http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/21/GREYS-ANATOMY----The-Heart-of-the-Matter.aspx As I watched the shenanigans of the lovable moppets on GREY’S ANATOMY tonight, I kept thinking about MAD MEN. In MAD MEN, no one ever says what they mean, thinks what they say, or finishes a meaningful conversation. On GREY’S ANATOMY everyone always has the last word, even when they don’t. See that? What I just did? Pure GREY’S. What does it all mean? Well, one is a great show, and one gets huge ratings. Obviously GREY’S is the latter. GREY’S ANATOMY is the most emotionally manipulative show on television. Forgive me if I’ve said it before, but nothing happens week to week to prove me wrong. When it first started it was an undeniably sexy show about strangers getting to know each other, intimately. Now everyone is so far into everyone else’s business that it was shocking that no one even suspected why Dr. Torres might want to kick Dr. Steven’s ass. Not that she did kick her ass. As usual, Izzy turned Dr. Torres’s simple request that they meet to talk about a private matter into a full-on schoolyard brawl. Torres was right that Izzy should be ashamed.  Her reaction to Torres was as childish as they come. The show tries hard to plumb the depths of human emotion, but it fails. It is hard to take serious things, like adultery, serious when the show doesn’t take serious things seriously. Got that? GREY’S, like a young doctor, tries to do too much. Is the old intern, Norman- played by the marvelous Edward Hermann- supposed to be funny? Why exactly? I’m embarrassed for the writers and Mr. Hermann. He could be doing better things with his time, and acting skills, then trying to say “‘sup” like a twenty five year old. And I don’t know how the whole subplot about literally losing a patient he and Meredith wrongly told was going to die proves that Meredith is immature. But the writers seem content that just by saying so it does. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/21/GREYS-ANATOMY----The-Heart-of-the-Matter.aspx 77 60