It’s hard to tell whether Grey’s Anatomy, the new television drama, looks surprisingly compelling because it (1) is set in “Seattle”, (2) has a promo that features the Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights”, (3) might provide a non-e.r. perspective on the trying life of being a doctor that we passed up after a particularly uninspiring semester of biochemistry, or (4) all of the the clever plays on words employed in the show’s synopsis:

Meredith is a first year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, the toughest surgical residency program west of Harvard. . . . Grey’s Anatomy focuses on young people struggling to be doctors and doctors struggling to stay human. It’s the drama and intensity of medical training mixed with the funny, sexy, painful lives of interns who are about to discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey. [abc]

Grey’s Anatomy premieres Sunday (the 27th) at 10 pm. Anyone not committed to watching Carnival&eacute and familiar with the actual life of surgery interns in Seattle is encouraged to watch and report back to us. Extra points if you can tell us which real Seattle hospital is represented by “Seattle Grace.”

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While we’re on the subject “shows set in Seattle that air on ABC” — the same guest correspondent offer extends to any actual Seattle teens who want to watch life as we know it (a.k.a. that show with Kelly Osbourne) to tell us how it stacks up to actual teen life in our city. We already know that they’ve bent reality on the teacher sleeps with student storyline by letting the young hot teacher get out of town in her yellow new Beetle without facing the long arm of the Seattle PD.

We realize that find teens who aren’t watching the o.c. on Thursday will be tricky, but we’re hoping that one of our teen weblog readers will be willing to take one for the metblogs team.