How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy

How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy

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  • Create Date:2021-09-17 10:51:06
  • Update Date:2025-09-06
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  • Author:Lynette Rice
  • ISBN:1250272009
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Summary

The first inside story of one of TV's most popular and beloved dramas, Grey's Anatomy

More than fifteen years after its premiere, Grey’s Anatomy remains one of the most beloved dramas on television and ABC's most important property。 It typically wins its time slot and has ranked in the Top 20 most-watched shows in primetime for most of its seventeen-season run。 It currently averages more than eight million viewers each week。

Beyond that, it’s been a cultural touchstone。 It introduced the unique voice and vision of Shonda Rhimes; it made Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh and T。R。 Knight household names; and injected words and phrases into the cultural lexicon, such as “McDreamy,” "seriously," and “you’re my person。” And the behind-the-scenes drama has always been just as juicy as what was happening in front of the camera, from the controversial departure of Isaiah Washington to Katherine Heigl’s fall from grace and Patrick Dempsey's shocking death episode。 The show continued to hemorrhage key players, but the beloved hospital series never skipped a beat。

Lynette Rice's How to Save A Life takes a totally unauthorized deep dive into the show’s humble start, while offering exclusive intel on the behind-the-scenes culture, the most heartbreaking departures and the more polarizing plotlines。 This exhaustively enthusiastic book is one that no Grey’s Anatomy fan should be without。

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Reviews

Isabella (The Feminist Bookworm)

I really enjoyed this book。 I had a lot of fun with it, and I learned a decent amount as well。 It was compulsively readable, and I finished it in a day。 As a Film/TV major, I think this was a valuable book to read, and as a Grey’s fan, it was just super fun。 I think that if you’re interested in working in TV, this is also a good book to read, whether or not you like Grey’s at all。 It gives you a really good look at how a writer’s room operates, how stories break, the overall bureaucracy and how I really enjoyed this book。 I had a lot of fun with it, and I learned a decent amount as well。 It was compulsively readable, and I finished it in a day。 As a Film/TV major, I think this was a valuable book to read, and as a Grey’s fan, it was just super fun。 I think that if you’re interested in working in TV, this is also a good book to read, whether or not you like Grey’s at all。 It gives you a really good look at how a writer’s room operates, how stories break, the overall bureaucracy and how network execs influence who stays and who goes in a show, etc。 And for Grey’s fans, this is something I would definitely recommend because it’s pretty juicy, and like Daisy Jones, it’s written as an oral history, and different people’s accounts of the same event/situation vary, so it’s interesting and authentic in that sense。My only real gripe with this book is the author refers to Shonda Rhimes as "Yale-educated" when she went to Dartmouth, when literally everyone knows she went to Dartmouth 🤦🏽‍♀️。 。。。more