Ellen Pompeo's Longest Running Series In Shondaland

First there is Grey’s Anatomy, Shonda Rhimes’ first and longest running series in Shondaland. Currently in its 14th season, Grey’s Anatomy is continuing to be a success, the entire production from cast to producers, to writers won a total of 69 awards and 206 nominations. (IMDb contributor, 2017) As of 2015, Ellen Pompeo the actor who plays Meredith Grey is the highest paid actress on a television series. The lead protagonist, Meredith Grey, who starts as surgical intern and later becomes a surgeon constantly tries to get the guy and keep the guy. Once she marries the guy and have the kids with the guy she is unable to fulfill her career the way she wants. When they finally reach a compromise that will allow her to keep her family and fulfil her career goals, the guy dies due to a plane crash.
Meredith Grey is a prime example of a women unable to have the career and …show more content…
Her only weakness- the president. She is a woman who holds her career above everything else. Out of the seven seasons, seasons one through 5 consists of Olivia Pope as the president’s mistress which brings havoc to her already complicated days at her firm. She deals with conspiracies, politics and deaths (both the ones she arrange and the ones she cleans up) she can fix everyone’s life, just not her love life. Olivia Pope repetitively battles with her feeling for Fitz, no matter how far she goes, who she loves, she ends up the President. In season five, tired of the hidden rendezvous, Olivia goes public with her relationship with the President. She begins to fulfil the duties of a first lady, and most of the President’s decisions while her firm starts to suffer. It does not take long until she makes a choice of not living in the shadows of the love of the life and leaves him and abort their baby. Just when Olivia is close to having, she bails. She chooses her career, the most consistent element in her life over love and a potential