Compare And Contrast Grey's Anatomy

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Grey’s Anatomy has been a widely popular television series on ABC for many years and continues to get attention. Grey’s Anatomy is a television series that focuses on the lives of doctors, their relationships, and their experience in overcoming challenging surgical procedures. Many people tune in to watch the drama unfold, watch relationships grow, obstacles arise, and find a way to relate in one way or another. Throughout the twelve seasons, the audience has watched racially diverse characters come and go. Some might connect the show’s popularity to its racial diversity, while others might connect it to the entertaining medical drama. Although Grey’s Anatomy is a television series that is well-known for being racially diverse using the blind …show more content…

One of those differences being that one is clearly about doctors and saving lives, while the other shares incarcerations stories of the female inmates and their daily lives behind bars. In comparison to Grey’s Anatomy, The Netflix series: Orange is the New Black provides 100 percent equal racial or ethnic representation, while Grey’s Anatomy has yet to improve. Despite Grey’s Anatomy and Orange is the New Black having completely different story lines, genres, and settings, they are not as different as they may seem. Both series have white lead female actresses. Meredith Grey represents Grey’s Anatomy, While Piper Chapman represents the female lead in Orange is the New Black. The lead characters of each series can be easily identified through their pilots. Both series despite having lead characters still equally share the stories or backgrounds of each character that in one way or another that interact with the main character. Although they both use the same concept of incorporating the history of its characters, they both incorporate them differently. For example, In Grey’s Anatomy, the history of each doctor is being shared verbally to one another, while in Orange is the New Black, the history of each female prisoner and how they ended up where they are, is shared by including flashbacks scenes and some verbal sharing among characters by asking what they are in for. These two shows can easily attract multi-cultural views due to its overall diversity, which not only includes racial variety, but also can appeal to the LGBTQ audience. Grey’s Anatomy includes lesbian characters like; Dr. Callie Torres, Dr. Arizona Robbins, Dr. Erica Hahn, Dr. Leah Murphy, Dr. Penny Blake, and Dr. Eliza Minick. While in Orange is the New black, its lesbian characters consist of Piper Chapman, Alex Vause, Nicky Nichols, Poussey Washington, Lorna Morello, Suzanne Warren known

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