Why You Should Watch Grey's Anatomy

You know those annoying types of people who, when you ask them, “you know that such-and-such commercial?” Or, “Have you seen that show such-and-such?”

And they respond, “No. I don’t watch much TV.” Or, “I wish I had that kind of time to watch TV!” Like they are running the country from their living rooms? Well I am among those types.

I find television to be indulgent, like eating two big slices of triple chocolate cake. Normally, I stay away from it as I find it to be incredibly distracting outside of the news and America’s Most Wanted. However, within the last six to eight months, I found my favorite television indulgence located at the fictitious Seattle Grace Hospital on the Emmy award winning Grey’s Anatomy.

“Whoever said winning wasn’t everything…never held a scalpel.”

Like many shows people become absorbed in, I stumbled upon it by accident. Home, one late Sunday night, I finished up work I was doing on one of my many projects, wanting to just relax a bit, I began mindlessly flipping through channels until something caught my attention. I stopped at a show I saw maybe 45 seconds of before (my patience is extremely short when it comes to film and television). This time, though, I immediately noticed how culturally integrated the cast was.

Honestly, I was in awe that the hospital’s director, Dr. Richard Webber (played by James Pickens Jr.); and head neurosurgeon, Dr. Preston Burke (played by Isaiah Washington), are both African American. As I became engrossed in the show I noticed that the most competitive and quirky hospital intern is an Asian woman, Dr. Christina Yang (played by Sandra Oh). The lead character, Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), from which the show is named and whose voice we hear narrating the story, is a Caucasian woman. Later on, we meet Dr. Callie Torres, a Hispanic doctor whom I, at first, couldn’t make up mind whether I liked or not. I like her.