Grey's Anatomy, Season 5

Now I do love a medical drama, there's nothing quite like a bunch of unfeasibly attractive people who also happen to be total overachievers walking the corridors and rocking some superfine scrubs.

Tonight, Meredith's painfully protracted relationship with McDreamy is getting one step closer to the happy ever after, Derek and his oh-so-perfect follicles are about to pop the question. Christina is having lots of slow-mo, elegant sequences with fairly new doc on the block Hunt, and Little Grey aka Lexi is swooning over McSteamy. She's only human.

So it's a serious Emotional Episode. Except someone neglected to tell a couple of the writers, who seem to be creating for Carry On Nurse, circa 1962. Mark Sloane is their better looking Sid James equivalent, with jokes abounding over his broken penis incident. "Use it wisely!" - chortle, chortle. A couple come into the hospital who have misplaced something unspecified in an unspecified area whilst trying to fire up their sex life. We never discover the object or it's location; but blimey, we suspect it's something and somewhere hilarious. *Sigh*.

Barbara Windsor and pals aside, the episode focuses on a pregnant woman who has accidentally run over her husband, and whose symptoms of a massive aneurysm have been blamed on her pregnancy. Now, I have no experience on this one, but I'd like to think that if I was acting like a complete crazy person and driving over all those near and dear to me, that my truest friends would maybe tell me to GET MYSELF CHECKED OUT, and not just blame it on the baby.

The other main storylines were Bailey tearing her heart over another very sick child, which may lead to a change in career for her, and Izzie getting every kind of crazy test under the sun because in last week's episode, her dead boyfriend intimated to her that she may be dying. You know, a very usual sort of occurence. So, whilst running said dead boyfriend's memorial free clinic, she uses the opportunity to get all her interns to run all tests on her. Including MRIs, which I'm guessing don't come cheap. That may be a moot point however, since Izzie used her $8million inheritance to pay for the clinic. Yep, all regular med students these.

Just in case we got caught up in real drama, the episode ends with Callie Torres getting a kiss from yet another attrractive lesbian surgeon, who crop up like weeds on this show now. All the hot lesbian doctors in the country must be flocking to Seattle Grace as a great dating spot. So Callie's months of torment (one episode) over her enforced celibacy look thankfully to be at an end. So realistic!

There are some pretty great aspects to Grey's - the name, what a pun!, reasonably attractive men, good use of music etc, but it definitely falls down on the medicine. And the lead character. Owch. Ellen Pompeo as Meredith is immensely "slappable" to quote Sel, and your enjoyment of the show can only be enhanced by ignoring her, her silly little nose and her neuroses. I think we all know that in the real world Derek and his hair would find these things neither charming nor attractive and would have strangled her with his stethoscope a long time ago.

As for the medicine, perhaps the writers should get round to pilfering back episodes of ER. Now THERE was a show.