If you’ve seen at least one episode of Grey’s Anatomy than you know that she is obsessed with major, invasive, near impossible surgeries. In a pinch, major surgery with little risk involved will do. Hell, if she really needs a fix, minor surgery can tide her over. The woman is obsessed with cutting and does nothing to hide it.
Though her need is more animalistic than financial, Dr. Yang is one of the reasons healthcare is so damned expensive. In fact, so are nearly all the doctors at Seattle Grace and Princeton Plainsborough. But Cristina Yang is probably the worst. She could care less about interacting with the patients or the quality of life she’s given them once they leave her care. For her, it’s all about getting them under the knife, and making incisions and stitches very few others can make. (more…)
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For my thesis senior year, I wrote a spec script for one of the twenty medical procedurals on television. (The value of my degree is plummeting as I type this.) I read medical journals, called physicians, and even ventured into the library to flip through medical books. I overshot a little. My mother is a physician who can’t take more than twenty minutes of any medical show, but she suffered through a few episodes of the one I was spec-ing. When I called it at 5am, having been up all night trying to figure out how to make a renal failure joke, she told me that these shows got the medical stuff right about 30% of the time. In her professional medical opinion, I needed to go to bed.
So even though they’re only right about medical stuff 30% of the time according to the experts, House’s portrayal of a video game designer in the episode “Epic Fail” was exactly that. The video game industry isn’t exactly transparent, so it’s not as if every viewer was shaking their head throughout the episode, but it would have been nice if they’d at least talked to someone who made games. A ten minute conversation, fifteen tops, and they could have gotten it at least 30% right. (more…)
Within a week, two of my favorite sitcoms had scenes, entire plot lines in fact, referencing Dead Poets Society. Well, that’s not entirely fair to How I Met Your Mother’s episode “Robin 101” because there was only one scene in particular directly referencing the film. But in Community “Intro to Film” – an entire plot line beginning to end. Both episodes made me think there is a right way to do the Family Guy pop culture reference as a substitute for an original joke and a wrong way do the Family Guy pop culture reference as a substitute for an original joke that has something to do with the story. (more…)
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A friend of mine created this awesome comic, and Issue #1 came out this past Wednesday. The art is gorgeous, and I’ve contributed some writing here and there on the project. It’s been really fun so please go buy it! Read it! Like it! OR ELSE!*
*This shameless self promotion is mitigated by the fact that other, incredibly talented people worked super super hard on this thing.
