I'm not doing so well.
Yeah, yeah, it's a pretend show with a bunch of pretend doctors in a pretend world where everyone is beautiful. I get that. But. The thing that lovely hubby can't get past is that all the most incredible, most awful, most unbelievable, most everything happen in this one place, to this one group of people. (Or perhaps that's what turned him off to ER... I might be getting my hospital shows mixed up...) Either way, I agree, but I also realize that it's just gotta be that way, because who the hell would watch a hospital show that's more realistic to what it must be like 95% of the time in a hospital-- boring, monotonous, and filled with not-so-beautiful people. (I'm not sure that needed to sound so harsh. Hmmm.) Okay, where am I going with this?
It's this- this show continues to set out story lines that make me think, and make me anguish, and make me sob. I literally had to tear the earbuds out of my ears and cover half of the laptop screen with my hand at the last few moments of this week's episode. Then I went to the bathroom, so as not to disturb lovely hubby's viewing of The Wire in the living room, and cried my eyes out while sitting on the toilet.
Is anyone else watching? Is anyone else having their stomachs twisting and turning over the storyline with the young boy in need of a transplant? Is anyone else finding it painful to even look at the face of the boy's mother? Is anyone else as conflicted as I am about the decisions Meredith has made throughout the whole storyline with the serial killer? Is anyone else torn up by the intermittent references to the Iraq war experiences of Dr. Hunt? Is anyone else finding it so painful, yet so thought-provoking as to be rewarding, to watch this show these days??
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