I’ve been watching Grey's Anatomy since the beginning of the pandemic. I binge watched the first fifteen and a half episodes a few episodes at a time each night before bed to get through that time before the vaccine, mask refusers, and blatant denial while I grieved my father's death from CoVid. He died in May 2020 and was among the first 10k people to died from CoVid here in the US, so this whole thing was very real and not simply a news or social media post for me and my family.
What I loved about Grey’s Anatomy was the way it never sugar coated death or trauma, while interspersing humor, lots of sex and relationship dramas and a set of emotionally flawed often annoyed characters that you couldn't help but come to love eventually.
In the 466 episodes so far i’ve noticed a few predictable themes.
🌟In nearly every episode someone is going to die
🌟In every season countless people will hook up and have sex in supply closets
🌟Every season will include one major tragedy or epic disaster.
🌟Every 5-10 seasons there will be a major explosion.
🌟The series will feature significant social justice and political challenges in a way that shows how these things affect people in day to day life.
🌟As a result of a crisis, babies are delivered prematurely.
This last thing is what my video is about today. Grey’s Anatomy offers a cautionary tale of why we want births to come to term.
Birthing a matriarchal world requires the same patience and willingness to endure the discomfort as waiting for a baby to be ready to be born healthy and fully developed. While we may really want all of this 💩show to be over and the dancing in the streets to commence, we also need this transformation to be done baking.
This is the time to take a breath, slow down to a sustainable pace, and summon the endurance that will keep momentum going.
Think marathon, instead of sprint.
