Sometime ago, when K told me she was hooked on Grey's Anatomy, I was skeptical.
Aiyoh not another hospital drama! I hate hospitals (in real life) and cannot understand why
angmos are so obsessed with shows involving a medical facility. I mean just count the number - ER, Chicago Hope, Scrubs, St Elsewhere, Gideon's Crossing, Casualty
et cetera. Not sure whether the last few ever aired their sterile heads here but the first three certainly did. And I'm sure there are more out there in the big US of A that I have missed.
But back to GA.
I know every Drama-mama has long been raving about the sexy sirens of Seattle Grace and that I am pretty much freakin' slow. But happy to report that yes, I'm finally a new convert, to Dr Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and Dr Isobel Stevens (Katherine Hiegl) that is. Ooolala =))
OK I'm really not that shallow. Because as one review aptly puts it, in the age of Desperate Housewives and The OC, it is refreshing to see a television show whose heroines aspire to do meaningful work as well as meaningless sex =)) Agree! Why, why, did I not study harder for the A's and become a doctor?
Anyway I suspect that for most of us, it is not so much the Scapels and Surgical Gowns that gets the Adrenaline pumping (although I think for some sickos it is :/). But the disproportionate amount of time the drama devotes to the love-lives of its young intern protagonists that does the trick. We are, after all, hopeless romantics, closet or otherwise. And its so intoxicating watching beautiful people falling in and out of love in a beautiful hospital. The Hippocratic Oath is for Hippo-critical-oafs =))
Notice also how the 3 Supervising Surgeons are all Black Afro-Americans? So subtly politically-correct lah this show!
And the excellent sountrack. Stumbled upon a webby that lists all the songs played in every episode from Season 1 and 2. You know how important the music is in setting the mood and tone for a scene and I think the producers of GA have done well. They seem to like Welsh babe Jem though. Her name pops up at least 4 times.
So pity I didn't start on this earlier. Wish I did =))