For the longest time, I saw "Grey's Anatomy" as a chick show. It sounded like another drama infused with medical issues and romance and crying and to be honest for the most part it is but you learn to enjoy all the parts of it. You look past the exaggerated drama and you just end up sucked in on a Friday night. One thing leads to another and before you know it it is Monday and you have to be to class but you made it through half the show on Netflix. So without further ado, here are 12 things I have learned from the show "Grey's Anatomy" as a guy.
1. The medical stuff is neat
Honestly it is sometimes the cases that they bring in that keep you going. There are some seemingly outrageous cases that make you pause the show and google if it's an actual thing. The show teaches you here and there at times.
2. There is always something to be learned
The show starts by following the residents at the hospital where they are still learning to be surgeons. We watch the characters mature and progress but the life lesson they beat home every season is no matter how old you are, you can always learn something new.
3. Friendship holds value above anything else
Up until season 11, the Grey/Yang friendship was a constant beat. Even though Yang left, the lesson of friendship still holds true. They say blood is thicker than water but the show begs to differ.
4. Something freaky is happening in Seattle
Pane crashes, hospital shootings, ferry crashes, bombings, you name it and Grey-Sloan has seen it all. It makes for interesting television but who knows what ridiculous disaster will come their way next.
5. Do what you love
Make sure you the time to laugh and enjoy what you do. With a job as serious as a surgeon, the cast seems to make sure they do just that.
6. The amount of office romance happening cannot be ethical
This is a ridiculous constant the show brings. I think by now everyone has hooked up with everyone but nobody finds it awkward? Sure it led to some great relationships like Yang/Owen or Grey/Sheppard but overall its just odd.
7. So. Much. Death
Greys is honestly the tame cable version of Game of Thrones. Shonda Rymes wields a pen of death each season. I've learned not to get too attached to any character after losses like O'Malley or Sloan.
8. Loving/Hating Characters
This is a show that can make you love a character one minute and despise their very existence on the show. This keeps it interesting so that you don't fall into a rut with the same characters. I personally loved Arizona Robbins until she cheated and it was heartbreaking to have to hate her.
9. The feels man
This show just makes you feel something. I don't care how tough you are, if you truly watch this show and become attached, then you will feel joy and sadness and any other emotion a person can feel.
10. Never mess with Yang
Hands down the greatest surgeon to ever be featured on the show. She is one tough SOB who doesn't stop and knows she is the best there is. I relate to her on so many levels. She provides a strong female model of fierce tenacity that you have to pay respect to.
11. You don't have to love the titular character to love the show
I hate Meredith Grey despite the fact that she is the most central character we get on a show with many cast members. She is whiny, she is bratty, and downright disrespectful to anyone who does not deserve it. This is just my opinion on her but this is also the first time I haven't liked the main character on a show which felt weird to me. Just goes to show how strong the show is that I do not need it to ride on the main character to keep the show going.
12. You need a good bar after work
Sometimes you just need a bar after a long day. Joes has been so much to the characters on the show and it wouldn't feel like the show was right if they took it out.
