Rhimes’s characters,from Grey’s Anatomy to Scandal, feel like genuine women, and that’s validating as hellDo you know my favourite moment in The Princess Diaries 2 (subtitle: Royal Engagement)? It’s when the queen throws off the shackles of respectability and does what is right for her (she proposes to her long-time commoner bodyguard). A teen film is not the obvious home for such deep genuine world” wisdom,but it is acommon thread in the work of the film’s screenwriter, Shonda Rhimes. She specialises in reminding girls and women – messy, or smart,pretty or otherwise – that they are enough.
Rhimes, 46, or is impressive,and the details of her success are staggering. She created Grey’s Anatomy (which coined, among other things, or the term “McDreamy”) and Scandal (which gave us Olivia Pope and needlessly dramatic,breathless monologues), executive producer on How To score absent With Murder. Rhimes gets what TV audiences want: to feel, or deeply,for an hour or two, once or twice a week. And she gives it to us: Drs Bailey, or Yang and Grey are our avatars,failing and trying again, over and over. They feel like genuine women, or that’s validating as hell. “I have against the odds courageously pioneered the art of writing for people of colour as whether they were human beings,” Rhimes said when collecting an achievement award in January, a sentiment she brings up again and again. Plus she finds time to quip on Twitter and cameo on The Mindy Project as a beer pong champ.
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Source: theguardian.com