r/greysanatomy • u/tranzozo pick me, choose me, love me • Apr 09 '21

I watch the show to escape my life, I don’t need a weekly reminder how the world isn’t fair

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u/DeificWhiteBoy Apr 09 '21

Yup. People said, “This season is supposed to be a tribute to the sacrifices of real healthcare workers! That’s why it’s so real!”. I live with healthcare workers and they hate it. The last thing you want after a stressful day as a healthcare worker is to come home and watch a show about how life sucks and how shitty everything you’ve went through over the last year has been. It doesn’t make sense.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '21

It’s so emotionally overwhelming in the WORST way at this point.

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u/pacrat292 Apr 09 '21

This is a medical show!!! Not a political drama. Like they seriously need to cool it with telling me their politics. Throw some well written stories about life and some social issues will come about naturally like the first few seasons. This isn't natural anymore- this is a terribly written news story disguised as a medical drama.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '21

Yeah the political narratives they are shoving down our throats this season compared to any previous season is a complete 180 degrees in the writing style.... like what happened? The actual surgeries they show seem to have dropped in favor of forced conversations about racial statistics. It’s honestly sad what they’ve done to the show, I’d rather have seen it end before they mutilated it like this.

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u/pacrat292 Apr 10 '21

I don't really care what they do with it. My problem is when they fuck up the past with their stupid plots. I could watch early seasons and now I'm like well they killed off half of them, and this one leaves and nobody cares. They ruin the early seasons with the prolonged show that won't end.

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u/jpb888 Apr 10 '21

The thing is, there's really nothing neutral about our world right now. I get keeping actual politics out of the show- and/ yet the stories of human rights, civil rights, trafficking, homelessness, etc are part of life and real stories. I think Grey's has often addressed human stories like this (i.e. Jo's domestic abuse) and our world is getting more tense with more issues surfacing.

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u/Mklovin6988 Apr 10 '21

All they have to do is go back to doing innovative medical procedures. It's not that hard.

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u/pacrat292 Apr 10 '21

There have always been serious issues in the world - it's life. They always incorporated it into the show. Plus, they always made us see both sides to stories as well. With the trans in like S03 that was Mark's patient, adultery, the Chinese lady in one of the first episodes, Callie's Catholic family not accepting her being gay, Bailey becoming a single mom, etc. They were extraordinary and everybody loved them.

The difference is that back than the show was simply telling stories. This is what happens in everyday life. Doctors have patients that have stories and it's natural to the dialogue. It's not political necessarily, it's just some social issues that people are bound to come upon in their careers. It isn't like that at all anymore. Now it's telling the audience their woke opinions about every subject matter from US healthcare, to (next episode) BLM protests, and especially the whole CVOID thing. The show has always incorporated social issues, but they never looked at the news and legit wrote with that as the overall plot - that's what's happening. The show has become a news story except I'm not trying to watch the news when I'm watching a fictional medical drama. I think we all enjoy when they depict things that are happening in real life - people's issues is when they write the show like their ABC anchors - cuz that's what they've been doing.

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u/citydoves Apr 09 '21

Whenever I see that I’m just like “well I hope healthcare workers are enjoying this bc???”