Recently, Shauna and I decided to watch a show that everyone was talking about, some show about doctors or something like that. Well, we dove into the fictional world of Seattle Grace Hospital and was overwhelmed by what I found. A well casted show about life and death and love and relationships. Although it is frenetic and sometimes far fetched, viewers will find shows that test there beliefs and views from same sex relationships and matters of euthanasia. What I found were characters that I could relate to and people who in their roles were extremly believable.
In the course of a few weeks, exact time frame indeterminable, we watched from the beginning of the show and caught up to were they are right now. I have to say that I wish we could watch all the stories that they have in store for us now, but impatiently we will wait.
If you don’t realize each of the episodes find their title from either the name of a song or from a famous lyric line. Each episode also takes a theme or motif and develops it through not only the relationships but also through the surgeries they perform. Although at times the show can suffer from predictability, it seems to rise above this and say things that bring great meaning to the topic at hand.
Like any show on television, you have to sort through the good and the bad and allow yourself to see the conversations that can arise from quality shows like this. Although Lost is a great show in itself, where it thrives on mystery and shock. Grey’s finds it strength in the familiar and the emotions that drive us to make the decisions that we do.
When Izzie goes to such extreme measures to hopefully save the man that she loves…
When Burke proceeds with surgery when his hand is incapable of the fine strokes needed…
When Derek struggles with the infidelity of his marriage and the effort it takes to try to make it work again….
When Alex is faced with failure and his attitude to those around him increases…
When Addison makes the attempt to rebuild and to raise the white flag…
When George loses his father…
When Christine says “she’s my person” (refering to Meredith)…
When Meredith wants to give up because she is told that she is ORDINARY…
…you understand.
That’s what makes the show great, although there is stuff hidden in amongst the characters, there is nothing hidden for the audience. Every though word and emotion are there for the viewer to interpret and to ponder. We do need more shows like this, where the attention to detail is second to none and they understand the material that they are presenting.
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