What Shows Like Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl and Dawson’s Creek Have in Common with Reality

What do they have in common, then? You say nothing? If only that were the case…This is really disturbing. Well, I have to admit I watched these shows- some more than the others and before you totally condemn my taste, I want to talk about what attracted and appalled me about these shows. And then I’ll get to the part where reality bites.

Dawson’s Creek

About: Dawson is a teenager in love with movies and especially Steven Spielberg’s work. He becomes infatuated with the new girl in school and this drives his best mate Joey crazy because she has been in love with him for a long time. Yes, Joey is a girl, played by Katie Holmes. Joey isn’t all that crazy about Dawson’s male best mate, Pacey who is a little lazy, talks a lot and is the every bit of hormonal teenager.

Why I watched it: Well, those of you who took a look at my work on Triond already know that I am fascinated with movies and the film-making process. And I have always wanted to be in the film industry. Not so much that I’d risk everything and go to L.A. and wait tables while trying to get a part, but it would be a dream come true to sell a script to Hollywood, work with some of the names I admire and who knows maybe even appear in the films a little? Forget my fantasies. When this show came out, I was in high school. So teen angst, impossible crushes and dreams hit home. And although I was a girl, I identified with Dawson a lot for both his passion and his romantic character.

Why I hated it: So, it was fun for a while. Then Dawson started having feelings for Joey. OK, it can happen right. Then they started this absolutely on-off romantic thing and then there was a point where Pacey got a crush for Joey, new kids arrived….It was like everyone was swinging. Everybody slept with everyone (or got on the verge of it) and well… it stopped being a show I habitually followed and became something I watched only if I stumbled upon it by accident and there was nothing else on.

Grey’s Anatomy

About: Interns, residents, operations. Lots of complications and pairing up. Yep, that about sums it up.

Why I watched it: Well, it was interesting that the women in the show seemed less romantic than the man, I liked McDreamy (don’t ask) and I liked the sarcastic humor of the show.

Why I hated it: Friends one minute, sleeping together the next. Sleeping together and in love, and then, what do you know, they are friends. On and off, making combinations of all the cast members. It was Dawson’s Creek all over in scrubs. But it was worse this time because overhormonal and stupid adults are a hell lot more annoying then their teenage/college versions. I go back once in a while. I find an episode I like  but the next episode ends up being a teenage soap opera. My loyalty to Grey’s Anatmoy ended with the only decent (guest) character Denny Duquette (Jeffrey Dean Morgan)’s death.hihi

 GOSSIP GIRL

About: New York society. Rich, spoiled and problematic teens with rich, spoiled and problematic parents.

Why I watched it: Well, call it guilty pleasure. I love New York, shopping and I like some action.

Why I hated it:  OK, so it gets disturbing after a while to see highschoolers getting as much sex as Sex and The City’s Samantha. And then there is the issue of sleeping around with exes, best friends’ exes, best friends’ current dates, cheating, and going back in rounds….

THE REALITY

 As much I would love to think stuff like this hardly ever happens in real life, or only in the celebrity circles, it is not exactly true. You hear about this in your circles, about friends of friends and on the news. But I decided to write about this yesterday, when one of my good friends gave me the updates on her love life. Apperently, an ex of mine was hitting on her. Yes, he knows we are friends. We met through her, in college. It could have been alright, still if:

-         He has two close friends, both of whom I am also friends with. My  friend who he has been hitting on dated one of them and had a crush on the other. And he knows about both. How weird is that? We were even on a trip together when we were still dating.

This is weird and definitely annoying. I get uncomfortable when crushes happen between two friends because more often than not that threatens the friendship. Now he wants to date my friend who had a thing with both his friends? This is Dawson’s Creek all over again. Except, that was a TV show with characters on a payroll and with screenwriters with bills to pay. So are we talking about life imitating art or art imitating life? Yes I realize my ex is an idiot. Hence, the ex status.