Why are medical dramas so popular?

Colin X

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Seriously, coming out with one almost GUARANTEES good ratings.


Why do we love them so much? :jbhmm:





im watching Grey's Anatomy and this shyt is :takedat:
 

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Probably because every damn doctor and nurse on the show look like supermodels... add the over the top sex scenes with Adele/Corine Bailey Rae/Ellie Goulding song playing in the background and you got ratings
 

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I think ER set a precedent and grey's continued. The other ones orbit around those.

Scrubs was my shyt tho :russ: (gotta watch it all the way through, only caught rerun eps here and there)
 

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I didn't watch much of ER, but one scene I remember most was when doctor was gonna sleep, he goes to some room in their office lays down closes his eyes and the door swings open, he's needed for a patient but it's like hours later and he had just closed his eyes.

I don't know why I always remember that, maybe because that what time feels like sometimes.
 

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I dont watch that shyt. Im a hypochondriac. I dont want to be like "oh shyt, i probably have that to"
 
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Because, like cop shows, it's easy to keep the juicy drama coming without much buy-in from the viewer.

Political dramas and office dramas are harder because they require a smarter more involved viewer who'll pickup on all the drama. They can't dip into the murder, death, crime, tense situation buckets every week without becoming completely unbelievable. Cop and medical shows can.
 

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I've watched ER,Scrubs Private Practice and Grey's Anatomy. Unlike most dramas a Hospital allows for a bunch of new plots, characters whether they be re-occurring or single episode appearances and wide range of dialog simply because people of all walks of life can get sick or be injured requiring a hospital visit. That combination with relatively large cast which allows writers to focus on any story they like and conjure up insightful, funny, heartfelt or heart breaking moments/scenes is what probably makes it appealing to audiences.
 

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The first 5 seasons of ER waa straight heat..seasons 6-9 were ok to good...after that it was garbage
 
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