Top Five Ways to Save Grey's Anatomy-Should be SIX
Top 5 Thursday: Ways to save 'Grey's Anatomy'
Newsday
Grey's Anatomy" officially jumped the sharked with its Izzie Stephens sleeping with a dead guy story arc
. But are other symptons plaguing this show. Most of which has nothing to do with the acting and everything to do with the writing.
We salute Shonda Rhimes and her creative team for turning Dr. Mark Sloan into a funny and somewhat-human person. That was a great turn.
But "Grey's" has some serious health care concerns to address. We want to believe "Grey's Anatomy
" can be good again, so Top 5 Thursday wrote some prescriptions that we think might do the trick.
1) Kill Denny Duquette . . . again!
He's eye candy for the ladies, we understand that. (And we can't really complain since we love Ellen Pompeo.) But Duquette (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) dead. As in no longer alive. As in not able to walk and talk and speak and have sex with Izzie. The original storyline between Duquette and Izzie was great. Bringing it back after he died two seasons ago is about as lame an idea as there's been since the "Bobby Ewing didn't die, it was just a dream" manuever in "Dallas." How much longer until Izzie takes a pregnancy test?
2) Restore George O'Malley
Plot and character development is huge in television. It's what keeps us interested in a show. Or, in this case, completely turns us off. What they've done to George should be illegal. They took an intriguing character (OK, he was sometimes whiny, too) and turned him into a shell of a character. No wonder the actor T.R. Knight wants off the show. Give George some depth again instead of making him an incompetent person.
3) Open up Karev's secret chest a little bit more
They keep hinting at the mysterious past of Dr. Alex Karev. You know, the past that's made him a surly, short-tempered, out-for-himself jerk. Don't get confused here, Karev is a great and complex character and that shouldn't change. It's just that it's time to open him up more and really get into those inner demons of his.
4) A good two-parter
November sweeps week came and went and did we even notice that at Seattle Grace? Nope. So maybe we'll have to wait until February sweeps before we get a really good two-parter in the Emerald City. Some sort of big medical drama that requires every doctor in the hospital to be at their very best. Heck, it could even act as the jumping-off point for another intern to become a real character. (Think George and the heart in the elevator.)
5) Cancel "Private Practice"
I can't honestly advocate this since the show is starting to pick up, but seeing how Shondaland is doing this show, too, and "Grey's Anatomy" is slipping, devoting all the time to "Grey's" would help prevent it from coding.
Ok I have to add:
Pick up the MerDer Storyline that would bring the show up to Par imo!! WTF, why isn't MerDER on the top five???
Newsday
Grey's Anatomy" officially jumped the sharked with its Izzie Stephens sleeping with a dead guy story arc
. But are other symptons plaguing this show. Most of which has nothing to do with the acting and everything to do with the writing.
We salute Shonda Rhimes and her creative team for turning Dr. Mark Sloan into a funny and somewhat-human person. That was a great turn.
But "Grey's" has some serious health care concerns to address. We want to believe "Grey's Anatomy
" can be good again, so Top 5 Thursday wrote some prescriptions that we think might do the trick.
1) Kill Denny Duquette . . . again!
He's eye candy for the ladies, we understand that. (And we can't really complain since we love Ellen Pompeo.) But Duquette (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) dead. As in no longer alive. As in not able to walk and talk and speak and have sex with Izzie. The original storyline between Duquette and Izzie was great. Bringing it back after he died two seasons ago is about as lame an idea as there's been since the "Bobby Ewing didn't die, it was just a dream" manuever in "Dallas." How much longer until Izzie takes a pregnancy test?
2) Restore George O'Malley
Plot and character development is huge in television. It's what keeps us interested in a show. Or, in this case, completely turns us off. What they've done to George should be illegal. They took an intriguing character (OK, he was sometimes whiny, too) and turned him into a shell of a character. No wonder the actor T.R. Knight wants off the show. Give George some depth again instead of making him an incompetent person.
3) Open up Karev's secret chest a little bit more
They keep hinting at the mysterious past of Dr. Alex Karev. You know, the past that's made him a surly, short-tempered, out-for-himself jerk. Don't get confused here, Karev is a great and complex character and that shouldn't change. It's just that it's time to open him up more and really get into those inner demons of his.
4) A good two-parter
November sweeps week came and went and did we even notice that at Seattle Grace? Nope. So maybe we'll have to wait until February sweeps before we get a really good two-parter in the Emerald City. Some sort of big medical drama that requires every doctor in the hospital to be at their very best. Heck, it could even act as the jumping-off point for another intern to become a real character. (Think George and the heart in the elevator.)
5) Cancel "Private Practice"
I can't honestly advocate this since the show is starting to pick up, but seeing how Shondaland is doing this show, too, and "Grey's Anatomy" is slipping, devoting all the time to "Grey's" would help prevent it from coding.
Ok I have to add:
Pick up the MerDer Storyline that would bring the show up to Par imo!! WTF, why isn't MerDER on the top five???