Why Is Grey's Anatomy So Love?

Shows with plot lines that are thin, never win. As you look back into the history of television, you will see shows that had little plot, lasting little time; but the good plots, they stick around. Now when we focus on plot, not character, then what happens is a great story line, but the actors can't hold the moves together. Those shows are strong; the actors are even stronger, want an example? Andy of Mayberry, plot that was anemic to say the least, but two characters made that show, one of them was a bumbling Barney, and the sheriff, Andy, Don Knott's and Andy Griffith.

Enter the opposite of a classic sitcom "Grey's Anatomy", a show which has plot that intrigues from week to week, on an ongoing basis, which has elements of comedy, but in the midst of critical moments of extreme surgery, romance. This show brings actors who are so incredibly strong that if it had no plot, it would survive, just on their performing strengths; and the greatest factor beyond that is, strong acting and incredibly strong acting.

When we think about the time that we spend watching television, if we're honest, most of us watch a good deal more television than is healthy, and the reason behind those viewing habits, a term relatively new to the world, where television viewing habits are measured; the reason is great acting. This show has great acting. As you begin to watch actors that you have seen in other shows, you forget within less than thirty seconds who they are, and you become immersed into their character. That's great acting, you forget totally that they are acting, it becomes viewing real life. You know it's not real life, you know it's a drama, but that doesn't matter, you can't tell them apart, that's great acting.

The many shows that have run in the three seasons have shown a flair for the bizarre, and yet, not so bizarre that it might not be capable of happening. Each show has an intensity level that keeps you breathlessly watching and waiting. In a long history of shows about doctors, this show brings them to life in a panorama of acting skill and story plot that is some of the finest ever. What this brings to mind are such wonderful past hits as "Trapper John M.D.", "Marcus Welby, M.D.", and perhaps the Grandfather medical show of them all, "M.A.S.H.". Drama has lineage, it might be indistinct, but the connectedness of greatness that fires between these plots and actors, doesn't run from that huge lineage, it fulfills it.

Now let's do a run down, way down, and really ask a question that most folks really don't want to hear; who were the writers? Its ok, you may be like the many folks who told me that Reiner did M.A.S.H., but he didn't, truth is, we often aren't sure who wrote the series episodes. It is an attention item, the actors draw down the attention, the plot, created by the talented writers viewed as an assumable, and assumed that someone wrote the actor's lines, but they are relegated to the background of the viewing audiences' mindset. This isn't a bad thing, they are like technical crews in some sense, without them, no show, but the show isn't about them, it's about what they write, and the actors deliver their product to the people. In the case of "Grey's Anatomy," the writers are doing incredible things with emotions, can harldy wait for season 4.