WOOHOOO! GREYS ANATOMY

I was watching Grey’s Anatomy yesterday and I could not help but analyze every bit of the episode. I never realized how intentional every single aspect of a t.v show or movie is. The set designers plan every single decoration and placement. The wardrobe people pick clothing and makeup based on   The episode “free falling begins with Meredith waking up to Zola’s cry. She looks over to the person next to her in her bed and it is Christina, Her best friend, instead of her husband, Derek. She and Derek have been fighting due to Meredith screwing up his clinical trial. The bed scene displays the awkwardness of their relationship. Then about twelve minutes later the chief pulls Meredith into the office and fires her. She goes to tell Christina and the others. The scene takes place at the emergency care place where the ambulances rush patients in. There are red flashing lights, screaming people, and a mutilated body just helplessly lying there. I think that the red lights and the screaming people are meant to build on the feeling that Meredith is panicking, lost, and scared. The dead body is how she feels after she has lost what has been her whole life for so long.

Then in the next scene, the surgeons are on location at a huge disaster on the road. There is a giant hole in the road and a couple is dying down there. The husband has to amputate his wife’s own leg. The doctors suggest that the unqualified man cover up his wife’s face while he cuts off her leg, reminding me of how Meredith is losing key parts of her with Derek’s severing of her job. Also, it could be seen as the mad being medicine and the leg being the hospital. What remains is “new Meredith” sans hospital. When the amputation is done. The man is lifted up out of the sinkhole.  

 The cause of all of these traumas is a giant sinkhole. There is a child that fell down into the sinkhole. He ends up buried in the dirt. That to me represents the newly arisen issues Meredith’s adopted baby will have to face. But also, the sinkhole represents everything in Meredith life just slipping away, Her sanity and her family is slipping away.

The director, writer, and the actors all have to work together to create imagery and strength in the symbols and motifs. From this episode of Grey’s Anatomy, I have discovered that no book or movie is simply a plot line. It is not just a funny story or something to entertain. These books and movies that we have come to love are wonderful pieces of artwork. They are full of intention.