The primary character of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy is Meredith Grey. Self-described as “dark and twisty,” she’s a down to earth, ambitious intern with two surgeons for parents who never got along. Working within the shadow of her mother, Ellis Grey, who was a world renown surgeon that practiced at Seattle Grace until her Alzheimers became unmanageable, Meredith shows a tremendous amount of promise. From the beginning from the 1st season, we find out that the night before she began her internship, she got hammered at a bar and took a man home. This man, as it turns out, is also an attending at the hospital named Derek Shepard, affectionately referred to by Meredith’s fellow interns as “McDreamy.”
Also, I’m glad they finally addressed the chief’s drinking problem on the show, although I feel like he is not the only character there who needs to quit drinking.