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Grey's Anatomy Research Paper

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Looking for a TV show with scrubs, blood, romance, and drama? Grey’s Anatomy is exactly what you're looking for. The first season of award-winning American medical drama TV series Grey's Anatomy first aired on March 27th, 2005 on American Broadcasting Company (ABC). After 14 seasons and 12 years, why do people still stay up until 2:00am binge watching it? Grey’s Anatomy is a medical and romantic drama about Meredith Grey, a surgical intern at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Grey (Meredith Grey) and her friends are faced with life-or-death decisions on a daily basis. As they evolve from interns to residents to attending physician and finally to doctors, they learn to find comfort in each other while juggling …show more content…

Then, she meets her boss, Derek Shepherd (McDreamy) the man that slept on her living room couch the night before. From there on, everything becomes complicated and full of drama. It makes you want to stay up all night with a box of tissues crying over people dying or getting divorced. Grey's Anatomy was originally a midseason replacement show. Shonda Rhimes, the creator of Grey's Anatomy, did not expect the concept and characters to become so popular. The first season of the show took off like wildfire as more and more people started watching it. According to data from Nielsen ““Grey’s Anatomy” averaged a 2.4 rating/8 share in adults 18-49 and 8.96 million viewers overall…” In season 13, Grey's Anatomy was the highest rated drama on television. Maggie M. said “It's full of drama. It's just a really great show, I love how there's just so many episodes, it's never ending, and it keeps you …show more content…

Meredith and her friends have survived 48+ hour shifts, bombs, shootings, drownings, floodings, airplane crashes, car crashes, attacks from patients, being strangled, being impaled by an icicle, cancer, miscarriages, diseases, divorces, suicides, mergers, trauma, death, and so much more. Compare your life to all of that…

Grey's Anatomy makes you realize your life is actually pretty normal when you watch the drama slowly unfold. It will always keep you guessing. They use actual cow organs for all the surgeries they perform so you also get to learn a fun mini-anatomy lesson every episode.

Shonda Rhimes shares a secret with us, she says “That’s me in that show. Not literally but… yeah, kinda literally. Season after season, pieces of my life are on that screen.” Rhimes wrote herself into each and every episode, she says she can reflect herself through each character. “I wrote my own histories. My heartbreaks. My loves. My family and my friends. My victories and my disasters. My life is in every episode. Who I am is in every episode. For me, the show is sort of a diary — I can watch it and know exactly what was going on in my real life when an episode was

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