Grey’s Anatomy is on, again. And thank God there’s a baseball game I can watch in the bedroom.
Oh, wow, another sick kid on Grey's. I'm shocked! Shocked!
Now I’m not saying Grey’s is a bad show, which it is (just awful). I’m not saying I don’t get the love for McDreamy, which I don’t (didn’t he play the pizza delivery guy/gigolo in that horrible 80s movie on the ride-on mower?).
For me, it’s just that I’m done with all medical dramas. Private Practice? No thanks. E.R. re-runs? I’ll run. House? Not home.
Why? I’ve lived it.
See, I’m a Dad who has seen both of his kids with feeding tubes in their noses. I’ve watched one kid’s heart rate go blip, blip, blip in a neonatal intensive care unit on Christmas Day. I’ve sat outside in the waiting room while a surgeon cut into the other one.
For me, the fun is gone from medical dramas. I used to like medical dramas, really I did. I was a “must see TV” junkie in my 20s and E.R., to me, was the best of the bunch. But now that I’ve lived it, for real, I don’t want anything to do with it in make believe. When I turn on TV now, I want an escape. And seeing kids in pain, for me, is just not entertaining.
And, let’s face it, the laws of averages say there will be a kid soon enough on one of these shows. There are so damn many hospital and health care shows on these days and the storylines are so thin that they just have to – have to – put kids in the show every six episodes. And so they do. And I walk out.
I used to work for a prosecutor. He’d prosecuted more than 100 murder trials, meaning he’d been on the scene of most of those murders. And he used to tell me that after he’d been on those crime scenes, TV shows about them just didn’t entertain him anymore – it was real enough in life.
So I sit alone watching baseball (or whatever else is on, really). And I get to miss Grey’s. And that’s a bonus, because that show is just stinks.
Yes, Jay, it does stink
There are so many reasons why I boycott this show, but the Mc-whatever garbage just pushes it over the top. Why isn't there outrage on top of this for the objectification of men? If the women were classified with such trite names (McBooby, for example) people would boycott the show. Just sayin'.
I think the worst aspect of the show is the lack of creativity and formulaic approach to every episode. Someone likes someone else, crisis in the ER, play some Jack Johnson, someone else's romantic interest sleeps with someone else, cliffhanger. Same plot, same shots. I'd literally rather watch a blank screen than Grey's!
I hear ya Dave…..Both of my kiddos had to go to the NICU after birth…and my poor little Sam…got sick…very sick 9 days after he was born and had to be admitted into the hospital. Do you know what they do to 9 day old babies who have a fever? A spinal tap…on an itty bitty little baby….the worst of times for sure. BTDT too…..not fun…..hard on the heartstrings!
I hear ya Dave…..Both of my kiddos had to go to the NICU after birth…and my poor little Sam…got sick…very sick 9 days after he was born and had to be admitted into the hospital. Do you know what they do to 9 day old babies who have a fever? A spinal tap…on an itty bitty little baby….the worst of times for sure. BTDT too…..not fun…..hard on the heartstrings!
Dave- I do empathize with you and the others about the personal anguish a parent goes through and feels about a sick child. I have dealt with that issue personally and no one likes to be in the hospital let alone when caring for a sick child or parent or relative. It is not easy.
However, I am a HUGE House fan and a big Grey’s fan and also like Private Practice. I was an NBC Thursday night junkie from Cosby through the early ER years. But again why Grey’s …. It goes back to when I watched Trapper John MD & St. Elsewhere and when I watched Marcus Welby with my mother. To me these shows have the right mix of medical intrigue, humor and drama to entertain me. To me and many others, TV provides an escape, a way to decompress from a hard day and a place to “forget about life for a while” excuse the cliché. For me the escape is an imaginary hospital, for others a baseball diamond, others a distant planet….that’s why there are hundreds of channels.
There are so many reasons why I boycott this show, but the Mc-whatever garbage just pushes it over the top. Why isn't there outrage on top of this for the objectification of men? If the women were classified with such trite names (McBooby, for example) people would boycott the show. Just sayin'.
I think the worst aspect of the show is the lack of creativity and formulaic approach to every episode. Someone likes someone else, crisis in the ER, play some Jack Johnson, someone else's romantic interest sleeps with someone else, cliffhanger. Same plot, same shots. I'd literally rather watch a blank screen than Grey's!
I hear ya Dave…..Both of my kiddos had to go to the NICU after birth…and my poor little Sam…got sick…very sick 9 days after he was born and had to be admitted into the hospital. Do you know what they do to 9 day old babies who have a fever? A spinal tap…on an itty bitty little baby….the worst of times for sure. BTDT too…..not fun…..hard on the heartstrings!
I hear ya Dave…..Both of my kiddos had to go to the NICU after birth…and my poor little Sam…got sick…very sick 9 days after he was born and had to be admitted into the hospital. Do you know what they do to 9 day old babies who have a fever? A spinal tap…on an itty bitty little baby….the worst of times for sure. BTDT too…..not fun…..hard on the heartstrings!
Dave- I do empathize with you and the others about the personal anguish a parent goes through and feels about a sick child. I have dealt with that issue personally and no one likes to be in the hospital let alone when caring for a sick child or parent or relative. It is not easy.
However, I am a HUGE House fan and a big Grey’s fan and also like Private Practice. I was an NBC Thursday night junkie from Cosby through the early ER years. But again why Grey’s …. It goes back to when I watched Trapper John MD & St. Elsewhere and when I watched Marcus Welby with my mother. To me these shows have the right mix of medical intrigue, humor and drama to entertain me. To me and many others, TV provides an escape, a way to decompress from a hard day and a place to “forget about life for a while” excuse the cliché. For me the escape is an imaginary hospital, for others a baseball diamond, others a distant planet….that’s why there are hundreds of channels.