If we put all the chapters of Grey's
Anatomy
in which Ellen Pompeo has acted in a row, we would watch TV for eleven days and six hours in a row.
Or what is the same, 270 hours.
Few actresses have aged at the same rate as her character.
We met Meredith Gray in November 2005, as she was preparing to do the equivalent of MIR in the healthcare-drama world of Shonda Rhimes, and we've followed her until a few days ago, as she was beginning to make plans for her retirement.
From Meredith we know that she is an exceptional doctor, a revolutionary in medicine.
We also have plenty of news about the talent of Ellen Pompeo: she has had one of the longest and most lucrative careers in the history of television without actually learning the rudiments of the trade from her.
She has merit.
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Great performers have passed through the series, but, with the exception of the fabulous Sandra Oh, almost all of them in supporting roles.
Grey's Anatomy
is a metaphor for the business world or political parties: brilliant people fly as soon as they sniff out an opportunity, and almost always fall into less popular and lower-paid places —although full of that much-desired thing that almost never feeds , prestige—, while the mediocre suck the camera and persist in that hospital in Seattle, repeating plots and drowsy in a melodramatic loop, sometimes a little
gore
and sometimes a little Mr. Wonderful.
Ellen Pompeo leaves, and her departure is as bland as her performance.
In one of the series with the highest character mortality rate in history, Meredith Gray is not granted the privilege of dying.
She leaves as the official who has completed her three-year term, with a farewell banquet and a
"we'll see you around
. "
Like life, wow, but like boring life.
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