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Grey's Anatomy
Season Five
SERIES: ABC, Thursday 8:00p (60 minutes)
Starring
Patrick Dempsey,
Ellen Pompeo,
Sandra Oh,
Sara Ramirez,
Brooke Smith,
T.R. Knight,
Katherine Heigl, Justin Chambers, Chyler Leigh,
and
James Pickens Jr.
The doctors of Seattle Grace return for its fifth season and it includes guest Kevin McKidd as the newest doctor on the block.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| CREATED BY: |
Shonda Rhimes
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| FIRST AIR DATE: |
September 25, 2008 |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
91
Entertainment Weekly Tim Stack
It returns with an emotional and surprising (hint: you'll never look at icicles the same way) premiere.
88
USA Today Robert Bianco
All we need ask of Grey's is that it tell its stories well in its own way, and tonight it does.
75
New York Post Linda Stasi
Tonight, through the miracle of modern medicine, the show comes roaring back with a plot that includes the, er, trauma of Seattle Grace Hospital being downgraded from the number two facility in the state to the number 12.
75
Chicago Sun-Times Misha Davenport
Tonight's premiere hits on all the things the show does so well. There is romance, heartbreak, humor and a few moments that will move fans to tears.
70
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
Overall, it feels more like the good old days than Grey's has in a long time.
63
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
The Grey's Anatomy writers acknowledge last season's ratings decline by offering a parallel plot that finds Seattle Grace's ranking as a teaching hospital suffering in tonight's entertaining and ridiculous-in-the-regular-Grey's-ways two-hour season premiere.
60
New York Daily News David Hinckley
ABC's promise, a bold one, is "A New Beginning." That may be overstating what we see tonight, but at least we do get a brand-new guy for Sandra Oh's Cristina Yang to kiss. That's a good start. But as with any veteran show, some of the old mix-and-match gets redundant.
60
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
What's bad for Seattle Grace isn't necessarily bad for Grey's, which needs all the medical drama it can muster to distract its doctors from their (mostly) dreary love lives. Guest stars don't necessarily hurt, either.
60
Variety Brian Lowry
At some point, though, a program this reliant on workplace sexcapades begins to run out of combinations, and the writers haven't done much more to address the problem than pad on new layers of interns (starting with Meredith's younger sister, played by Chyler Leigh) to further confound things.
60
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
You expect the Big Moment on Grey's Anatomy, and the usual array of melodramatic developments in Thursday's two-hour season premiere. On the plus side, at least this episode isn't as padded and maddening as past two-hour Grey's episodes have been.
50
Newsday Verne Gay
It's still the Meredere (or Deremere) show, and Cristina's right. It's just ... so ... over.
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