What if someone converted television series to novels.
I recently watched the show How to Get Away with Murder. The show is written and produced my Shonda Rhimes, the God I wish to worship even in my sleep.
I had such high expectations from the show after watching Grey’s Anatomy religiously for 10 seasons that is 200 hours! One episode of 50 mins with 24 episodes. That is 20 days of work on 10 hour shift. Massive!
Anyway, every character in Grey’s Anatomy is so complex & real that you are drawn to each one’s perfections and flaws.
Each perfection and flaw is so approriately laid out that I as a viewer feel I can describe the characters like my closest acquaitance or an office colleague sharing desk with me for 10 years.
I know their habits. Their family. Their routine. The things that make them happy and things that turn their world upside down.
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With each episode you feel you are getting closer to the character. The story brings up a new day, a new challenge or situation before them. In their quest to overcome that challenge they learn new things about themselves.
All this with no one narrating what the characters are feeling in the background!
When you read a novel, there’s always a narrator. Some one who is writing the book.
Grey’s Anatomy has no narrator still I know exactly what the character must be feeling! It is not because I generally know what anybody is feeling but because the storytelling & writing is this good.
How to Get Away with Murder fails at it. The characters are so great but I don’t get what they are feeling.
Why doesn’t someone write a book on this television series?
Help, shonda rhimes
