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Joan Juliet Buck is charmed by women in
medicine
Grey's Anatomy is an ABC series about a vocation that manages
to make the desire to cut people open as romantic as the desire
to be a great musician. Created by Shonda Rhimes (who wrote the
terrific HBO film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge), the show
brings a tender, fragile spin to the tired medical milieu, in
the person of Meredith Gray (Ellen Pompeo), a disabused,
surgical intern. When she wakes up naked next to a strange man
before her first day at Seattle Grace Hospital, Meredith
announces as she hustles him out, "We don't have to exchange
details, pretend we care." He of course already does, and before
the show is over he will turn out to be Derek Shepard (Patrick
Dempsey), a surgeon at the hospital, and their random intimacy
will become an inspiring professional collaboration. After
Meredith watches him perform brain surgery, she can say, "That
was such a high, I don't know why anybody does drugs."
The fun and flavor of the show comes a great cast: Sandra Oh
as Cristina Yang, the sour, focused intern, whose every nuance
of envy and furious ambition, and intelligent compromise rings
true. There's pretty Isobel (Katherine Heigl), who paid
her way through medical school by modeling, and the hapless
George O'Malley (T. R. Knight) who quickly earns the nickname
007, which means "license to kill." A nicely balanced blend of
romance, drama, and sharpness. Grey's Anatomy will age well. |
