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Posted Feb 22nd 2007 10:55PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Grey's Anatomy
(S03E17) So, I'm watching this climactic ferry-accident-arc episode, and there's a lot of stuff going on. Meredith is still cold and dead. She's also dealing with patients from her past in some sort of afterlife, all of whom are encouraging to fight for life. Izzie and her passive-aggressiveness is called on the carpet yet again by Callie. They start a bypass on Meredith to warm her up, since according to Webber, she's not dead until she's warm and dead. She's still in limbo. Derek is yelling at, then trying to save Ellis. At one of the commercial breaks, I thought to myself, "Whew. Glad this is almost over."
Then I looked at the clock on my microwave, and it said it was 9:38.
This was not a good thing.
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: Some Kind of Miracle
Posted Feb 15th 2007 10:56PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Grey's Anatomy
(S03E16) Oh, for Christ's sake.
I thought this arc was going to go somewhere. I figured that last week's episode was good, so the middle of the arc was going to ramp up the drama. I also heard that someone was going to die, and I spent the entire episode wondering who Shonda Rhimes would knock off.
And, to be honest, all I got was a bad cross between,
ER, Emergency!, and
Magnum, P.I.Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: Drowning on Dry Land
Posted Feb 8th 2007 10:58PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Grey's Anatomy
(S03E15) As Al Bundy used to say, "Great Lucifer's ghost!"
This is going to be a pretty intense arc, isn't it? Sandwiched in between a ferry wreck and lots of oddball traumas are the interpersonal issues of the entire SGH staff. Oh, and water. Lots and lots of water.
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: Walk on Water
Posted Jan 25th 2007 11:29PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Grey's Anatomy
(S03E13) Many thanks to Keith for covering the show while I was in L.A. The other day, I caught the episode I missed; looks like Shonda Rhimes and company did a great job of dealing with Mr. O'Malley's death, the Burke-Yang cold war, and the cutsey fighting of Meredith and Derek. Oh, and they even briefly hooked Addison up with Alex again. Nice.
But the biggest revelation, at least to me, is how personally involved Bailey got with the O'Malleys, and how she actually took a cue from the always-involved Izzie. That carries over to this week's fairly straightforward episode. "The Nazi is back," says Derek when she forces the four potential Chiefs of Surgery to sign off on her free clinic idea. But it's a different Nazi... one that feels more than she used to, while being ballsier at the same time (note how she told Burke that he owed her after sandbagging her during the whole tremor period).
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: Great Expectations
Posted Nov 30th 2006 11:50PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Grey's Anatomy
(S03E10) Tension's running high at Seattle Grace this week, isn't it? Bailey's all pissed because Yang and Burke are seemingly getting away with their tremor-induced "teamwork," and pissed at herself because yet another intern misbehaved under her watch. Burke and Yang are of course pissed at each other. Shepherd is pissed because Burke won't let him fix that tremor. George is pissed at everyone because he feels powerless over what's going on with his dad. Addison is pissed at Meredith for freezing during surgery. The other interns are pissed at Yang because she got to do all those neato procedures. Webber is pissed at Burke for not letting him retire. And the Sklar brothers are pissed at each other because they're conjoined and like to touch the same woman while naked.
Ok, let me explain that one...
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: Don't Stand So Close To Me
Posted Jun 4th 2006 3:37PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Talent, Grey's Anatomy
Grey's Anatomy really took off this year after that sex-filled episode following the Super Bowl. So, ABC showed its gratitude by giving the main cast members $200,000 bonuses. That's enough to take a super nice vacation, buy a really awesome car, or a decent house in Peoria, Illinois.
The cast members receiving $200,000 bonuses are: Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, James Pickens Jr., T.R. Knight, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl, Chandra Wilson, Isaiah Washington, Justin Chambers and Kate Walsh. Pretty much the entire cast of regulars.
Despite the sizable bonuses, the actors are reportedly still pushing Disney to re-negotiate their contracts since they went from small-time to mega-hit last season. It's a reasonable request (or, perhaps, an omen). The four main actors in
Desperate Housewives also received $200,000+ bonuses and raises after the first season.
Posted May 18th 2006 8:08PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: ABC, Video, Grey's Anatomy
During
Tuesday's fall schedule presentation, ABC did some pimping of
Grey's Anatomy and it also played a clip making fun of the hit show (it's currently up
on YouTube). The clip is a spoof from a scene during the big
Grey's episode that aired after the Super Bowl. You may remember, in that episode, Dr. George O'Malley has a fantasy about Meredith, Cristina and Izzie taking a shower together. The spoof video is of Patrick Dempsey, Isaiah Washington, and James Pickens Jr. taking a steamy shower together-- it's somebody else's fantasy and you find out who at the end of the scene.
The video is after the jump and the McSteamy shower scene is about 3 minutes in.
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy spoofs itself -- VIDEO
Posted Dec 28th 2005 6:19PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Programming, OpEd, Lost, Grey's Anatomy
The next new episode of
Lost isn't until Wednesday, January 11th, so ABC is kindly airing a recap of the
season so far. It airs at 8 pm on January 11th, and is called "Revelations," and then the new episode about
Eko and his stick, called "The 23rd Psalm", airs at 9 pm the same night. By then, we will have gone for six
whole weeks without a new episode of
Lost! If you've never seen
Lost, but you want to get in on the
excitement, I would recommend watching the DVDs for Season One and then watching the recap. You can also read recaps of
all this season's episodes
here.
And, if you're
like Ryan, and you're wondering
what all the excitment is over
Grey's Anatomy, ABC is also airing a recap episode of that show on Sunday, Jan.
8th at 10 pm. The next new episode of Grey's is a week later. This won't be nearly as hard to catch up on as it will be
to catch up on
Lost. Basically, Meredith Grey is a really skinny surgical intern in Seattle who had an affair
with another surgeon who is married. She has pretty much spent this whole season pouting about it. Yet, I can't stop
watching...
Posted Dec 22nd 2005 2:35PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Talent, Grey's Anatomy
Not only is Christina Ricci making a guest appearance on
Grey's Anatomy, she's doing it on the most
important night of the year for the hospital drama. ABC is airing her episode directly after the Super Bowl on February
5th. It's a huge opportunity for
Grey's Anatomy. Obviously, ABC wants the episode to not only hold onto some of
the huge audience from the big game, but also to create new, regular viewers of the show. ABC is keeping the plot of the
program under wraps, only saying that Ricci arrives at Seattle Grace Hospital "not as a patient, but as someone in
a life-and-death situation." O-kay. February's appearance marks the third television acting appearance for Ricci
in recent memory, including a stint on
Ally McBeal and a guest spot on
Joey.
Personally, I
think ABC is holding a contest to see who is tinier, Ellen Pompeo or Christina Ricci? I'm going to have to go with Ellen
Pompeo on this one, since Christina Ricci still looks like a healthy person.
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