![]() ![]() But “Grey’s” has never flagged in brilliantly stitching together the personal, the professional and the soap-operatically outrageous. I have ditched other favorites, like “The Walking Dead,” many seasons in. It’s not just inertia that has kept me hanging on. (The medical genre wasn’t a draw in itself: I never got into, say, “House,” and I didn’t even bother with the “Grey’s” spinoff “Private Practice.”) “ER,” to which I was devoted, was in its penultimate season and running on fumes, and I must have been looking, consciously or not, for another prime-time drama focusing on adults rather than children or families. I embarked on my “Grey’s” journey around the middle of Season 4. ![]() Yet the pleasures they dispense are both rare and very real. And this one has remarkably held up.īesides the occasional tremor when a cast member leaves or acts out - or a pandemic prompts a season to end prematurely, as happened last week - series like “Grey’s” are often taken for granted. Nothing replaces the feeling - unique to television - of watching a show age in real time. The longevity of my emotional investment is partly the point. The show’s creator, Shonda Rhimes, or its current showrunner, Krista Vernoff, could replace the lead character, Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), with an android: I have no desire to ever stop watching. Stuck on a desert island or confined to a one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment, I will take the 15-year-old medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy” as distraction over any of its newer, shinier, more critically acclaimed, more endlessly dissected and meme-fueling competition. ![]()
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