Grey’s Anatomy: The Complete Third Season

Review By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com

Sometimes the hardest part of reviewing a season long title is committing yourself to staring at your TV screen for up to 25 full hours; usually in a matter of only a few days. Of course, we could half-ass it and just watch a few here and there and make up some bogus review, but then we wouldn’t be TheCinemaSource would we?

I think it’s important that each show be given every chance possible to impress us. Sometimes that happens in the first few episodes, sometimes in the middle, and hell sometimes we have to wait all the way to the season finale for things to come together to have their proper impact.

When reviewing a season of Grey’s Anatomy, the hardest part is remembering to eat and use the bathroom! Every season of this show has completely drawn me in to the point where I need to watch the next episode as quickly as possible, similar to how I felt about the first season of 24, or both seasons of Prison Break . The endings here aren’t that cliffhanger, finger on the trigger type, for Grey’s it’s the emotional equivalent, which is amazing to me.

It’s easy to keep your audience on the edge of their seats when your hero is about to fall off a building or has a gun pointed to his head that may or may not have any bullets left in it… but keeping fans glued to their TV’s because McSteamy (Eric Dane) emerges in all his wondrous glory from, not surprisingly a very ‘steamy’ bathroom in Addison’s hotel room as her now definitely soon to be x husband McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey) sits beside her on the bed is brilliant. Even now as I describe it I realize how soap opera trashy it really is, but man it does NOT play that way when you’re watching it because of how incredibly well written and developed these characters are and how genuine all of the performances are.

Now before we jump into the details of the show itself, let’s get this sticky Isaiah Washington scandal out of the way. - He’s a homophobic bigot and should have been fired immediately. There I said it.

To keep things P.C., I won’t use the hateful words that come so easily and casually to him, but if T.R. Knight had used the “N” word instead of Washington using the “F” word; there would have been no debate. T.R would have been gone, never to be heard from again.

Here comes another view that I’m sure a lot of people will disagree with, but I challenge anyone to debate the point with me, being an African American in Hollywood is NOT even CLOSE to being as difficult as it is to be OUT in Hollywood. So this race card I’m oppressed bull shit really needs to stop. It’s called equality ...