Top 5 reasons to love and watch Grey's Anatomy:



1. It's hilarious!

2. The characters are realistic.

3. I love the romantic relationship plot lines. And I hate romance.

4. They have patients actually die from real diseases.

5. In other words, I'm in love with the producers.

I posted this top 5 awhile back. More explanations in the post: http://teresaelectro.blogspot.com/2006/10/top-5-greys-anatomy.html

Top 5 reasons to love and watch Grey's Anatomy:



1. It's hilarious!

2. The characters are realistic.

3. I love the romantic relationship plot lines. And I hate romance.

4. They have patients actually die from real diseases.

5. In other words, I'm in love with the producers.

I posted this top 5 awhile back. More explanations in the post: http://teresaelectro.blogspot.com/2006/10/top-5-greys-anatomy.html

This was before watching the new season. I stick by my words, but it's gotten a little more Melrose Place-ish and less slapstick. It was a bit funnier in the ep when Ellen Pompeo was on painkillers running her mouth.

I love Scrubs, like House, and have also never understood the appeal of Grey's Anatomy. I'm hoping more people post on this.

My fiancee LOVES this show, and I love her, so I watch it and make an effort to like it as well. It is (relatively) smartly written and it is humorous (in a ha ha hmm, but not a HA HA HA sort of way). The characters are multi-dimensional and are for the most part likable. They don't preach about race relations or the hot topic of the day (a la Studio 60) and there is enough moral ambiguity to make the characters seem realistic. The medical cases are interesting from show to show, sometimes even prurient (poison ivy on the cooter, penis piercing gets caught on IUD), but rarely do the hardship cases get too sappy (not many five-year-olds with inoperable brain tumors). I really liked last season untill the last couple of episodes, when the show became a lot more soapish, a trend which has continued into this season. Now everyone is sleeping with everyone else and it's getting a little tired.

I ask girls this a lot and I call can get is, "Ohhh it's sooooo good!"

*and all I can get...

I have no idea. It looks completely uninteresting to me, so I have therefore never watched more than a few minutes of it.
Kate

Remember how ER was must watch for women during the Clooney era? Grey's has three doctors who hit Clooney-ish levels of attractiveness (at least for my friends and I) in Patrick Dempsey, Isaiah Washington, and Eric Dane's characters. As others have noted above, the characters are flawed enough to be relatable, and the episode-to-episode writing and plot arcs are strong enough to make watching our McDoctors something more than a guilty pleasure. And while we all wish Ellen Pompeo would eat some food, already, Sara Ramirez has a relatable figure and gets to sleep with hot doctors. Even though the female character we wind up annoyed by the most is Ellen Pompeo's, others (including Sandra Oh's and Chandra Wilson's) are strong enough to keep us from dwelling on Meredith Grey's flaws. In short, not a perfect TV show (I am a Veronica Mars fan, so I've experienced perfection), but for my girls and I, the pluses by far outweigh the negatives, and that level of quality is definitely enough to keep us in love with it. I can see how some guys might not reap the same level of enjoyment from that formula (and I know some girls who don't), but overall it is one of my favorites these days.

Caitlin

It beats watching "Deal or No Deal."
-kt

Grey's Anatomy has reached this level of crazy hysteria with the ladies because we need something to talk about, dissect, bond over and compare our own lives to...since Sex and the City went off the air. You can easily relate to whichever girl reminds you of you (the smart one, the damaged one, the pretty one, the slutty one) and you can lust after the guy that is most to your liking (the hot one, the other hot one, the other hot one, or the cute/nebbish one) and pick your favorite line to repeat over and over and make your headline on myspace. It's about having something to do and having something to do that your friends do, too. It's like a giant sorority.

-Christina

Every time I watch the show I try to think of brilliant ways to get a sandwich to Ellen. So far I have not succeeded. But I so love the show. The characters seem more deep and real to me than in most tV dramas these days. I appreciate that they are problems, they whine, they are not all supermodels, yet they are all beautiful, they are not all white, they are vulnerable, they make huge mistakes, they long to be loved, they love to be surgeons. I can relate, without having a clue what it is like to go to med school or stitch a heart. I can relate to their humanity. I am also drawn to Meredith Greys beginning and ending monologues. She ties together my scattered thoughts into a neat little paragraph where I think "hmmm, she is right." So there you have it!

I'm not sure, honestly. I've tried to watch it several times and hated it every time. Of course, I'm one of the few women who think Deadwood is the best show ever made, so maybe I'm not the best person to ask.

The fact is that it's full of beutiful people that are believable (minus the whole, everyone being beautiful thing). Hot doctors, lots of action (of both varieties: people running around trying to save lives and, people running around on each other). It's like Melrose Place in a hospital with less catfights and more heart to heart talks.

If you go back and watch the pilot, then watch a recent episode, you'll notice a huge difference. The show was originally more edgy, more about medicine and less soap operaish than it is now. The pilot was more about a day in the life of an intern, showing how stressful it was, what they had to put up with, oh crap I slept with my boss, etc. That was more interesting than everyone sleeping with everyone else and them dragging the Who will Meredith pick? plotline out. The focus is relationships and the background is outrageous, often sexual, medical cases.

I think the producers have taken its popularity and run with it, trying to provide more outlandish plots to keep viewers. This happens to a lot of shows, such as The OC (which was never spectacular to begin with, just plain fun). It went crazy in the second season and even crazier in the third, buckling under its own stupidity and outlandishness. I've read its producers are trying to bring it home again, focusing more on what the show was about at first. I hope Grey's producers do the same.

I think most women watch it because it's a fun, guilty pleasure. Sure, the character's are relatable (though I think the men are more so than the women, but whatever), but I'd actually say another guilty pleasure - Sex and the City - had better characters. It's just fun. And if you didn't think the season two finale with Denny dying and Alex comforting Izzie while "Chasing Cars" was playing was sad, well then you don't have a soul.

I am in medical school. I don't watch Grey's anymore because of the shrill, bizarre, dragged out storylines that mire the viewer in a who-slept-with-whom game of guessing how loaded each interaction is and how childishly and unethically these doctors can practice medicine. I don't expect perfect realism from a show but when doctors all but condone actions tantamount to murder (the Danny/LVAD dealy) my suspension of disbelief is totally taxed. However, this show is the MOST popular show in my class. Mostly shrill, histrionic girls (OMG Im gonna be a doctor LOL!!!11!! I am SOOO STR3SS3d) and GQ-wanna-be guys love the show. It seems that they really enjoy the tantalizing idea that life after medical school will be focused not on technical hard science and constant thinking while trying to maintain a human approach to dealing with patients but will be reduced to an inevitable, telegenic success wrapped in a candy coat of promiscuous sexual ecstasy. But oh the harsh reality...

Every "girl"? Were you trying for condescending?

It's not my favourite show, but basically: it's a soap opera with a remarkably strong cast, great production values (for what it is, which is, essentially, a soap opera), and a certain charm emanating from its clever dialogue, plus its more or less colour-blind casting policy. I don't think it's a great mystery; its appeal isn't all that different from The O.C.'s.

The tone of total mystification at its success -- "I just don't understand what all those womenfolk see in those sexy doctors scored to non-threatening indie music" -- is a little disingenuous and a lot superior. The appeal of Grey's Anatomy is much less confusing than Jackass's, or the WWE's.

I can't say it any better than Brenda did above. It is just a very well written soap opera. The first season and most of the second were pretty good. I must say I'm getting bored with this season. It's verging dangerously close to Days of Our Lives territory.

Several reasons why I love Grey's.
1. McDreamy, McSteamy, and McVet.
2. Meredith Grey's character drives me crazy and I get to bitch about her with my sister, providing us with hours of fun.
3. I have a girl-crush on Katherine Heigl
4. The characters of Alex Karev, Miranda Bailey, and Addison Montgomery are realistic enough to relate to and fun enough to make me love them.

Here's what I don't get - women nationwide turn this show on because the guys are handsome. Which is fine. But, for the most part, guys don't watch any TV because "the girls are hot", or else we'd all be watching Americas Next Top Model and Greys as well (because, let's face it, Katherine Heigl is ridiculously hot).

But my point is - why are we the pigs again?

I don't turn in because people are hot, and that's too simplistic a reason to cast over every woman thankyouverymuch. But I am sucked in now; it's amusing and sad and fun