Grey’s Anatomy: Rating: 1 star

Doctors who do everything but doctor.

Reviewed March 29, 2007

I’m fully aware that my television tastes do not fall in line with the vast majority of viewers, but I still can’t figure out why people seem so excited about this show—to my eyes, it’s just another glossy doctor-drama about gorgeous young medical professionals and their love lives… and, of course, the occasional wacky illness or major urban disaster to give it nominal medical cred. Actually, I wouldn’t mind the formulaic set-up if it weren’t for the overly-cutesy dialogue, the cliche last-five-minutes music montages, and the inevitable HERE IS A LIFE LESSON TO JAM DOWN YOUR THROAT voiceovers where Ellen Pompeo sounds so smug that I have to put the TV on mute and turn on closed captioning just to make it through the rest of the hour. (Actually, Ellen Pompeo is annoying when seen or heard; she looks like a stretched-out Renee Zellweger with her squinty eyes and vulnerable-but-knowing little smile.) It’s not the worst show on TV, but it’s definitely in the bottom 10.