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Grey's Anatomy - The Complete Second Season

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In under a year, Grey's Anatomy has gone from a mid-season replacement show to one of the top rated dramas on television. The show consistently demonstrates that brilliantly written characters, a diverse cast, lots of romance, and loads of drama set in the fast-paced world of surgery makes for an wonderful combination. The 27 episodes of Season 2 build on the brilliance of season 1, delivering a knockout performance that is a must buy for any Grey's fan.

Grey's Anatomy is about the lives and loves of 5 young surgical interns at Seattle Grace Hospital. Placed in the most competitive and grueling internship a hospital has, Grey's follows the doctors as they learn to become surgeons from some of the best in the business. Season 1's nine episode run saw romance blossom between surgeries with intern Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and attending physician Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) as well as intern Christina Yang (Sandra Oh) and attending surgeon Preston Burke (Isiah Washington). Sparks also flew between fellow interns Dr. Izzy Stevens( Katherine Heigl) and Dr. Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) while Dr. George O'Malley (T.R McKnight) nursed an unrequited love on housemate Meredith. Every episode was filled with romance, comedy, drama, and tension.

Season 2 delivers more of the same, beginning with Derek's previously unknown wife, Addison (Kate Walsh) showing up at Seattle Grace to try to win back her busband, who left her after she slept with his best friend. Confronted with two women he loves, Derek is forced to choose between them, a choice that would have wide reaching consequences. That choice and its consequences have become the central theme for the entire second season. Other continuing story arcs are Christina and Burke's developing relationship, Izzy's and Alex's growing chemistry (thrown for a loop with the arrival of heart patient Denny), and Meredith's still unfinished feelings for Derek, which in season 2 cause her to do some incredibly dumb things, including breaking fan favorite George's heart. Series creater Shonda Rimes and the rest of the writing staff don't shy away from making controversial choices with the plots, as evidenced in the shocking 3-hour season finale.

Week after week this is hands down the most addictive show on television. This show gets you so interested in the characters, some days you will love them and some days hate them, but you never stop watching them. Thanks to the guys at tvshowsondvd, we know that the 6-disc box set contains over 5 hours of Grey's extras, including extended version episodes of Thanks for the Memories, It's the End of the World, What Have I Done to Deserve This, and Losing My Religion, a fan roundtable featurette with the cast answering questions from fans, a Bailey featurette, set tour with Dr. Webbe, tons of deleted scenes, and several audio commentaries. The set is mixed in 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound, with a 1.78:1 aspect ratio. If you have never seen Grey's, pick up both the first and second season sets. One of the best shows on television and Highly Recommended.

A.G. Corwin
St.Louis, MO

Grey's Anatomy is one of the best shows I have seen in a Television world filled with way too many reality shows. I will be the first to admit I have never really been in to medical shows. I bought the first season of this DVD set for a couple of reasons. First because I knew it stared Katherine Heigl who stared in one of my favorite Tv shows Roswell, and secondly because I kept hearing buzz and saw how many positive reviews it got here on amazon. Now Grey's Anatomy The Complete Second Season will be released on DVD this September. Grey's Anatomy is a show that has just the right amount of comedy mixed in with just the right amount of drama, and those two things along with the great cast take this far just beyond another medical TV show. This show just keeps you coming back for more. Along with Desperate Housewives and Lost, Grey's Anatomy is another welcomed addition and a great break from all those reality TV shows. According to the press release from Buena Vista/Disney The DVD set of Season 2 will include all 27 episodes on a 6 DVD set, (presented in widescreen with 5.1 Surround Sound) and will include the Bonus Materials below.

*Three Extended Episodes: Exclusive to the DVD are scenes too steamy for TV.

*Fan Roundtable: favorite "Grey's Anatomy" actors answer fans' most burning questions.

*Audio Commentaries

*Deleted Scenes

*And Much More

I absolutely LOVE this show. Season 2 was amazing!! I can't wait until the DVD comes out this Fall. The chemistry between Meredith and Derrick is heartwrenching....so good. The writing, directing, and choice of music are right on target, all the time. I love all the characters. Loved the season finale.....so glad I taped it since I have to wait til September for the DVD to come out!! Anyway, if you aren't watching this show, you're missing out.

As I pulled the last episode of Season 2 from my DVD player, I found myself wondering exactly where one might find such a hospital. With the lone exception of the charmingly irascible Dr. Bailey, every doctor who is on screen for more than 5 minutes has slept with a colleague, often a boss or subordinate.

Doctors chide and insult each other and parade their sexual escapades and love frustrations in front of their patients, occasionally as a patient keels over from lack of attention. If you think these doctors are busy, my Lord . . . can you imagine the workload in the legal department? (There's got to be another whole drama concept sitting there ripe for the picking.)

After a season and a half of this, why was I still surprised when the comely intern Izzie climbed into bed alongside a patient and giggled as he talked about groping her? Sure, she knows her supervisor would disapprove. But, hey . . . what self-respecting intern could be expected to subordinate their own needs and desires to professional ethics? Can you believe those ponderous old bureaucrats who still preach such quaint notions to people as important as DOCTORS? And Alex, that hunky little pack of randy medical manliness . . . why should anyone of his elevated sense of self-serving ethics have to obey orders not to spout off condescending insults to patients? The truth shall make you free. His truth, anyway.

These aren't just interns. They are hip TV interns. And this isn't just a hospital. It's home to these hipsters. And it's an anything-goes type of home where an orthopedic doctor lives in a basement storeroom, just because she wants to. Its beds, lockerrooms, hallways, operating rooms, and elevators just seem built for chance encounters, sexual imbroglios, heated interchanges, embarassing standoffs, and kissing and making up.

Actually, the show is great fun. I've watched the first two seasons in the span of a couple of weeks. And watching Sandra Oh is worth the price of passage, even if the ticket also subjects you to the faux fragility of a frequently and annoyingly tongue-tied Ellen Pompeo. But take it for the piece of soap opera froth it is. And never, never mistake it for anything even remotely approximating real doctors in a real hospital.

I cannot get over season two of Grey's anatomy!! seriously I am hooked i have been watching the dvd over and over again. The plot twists are always entertaining. there's always some drama going on at seattle grace and then theres the mc dreamy addison meredith love triangle. At first you think he should so choose meredith but as things progress we see that addison is not so bad a person and who should he choose?? The season finale is wicked really wicked because now i jus wanna know what will happen next?? I cant wait for S3 to start airing seriously I am counting down and ticking off the days on my calendar. Sad u think? well buy this DVD and you'll see what it does to you. Greys anatomy is AWESOME!!! *****

Is Grey's Anatomy a steamy/McDreamy drama about sex, lust, and all things dirty? You betcha. But it's more. It's savvy writing, insights galore, friendships tested to the breaking point, heartbreak of the real variety, and yes, five people trying to become something that actually is important--surgeons who save lives. It's hard. People die, and sometimes they had something to do with it. It takes everything they've got to slug through and all the sex and fun makes it barely bearable.

Grey's Anatomy is bone-deep funny, gritty, achingly tender--and it's set to absolutely incredible music (which you should buy as well). How's that for television? I actually dread the last few minutes of the show knowing it'll be over, and there's not much on television I can say that about.

I'd gnaw off my own finger to get to write this show every week.

Impressed. Impressed is the word I'd use to describe the first episode I saw. I'm sad to say I did not get hip to this show until the second season. So to play catch up, I went and bought the first season on DVD. I was so impressed. This show is phenomenal. I love the characters, and even more, I love the divesity of the characters. I don't understand how on so many shows, there are no characters of ethnic persuasion. I mean com'mon, we are everywhere! And it's sad to see us not represented on the t.v. we watch. But, Grey's Anatomy has something for everybody. You can watch this show and identify with someone (I identify with Dr. Bailey). I also love the distinct personalities of each character, I mean I've had a doctor who was a jackass (aka Alex Carev), who hasn't?

All in all, this show has restored my faith in good television and good writing. The OC's writer said that he killed of one off his main characters because he had no more stories to tell. As a writer I took offense to that. The stories are there, you just have to take the time to tell them. To me, when you stop caring about the characters you've created, then naturally their stories will die. The care is seen in every episode of Grey's Anatomy, the error and flaw of human imperfection and the glorious triumph of the human spirit. Yes, Grey's Anatomy is a breath of fresh air, in a sea of sewage, that we call television programming. I say, Keep it up Shonda Rhimes. Continue to tell your stories, and I will continue to watch.

Grey's Anatomy is my can't-miss show right now. It offers bizarre medical cases, fiery relationships, and enough suspense in the story lines to leave you guessing at the end of each episode - certainly enough to want to come back for more.
This season was of course longer than the inaguaral season, meaning there is more to see. I am really glad that the extended episodes were included in this box set of the season. The special features are interesting as well.
Overall, this is a strong box set release of a very well written and cast television show; it has been watched heavily by my household since its purchase on release day!
If you are behind on the show because you have only recently discovered it, the season 1 and 2 box sets are the way to go to catch up, especially during rerun times.
Enjoy!

After last season's cliffhanger with Meredith learning Dr. McDreamy was married, I couldn't wait for the second season DVDs to arrive. I wasn't disappointed.

This season picks up where the last left off beginning with the introduction of Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Montgomery Shepherd. When Meredith is already feeling like a dirty whore for sleeping with a married man, she feels even worse upon learning that his wife is gorgeous, a renowned neonatal surgeon, and taking a position at Seattle Grace with every intention of fighting for her man. And, as if the Meredith-McDreamy-Montgomery Shepherd triangle weren't enough, there's also the matter of Christina and Burke's budding relationship. Are they or aren't they together? Will they or won't they last? With Christina's headstrong nature and insistence on always being right and Burke's laid-back attitude and take life as it comes attitude, they're an interesting pair to say the least. I was constantly wondering if they were going to make it. The outcome is still uncertain, but this season provided some much needed clarity.

But by far the best storyline of the season came with the introduction of heart patient Denny Duquette, played by Jeffrey Dean Martin (one of my new favorite actors). His relationship with intern Izzy Stevens is the stuff that television dramas are made for. I think you would have had to live under a rock not to have heard about the heart-stopping (literally) cliffhanger at the end of the two-part season finale and to have a heart made of stone not to have been torn up about the ending. Almost as much as I couldn't wait for this season to come on DVD, I couldn't wait for the third season to begin airing. And as always, this show hasn't disappointed me. In my opinion this is the best medical show on the air right now, bar none. For those who love House and ER and need a little levity in their television library, I'd suggest adding this show. And for anyone in the mood for an addictive drama-comedy with an incredible cast, I'd suggest it as well.

Lead Character Meredith Grey's life sometimes makes you just want to turn away and shake your head. There are some seriously disappointing moments here--and as her best friend Christina says, "Meredith is all dark and twisty." The ensemble cast is fabulous and some of the episodes are so heart wrenching "Into You LIke A Train" where an couple of strangers are stuck togetether after a train wreck and only one can survive, are beyond tear jerkers. I think Grey's will go down as one of the best medical dramas on TV since M*A*S*H and ER. Many of the episodes are worth watching over and over.