Dueling BanjosI'm going to say something that might make me unpopular to the three people still reading my blog but it just has to be said: I like Private Practice better than Grey's Anatomy.

Granted, that's like saying I like a kick to the nuts better than a punch to the face (I'll fight you on that one) but sometimes you need to make a choice, even if you don't like to.

Every fall the biggest thing to deal with for someone who can't maintain a relationship and doesn't do anything fulfilling is choosing what TV shows to watch and what to give up. Personally, I have the biggest problem choosing procedurals. My brain, capable as it may be to consume mass quantities of TV bullshit, can only handle about one courtroom, operating table and police station a week. Crime is an easy choice since The Wire dropped trou and took a hot shit on the face of all its competition. Law still goes to the neverending stunting of Boston Legal, even if it has gotten sappy.

But medicine...fucking medicine. I'm wildly interested in medicine and medical things and documentaries on the worlds smelliest tumors and what have you. Medical shows naturally tend to balance out character development and story since no patient can really take up more than a handful of watchable minutes.

I'd decided to shrug off all Houses and Bones' for Greys based on a recently re-invigorated love of Sandra Oh thanks to Alexander Payne and, honestly, I liked the characters. The first few seasons were funny enough but most of all they were damn inventive with some of their choices.

But man oh man is it shit now. Like E.R. before it, suddenly every episode has become a 'special episode' thus assuring once and for all that no episodes are really special. Remember how it used to have a funny opening theme deal? Remember how they used to visit patients in rooms instead of having everyone burst into the ER? Remember how they used to operate like surgeons in a real hospital instead of surgeons in a hospital run by people who have only seen hospital shows? Remember how once every few episodes there was a metaphor which might have been a groaner but it was acceptable instead of heavy handed multiple metaphors every week? Remember how there were good characters that got written out for retarded reasons? what the fuck, yo?

So, honestly, looking at a show that is so blatant in its emotions and terrible at keeping any sort of medical realism all I see now is another choice for medical show. There's this other one on the day before, written by the same people, with a unique "wellness clinic" b.s. thing going on. It has actors I like. Sex addict pediatrician, that's funny. Granted, it's shaky but maybe this is a "you are in the ocean drowning and can only save 2 people on your raft" situation and maybe this time I think I should save the little baby who has a potential to grow instead of the twisted, armless old man.

For the sake of this post, please, anyone who's sat in one of those interviews with me forget how hard I've argued the baby could "grow up to be Hitler".

I guess this should have been more of a "I think Grey's Anatomy is on such a lame path I'm willing to watch anything medical"-type post. We really need a medical version of Law & Order so I can just flip to it when I need a fix. Is that Stanley Tucci brain surgeon show still on, I could watch that? Why didn't they make this ?

Why do I write things without knowing how they'll end?

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