Be Reel Blog #1
Recently I started to re-watch ABC’s Grey's Anatomy on Netflix from the beginning, again. In the whole series, there is a total of thirteen seasons currently on Netflix and still airing on ABC every Thursday night at eight. I have watched all the episodes of this show and I still can’t get enough of it. I remember when it aired when I was a kid and sitting on the couch with my mom and watching it from the start. As I got older, it has stayed as my favorite show through all the years of the hospital drama. At first, I thought I wouldn’t like the show because I am not a fan of hospitals but in the end, I grew to like the whole topic and the series with it. The show starts out with interns and shows their journeys along their way to residency. I have experienced all the ups and downs through each character's adventure in the hospital and I think that the show itself is put together great. To each scene connected to a patient or a doctor, music is added when something major happens and it makes the scene hundred times more effective in capturing the audience and pulling at people's heartstrings. This show makes you feel like you know each character by the everyday language and problems that go on in normal people’s lives such as family and relationship issues. The lighting and the setting of the show leave a huge impact on the show because first, it is in Seattle where it rains most or all of the time and rain is associated with sadness. Sadness is a big part of this show, so I would not recommend this to people who are super sensitive. The lighting in the hospital is different from a day to day basis because when it’s a happy mood, the hospital is bright and airy and when it's a depressing mood, the hospital is almost dark and dingy. I would recommend this show to people who love a good drama series and one that brings you on an emotional roller coaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grhidxBDM6M SPOILER in scene
Really great evaluation of the show! It seems like you’re calling this Good-Good, but make sure that stays explicit. Your subjective analysis shows a really good range of subjectivity: we see your personal history with the series and the things that you specifically like about Grey’s Anatomy. You even tell us how and where we can watch it! May want to consider how breaking this into multiple paragraphs would make this a bit more organized.
ReplyDeleteI am also a huge fan of this show and have seen every episode since it has began. Never before have I considered to pay such close attention to the setting of the hospital until now and it is something that I will continue to look for the more I watch. Being that the setting of the show is mainly within a hospital, I understood the sadness that wold be associated with the stories in the show, but never considered as to how the producers would accentuate or alleviate the sadness from episode to episode, or even throughout a single episode. This reminds me of one episode in particular when Meredith gave birth to her first biological child. The episode, titled "Perfect Storm", is packed full of high intensity, sad situations, including a huge weather storm, a giant power outage, and the near-death of multiple characters. The physical darkness of the episode paired with the dark, depressing tone of the events is juxtaposed by the birth of Meredith's son, Bailey. Although she almost died during and after the birthing process, the light of the episode was the gift of a new life. Bailey was symbolic that better things were to come and that an overwhelming sadness can be temporarily forgotten even when it seems inevitable.
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