I agree with you that October ...
Question: I agree with you that
October Road is poorly written. No one is going to deny that. But did
Grey's Anatomy ever get knocked for its bomb fiascos and endless love triangles? While people do complain about
Grey's, it can't even compare to the amount of grief given to
October Road, which may have poor writing, but which portrays homeliness and neighborly feeling in a remarkably warm light. The characters may be plain, but they're your best friends from high school. Whereas McSteamy is just plain Superman with an addiction to sex (like we've never heard
that one before). I personally believe that all TV has its cheese. Leave the edge and the realism to full feature films.
Answer: But again, as I've often pointed out (though perhaps not with this particular metaphor): There's cheese and then there's mold. And an attitude like this explains volumes about why a show like
Friday Night Lights struggles for an audience, if people are so willing to settle for the stinkiest of cheese as if that's all TV should be striving to offer. Seems to me that
Grey's Anatomy has taken plenty of knocks for its sweeps stunts (none more so than Meredith's overextended visit to limbo after drowning), and see Amy's exhaustive rant above for a sign of how well the fans are taking the most current love triangle. But in terms of overall excellence, including strength of ensemble and — yes — writing,
Grey's Anatomy is on the high end of guilty pleasures, whereas the cloying sub-Hallmark "qualities" of
October Road are depressingly laughable. Cheesy to the max. Come to think of it, maybe that show would have been better off set in Wisconsin.
