Shonda Rhimes is an African American women who …show more content…
The show begins with five main characters Meredith, Alex, Christina, George, and Izzy. Meredith is the daughter of a very successful surgeon who gets Alzheimer’s and Meredith has to take care of her, additionally she is having a romantic relationship with her boss. Alex is a pretty boy who is self-centered and sleeps with a plethora of women all the time. Christina is a brilliant women who graduated top of her class and is only concerned about doing the job which is surgery. George is the outspoken one who is seen as the week link eventually having to repeat his intern year due to the fact that he failed his exam. Last but not least Izzie is this beautiful doctor who put herself through college by modeling and has to work hard to prove she’s more than just another pretty face. These five characters represent reality for a vast majority of people in the world and so the audience just for the first season of the show was already diverse. Also, since the medium for the series is television and the show has to perform at a certain level in order to remain on air, Grey’s goes into great detail about where the doctors grew up, information about their families and personal relationships among the doctors as well as the doctor’s live extending beyond …show more content…
Whereas a television audience has all of these things provided for them, granted, they are paying attention to every detail. Novels are usually split up into chapters that include some background, character development and message that the reader was supposed to catch on to. Television series are split into episodes and additionally seasons. Beginning with the pilot, which has some background, then some character development throughout the show, as well as plot advancements, which eventually leads to the series finale which concludes the show. The television series grey’s anatomy works as a television show due to the fact that it keeps the audience hooks throughout the episode and leaves them with the feeling of wanting more at the end of the episode. The show could work as a novel, though it would have to be a series like the harry potter series or the Percy Jackson series as there are constantly new characters added and a lot of character development which would make for an extremely long