How Grey’s Anatomy Became the World’s Most Watched Surgical Theater (and Quietly Performed a Cultural Heart Transplant on Us All)
Seattle Grace Hospital, that fluorescent-lit amphitheater of cardiac arrests and coital misadventures, has quietly become the most successful U.S. cultural export you never bothered to count. While Washington obsesses over arms deals and microchip sanctions, Grey’s Anatomy has spent nineteen seasons performing open-heart surgery on the planet’s imagination—suturing together a global audience that now stretches…