Author's Note
Cast of Characters
1 "Pick Me, Choose Me, Love Me," or, How It All Began
2 "The Fairy Tale May Be Slightly Different Than You Dreamed," or, Working with an Ensemble
3 "You Give Them Someone to Run To," or, The Care and Feeding of Fans and Media
4 "He's Gone. I'm Free," or, How Isaiah Washington Brought Shame to Seattle Grace
Interlude: "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol
5 "I Need a Reason to Get Up Every Morning," or, How Addison Montgomery Kicked Off the Spin- offs
6 "You Fought. You Loved. You Lost," or, A Look Back at Some of the Most Polarizing Relationships on the Show
7 "There's an End to Every Storm," or, How Katherine Heigl Went from Famous to Downright Infamous
Interlude: "How to Save a Life" by the Fray
8 "He's Very Dreamy, but He's Not the Sun," or, How Grey's Anatomy Loved-Then
Learned to Live Without-Patrick Dempsey
9 "It's a Beautiful Day to Save Lives," or, The Guest Stars Who Survived and Some Who Didn't
10 "Somebody Sedate Me," or, How Grey's Anatomy Managed to Gross You Out
11 "Not Everyone Has to Be Happy All the Time. That Isn't Mental Health. That's Crap," or, Eleven of the Most Memorable Episodes of Grey's Anatomy
12 "Trauma Always Leaves a Scar," or, The Most Heartbreaking Departures and Deaths . . .
Interlude: "Keep Breathing" by Ingrid Michaelson
13 "We Have to Keep Reinventing Ourselves, Almost Every Minute, Because the World Can Change in an Instant," or, How Shonda Rhimes and Ellen Pompeo Became the Highest-Paid
Women in Television
14 "Everybody Wants Their Place in History," or, Deciding When to Hang Up the Scrubs
Entertainment Weekly Sources
Acknowledgments
Index