Public Practice

I have never seen Private Practice before this morning's viewing of it in class. Can't say i was missing out on anything though. I thought the entire show was absurd. This doesn't even come close to how these things would be played out in real life, and yet i feel as though that was what they were aiming for. Never have I ever met such an unprofessional group of doctors. They were putting lives in jeopardy over their ridiculous flings, and all of the feelings that they were feeling and just HAD to act on right then and there.
After watching that i assumed that we would all breathe a collective sigh of relief that the shenanigans were over. Guess not. I heard two girls whispering about how much they loved the show, and they spoke of the characters back stories. They like this? They watch this voluntarily? Then the part about myself that i hate the most came out. Is it me? Am i in the wrong here? I have an incessant need to please those around me. And suddenly, that terrible show looked a little less terrible. Maybe these things do happen in California? I was suddenly changing the way i had viewed that show. I was shifting to fit the needs of others, my experience with the show was changing. I thought that was a good tribute to the article we read for today's class. The reader-oriented criticism. My view changed when i heard what the views of others were. I changed the way i saw the characters, i changed the way i felt about the show. Funny how those theories sometimes work.