The Lounge lizard has been fully awakened once again by the riveting Grey’s Anatomy on mnet on Mondays. Mondays have always been SABC3 days for me. Mostly sitcoms, which I would imbibe in mindlessly for two hours. I like this it was relaxing for me. I saw no need to change until I happened upon an advert for Grey’s Anatomy on dstv. Right away I knew that allegiances will have to change. I have always loved a drama based on the lives of medical interns. It’s such a juicy platform. You know that these guys have been brought togther by faith passion sand ambition. That they will have to live and experience life altering moments together for at least fove to seven years. They will see very little of other people except for patients and medical staff. It’s a platform that could be mimed for years. I was crazy about Gideon’s crossing AND I was very very sorry that it ended.
No problem though as Grey’s anatomy makes up for it in a major way. It centres on a central character that is cute and competent in an intelligent kind of way. She has already slept with her boss, without intending to. I was supposed to be a one nite stand. She was massively horrified to find herself facing him on her first day as her boss. If that does not grab your interest I don’t what will. The other interesting character for me is Cristina. She is pretty in a Chinese sort of way, which actually pisses her off as she is Korean , not even that as she was raised in Beverly hills and is as American as apple pie.
Here is a summary of the first episode
Meredith Grey 
woke up next to a guy named Derek
. And she promptly said good-bye to him, presumably for good, as she went off for her first day of work as a surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital. Meredith, along with fellow interns Cristina Yang,
Izzie Stevens, and George O'Malley, all get assigned to surgical resident Dr. Miranda Bailey, but they would all come to know her as "The Nazi" (for her abrasive treatment of interns
).
Meredith's first patient, a teenage beauty pageant contestant, recently began suffering from seizures so severe they threatened her life. As a neurological disorder that might need surgery, a neurosurgeon new to Seattle Grace gets put on the case to work with Meredith. That neurosurgeon is none other than Dr. Derek Shepherd, Meredith's would-be one-night-stand. Derek wants to talk to Meredith about the previous night, but Meredith wants none of that. He's an attending, she's an intern, that's what their relationship should be.
Meredith forms an immediate bond with Cristina that gets quickly tested when Derek chooses Meredith over Cristina to scrub in on brain surgery (it would've been a first for either of them). Izzie is assigned to do rectal exams amidst frustrating bouts of deciding when it's appropriate or not to bother Bailey. And George gets selected by the arrogant Dr. Preston Burke
to actually perform a surgery - an honor he allegedly bestows on the intern who shows the most promise, but in actuality is for the intern he just wants to torture and make an example of in front of the others. George freezes up during an appendectomy with Burke and gets branded "007" - license to kill - by a fellow intern that rubs everyone the wrong way - Alex Karev. Alex also insults Meredith, but he gets his comeuppance when she is able to offer a proper diagnosis for one of Alex's patients in front of Dr. Richard Webber, Chief of Surgery at Seattle Grace.
Dr. Webber, by the way, turns out to be a friend of Meredith's mother, the famous Dr. Ellis Grey (whom all the interns hold in the highest regard). We get the impression that the relationship between Meredith and Ellis wasn't the best - Ellis didn't think Meredith had what it takes to go to medical school -- but no one, save for Meredith, knows that early onset Alzheimer's Disease has left her a shell of the person she once was, relegating her now to a nursing home.
That was seriously riveting. I was hooked lined and sinked so to speak. I couldnt wait for the next episode which did not dissapoint. You just have to see the nazi in action. Never has a woman been so unnecesary nasty and cruel on tv. Its not only baptisim by fire for the interns but its being hated on sight just because you are an intern.
ciao