First of all, I've been sort of amazed by the success of "Grey's Anatomy". Not because it isn't a good show, I think it is, but because it seems to be sending out some sort of crazy subliminal message to women. And that subliminal message is: "Females must be obsessed with this show!". Message received. It's like every girl I've been around or met in the past year, every single one of them, has mentioned their love of this freaking show.
So I turned to my crack staff here at Handleman Industries to try and come up with an answer for women's overwhelming love/obsession of this show. And after months and months of intense research, my team has finally come up with the answer. And it is thus:
The women on the show aren't that cute.
Thanks to the Handleman staff for their due diligence in this matter. And you should listen to them because they are never wrong. The women on "Grey's Anatomy" aren't that cute. Yes, they're cute (except for that darned Asian one), but they are just cute enough to be liked by women and not cute enough to be hated by women. And as every season of "The Bachelor" has proven, that is an important recipe for success with the ladies. There's nothing women hate more than a smokin' hot chick (WRITER'S NOTE: I'd like to add here that my crack staff has also found that women hate when I talk about women this way, and it is the most likely reason that Pamie has a kajillion more readers than I do. But I feel the need to keep it real...real sexist (just kidding, I hope)) .
Seriously, has there ever been a less hot hot chick than Ellen Pompeo? And this is with the best makeup artist's the world has to offer. Does she cry for 2 hours every morning before she goes on set? At this rate, she's going to look like Renee Zellweger's older more squinty sister by season 3. It's very confusing.
But I digress with my lady hating, the fact is, it is a very good series. Overrall, I think it's been a really solid season for the show. To me, the first season (and the first part of this year) was amazing, and then at some point this year it just sort of went into a nice, solid routine. However, I thought the episode on Sunday was terrific.
But ABC really screwed the pooch with the programming. Why all of the sudden would you put the show on Monday? And why show the 2 hour finale a day after an hour long episode? It makes no sense. Build some anticipation, guys. I mean, I like the show, but I needed a week to digest that Sunday episode and I didn't get it. Plus, 3 hours of this shit? That's a lot of anything, and sometimes more isn't better. My sister had this friend a long time ago who once famously said: "I like U2, but they're putting out too much music lately." My sister was so appalled by this guy, if you like U2, how could they be making too much music? But now I kinda understand what that dude was talking about. I like "Grey's Anatomy", but 3 hours in 24 hours? Give it a rest.
SPOILERS AHEAD
Nevertheless, I was entertained and it was quality TV. I enjoy a good love triangle as much as the next (gay) guy. Although Addison as the third point of that triangle is very weak. I mean, even with Pompeo's troubling face Addison isn't much competition. She's just so...asexual. Or maybe she's just annoying, I don't know, but my point is that she's hardly a threat. The acting was good, the twists and turns were nice, though extremely hard to believe (they would have to all be fired, right?).
The ending was hilarious to me, you know why? Because of that damned dog. They did the whole bit with their dog dying (what wife would stand for their husband to be sharing a pet with a woman he used to have sex with and you suspect is still in love with?), and then the end came, and it was like the writers were calling Ellen Pompeo a dog. There she was, standing in the middle of her two "owners" as they were calling to her, "Here, Meredith! Here, girl!" And she looked at one, then the other, practically sticking out her tongue as she wondered which one to go to. And she looked so flustered and confused and...unattractive, that I guarantee you every woman that I know LOVED IT!
6 comments:
Oh, stop. It's not because their not cute. What about Izzie?
It's so true though, Grey is hideous. I though I was the only one who thought that.
you got that right, 'I'- loved it last night! And so glad that Denny guy kicked the bucket- he was bringing me down.
And thanks for bringing Grey's unattractiveness out in the open- I didn't want to be that typical chick who says all other chicks are ugly- but she's not cute!
I have to admit, I do like the fact that all the women are amazingly beautiful *sometimes*. Mostly, they look like interesting women. Occassionally, like when Christina dressed up for her first date with Burke, the women look *amazing*. It's nice watching a show that isn't filled with Barbie dolls.
I laughed when every single one of the interns was totally self-absorbed in their interviews with the Chief and rambled on about there personal life rather than the whole "we almost killed a guy" part of their day.
Love you blog! The whole autographed copy story in the last entry was hysterical!
Of course they would have all been fired! That is driving me a bit crazy, I have to say.
I'm trying to figure out why the writers thought this "which one will Meredith choose" cliffhanger was actually BETTER than what happened on Sunday. Get real, y'all!!!
Speaking of Addision's asexuality (?), she played a tranny named Mimosa on an episode of CSI. Heh.
I'm a woman and I don't love the show. I liked the stories; I liked the effort made to give the characters extra dimension, but... it just tries too hard. It uses a few too many alt-indie-grrrl artists on the soundtrack. Everyone's so fucking earnest. And I HATE all the women! They are all incompetent doctors incapacitated by what I would classify as pretty serious mental problems. It's not "modern" to have every woman character on your show be nutso. These are doctors. I don't want a crazy nutso doctor operating on me. And there are like, six of them at this hospital? It's like they want to temper the fact that the women are smarter than the men with the fact that they are flawed in other ways. Like they can't be smart and competent and not be absolutely apeshit over a man? That a man just makes them all fall to pieces, after years of school and studying and smartness, it just all goes out the window when that Certain Special Someone comes into your life?! I agree that none of them ('cept Izzie) are that cute, but I think it's the fact that they are all, really, complete and utter messes. And maybe that makes people feel better about their own lives? "Wow, that girl's a doctor, and she's still more messed up than me." By the first hour of that three-hour finale, I knew I wasn't coming back to this show next season. Merideth, the biggest mess of them all, had made goo-goo eyes at McFucker for the last fucking time. If I see one more fucking earnest fucking teary fucking Wuthering Heights-level look of anguish between those two one fucking more time, I'm going to lose it. Seriously.
Oh my God. Sorry. As you can tell, I came to really, really hate that show.
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