Chances are, if you are as into the hottest medical drama of the right-now as I am, you should already sorta know why you love it. But love is such an elusive thing, so hard to put in words, so difficult to explain, that you might not know even exactly why Grey's Anatomy seizes your heart and sends it into such a frenzy it nearly suffers cardiac arrest...

I, a tv-watching intern, shall stand before you, imaginary scalpel in latex-gloved hand, and try to dissect and delve into the many reasons we would hyperventilate at the sight of McDreamy and his blue-clothed posse.

 

Grey's Anatomy, on the surface:
A bunch of haggard-looking, hair-tousled, scrub-donning (albeit rather attractive) medical interns running around a hospital set most of the time.

 

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Grey's Anatomy, underneath all that, houses 5 GREAT reasons why we wouldn't mind the occasional blood-splattering scenes:

5. THE PLOT
It's dark and twisty, just like Meredith. It's warm and fuzzy and sweet, just like Izzie and George's friendship. It's sexy and ooh-la-la, just like the Derek-Meredith/Izzie-Alex Mark-Addison clandestine moments. It has everything you need, want and crave for. It is real, no, HYPER-real. It is larger than life, it's like forcibly putting your eye over the microscope looking over life, poking into the minor details and blowing them way out of proportions to tug at your vulnerable heartstrings. It has its fair share of ups and downs. It contains mini bombs and two-hour-special-climaxes. It's mind-blowingly heart-stopping.

 

There's someone for everyone. Meredith Grey - the weird, moody, dark, hot chick. Izzie Stevens - the beauty queen/control freak. George O'Malley - the sensitive new age man/the best guy friend. Cristina Yang - the inert, brusque, emotionless, focused overachiever. Alex Karev - the cute yet insensitive, scruffy take-it-easy guy. Derek Shepherd - the dreamily gorgeous, talented heartbreaker. Preston Burke - the cool, calm, collected intelligent man. Miranda Bailey - the super-efficient Mafia boss with a maternal charm. Everyone identifies with at least a little piece or two of one or many of them. Their insecurities and their flaws are real. And we love it because we wish we could embrace it and thrash it around as well as they did. 

 

I could feel my blood flowing against its flow, my lungs nearly collapsing, my brain feeling a little woozy...almost..
The songs are modern and up-to-date yet tinged with an individualistic flavour thanks to their less-than-mainstream origins. It explores interesting obscure genres like electronica (Goldfrapp, Peter Bjorn and John), folk and indie (Anya Marina, Metric, Tegan & Sara), but not forgetting pop (KT Tunstall) and alternative (Coldplay, Keane) for the music common man.

 

They speak for themselves literally. Some people claimed it gets a little dragged out and boring after a while, but this is what builds up enough suspense and content to create the next high. If it's all high-impact drama all the way, it would just be numbing to the nerves after the second season. There's the weekly ER or medical situation (major operation/strange illness/huge disaster scene) for the standard medical fare. The three-way relationship between Meredith-Derek-Addison, the sexual tension between Izzie-Alex & Izzie-George & Alex-Addison, the constantly bickering and kissing-and-making-up between Cristina and Preston, the coming-together of George & Callie and later Izzie's involvement, and other relationship/marital issues form the s-e-x in the anatomy of the show. Medicine is good for your ailments but sex sells. Nerve-racking, hilarious and spine-tingling drama.

 

Life lessons are incorporated and carefully woven into each episode and drawn out tenderly as the story unravels itself. We learn about expectations, friendship, failure, success, betrayal and recovering from hurt from Meredith, although she's probably not the best person to be dishing out such wise words. We appreciate them, because they remind us of what we've been through, they warn us of the possible consequences of our reckless actions, they act as a form of catharsis for us, they make us feel that it's okay to make mistakes and we are not alone in this world.  

 

Now, if you're sitting there wondering what's Grey's Anatomy, run out of your cave and start watching, or you'll be missing out on the best medical treatment primetime television has ever undergone.

 

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