Okay, do not get me wrong, Shonda Rhimes is a genius when it comes to creating shows. I am an absolute fanatic of How to Get Away with Murder and Scandal. I watch those shows religiously. But I will never watch Grey's Anatomy and here is why.
First, the show is 15 seasons long. Each season (excluding season one) has 24 episodes and each episode is an average of 40 minutes. Who has time for that? If you do the math, it equals 13 days and 9 hours to watch all of the seasons if you watch it 24 hours a day. As a human, we must sleep, eat, work, go to school, have bathroom breaks etc. – making the binging of this popular TV drama take longer than I am willing to take. I like longer shows sometimes, but even this is too long.
Secondly, everyone seems to love this show. What if I start this show and I fall in love with it? What if I immerse myself completely to the point where I feel like the characters are my friends and family? I do not think I am ready for such an emotional commitment. I have fallen in love with Shonda Rhimes other characters in the past. In Scandal, I look up to Olivia Pope and the drive she has for her work. How to Get Away with Murder made me want to be a lawyer for a minute until I realized how poor of a lawyer I would be. I put myself in their shoes and I am almost a part of their world. I am unsure if I could commit to loving another show at the same level that I love these other two, especially not a long one like this.
Next, the level of drama in this show is ridiculous. Drama can fuel great television shows, but Grey's Anatomy takes it to far sometimes. While I do not watch the show, I have done my research or have been told about some of the dramatic times throughout the show. For example, when Izzie fell in love with Denny and cut his LVAD wire to make him worse in order to be pushed to the top of the transplant list. While it worked, after the transplant he passed away from a stroke. Right when viewers thought things were getting better again, the plot thickened, and he died. Another dramatic Izzie moment would be when she treated a deer. What was that? The amount of trauma and drama in this show is as wild as it gets.
Lastly, everyone on the show dies. Out of the original cast, only a few are left. Of course, Meredith Grey is still involved because the show is called Grey's Anatomy. How Ellen Pompeo is still involved 18 years later is beyond me. So many main characters have passed away including McDreamy himself, Derek Shepard. Replacing a whole cast like this might be a clue for the show to come to an end.
While Grey's Anatomy is a TV fan favorite, it is not the show for me. I think the show is too long, overly dramatic and is filled with a never ended turnover of cast members. All of these reasons combined as made this a show that I will never watch.
