Grey's Anatomy Analysis

Samuel Riley
Prof. Khedr
English
October 20th 2016
Grey’s Anatomy: A Theatre of Illusions Grey’s Anatomy is an ABC drama television series based around the lives of Meredith, Georgie, Preston, Dereck, Izzie, and Cristina who are the interns, residents, mentors and doctors in the fictional Seattle hospital Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital. The background is predominantly in the hospital and occasionally in the character’s homes. The show is based on the character’s lives as medical professionals and their dilemmas in relationships. The specific episode I watched is called “Who’s Zoomin’ Who?” This is the last episode of the first season, which I chose to watch because it had such a high viewer rating. This episode is about several of the …show more content…
It takes advantage of how Americans view sex and doctors and the two are occasionally mixed to brand doctors as sex icons. In modern civilisation, Americans seem to have a fascination with sex. Combine this with young, appealing doctors and the viewers are instantaneously enthralled since these doctors are not only talented, but they have sex lives, which makes them a step above the rest. This practise is meek and oddly efficient. Sex is a fundamentally exciting subject that all people are fascinated in, relate to or want to relate to. By keeping it in the viewer’s mind persistently, the show takes advantage of this fixation. Much of the philosophy lies in the viewers retaining a strong relationship between the main characters and sex. Because the viewer sees the doctors as well-mannered and remarkable people, what they do is what the viewers believe that they should be doing as well. So to comprehend how electrifying people should be acting, they place their trust in the characters and watch Grey’s Anatomy.
We see this technique in adverts and commercials. Ironically, the public objects to advertising using sex to portray both genders, but the public doesn’t seem to mind viewing a show transparently constructed around this matter. For this purpose, I don’t find using sex appeal as a acceptable method in forming the characters ethos. But this appeal also is not realistic because the show creates an illusion that sex makes people stimulating …show more content…
Some of the actions of the characters go directly in contradiction of what the lines of argument were trying to build. The characters as physicians build reliability for their maturity, but they still act in juvenile ways. For example, in the episode, there is an epidemic of syphilis midst the hospital staff. For starters, as physicians, one would think they could practice safe sex. But on top of this, all the physicians, interns and nurses have a tutorial about how to use a condom. The whole scene looks straight from a teen movie. Although this in itself is also trying to make the physicians relatable to, it works against the other lines of argument. The lady running the tutorial does the banana demonstration and refers to it as a “banana” throughout. The observing physicians giggle like teenagers. The scene makes the characters exceedingly erratic with the role of a physician. The portrayal is not authentic and irrational. This along with the made up social standard and other mentioned irregularities makes all of the lines of argument in the show

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