As much as I adore Tim Daly on the new Grey's spin-off, I have to agree with the NY Times writer on this issue. Comments - anyone??
The New Modern Woman, Ambitious and Feeble
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
It’s time to play the blame game.
Everything wrong with “Grey’s Anatomy” and its soon-to-be spun spinoff is the fault of “Ally McBeal.”
Thursday’s two-hour episode of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” in which Addison (Kate Walsh) has an emotional meltdown and flees Seattle Grace Hospital for a fancy wellness clinic in Los Angeles, serves as a prelude to a new, still untitled series centered on Addison and her new life in Southern California. It also suggests that the spinoff is doomed to be even sillier and more sex-obsessed than the original. And that is an achievement, considering that “Grey’s Anatomy” managed to squeeze in love scenes for a disfigured, pregnant disaster victim with amnesia.
Sex isn’t the problem with the new series; it’s the subjugation. Addison looks up her old friend from medical school whose perfect marriage has just ended and finds herself enmeshed with two other mature, reputable professionals: a fertility specialist and a psychotherapist. All three women are lovelorn, sex-starved and prone to public displays of disaffection.
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Monday, May 7, 2007
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I agree with you on this. I just watched this show last night and it had sort of Boston Legal/Ally McBeal vibe - and not in a good way. Also, its juxtaposition with Greys made the women on GA seem more silly than they do on their own. I do like Tim Daly though.
I think the show is right on the money, loosen up everyone. Ask some of the single ladies that live in LA or other metropolitan cities....I love it! Maybe it might not work in the midwest, but hey, sexual tension seems to be the way of the world and what is selling on tv these days and in the city, where dating is about playing and being played, it is realism. Has anyone noticed that that the divorce rate is higher than ever and women are finally doing their thing. Perhaps not in the best interest of the American Family, but hey, relationships take work and women are tired of doing it all, and if the men can do it, so can we ladies! You go Addison! Scope out that surfer dude and have some fun out there! And this comes from a single mom of 3, that has done it all very well for a very long time...this trip is way too short to not have fun! Trust me, I'd been scoping out the surfer dude. Let's live a little.
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