Grey’s Anatomy
I watched the last couple of episodes of this season with Mrs. VandS. She’s going to need her own account to start posting on this blog at the rate she makes appearances on here lately. . .
In any case, I watched the big season finale and the ep that led up to it (and also the one setting up the spinoff, come to think of it) and I have to ask one serious question:
Do people really like this show? Seriously?
It’s maudlin, depressing, tedious, and nobody is ever happy or satisfied or content or worth rooting for. I understand that you have to make characters miserable to create dramatic stories, but I didn’t see any resolutions in the episodes. Nobody learned anything. It just feels like the entire thing is set up for the writers to pull at your heart strings as hard as possible, whether is makes any sense in the larger scheme of things or not. It’s just an exercise in futility. I feel manipulated by it.
Ick.
It was better in the first two seasons, wasn’t it? This is like your typical David E. Kelley show, where the first two seasons are great, and then everything turns so loony and out of control that it collapses under its own weight. Right?
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:12 am
Hit it right on the button there. This season of Grey’s has been incredibly, unbelievably wretched. Everyone cries, everyone moans…nobody is happy…it’s pathetic. The first 2 seasons were smart, clever and funny…and more importantly, were well-written.
Of course (only like-minded comic geeks will really get this) I blame Allan Heinberg. He joined the show with season 3 ;)
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:23 am
My wife loves the show. She always tries to get me to watch it, but I can only take about 10-15 minutes before I wander out of the room to tend to something “important”. It’s like an evening soap opera, IMO.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:34 am
This is a show where I should occupy myself with other things while it’s on. Otherwise, I’ll annoy my wife by asking why these idiots are doing what they’re doing. The handful of admirable characters are being shuffled off to the sidelines, with the focus placed firmly on the selfish, dishonest, and neurotic ones.
And comics fans should be familiar with what happened in the season finale, it was a great big reset button hit.
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:14 am
No, it was always like this, right from the start when it was a mid-season replacement.
What’s weird is that I don’t know any women like that in reality. No idea why so many seem to want to watch TV shows about women they’d slap the snot out of if they knew them in real life.
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:11 am
Kate Walsh = having my attention. Otherwise, I just ignore the show and I like soaps!
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:27 am
I’ll be honest: I used to watch it, mainly for Katherine Heigl. But I punted on the show near the beginning of S3 because of time reasons. Don’t really miss it.