Anatomy of Grey's Anatomy

After what seems like a year and a half since the last Grey's episode, ABC finally provided us with the tv show that the majority of America is obsessed with (and, yes, that does include me). It baffles me how Americans are so enthralled with tv series and become rather anxious and frustrated with the various story lines within these "soap operas." For myself, as is true for many other individuals, i have at least one tv show per night that I would like to watch. Obsession? I think not. Addiction? I think so.

As for Grey's Anatomy, I am completely taken aback at the story lines that writers and producers come up with for this show. Unfortunately, during the course of this season, it has been considerably much more depressing than the previous two seasons. Now granted, there are those certain moments where I find myself laughing hyseterically, but overall, I usually feel angry or sad at the end of the hour-long episode. Don't get me wrong, I L.O.V.E Grey's Anatomy and that probably will never change because I'm a sucker for a medically based show (i.e. House, M.D.)..but would it kill the writers to have at least a couple of episodes with some light-hearted content and some goofy-ness that Americans originally fell in love with?

Let's be honest, the topics illustrated and portrayed within every episode are valid and realistic situations that happen every day at the hospital, within relationships, and within families. Now, I do believe that we all take certain things away from all of these tv series that we watch and stop our lives in order to catch an episode (oh wait....that was before DVR and TiVo. My bad.) There are those certain series that will stick with us for a lifetime, such as Friends or Seinfeld. Maybe Grey's Anatomy will become the series that will stick with me for my lifetime. In the meantime, myself as well as the rest of America will wonder who will be the next chief and how much money does ABC spend on the hair maintenance for McDreamy? (yes, i just called him McDreamy).