Grey's Anatomy - The Complete Twelfth Season

After twelve seasons, "Grey's Anatomy" is still going strong. Not only that, but it still has the power to be heart stopping and tear jerking. What is this show's secret? A blend of the familiar and the comfortable with the unusual and larger than life.

Wherever you pick up in this series, you can easily enjoy an episode without understanding a lot about the backstory. You never feel like, as with many shows, you can't start watching a series without going back and starting from the beginning. Though the procedures in the operating room are strictly life and death, the conflicts of the ensemble are mostly low-stakes and transient. "Grey's Anatomy" blends the conversational quality and gentle humor of a sit-com with episodic patient conflicts that seem ripped from the headlines.

When Dr. Richard Webber (James Pickens, Jr.) looks for new leadership at Grey-Sloan Memorial, he realizes that the best candidate is also one of the most familiar, and Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) takes over as head of the hospital, making their institution primarily run by women. But career success can have its challenges on a marriage, as Bailey's husband, Jason George (Ben Warren), soon finds out.

Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary) finds herself holding the team together, as she, Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) face the challenges of working and living together. But the roommates are drawn together as they come face to face with the doctor responsible for Meredith's husband's death, and a new romance buds across the operating table with Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd).

April Kepner (the consistently excellent Sarah Drew) returns from Jordan ready to work on her marriage, but her husband Jackson Avery (the dreamy Jesse Williams) has other plans in mind. He's ready to call it quits. April remains persistent, and somewhere within the ins and outs of trying to repair her marriage, she becomes pregnant with Jackson's baby. But by the time he finds out, she's already agreed to a divorce.

In a glorious, over-the-top and somewhat absurd season finale, all of the plotlines come together. Vows are made, friendships pull through, and, of course, there is a preposterous and astounding surgery that holds the character's lives in balance and leads to the mending of a relationship, because one doctor is so impressed with what another can do with his scalpel.

This six disc DVD collection contains all 24 episodes from the twelfth season, plus two deleted scenes and a short blooper reel.


"Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Twelfth Season"
DVD $39.99
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