I dislike medical dramas.<\/p>\n
I’m sorry, let me explain that.<\/p>\n
I mean I dislike medical soaps.<\/p>\n
Actually, I dislike any kind of soap – the TV product, obv. But my dislike for medical soaps is fuelled by an almost pathological indifference engine.<\/p>\n
From Emergency Ward 10 (ask your grand-parents, kids) through to House; all except two are bum-clinchingly awful.<\/p>\n
Except two.<\/p>\n
The first is the BBCs sitcom It has now been relegated to the foot of the table called ‘unwatchable’.<\/p>\n I hate it.<\/p>\n The other exception to the list of medical soaps that I dislike is Grey’s Anatomy.<\/p>\n I love it.<\/p>\n There is, to be fair, a lot of ketchup.<\/p>\n Blood. Bones. And gore.<\/p>\n But there is no, absolutely none at all – snore.<\/p>\n Grey’s Anatomy is the epitome of televisual excellence.<\/p>\n The post-prod is excellent.<\/p>\n The editing – both video and audio – is, frankly, so good that it makes some big budget film productions look anaemic by comparison.<\/p>\n The soundtrack is emotionally manipulative and yet…<\/p>\n Fantastic.<\/p>\n The Grey’s Anatomy soundtrack features the calibre of top quality indie artists who will never gather in one place, except on a TV show, obv.<\/p>\n The roll-call includes names like<\/p>\n the postal service Ear-wateringly excellent.<\/p>\n But that’s only the post-prod.<\/p>\n The prod isn’t, you know, too shabby either.<\/p>\n The acting is highly commended, but the way the actors portray their characters; the conviction they all bring to their roles, these qualities are indicative of a higher order: brilliant on-set direction.<\/p>\n The camerwork isn’t, if we’re being truthful, outstanding.<\/p>\n But that’s OK, because the occasional flips and slips add a quality of realism that However the big value is added to the show via the writing team.<\/p>\n The writing is credible, sympathetic, harsh, stark, cold, emotional and, for the most part, joyful to hear.<\/p>\n I love the dialogue.<\/p>\n It is crisp without being wise-cracking, emotional without being drippy and sharp without being (unnecessarily) cutting.<\/p>\n Occasional exchanges of dialogue that briefly throw a shard of light on the deeper motivation of a character; qualities such as this mark distinctive adjuncts in long-term plot developments that lesser writers would weep over.<\/p>\n Touching scenes, laced with a tinge of melodrama, are sometimes played with an oversized funny bone. This adds a combination of sincerity and realism.<\/p>\n Sincerity and realism being qualities that have never been visited upon Nor Emergency Ward 10.<\/p>\n Nor House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I dislike medical dramas. I’m sorry, let me explain that. I mean I dislike medical soaps. Actually, I dislike any kind of soap – the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Casuality<\/del>. Causality<\/del>. Casualty.<\/p>\nCasuality<\/del> Casualty used to be average, and therefore awful, but in the last few years it has become a mediocre shadow of its very worst nightmare.<\/p>\n
\nkate havnevik
\nkt tunstall
\nsnow patrol, and the almost ever-present
\nbon iver<\/p>\nCausality<\/del> Casualty can only dream of.<\/p>\nCasuality<\/del> Casualty.<\/p>\n