By Elizabeth Purvis
My senior year of college, I decided to watch every season of Grey’s Anatomy. I had always heard about it but had never seen it, much to the dismay of my best friend. So like the studious person I am, I set my textbooks aside, got on Hulu Plus and ordered a pizza. In no way was I prepared for what Grey's Anatomy had in store. Neither were my neighbors on both sides of my dorm room, as they had to suffer through my screams and sobs. I’ve made a list of four times that Grey’s Anatomy left me completely emotionally shattered but let’s be real- there are many, many more. (Fair warning: spoilers ahead!) In the season six finale, a patient has died and her husband deals with his grief by taking a gun to every person who was rude to him at Seattle Grace Hospital. In the most momentous scene, the gunman has just shot a doctor. Cue Alex Karev, my favorite character, who hears the shot and comes up behind him. Before he can finish his sentence, the man turns around and shoots him. The bullet lodges in his side and he falls to the ground dramatically, arms not blocking his fall. The scene ends without letting the audience know if he’s okay. I was on edge throughout this entire episode but when Karev was shot, I let out a scream as if someone I knew was being shot, not a fictional character. Thankfully, after the commercial break, Alex is crawling into an elevator like the intelligent little genius he is. Mark and Lexie find him but not before he is starting to bleed out. I had to stop, breathe, and buy a new tissue box from Dollar General before continuing.
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By Elizabeth Purvis *Potential Spoilers Ahead* I recently watched every episode of Veronica Mars in quick succession. I’ve wanted to see it since I heard there was a movie coming out this year. I knew I didn’t want to see the movie without seeing the show first. Turns out unemployment gives you A LOT of free time to marathon TV shows. It was all worth it, because Veronica Mars does not in any way disappoint. 1. Veronica is unapologetically intelligent. I usually hate when teenagers are depicted as equal to adults because with they are demanding respect when they haven’t earned it. However Veronica actually is deserving of that respect. She gets things done, in and around the law, and her goal in any case is to find the truth. The adults around her value their egos over the truth.
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