Shonda doesn’t remember ‘Grey’s Anatomy’

In the mess and I fear forgotten 30 Rock (in Spain presented with the much more touristy title of Rockefeller Plaza), the NBC network belonged to a conglomerate of General Electric companies, whose parent brand was Sheinhart Wigs. The entire empire came from a wig maker. Insignificant and unknown to the public, Sheinhart inspired admiration and fear among executives.

Something similar may happen in Shondaland, the dream factory of Shonda Rhimes, the Taylor Swift of the series. Few will remember that his domain – today vast and unquestionable on Netflix, exercised through The Bridgertons— It started in a small provincial hospital in Seattle, among newly graduated doctors who were hornier than a teenager with a premium subscription to Pornhub. From those sexes in the guard room many little children were born, who today capture the attention of Shonda and the viewers. Nobody cares anymore Grey’s Anatomybut I have news for the forgetful and the ungrateful: the hospital is still open, it has new doctors in training and they are just as horny as the original cast.

How could they not be if the plots repeat cyclically? With each new generation of characters (there are only two who have lasted from the first chapter; the rest have deserted, including the Meredith Gray to whom the title alludes and who maintains a brief voice in off and some half-hearted and exceptional appearances), the scripts are recycled. The names and the permutations of hookups and crushes change, but the rest is reiterated so much that the few veteran actors will wonder how many times they have played that episode. The answer is: many. Time in Shondaland is circular, as in Nietzsche’s philosophy.

Grey’s Anatomy It is now broadcasting its twentieth season and has accumulated an incredible 19 years on the air. And she could accumulate another thousand because she goes alone, on autopilot, unassisted by the love of Shonda, who, immersed in period delusions and wigs (not by Sheinhart), has renounced the twists, the coups d’effect and the rococo plots that They defied the laws of narrative and thermodynamics. Life in the Seattle hospital languishes between catastrophes and medical fiction operations, and it is good that it is so, because its chapters offer a constant flow of banality for addicts like me and plunge us into a splendid drowsiness. I hope Shonda never remembers her first television love.

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