The essential episodes of Grey's Anatomy
Watch these 10 in order and you've got Grey's Anatomy — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Meet Meredith Grey, a woman trying to lead a real life while doing a job that makes having a real life impossible. Meredith is a first year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, the toughest surgical residency program west of Harvard. She and her fellow first-year interns were students yesterday; today they're doctors in a world where on the job training can be a matter of life and death. Meet the young people struggling to become doctors and the doctors struggling to remain human. It's a world filled with intensity, humor, sex and pain, in which the interns discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white -- real life only comes in shades of grey.
- 02
Winning a Battle, Losing the War
Meredith Grey has discovered that the rules of residency are the same as the rules of life. Everything is a competition.
- 03
Despite the best efforts of the Seattle Grace staff, the code black situation escalates.
- 04
Meredith's fight to live affects everyone at Seattle Grace.
- 05
Meredith and Derek have one last shot at a successful outcome in their clinical trial, as the other surgeons work to free a boy from a block of cement.
- 06
As Meredith, Derek and all of their friends prepare for the big wedding, a group of college students, injured in a car crash as they were heading to their graduation ceremony, is admitted to the ER. Meanwhile, Izzie fears the worst when she begins experiencing familiar symptoms.
- 07
The hospital is hit with an unprecedented crisis; Meredith and Cristina's surgical skills are put to the test.
- 08
Maggie leaves her dinner party and races to the hospital, so April takes over the cooking duties in an attempt to dodge Jackson. Meanwhile, Arizona is anxious about meeting Callie's new girlfriend.
- 09
When a trauma patient arrives at Grey Sloan, it forces Jo to confront her past. Meanwhile, Bailey and Ben have to talk to Tuck about dating.
- 10
Meredith faces the medical board as her future as a doctor remains uncertain, and she's forced to reckon with her past in some challenging ways. Meanwhile, the interns are put to the test as they are each vying to be the most successful on their respective cases in the absence of some of the attendings.
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