I have been following Grey’s Anatomy for the past 4 years. I watch them when they become available on Netflix and I just watch one season at the time.
I never bother following any shows on a weekly basis. The last time I did that was Nip/Tuck and that ended up being a total disappointment.
What I have learned over the years… is that don’t ever do anything on someone else’s schedule. If you have to ever consider doing so, recheck your premise and only proceed if there are appropriate rewards. This goes for TV shows as well. If you can wait until the end of the season release to dictate your own time to watch it, do so. Don’t ever become someone else’s hostage emotionally or physically.
Grey’s Anatomy has always been manufactured drama to me. There are shows out there where the drama arises seems more organic. But for Grey’s anatomy, it has been very contrived lately and where drama only develops for convenience. For example, where Alex Karev going with Izzy is totally out of character. They don’t bother explaining why it happens in a way that is consistent with Alex’s character. Ghosting your wife and just disappear to Iowa has an atopic sense to the whole thing; it is as if Justin Chamber got fired and he is not allowed to collect his stuff from the office and they just fed-ex him the box of his things. I am surprised there is even an episode of voice-over. Must be a contractual obligation as they don’t even have the decency of closing out the character with a proper episode after 16 years. Killing Alex Karev would have been a much more respectable end to his character.
Instead, we got this sorry episode of flashbacks and footage of random 2 kids for full 30 mins of the show with no face of Izzy and Alex. It is pretty much bullshit of an episode. I wonder if Ellen Pompeo is still getting $575,000 for that episode of her sitting there reading the letter for 5 min.
Then, they had to manufacture more drama of Teddy cheating on Owens because they ran out of the drama.
I watch Grey’s Anatomy over the last 4 years because it is such a low stake show. It has been quite lame now. The whole glaring audience manipulation is what gets me to quite Walking Dead.
Maybe it is time for me to get back to work.