Surviving Shonda Rhymes: Grey’s Anatomy 101
How does one lose touch with reality and enter a realm of medical miracles, insanely hot doctors, and plot twists that can make your dad cry? The TV series Grey’s Anatomy created by Shonda Rhimes is your answer. If you have not already seen the show good, I do not recommend it only because I envy your mental stability. Season six for instance, Izzie Stevens has cancer and George O’Malley is basically mauled by a bus. During the season six finale, we were left with Izzie and George meeting at an elevator staring at each other for an unnecessary number of minutes. It was not until we began to get antsy that we realized that this was their life or death moment, this was the moment when we first saw …show more content…
Meredith may have always struck you as a very dark person but believe me you’re about to be exactly like her. The way I see it you go through stages of grief. I like to call it the Grey’s Anatomy mourning process. First you go into shock and ask yourself, did that just happen? Yes, it happened, and when you finally realize it you may or may not cry for two or three hours depends on who you are as a person. The next stage I like to call the Izzie stage. If you remember the whole Izzie and Denny Duquette situation you know exactly what I’m talking about. For those of you who haven’t seen the show, for one you’re missing out, but just to get you caught up. Izzie cuts Denny’s LVAD wire, the wire that kept his heart beating until he had a heart transplant. He survives, gets a new heart, and dies from a stroke. Yeah, I know a little harsh Shonda. This left Izzie mourning his death on cold bathroom floors. So, don’t be surprised if you end up on your bathroom floor if your favorite doctor should die. Next, you start to question if the show is worth watching anymore. You’re in too deep you must finish. While feeling the absence of your favorite doctor you grow into your Alex Karev stage. The stage that makes you super aggressive and every word said to you are fighting words. For example, “It’s just a show.”, don’t be friends with those people they’re not your Cristina, because they would never drag a …show more content…
For those of us who haven’t gone through four years of medical school, how do we cope? It’s not as simple as it may seem. We’re all different and have different ways of taming our feelings. There’s the people who can go about their day like nothing happened, stay away from those people you don’t need that negativity. Then you have the kind that, like Meredith, have a Cristina in their life and they can just dance it out because it’s basically a ritual for you. For me coping with Grey’s Anatomy was re- watching all the seasons just to hurt my feelings all over again. Don’t be me it’s not the healthiest of ideas. The number one rule I have for myself to continue with the show is to just skip the episodes that hit me straight in the heart. Just to give you an insight, I still have not watched George O’Malley’s death since it aired on tv. I have tried however to watch the episode of Lexi Grey and Mark Sloan’s death, but never seem to make it passed the whole Mark finally accepting the fact that he’s in love with Lexi as she’s dying. I’m so not going to go into details about coping with Derek Shepard’s death, because Meredith would just want us to let go. Also, because knowing that McDreamy, Derek Shepard, is no longer on the show makes us wonder how Shonda still has viewers for the show. We’re all just naïve little children wondering around
How does one lose touch with reality and enter a realm of medical miracles, insanely hot doctors, and plot twists that can make your dad cry? The TV series Grey’s Anatomy created by Shonda Rhimes is your answer. If you have not already seen the show good, I do not recommend it only because I envy your mental stability. Season six for instance, Izzie Stevens has cancer and George O’Malley is basically mauled by a bus. During the season six finale, we were left with Izzie and George meeting at an elevator staring at each other for an unnecessary number of minutes. It was not until we began to get antsy that we realized that this was their life or death moment, this was the moment when we first saw …show more content…
Meredith may have always struck you as a very dark person but believe me you’re about to be exactly like her. The way I see it you go through stages of grief. I like to call it the Grey’s Anatomy mourning process. First you go into shock and ask yourself, did that just happen? Yes, it happened, and when you finally realize it you may or may not cry for two or three hours depends on who you are as a person. The next stage I like to call the Izzie stage. If you remember the whole Izzie and Denny Duquette situation you know exactly what I’m talking about. For those of you who haven’t seen the show, for one you’re missing out, but just to get you caught up. Izzie cuts Denny’s LVAD wire, the wire that kept his heart beating until he had a heart transplant. He survives, gets a new heart, and dies from a stroke. Yeah, I know a little harsh Shonda. This left Izzie mourning his death on cold bathroom floors. So, don’t be surprised if you end up on your bathroom floor if your favorite doctor should die. Next, you start to question if the show is worth watching anymore. You’re in too deep you must finish. While feeling the absence of your favorite doctor you grow into your Alex Karev stage. The stage that makes you super aggressive and every word said to you are fighting words. For example, “It’s just a show.”, don’t be friends with those people they’re not your Cristina, because they would never drag a …show more content…
For those of us who haven’t gone through four years of medical school, how do we cope? It’s not as simple as it may seem. We’re all different and have different ways of taming our feelings. There’s the people who can go about their day like nothing happened, stay away from those people you don’t need that negativity. Then you have the kind that, like Meredith, have a Cristina in their life and they can just dance it out because it’s basically a ritual for you. For me coping with Grey’s Anatomy was re- watching all the seasons just to hurt my feelings all over again. Don’t be me it’s not the healthiest of ideas. The number one rule I have for myself to continue with the show is to just skip the episodes that hit me straight in the heart. Just to give you an insight, I still have not watched George O’Malley’s death since it aired on tv. I have tried however to watch the episode of Lexi Grey and Mark Sloan’s death, but never seem to make it passed the whole Mark finally accepting the fact that he’s in love with Lexi as she’s dying. I’m so not going to go into details about coping with Derek Shepard’s death, because Meredith would just want us to let go. Also, because knowing that McDreamy, Derek Shepard, is no longer on the show makes us wonder how Shonda still has viewers for the show. We’re all just naïve little children wondering around