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Was once a geek?

Thursday evening I visited my alma mater with some college friends to see old professors, walk around campus a bit, and catch a student performance. Being there, of course, brought back memories, and I spent most of the evening telling stories over pitchers of beer at the local bar. While I had some of the best four years of my life in college, it’s nice not to live in that world everyday. (That’s a lie; I do miss my daily wardrobe of sweatpants, jeans, and hoodies.) But what about the hot doctors of Grey’s Anatomy, I wonder how they spent their undergrad years, or even med school? More after the jump…

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At the beginning of the season, I wrote about my low expectations for season premieres, but now during November Sweeps I want the best a show can offer. I might not have invested millions of dollars in ad buys for the month, but I have cozied-up on this cool, crisp fall evening and want to be entertained.

As always, pretty Seattle aerial shots and great music starts the episode (as does a TV-14, SV rating, perfect for Sweeps), and then—eww! George and Izzie are sweaty and panting and in bed. Mer’s voiceover kicks in rasping about physical chemistry; something George and Izzie do not have. They too realize there is a problem and spend the rest of the episode trying to recreate their first rendezvous of drunken, adulterous sex. I stress drunk and adulterous. At least Izzie figured alcohol might be a needed but some actual on-screen chemistry could have helped, too. They should have taken a lesson from this week’s Gossip Girl. More after the jump…

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“I love passing judgment on people!”

Last week on Grey’s Anatomy, real life kicked my ass, the Callie-Izzie-George triangle erupted, Lexie was less annoying, Mer and Der don’t go away for the weekend, and the Chief’s niece reappeared (different actress, natch). And a few seasons ago, Dr. Hahn from Seattle Presbyterian operated on some hearts and Alex fell in love with Ava / Rebecca.This week’s ABC-mandated Halloween episode opened with a Mer mid-dream: “Pick me, choose me, love me.”, mean Mommy, corpse Mer, ect. While this isn’t Grey’s first use of a dream sequence, it was one of the best. But then maybe I am biased because of the “Pick me, choose me, love me.” inclusion—which really is a better representation of Mer’s psyche than her dreams—and that the nightmare that the ghost of Ellis Grey is haunting her prompts Mer to finally get her mother’s ashes out of the closet. More after the jump…

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Sad is mine, go find your own pretend emotion.

It’s been a long week at work. And coming home after another day, all I wanted was to watch some quality television. 30 Rock got it right; The Office, too; but what about Grey’s Anatomy? Well, it didn’t meet my expectations this week. Since Mer was VO-ing about the consequences of telling the truth in the episode, I will do the same. More after the jump…

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Anyone want a toaster in exchange for carnage?

Flashback to spring 2005, at a happy hour with co-workers a conversation about television starts. “Lost, blah blah, Desperate Housewives, blah blah, HBO. Has anyone started watching Grey’s Anatomy?” I reply, “Ooh, Hot Doctors!” with great enthusiasm. From that point on, the show—especially when it’s good—has always been known to me as Hot Doctors and this week’s episode was no exception.This episode had all the elements that make Grey’s Anatomy a quality series. Mer’s voice over about addiction established the theme and the patients of the week, of course, related to it. A meth lab explosion in an apartment building brought the meth makers, an addict, an addicted baby, and an innocent apartment resident (played awesomely by Ben Vereen) to Seattle Grace. And our doctors actually got to be doctors. I was surprised how effortlessly the Resident Foursome are growing into their new roles as residents. Since Bailey was their teacher, I shouldn’t be surprised, but even the way the actors are carrying themselves on screen shows a new air of responsibility. While the transition from students to teachers continues to leave Bailey in a state of flux, her scolding of Alex in the O.R. gallery was one of the best scenes of the episode.

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Shut up, Lexie.

Let me introduce myself: I’m Liz, and I’ll be writing about Grey’s Anatomy here because I don’t have enough time to run my own TV blog.

I am always hesitant about first episodes of returning series because they never seem to live up to my expectations. (The upcoming new season of The Wire, you are excluded.) The months between May Sweeps and the new fall TV season hold such promise, mainly hinging on how cliffhangers will be resolved? Grey’s Anatomy, as expected, ends its seasons on emotional cliffhangers rather then physical ones—unless you count Meredith turning her head back and forth between whatever love triangle she is involved with at the time as a physical cliffhanger. So where did we last leave our hot doctors…

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