Viewing Single Post From: 5.01~5.02 Dream a Little Dream of Me

Viewing Single Post From: 5.01~5.02 Dream a Little Dream of Me
oncetherewasaway	Sep 20 2008, 10:47 PM
McEditor Posts: 1,625 Group: .Grey Girls. Member #23 Joined: October 25, 2006	RECAPS & REVIEWS & RATINGS SEASON PREMIER REVIEWS BUDDYTV Grey's Anatomy: Season 5 Premiere "Dream a Little Dream of Me" Recap - Thursday, September 25, 2008 Grey's Anatomy begins with Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) standing in her house of candles that she made for McDreamy. She is ready to begin her fairytale life with Derek, her "happily ever after," but she voiceovers that happily ever after doesn't happen. We cut to her rushing to the hospital where Derek is dying on an operating table after being hit by a bus. She screams and cries, but suddenly, we find out that it was all just a dream. Real-life Meredith jumps up from a nap in the on-call room, as her voiceover curses the person who invented "happily ever after." She rushes to a computer where Bailey, Derek, Hahn and the residents are all hovering. The national rankings for teaching hospitals is about to be released, and everyone is on edge to find out where Seattle Grace landed this year. Everyone is shocked and saddened to learn that they fell down to number 12 in the rankings, behind Cleveland Clinic of all places....................there’s more http://www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anat...mier-23105.aspx Preview of 'Grey's Anatomy' Season 5 Premiere - Wednesday, September 10, 2008 The fifth season of Grey's Anatomy will be premiering in just two short weeks, and I almost can't contain myself. Last season, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) decided to take the plunge and enter into an honest-to-goodness adult relationship with McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey), and to deal with any consequences that might come from that. Only time will tell what Shonda Rhimes, the creator of Grey's Anatomy, considers an adult relationship. One thing's for sure: it ain't gonna be easy.........keep reading http://www.buddytv.com/articles/greys-anat...easo-22664.aspx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CHICAGO TRIBUNE 'Grey's Anatomy,' I just can't quit you yet - September 25, 2008 You expect the Big Moment on "Grey's Anatomy," and the usual array of melodramatic developments in Thursday's two-hour season premiere (8 p.m. Thursday, WLS-Ch. 7). On the plus side, at least this episode isn't as padded and maddening as past two-hour "Grey's" episodes have been. At this point, after four seasons of increasingly shrill and inconsistent writing, I’ve mostly stopped caring what happens to the core characters. My favorite moments of the two-hour premiere may be those in which Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh) tells Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), who’s constantly prattling about her convoluted relationship to Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), to just shut up already. .................................MORE http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/en...-anatomy-a.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CINEMA BLEND TV Recap: Grey's Anatomy- Dream a Little Dream of Me - 2008-09-26 00:10:06 My god, I cannot tell you how sick I am of two-hour premiers. I'm starting to think that it may have been some kind of sick hazing plot by Kelly West and the crew to trick me into picking a set of shows to recap that all have two hour premiers. That's some Machiavellian shit right there, West! Anyway, this was the last of my premiers and it was definitely the best. Hopefully I can do it some justice. The show opens with the traditional Meredith V.O that went something like "Blah blah the problem with fairy tales is they don't come true, life is a Stephen King story, woe is me, there is no happily every after, whine whine whine" which leads into a scene of Derek dying under the knife. If you didn't realize that was a dream sequence from the beginning, you're a fool. ..................cont’d http://www.cinemablend.com/television/TV-R...f-Me-12425.html TV Review: Grey's Anatomy - Season 5 Premiere - 2008-09-22 18:28:17 Since I realize not everyone loves spoilers, I’ve broken this review up between general impressions and more spoilery stuff. So if you don’t want any details, only read the first half. For some great Grey’s goodies (but nothing that’ll ruin the episode for you) about the premiere, you'll find those in the second part. There’s something to be said about hitting the refresh button. I’ve been a fan of Grey’s Anatomy since the series premiered but I found that since the second season, the show just hasn’t been as good. Last season another off-again period in the Meredith/Derek saga, George repeating his internship, Cristina picking up the pieces after Burke left, Alex’s crazy girlfriend, the Chief’s marital issues and of course, Bailey’s marital problems as well all played a part in what felt like a real downer of a season. All the while I was starting to wonder if things were ever going to get good again. Will these people ever have more than a brief moment or two of happiness? I get that there has to be rough times in any drama series but Grey’s has had a season and a half of rough times and the light at the end of the tunnel only seemed to be getting dimmer and dimmer with each passing episode. If ever there were a series that was in need of the refresh button, it was this one and it is my belief that Ms. Rhimes is doing just that with this new season. Based on the two-hour premiere, it does appear like things are changing for the better at Seattle Grace hospital. Characters are starting to rethink the way they look at things in terms of their relationships, themselves and the way they do their jobs. Here’s the part where I start talking in specifics though so if you don’t want to know anything more, read no further. Just know that I have good things to say about it and if you’re a fan of the series, I think you’ll like the way things are starting out for the season. Make way for spoilers!..........................cont’d http://www.cinemablend.com/television/TV-R...iere-12351.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EW.COM EW - TV Watch 'Grey's Anatomy': That Old Feeling The season gets started with a crash, while Meredith and the gang learn big lessons on friendship and love, natch. I understand you have to bring it for a season premiere, especially in season five (!) when everything's starting to feel a little stale. (We learned that lesson from Bernadette Peters and her on-screen hubby, in a way — that you gotta work to keep things exciting as your relationship starts to age — but we'll get to that in a bit.) However, five-year-itch notwithstanding, I could've lived without all the fake-out shocks in last night's Grey's Anatomy; like, for instance, the opening sequence (A dream sequence! Ha! Tricky!) in which Derek died on the table after a car crash. Of course ABC put that in the promos, and of course fans went all kinds of crazy about that, as well as the later scene regarding Rose and a possible love child. Shonda Rhimes can go on all she wants about not wanting to deceive fans, but she had to know that stuff was going to bring the hype. She's a smart lady.................cont’d http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20229083,00.html 'Grey's Anatomy': Season 4's Best and Worst - Sep 24, 2008 Scrub up for our countdown of the highs and lows of the fourth season of ABC's riveting medical drama (okay, super-sexy soap), then tell us what should happen in season 5 with our exclusive online polls http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20221152_2...0228484,00.html TV Preview Grey's Anatomy - 9-10 PM  ABC  Returns Sept. 25 Creator Shonda Rhimes says the kiss between Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Erica (Brooke Smith) will be addressed in the return episode: ''We want to deal with what happens when you are a woman who suddenly discovers she's attracted to another woman. We wanted to find the humor in that.'' (To prepare for the subplot, Rhimes met with representatives of GLAAD.) Rhimes also confirms that Rome's Kevin McKidd will recur in season 5 as a doctor and love interest for Sandra Oh's Cristina. As for rumors that Rhimes may kill off Katherine Heigl's character in retaliation for the comments she made about the Emmys, Rhimes once again shoots them down: ''We love the character of Izzie Stevens and look forward to seeing her for quite some time.'' Nicely phrased! http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20221152_2...0223791,00.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- LA TIMES ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MSNBC MSNBC - Grey’s Gossip, Weekly udate MSNBC - Grey’s Gossip, Weekly udate ‘Grey's’ returns with new hunky doc, old drama - Sept. 25, 2008 Kevin McKidd moves from ‘Rome’ to Seattle to liven up season premiere Back to basics: When "Grey's Anatomy" returned Sept. 25, Meredith spent the episode talking herself in and out of moving in with Derek, eventually (as always) using her patients as tools of self-discovery and choosing cohabitation. Derek successfully shook off a resentful Rose, who agreed to retreat to another specialty so she won’t keep stabbing him during surgeries. Lexie’s debilitating crush on George was noticed only by McSteamy, who chose to tease her about it relentlessly (and delightfully). Alex and Izzie were getting along pretty well until Meredith blabbed that Izzie had gained new respect for him, at which point he reset his controls to “great big jerk.” Callie and Hahn avoided each other following their big season-ending kiss, but they eventually decided to try dating, kind of, maybe. .................keep reading http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26876462/ Gloomy ‘Grey's Anatomy’ shows signs of life - Sept. 22, 2008 Meredith's melancholy had infected cast, but show can be resuscitated. Frown. Sigh. Pout. It’s an immutable TV fact that “Grey’s Anatomy’s” Meredith Grey is one of the mopiest characters on the tube. As she whined her way from season to season, though, audiences came to tolerate her maudlin, down-in-the-mouth outlook on life. The rest of the characters on “Grey’s” were a major counterbalance to Meredith’s self-loathing, interjecting a much-needed sense of whimsy, humor and upbeat attitude into the show. But last season, Meredith’s melancholy went viral and infected nearly every other doctor at Seattle Grace, hopping from character to character like a contagious disease...................................cont’d http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26824986/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW YORK MAGAZINE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TV GUIDE Back to Business on Thursdays - Sep 25, 2008 For the last few seasons, Thursday was unquestionably the busiest night of the TV week, but it now has serious competition. Monday, especially the first hour of prime-time, is a logjam nightmare of strong choices. And this Sunday is one hot mess, with ABC launching its re-energized leap-into-the-future Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters while Showtime kick-starts dazzling new seasons of Dexter and Californication while HBO continues with its kicky True Blood-Entourage combo, adding the raucous sketch-com Little Britain USA this week while CBS revs up a new season of Emmy champ The Amazing Race leading into Cold Case and a transplanted The Unit while Fox brings back its durable animated lineup. Whew. And yet Thursdays still count as the TV weeknight that it feels the entire week is building up to. It will take a few weeks for the night to take complete form; CSI and newbie remakes Life on Mars, Eleventh Hour and Kath & Kim (the latter quite possibly the worst new sitcom since, well, the last dud) won’t arrive until Oct. 9, choosing not to have their momentum stalled by next Thursday’s vice-presidential debate pre-emption. Emmy darling 30 Rock won’t show up until Oct. 30, its slot filled for several weeks by Saturday Night Live Weekend Update specials. (A prospect that’s a bit scary, considering how NOT ready for prime time the regular show has mostly been so far this season.)..............cont’d http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TV...-Earl/800047453 Is there any hope for some Alex/Izzie romance in the new season of Grey's Anatomy? — Layla Mickey: I spied the season premiere the other day, and — at least in that episode — the simple answer is "yes," there is hope. But as with most things in Shondaland, the real answer is much more complicated. (That's what you get when half of the couple is profoundly self-destructive.) Source: TV Guide http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TV...-Ncis/800047432 Shonda Rhimes Says Heigl Not Leaving Grey’s - Sep 24, 2008 Grey's Anatomy creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes wants to set the record straight: There has been no talk of Katherine Heigl leaving the medical drama. Rumors about the starlet wanting to exit the show began this summer, after Heigl, who plays Dr. Izzie Stevens, said she wasn't submitting her name for Emmy consideration this year because the writers didn't deliver Emmy-worthy material. When asked about the rumors, Rhimes told The Associated Press, "We have every intention of seeing Katherine for the entire season." But has the actress expressed any interest in leaving the hit show? Rhimes responded firmly, "No, she has not." Rhimes cites what she calls "the Dawson's Creek phenomenon," in which a "bunch of lovely and young actors" must learn to cope with the sudden fame a TV hit brings," as a possible reason for the all the off-screen drama (including Isaiah Washington's alleged gay slur toward costar T.R. Knight and his subsequent firing). "These are people who went from living their lives to not being able to walk down the street without paparazzi being able to follow them wherever they go," she said. http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TV...-Says/800047351 TV Guide Scans by DarkUFO – Sept. 16, 2008 Article and Pick of McKidd http://spoilertv-greysanatomy.blogspot.com...uide-scans.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TV SQUAD Grey's Anatomy: Dream a Little Dream of Me, Parts 1 & 2 (season premiere) - Posted Sep 26th 2008 (S05E01/S05E02) "The person that invented the phrase 'happily ever after' should have his ass kicked so hard." - Meredith Another September, another Grey's Anatomy season premiere. Hard to believe that we're already into a fifth season. But you know what isn't hard to believe? That we're still dealing with the same "Meredith and Derek - will they or won't they" mess. Grey's has reached the point that regardless of what happens, I'm going to keep watching it because I've invested too much of my time to walk away now. I really am a fan of the show, which is why I don't feel bad when I say that this was quite possibly the most ridiculous season premiere ever. It was all over the place like some strange metaphor for all the ups and downs Mer and Der have had over the years. A random army doctor, two limousine accidents, ninja attack icicles... and god, the cherry on top - Denny Duquette. Really?..................there’s more http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/09/26/greys-an...1-and-2-season/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Stoltz: From a Blank Slate to Caprica and Grey's - Sep 8, 2008 5:07 PM Starting this Tuesday night during the cabler's usual reruns of Law & Order, TNT — in tandem with producer Dean Devlin — will present Blank Slate, a new, 20-episode "micro-series" about Anne (The Patriot's Lisa Brenner), a young woman who stands accused of killing a federal agent. Since she has amnesia, Anne instead is forced into a top-secret program that tries to solve murders by implanting memories from the deceased into living people. Eric Stoltz stars as Detective Sullivan, "an FBI guy who is, I would say, 'demoted to an assignment that is less than he believes he is deserving of,'" says the actor. Meaning, he is charged with snooping into this whispered-about fringe-science project............cont’d http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TV...views/800046309 TV also sends health messages - Sept. 16, 2008 The television medical drama Grey's Anatomy apparently has more to offer than Patrick Dempsey's rakish smile and a good cry. A new survey reports watching the show also may increase a viewer's health smarts. Research released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation indicates many people who tune in to prime time's top-rated shows remember health messages in episodes.............cont’d http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2008-0...h-message_N.htm more articles about the study http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/un...nt,542632.shtml http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/t...message_to.html 'Grey's Anatomy' drama cures itself with a wink to fans - Sep 25, 2008 Ready, set, reset. If you're a fan of Grey's Anatomy, that promise is nothing but good news. Tonight's smartly constructed two-hour season premiere completes the task begun last spring, clearing away dead plots and setting this massively entertaining series back on track. Which means, by the way, you can ignore most of the promos. Almost all of the major characters do go through some life changes tonight, but they're incremental rather than drastic. The show's best carryover idea from May is to drop Derek and Meredith's will they/won't they dance and unite them once and (we assume) for all. Granted, even a brighter Grey's is still Grey's, so their path is likely to be bumpy. But it appears that they're now traveling together for good, and that's a very good idea....................cont’d http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/re...s-anatomy_N.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ZAP2IT Premierewatch: 'Grey's Anatomy' - Sep 26, 2008 Everyone's favorite bitter, neurotic doctors are back, and even though there were some just downright silly notes in tonight's Grey's Anatomy, one thing was absolutely obvious: Shonda Rhimes was having an absolute blast with this episode. It played with a lot of the rumors and assumptions resulting from last season's finale, tweaking expectations with a big fat "nyah nyah." Spoilers ahead, but no happily ever after… We begin back in the field where we ended last season, with Meredith waiting for Derek to return from breaking up with Rose. Hysterical, she finds him at the hospital -- he's been in a horrible car accident, and he doesn't make it. Psych -- it's a dream. That's rumor/theory number one tossed by the wayside.........................cont’d http://blog.zap2it.com/ithappenedlastnight...erewatc-10.html Live Blog - Red Carpet Arrivals - Emmy Awards 2008 - September 21, 03:02 PM Welcome, lovers of TV and snark, to the Emmy Awards 2008 red carpet live blog! I'll be reporting on mocking the outfits, the interviews, and the fake tans up until the ceremony starts, so please follow along with me and speak up in the comments! Assisting me with the fashion end of things is my friend Jess, who actually owns items of clothing that weren't purchased at Goodwill or the clearance rack at Ann Taylor Loft. Let's start things off with the upstarts on the TV Guide Channel, and I'll switch over to E! in an hour or so. 8:00 - Are we seriously wrapping things up without a major 30 Rock interview? WEAK. Well, Tina Fey looks great, for the record. Check out our gallery for photos of all the red carpet triumphs and travesties we've been discussing, or click on photos below to enlarge. Thanks for playing along, folks, and enjoy the ceremony!.................keep reading http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/20...blog---red.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Zap2it Fall TV Preview 2008: Returning Shows Grey's Anatomy What to Expect: When we last saw Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek (Patrick Dempsey), they seemed to be headed toward a happily ever after. But come on -- we all know there will be some fresh challenges to their star-crossed relationship this season. The season premiere will also feature "Journeyman" star Kevin McKidd as a military doctor who sparks Cristina's (Sandra Oh) interest and the Chief (James Pickens Jr.) dealing with the fallout of Seattle Grace no longer being ranked among the best teaching hospitals. Creator Shonda Rhimes has also promised a "really great story" for Katherine Heigl's Izzie. Given the sturm und drang involving Heigl and the show's writers earlier in the year, read into that what you will. http://www.zap2it.com/tv/zap-photogallery-...allery?index=12 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Romance colors 'Grey's Anatomy' this season - Sep 23, 2008 Grey's Anatomy ended last season on an upbeat note: Doctors Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd got together for good. That leads to a new question as the ABC medical drama opens Season 5 (Thursday, 9 ET/PT): What happens after happily ever after? For Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek (Patrick Dempsey), being a committed couple is hardly the end of the story, creator Shonda Rhimes says. "They've never had the chance to get past the 'Will they, or won't they?' and be in the 'What happens now?' part of it," she says. "There's a lot of humor and pathos and pain to be played in what it's going to mean for the two of them to really be together." Dempsey says the two are "always going to have conflict. They're always going to be working on issues." In addition, "for good" doesn't necessarily go past this season, Rhimes says. "But they're definitely together for good for now. I'm with them. They believe they are together for good. I believe they are together for good." Other stories include: ..........................................................keep reading http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/ne...ew-season_N.htm `Grey's Anatomy' goes post-`happily ever after' - Sep 23, 2008 LOS ANGELES (AP) — First came the achingly romantic hilltop reunion between Dr. McDreamy and Meredith that ended last season's "Grey's Anatomy." Is heartbreak next? "We ended last season with the end of the fairy tale," said series creator Shonda Rhimes. "I always thought this season was about what happens after the `happily ever after,' for all our characters." "For some, it's about jumping off into something new. It feels like a very fresh start for everybody," Rhimes said. The ABC show's two-hour season debut is 9 p.m. EDT Thursday. An on-air promotion has provided a clue about one potential challenge facing Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey). It includes a brief scene in which Derek is confronted by nurse Rose (Lauren Stamile). "I wish there were a good way to say this: I'm carrying your child," Rose tells Derek, whose stunned look might match that worn by "Grey's" fans. When last seen, McDreamy was embracing Meredith amid a sea of candles after therapy allowed her to see the light about their relationship. Rose's revelation — if it's to be taken at face value — strikes an ominous note for the couple known in shorthand as Mer-Der......................keep reading http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iwitgZj...vF2VyAD93CK4MG0 ----------------------------- SEASON PREMIER PREVIEWS Premiere Plots 2008 Refresh your memories of last season's finale episodes, and vote on every plot point! http://www.tv.com/special_feature/premiere...ry_list;title;1 Review: The scoop on the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ premiere - Sept 22, 2008 The "Grey's Anatomy" two-hour season premiere, "Dream a Little Dream of Me," is Thursday, Sept. 25, and there's a lot of ground to cover. Cont… http://blogs.pioneerlocal.com/entertainmen..._the_greys.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Grey's Anatomy - Sep 24, 2008 Entering its fifth season, "Grey's Anatomy" has experienced an unusual flip: Where the medical cases once felt like the window dressing to augment the drama's core characters, the meaty guest roles are now far more interesting and tolerable than the increasingly tiresome and convoluted web of intramural romances. During the premiere, the head doctor chides his staff, accusing them of "resting on our laurels." Yet while the series remains a major hit, its storytelling appears to be rapidly exhausting its supply of viable laurels upon which to rest. Without giving anything away, suffice it to say that the on-again, off-again, maybe-on-again relationship between Seattle Grace Hospital resident Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and surgeon Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) has become so irritating that even Meredith's prickly pal Cristina (Sandra Oh) finally pleads, "I'll give you $100 if you talk about something else." Viewers can avoid the issue for considerably less, but that would mean missing topnotch guest shots by Bernadette Peters and Kathy Baker in the premiere written by series creator Shonda Rhimes. It would also mean forgoing the arrival of "Rome's" Kevin McKidd as a macho Army trauma surgeon and possible love interest for Cristina, which actually puts a real Scotsman into the "McDreamy-McSteamy" haggis. Unfortunately, what initially made "Grey's" so appealing -- watching these young doctors balance romance and work, mostly by hopping onto a gurney (or into an elevator) with the nearest willing coworker -- has become the show's Achilles heel. A new potential liaison this year only adds to the sense that before it's all over, every hospital employee will have slept with a colleague twice -- or, barring that, wistfully longed to bed them, accompanied by a pop-friendly musical montage. Rhimes certainly knows how to plant emotional hooks with the best of them and weave confusion and longing into each week's subplots. The show also has assembled such a talented cast as to power through some of the missteps, beginning with its inane Izzie-George-Callie triangle, which is morphing into a trapezoid or perhaps even hexagon. 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. "Grey's" has such a loyal fan base that ABC needn't worry about flatlining any time soon; still, assuming the desire to stay at this hospital depends on replenishing key storylines, the longterm diagnosis doesn't look good. Of course, if you disagree, feel free to get a second opinion. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117938491...egoryid=31&cs=1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Review: 'Grey's Anatomy' season premiere - Sep 24, 2008 http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/ny...,6876814.column Edited by oncetherewasaway, Nov 10 2008, 01:48 AM.


5.01~5.02 Dream a Little Dream of Me · Episodic Chat