First off, don’t mind the title of this blog. I just came up with it randomly. This isn’t going to be an excerpt of anything like that. Instead, I’m once again talking about that diverse piece of media that we call television.
Recently, I started watching two shows that I never thought I would ever watch before.
The first one is a pretty popular show that I have finally been convinced to watch, Grey’s Anatomy. I am already on the second season, and why I may not be addicted, I have been doing a healthy amount of binging.
The second is a reality TV show that I just finished watching in Earth and Space Science called Stars on Mars. The show was pretty light-hearted and kept me engaged throughout. It was a competitive show, and since that was part of my class work, it was pretty cool.
GREY’S ANATOMY
I think everyone has likely heard of the famous medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy.
If you haven’t, the show is about a group of interns, the main one being Meredith Grey, and their journeys as they grapple with life as doctors who basically go through the motions of humanity.
While watching this show, I already decided that I don’t like a couple of characters.
One of the first ones I really don’t like is Alex Karev. He’s one of those interns that are cocky and think they’re better than everybody, all while being vile and making crude jokes.
Now he does have some moments when he’s an actual good guy. Like it was this one episode when he was helping this kid get from under his abusive father. Karev showed he could be humane in that episode. But I heard that he actually gets some great character development.
So, I guess I’ll have to wait and see that.
A lot of people likely disagree with me, but I kind of don’t like Meredith. I don’t know why, her personality just seems like a lot to me. I know she’s just stressed with her mother and stuff, but a lot of moments are filled with her projecting. I promise I’m not trying to be different; that’s just literally how it is for me.
Anyway, back after a day because I caught myself doom scrolling with 8 minutes of class left.
The reason I started watching the show in the first place was because YouTube shorts wouldn’t leave me alone and kept giving me Grey Anatomy edits. Therefore, after seeing some interesting cases that I had to watch to finish, I just said “What the heck.” If it gets to the point that I need to stop watching them before I become addicted, I know how to stop.
I do want to mention one of the interesting cases that I’ve seen so far. In an episode of Season 2, this man was in the hospital because he was eating dolls. Yes. He was eating doll heads, ten of them to be exact. So, when his body started acting up, he had to go and get surgery to get dolls out of his gut. I didn’t get it. I honestly thought he was a brewing serial killer, especially since he swallowed them with the hair. Actually, the whole Grey crew wanted to know why he did it.
They didn’t ask him until the end of course. The guy said he got a kind of satisfaction from it.
He asked them if they wanted to know exactly how. I was so mad when they said they would rather be left in the dark. Like, to me that just seemed like lazy writing. Maybe the writers just couldn’t think of a mind-blowing reason for the plot. I mean, you can get real creative with a person who eats dolls. It was like a doctor episode of Criminal Minds for a moment.
STARS ON MARS
Star on Mars is a competition show that I just finished watching on Tubi. The stars are just a random diverse selection of celebrities. I’m talking about famous pop stars to ice skaters in the Olympics. Mars is a space station simulator built in the middle of a desert somewhere in Australia.
I did it again, argh, Insta won’t let me work.
In this Australian simulator, the stars stay there for a month, and each day someone gets eliminated or extracted as they said after doing difficult tasks, until there is one brightest star left in the galaxy. I know it sounds kind of straightforward, which it’s kind of is, but the drama was still there. I mean, there was some drama because people wanted to win so badly that it turned into a whole political game. A great example of that was this ongoing feud between Ariel Winter and Lance Armstrong. I don’t feel like getting into that. But the contestants that were picked were mostly people I didn’t know, so it was interesting learning about these new people.
There were a lot of comedians placed in the game that actually added a fresh humor aspect.
Then there were a lot of sad moments when the crew would eliminate themselves for the people they grew close with or because they missed “Earth.” Actually, the whole time I was watching this, I felt a bit claustrophobic for them, because they’re isolated for a whole month with only the production team as contact outside the experiment. And it didn’t help that they had to work in the hot desert every day. It gave the challenge depth because I knew I couldn’t see myself doing it.
Anyway, that’s my small talk about what I’ve been consuming lately.
Go check out Stars on Mars, you may enjoy it.
