Buena Vista Home Entertainment released Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Fifth Season on DVD and Blu-Ray yesterday, and sent me a copy for review. I put the DVD in the player and let it start up automatically, and found  a "Starter Kit" featurette that explains who the characters are, what the relationships are, and some of the regular plot points (mostly, how much sex everyone is having with everyone else). Right from the first episode, when a limo pulls up to the E.R. with a bloody Bernadette Peters, Mariette Hartley and Kathy Baker, you know this show pretty much rocks. And I also need to point out that 30 years of reading Entertainment Weekly paid off when I immediately knew the names Bernadette Peters, Mariette Hartley and Kathy Baker BEFORE the credits ran. It's like Trivial Pursuit inside my head, people. “Grey’s Anatomy” was created by Shonda Rhimes and stars Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey, Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepherd, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, Katherine Heigl … [Read more...]