1.) A female lead with her character's name featuring in the title.
2.) Progressively emaciating frame of the above mentioned female lead,making them look as much pre pubertal,and by extension bereft of all age appropriate feminine maturity as possible.
3.) Intelligent,highly paid people-lawyers and surgeons.
4.) The story encompassing dramatic lengths regarding these professions of which possibility cannot be negated but are obscenely absurd and idiotic.
5.) Both Meredith and Ally claim a married man to be the Love of their Life.
6.) One handsome soulmate-check-Billy/Derek
One stunning wife of handsome soulmate-check-Georgia/Addison
One womanizer-check-Richard/Sloan
One awkward misfit-check-John/George
One busty blonde-check-Nell/Isabel
One plus sized woman of colour-check-Renee/Callie
One Asian talent-Lucy/Christina
7.) Intense daddy issues transforming brilliantly into intense man issues.
8.) Both protagonists are shown to be restless,perpetually mildly unhappy,semi neurotic and in need of therapeutic help. Or a man. Or both.
(Ally has been shown to go a step ahead and go through actual hallucinations and 'baby hunger')
9.) Both are self obssessed-rendering their faux deep banter its actual superficial core.
10.) Meredith and Ally both look for and find a father figure in Richard and John respectively.
The fact that these shows are equally successful mostly amongst the young female demographic is a sociological phenomena.
Interestingly,some of these factors are also seen in the main character of another hit series- 'Sex and the city''s Carrie Bradshaw-except that the word 'materialistic' also features in Carrie's description.
Status-Someone make a show about me.
6) is a great observation. Guess they have a well-defined recipe for targeting their desired audience.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes watch Grey's, but have rarely seen Ally.
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