worst it is still superior to the soaps, reality shows and makeover drivel that dominate the airwaves. When I berate GA for being poor and disappointing, I’m not comparing to this ropey fare but against the high standards it has set itself. This is the show that introduced the prefixing of ‘Mc’ into our language with McDreamy and McSteamy, established Katherine Heigl as Hollywood’s new golden girl and caused a colossal row over the other ‘f’ word. It has shown us bombs in bodies, ferry crashes at harbours and countless illicit romances. Come on Grey’s – give us what we want!
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Tags: Drama, Grey's Anatomy, hospital, interns, Living, medical, Seattle Grace, surgeons, television, TV
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Here at TV Scoop, we have established our first element of what makes a modern day TV show – the anti-hero called Jack. But now we have our leading man, we need to find a woman for him to play off, maybe indulge in some carefully constructed sexual tension with. Yes, here we introduce the second ingredient in our entertainment casserole – the ‘quirky’ woman.
Before I progress, I would like to point out that the name you see at the bottom of this post, confirming the identity of me, the author, isn’t one of those mysterious unisex efforts, nope – the name Katie pretty much guarantees a uterus, plucked eyebrows and an ill-fitting bra (cos apparently 70% of us ladies are wearing one.) I am of the female variety and so when I lay into this most annoying of girly stereotypes, it is not through any bitterness towards my sex, but simply the trite way in which we are often represented onscreen.
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Tags: Ally McBeal, characters, Desperate Housewives, females, Grey's Anatomy, Susan Mayer, television, TV, women
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
And the slump continues in an episode appropriately titled ‘Time After Time’. Sure there are the odd moments that restore your faith, such as Sloan offering to be the Chief’s ‘wing-man’ as he re-enters the dating game – but these are sadly few and far between. Grey’s Anatomy has clearly hit a wall in its third season and so we are being treated to slow-moving stories, uninspired repetition and Meredith whining at her well-meaning stepmother – lucky us.
The Karev/ Jane Doe plot and the George/ Callie/ Izzie love triangle are the main offenders. They drag on predictably. What have we done to deserve such tedious story-lines? Once upon a time I looked forward to my weekly dose of action from Seattle Grace, now it really is like a trip to the doctors – lots of waiting around for something to happen until the inevitably vague verdict and the feeling of ‘why did I bother?’ Why has the pace slowed to that of a snail’s? And why are the more interesting characters (Addison, Bailey, Sloan) constantly being side-lined to make room for the hysterical playground antics of the others? If there is a tonic to cure the malaise that has enveloped GA it better arrive soon – as there are only five episodes left of the season and I don’t know that I can make it until the end.
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Tags: doctors, Drama, Grey's Anatomy, hospital, interns, Living, medical, review, Seattle Grace, surgeons, television, TV
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
My suspicions were confirmed by 11pm last night – Grey’s Anatomy has hit a slump. After a poor episode last week we were treated to an even worse one yesterday, with the medical drama becoming slow, repetitive and dreary. How I hate sticking the boot in like this – but come on and prove me wrong Grey’s. There’s nothing like a return to form to make a girl forgive and forget.
The race to become Chief continued with Marlow presenting the hospital’s board with a ten year plan, much to the annoyance of the current Chief. Sloan also fared well with a ‘right now’ policy stolen from a chance conversation with Bailey, while Derek was too distracted by Meredith to focus on work. Blah blah blah. Further blah came in the shape of Karev’s burgeoning friendship/ romance with the mushy-faced Jane Doe. Last night saw him help the unidentified woman pick a face – dear God. How long can this dull plot drag along for? I’m bored by it, Hell even Karev looks like he’d rather be somewhere else. Let’s pick up the pace people!
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Tags: doctors, Drama, Grey's Anatomy, hospital, Living, medical, medics, My Favourite Mistake, surgeons, television, TV
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
After the mid-season high of the ferry crash saga, Grey’s Anatomy seemed to suffer a bit of a low last night. It had invested so much energy and intensity into the three episode story-line that it felt a bit tired and exhausted afterwards, as though it needed to put its feet up and have a nice sit down. Sadly for us, the show limped its way through a rather slow and sorry hour that saw me roll my eyes in annoyance on more than one occasion.
Now that her mother is no more, Meredith began to accept her other side of the family: sad-sack dad Thatcher and perky step-mum Susan. The uncomfortable attempts at family bonding were dreary and non-eventful, a pale shadow of the emotionally fraught relationship between Meredith and mother Ellis. Why they killed off this character I don’t really understand. Did they think they had played it for all dramatic possibilities or did they simply want to give Meredith a whole new set of domestic dilemmas? Regardless, the new alternative is going to have to pick up speed it if hopes to emulate any of the former relationship’s intrigue.
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Tags: Addison, Alex, Burke, Callie, Cristina, Derek, doctors, Dr. Colin Marlow, Dr. Helen Crawford, Drama, Ellis, George, Grey's Anatomy, hospital, interns, Izzie, Mark, Meredith, Miranda, programme, romance, show, Sloan, surgeons, Susan Grey, Thatcher Grey, the Chief, TV
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
The first of the multi-channels to get the school report treatment, Living brought us Derek Acorah, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy and now TV Scoop rates the progress of the girly station.
Strengths
Living has many friends that regularly find her amusing, interesting and entertaining. She has become a firm favourite with the exchange students from America, having cleverly sourced many of their top shows (Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds and CSI) and these remain her highest scoring classes. She has become very adept at project work, especially thriving with cross-referencing shows such as the Next Top Model series (Britain, America and Australia). Her ability to keep this work fresh whilst similar has been a genuine area of progress, shown again with Abbey and Janice: Beauty and the Beast.
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Tags: 6th Sense with Colin Fry, America's Next Top Model, Comedy, Criminal Minds, CSI, Derek Acorah, Drama, Grey's Anatomy, Jade Goody, Jerry Springer, Living, LivingTV, Maury povich, Most Haunted Live, Paranormal Egypt, Reality TV, sitcoms
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
Last week’s ending to Grey’s Anatomy was just great. If I was a cartoon character (which I’m not altogether sure that I’m not on some days), my jaw would have hit the floor and my eyes poked out on stalks as Meredith was told by Denny Duquette and bomb disposal expert Dylan that she, like them, was dead. The revelation was an incredible finale and I then spent the next seven days in eager anticipation of when GA would be back on my telly.
Picking up where the second part finished, we rejoined Meredith and some other notable dead folk (Liz, her mother’s former nurse, Bonnie one of her most notable patients and her dog, Doc) as she struggled to come to terms with what was happening. True to his training, Dylan was all for explaining things to Meredith in a forceful, direct fashion but Denny intervened, believing a more compassionate, understanding route was possible. Dylan raged that they were running out of time and couldn’t waste a moment, while Meredith looked on confused. What were they talking about and why was time of the essence?
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Tags: afterlife, death, Denny Duquette, doctors, Dr. Addison Montgomery, Dr. Alex Karev, Dr. Callie Torres, Dr. Cristina Yang, Dr. Derek Shepherd, Dr. George O' Malley, Dr. Izzie Stevens, Dr. Mark Sloan, Dr. Meredith Grey, Dr. Preston Burke, Drama, Ellen Pompeo, Grey's Anatomy, hospial, interns, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Living TV, medical drama, programme, Seattle, Seattle Grace, show, surgeons, telly, TV
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
For us ladies interested in all things Grey’s Anatomy, American network ABC have just the thing: a ‘which character are you most like?’ quiz. I know that the show has some male fans, but sadly the quiz only includes the six central female characters: Meredith, Cristina, Izzie, Miranda, Callie and Addison. Maybe if you boys fancy yourselves with long pretty hair you could have a go, or perhaps invent your own with the male leads. Bigoted and bullying? Aha – you must be Isaiah Washington!
The questions tax you on your attitude to work, children and family and pictures of the lovely ladies pop up to entice you. Are you ambitious and work-obsessed like Cristina or a ‘people person’ (*puke*) like Izzie? Always prepared to sacrifice myself for the greater good at the Scoop, I had a quick stab at the quiz myself. And who am I? Thankfully not Meredith. She might have McDreamy but that doesn’t stop her being McFeeble. Bored at work – why not try it yourself by clicking here.
Tags: ABC, Addison, Callie, characters, Cristina, females, girls, Grey's Anatomy, Izzie, Living TV, medical drama, Meredith, Miranda, programme, quiz, roles, telly, test, TV, which character are you?, women
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
After the unceremonious firing of Isaiah Washington, the big-mouthed actor’s co-stars have been talking about life on the Grey’s Anatomy set without him. Patrick Dempsey, known to his female fans as McDreamy, was involved in the on-set argument that spelt the end for Washington and is pleased with the new group dynamic: “It’s a lot lighter, people are having more fun. The energy and the adjustments make a big difference.”
Candid colleague Katherine Heigl has also spoken on the past troubles and commended outed T.R.Knight on how he handled the uproar: “It wasn’t even me who (Washington) was talking about, but I felt so infuriated and angry because that was the only opinion getting heard. Shouldn’t T.R. have something to say? But he was right. To say nothing at all is the most dignified thing he could do for himself and for what really happened that day and for the whole situation. And it speaks volumes.” So it’s dignified to keep your mouth shut then Katherine? Hmm.
[via People/ Contact Music]
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Tags: actors, cast, cast changes, Dr. Derek Shepherd, Dr. George O'Malley, Dr. Izzie Stevens, Dr. Preston Burke, fired, Grey's Anatomy, Isaiah Washington, Katherine Heigl, Living TV, McDreamy, medical drama, on-set, onscreen, Patrick Dempsey, T.R.Knight, television
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Grey’s Anatomy is populated with ridiculously good looking surgeons but only recently did I realise the similarity between Seattle Grace’s plastic surgeon and Hollywood film star Leonardo DiCaprio. Are they brothers and I have single-handedly blown open their family secret? Or are they both in an industry that likes people to look good which, according to their hoards of female fans, they both manage to pull off quite easily?
There are differences if you look closely, such as the jaw line and the age gap of about a decade. But the similarities far outweigh any pesky niggles. They share the same smoldering, blue-eyed stare, the same wide forehead and perhaps even, the same barber. If Marc Sloan is dubbed McSteamy by his female colleagues, does that make Leo McSteamy Junior?
Tags: actor, Dr. Mark Sloan, film star, Grey's Anatomy, Leonardo DiCaprio, lookalikes, McSteamy, movie star, Seattle Grace Hospital, similarities
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
A three-part story arc seems a little odd for a TV show, with extended story-lines ordinarily playing out over two episodes. Not that I’m complaining (wait for that later) when it involves the epic crashing of a ferry in Grey’s Anatomy. Last week the interns (barring a grumpy Cristina) were sent to the harbour to save as many of the victims injured in the disaster as possible, but found themselves a bit out of their depth (if you’ll pardon the pun). All except Meredith who was sent crashing into the murky depths by a patient. Would she be found and saved?
Cristina asked after her and Shepherd was desperately trying to find her but the only one who knew the fate of Meredith wasn’t talking. The blonde girl, who had followed her until her unexpected dip had remained mute since the accident and was unwilling and/ or unable to verbally communicate with a worried McDreamy. Finally she pointed out to sea and soon our hero was emerging from the cold waters, carrying the blue and lifeless body of Meredith in his arms.
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Tags: Addison Montgomery, Dr, Dr. Alex Karev, Dr. Callie Torres, Dr. Cristina Yang, Dr. Derek Shepherd, Dr. George O'Malley, Dr. Isobel Stevens, Dr. Mark Sloan, Dr. Meredith Grey, Dr. Miranda Bailey, Dr. Preston Burke, Dr. Richard Webber, ferry crash, Grey's Anatomy, hospital, Living TV, medical drama, patients, surgeons, surgical interns, the Chief, victims
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
The personal lives of the folk at Seattle Grace hospital took a back seat last night when a mass trauma assumed centre stage. A ferry crashed at a local dock and the interns were dispatched to aid the injured in what was part one of a three part story arc. Were the interns ready for such a large-scale tragedy and who could be in danger themselves?
Still upset after last week’s emotionally bruising encounter with her mother Ellis, Meredith was found by Derek almost drowning herself in the bath. She steadfastly refuted that she was doing anything drastic and insisted that she didn’t need him to save her, but Derek grew increasingly suspicious that all was not well. It was this dark mood over Meredith that deterred Cristina from sharing with her the happy news of her engagement to Burke, though with Sloan having overheard Burke telling Derek, the hospital was soon abuzz with the upcoming nuptials.
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Tags: crash, doctors, Dr. Addison Montgomery, Dr. Alex Karev, Dr. Callie Torres, Dr. Cristina Yang, Dr. Derek Shepherd, Dr. George O'Malley, Dr. Izzie Stevens, Dr. Mark Sloan, Dr. Meredith Grey, Dr. Richard Webber, ferry boat, Grey's Anatomy, injuries, interns, Living TV, medical drama, Seattle Grace Hospital, surgeons, the Chief, trauma site, victims
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
Now half-way through this, its third season, Grey’s Anatomy is really starting to hit its stride. With both Burke and George proposing to their lady loves last week and Izzie donating her inheritance to Miranda’s campaign for a free clinic – there were big changes a foot at Seattle Grace Hospital.
The biggest of these was the unexpected lucidity of Meredith’s mother, former medical luminary Ellis Grey. Afflicted with Alzheimer’s, Ellis’ condition had deprived her of properly knowing her daughter for the past five year, a truth that she took to heart. Upon learning that she had the illness, she was keen to familiarise herself with the Meredith of today and compensate for lost time. Sadly, she found that her daughter failed to meet her expectations and painfully dismissed her as ordinary.
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Tags: doctors, Dr. Addison Montgomery, Dr. Alex Karev, Dr. Callie Torres, Dr. Cristina Yang, Dr. Derek Shepherd, Dr. Ellis Grey, Dr. Isobel Stevens, Dr. Mark Sloan, Dr. Meredith Grey, Dr. Miranda Bailey, Dr. Preston Burke, free clinic, Grey's Anatomy, hospital, interns, Living TV, medical drama, plastic surgeon, Seattle Grace Hospital, surgeons
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
Grey’s Anatomy managed to resolve a few of its long-standing sagas in last week’s double-bill, and so yesterday’s episode felt like a clean slate in many ways. Of course, there was still plenty of action at Seattle Grace but thankfully Meredith was no longer snoring and Izzie had cashed her cheque.
Miranda had a new cause, that of a free clinic. This idea garnered zilch interest from the quartet of big-name surgeons (Burke, Shepherd, Montgomery and Sloan) and it almost seemed like she couldn’t articulate herself why it was such an important project. Finally, moments away from the episode’s end she unleashed her reasoning for the clinic to the unimpressed docs: to have something to believe in as once she had believed in each of them. Her tactics of shame worked and they signed letters of support without another word. This left funding as the final obstacle in her path to success, a hurdle easily overcome with a little help from resident money-bags, Izzie.
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Tags: Alex Karev, Armish, Cristina Yang, doctors, Dr. Addison Montgomery, Dr. Callie Torres, Dr. Derek Shepherd, Dr. Mark Sloan, Dr. Miranda Bailey, George O'Malley, Grey's Anatomy, hospital, import, interns, Izzie Stevens, Living TV, McDreamy, McSteamy, medical drama, Meredith Grey, Seattle, Seattle Grace Hospital, surgeons, the Chief, the Nazi
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
I was not aware, until I snuggled on my sofa at 10pm last night and flicked over to Living TV, that Grey’s Anatomy was to be a double-billed affair. Night-time me rejoiced at an extra hour of Seattle Grace hospital, while morning me groaned at the later-than-planned bedtime and inevitable sleepiness the next day. Well, happily night-time me won out – and I’m pleased she did, as the two episodes were pretty non-stop.
With so many characters and so many long-established storylines, GA has been sagging under its own weight in recent weeks. Thankfully, those that had been neglected for too long were finally given their chance to flex their acting chops. Most notably, McSteamy. Since his arrival in Seattle, the plastic surgeon has whined about coffee, been rude to his interns and slept with both Addison and Callie – and that’s about it. All until yesterday. For a hefty chunk, he remained unchanged – in the background and repeating old behaviours. I was once again lamenting the waste of an intriguing character, until the bombshell: he was angry with Addison for having aborted their baby.
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Tags: Addison, Burke, Callie, Cristina, Derek, doctors, Drama, George, Grey's Anatomy, hospital, interns, Izzie, Karev, Living TV, McDreamy, McSteamy, medical, Meredith, Miranda, Mr. O'Malley, Seattle, Seattle Grace, Sloan, surgeons, the Chief
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
And so second in my double bill of doctors, comes Grey’s Anatomy. I’ve previously had a whinge about the tendency for the Grey’s writers to overlook and neglect some of their more interesting characters and again, last night they were guilty as charged. As much as I love this show, they need to trim their cast (with Isaiah Washington fired and Kate Walsh given her own spin-off, maybe things will look up), as an hour episode reduces some to mere background players.
Again Sloan was two-dimensional. He got to choose which intern could work with him for the day and opted for Izzie, as she would be “good to look at.” However, unlike her predecessor Alex, Izzie wasn’t prepared to become a lackey for the egotistical plastic surgeon and refused to oblige his orders for coffee. Quite predictably, Izzie’s uncompromising feistiness impressed Sloan and after what has seemed like years on the sidelines observing, Sloan allowed Izzie to scrub in and watch at close range a difficult operation on conjoined twins.
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Tags: Alex, Burke, cancer, conjoined twins, doctors, father, George, Grey's Anatomy, import, Isaiah Washington, Izzie, Kate Walsh, LivingTV, McDreamy, medical, Meredith, Miranda, operation, plastic surgery, programme, show, Siamese twins, Sloan, surgeons, surgery, the Chief, TV, USA
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From:Set The Video: NASA: Triumph and Tragedy, BBC Two, Wednesday, 24 June, 9pm