Patrick Dempsey.

Reviewer rating:

Rating: 15 out of 5 stars

Reader rating:

Rating: 40 out of 5 stars (305 votes)

Channel Seven, 8.30pm

It's hard to decide what is the most annoying element of this inexplicably enduring hospital drama. The silliness and preening of the characters and their dial-up romantic traumas? The sanctimonious speeches delivered without a speck of irony by the po-faced Dr Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo)? The bland and mechanical treatment of the medical cases that are ferried into the emergency department (and who, in any case, are routinely shunted aside for the medicos' seemingly more pressing concerns)? The wall-to-wall soundtrack of saccharine songs that fills the gaps where the drama is meant to be? Tonight, Meredith, having already lost her job, goes AWOL and puts her's and Derek's custody of their adopted daughter at risk. Where is she and why? Who knows? Who cares?

Go here to see the original:
Grey's Anatomy, Thursday, February 16