TV Schedule: every Thursdays at 9:00 pm
TV Channel: ABC
Genre: Drama
Grey's Anatomy Story Summary:
Set in Seattle, Gray's Anatomy follows the lives and challenges of the medical staff of Seattle Grace Hospital. Over the course of the series, the cast goes from being young and inexperienced surgical interns into becoming skilled doctors.
The series shows the cast doing through difficult life lessons and professional decisions, with stronger emphasis on the lives of the medical professionals on the cast. The issues that the show deals with are wide and varied.
The show's primary focus rests on Meredith Grey, who begins as a surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital. The title of the show references her as well as the essential medical text Grey's Anatomy itself.
She is a woman who is shown to be competent and strong-willed, though she is still troubled by her mother's affair with Richard Webber, the former chief of surgery in the hospital where she now works.
Despite the show's focus on Meredith Grey, there are a number of other strong and conflicting personalities on the cast. Grey's best friend is Christina Yang, a competitive surgeon whose ambition manages to alienate a great deal of the cast. Mirand Bailey is the demanding attending surgeon who both frightens and inspires the interns, while Alex Karev is an attractive bur troubled surgeon who has deep interpersonal issues.
Rounding out the main cast is Richard Webber, who provides the series with tension in his difficulties managing the hospital and his own rather fraught relationship with Meredith Grey herself. The length of the show has lent to vast character expansion, especially as more and more characters are introduced. Included among them are many of the family members of the main cast.
The show has currently completed eight seasons, with a ninth season that has yet to be released. The story began with the basic challenges that are faced by surgical interns during their first year and the first season dealt primarily with professional difficulties, which were immense.
By the second season, the show began dealing with the private lives of the main characters as well, revealing the close ties between their professional work and their personal lives. Issues that are called into question include alcoholism, mental illness and dysfunctional family relationships. In addition to this, it reflects the difficulties faced by patients and doctors as they attempt to work together.
The doctors and interns are not always good human beings, giving the show a certain realistic grittiness. This gives the world of Gray's Anatomy a greater scope than might be expected for a medical show.
In season six, the hospital where the drama takes places merged with another hospital called Mercy West Hospital, bringing on more cast whose lives start to intertwine with those of the regular cast.
The series has won critical acclaim for its willingness to take enormous risks in terms of its narrative and its characters, and the end result has been a show that is both compelling and exciting.
