New episode on Thursday:

IZZIE RETURNS TO WORK WEEKS AFTER HER NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE,
AS SHE AND THE OTHER RESIDENTS WORRY ABOUT PENDING LAYOFFS,
ON ABC'S "GREY'S ANATOMY"

"I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me" - Several weeks after her near-death experience, a recovering Izzie returns to work. Meanwhile, nervous that there will be layoffs in the hospital in the wake of an announcement from the Chief, the Seattle Grace residents compete to survive the cuts, including Cristina, who attempts to work alongside Arizona in pediatrics. And Bailey and Alex's patient's already complex case is further complicated by her schizophrenic son, on "Grey's Anatomy," THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network

"Grey's Anatomy" stars Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey, Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepherd, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, Katherine Heigl as Isobel "Izzie" Stevens, Justin Chambers as Alex Karev, Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey, James Pickens, Jr. as Richard Webber, Sara Ramirez as Callie Torres, Eric Dane as Mark Sloan, Chyler Leigh as Lexie Grey, Kevin McKidd as Owen Hunt and Jessica Capshaw as Arizona Robbins.

Guest starring Sarah Utterback as Nurse Olivia, Adrienne Barbeau as Jodie and James Frain as Tom.

"I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me" was written by Tony Phelan and Joan Rater and directed by Michael Pressman.

"Grey's Anatomy" is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format, with 5.1-channel surround sound and Spanish subtitled via secondary closed captioning. This program carries a TV-14 parental guideline.

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I think it will be funny episode... I hope so... at least I'll laugh...

A frenetic episode where the staff of Seattle Grace are running around like mad people trying to secure their futures ahead of the merger. Obviously we saw the departure of some of the minor characters such as Nurse Olivia and Derek came across as a character with whom the audience could have empathy with which has not always been the case of late.

I loved the scenes with Izzie of course - the wig scenes were great and I think they handled the whole issue quite well. It is such a traumatic thing and Izzie's determination to prove she could still do her job was wonderful. Katie of course is awesome with comedy and the expressions when she talks about going for red hair and how real the bad wig looked where priceless.

Overall I though the episode was more of a filler - preparing us for things to come and laying the foundations for the impending merger.

Defeniely a filler, however I did get some good laughs...
Katherine did a great job! Love her facial expressions

As fillerish as it was i thought it was a pretty decent epi , a nice break from all the heavy drama. We got some good laughs. I enjoyed all of Izzie's scenes, thought her and Alex were pretty cute. Loved that it was her Mum that sent her the wig. I also liked how Derek put in a good word for Izzie to the Chief, although it does make me wonder if that is somehow gonna backfire.

Due to personal opinion every episode comes with its share of qualms - i've gotta say that they sure did a good job of masking George's death. In the trailer scene at the end when Izzie told Alex that for a few hours in surgery she forgot that she had cancer and forgot that he was dead it took me a while to realise who she was refering to . Although the episode seemed to be missing something/someone, George's death hasn't made the impact that i thought it would have done. I guess his lack of screen time throughout season 5 has lessened the blow that it would of otherwise created which is a shame because George was a really important character and it seems that everyone has forgotten that he even existed, that or they don't really care (the only exception being Izzie who still seems to be having a hard time dealing with it), but i supose with the impending merger and the worry that comes with it over their jobs, they haven't really had the time to process everything that's happened yet. Anyhow, will have to watch this space and see how everything plays out...

Here's the link to the writers' blog if anyone is interested:

http://www.greyswriters.com/2009/10/joan-r...watchin-me.html

The podcasts are available on iTunes but i don't know if anyone will be able to access them ouside the US .

All of Izzie's scenes:

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Thanks for that much appreciated

Not at all surprised by Shondas wig story!
Hey, our girl doesn't even need hair to look drop dead gorgeous!

That is oh so true!!!!!!