The Dinner

The Dinner

“Hurry!”

“Is the food ready?”

“She’s here!”

Shonda Rhimes, the mind behind the phenomenal TV show Grey’s Anatomy was just a few steps away from my front door. She is an amazing screenwriter because she wrote and directed exceptional TV shows such as, How To Get Away With Murder, Scandal, Private Practice, and much more. My sister, cousin, and I are obsessed with Grey’s and we have so many questions.

I had emailed Shonda because we had many questions about her character’s fate. Then a week ago I had searched Shonda’s email, but I only found her assistant’s email. I rapidly emailed her back and expressed how we (my cousin, sister and I) love and admire Shonda and how we are a huge fan of Grey’s Anatomy. For some reason we got lucky and Shonda personally emailed me back, “Emily, my assistant showed me her email and I feel honored for all the good things you said regarding me and the TV show, “It would be my pleasure to assist to your dinner and I would be more than happy to answer all of your questions, I have a next Friday free.” As I got that email I rushed to get everything and everyone ready for Friday.

We prepared the dining room with dim lighting and some soft background music. My aunt started placing the dishes in the dark marble table. I personally decided to feed her some of our family’s favorite dishes such as potato salad, green spaghetti, rice, and my sister's famous cheesy enchiladas. Once she entered we sat her at the end of the table while we sat in each corner so we can ask her questions and she answers them. My sister, cousin, aunt, and I introduced ourselves. After my aunt served her we all waited patiently to see her expression once she flavored all the foods. We asked if she loved the food as we saw her mouth devoured the food.

Finally, we started with the questions respecting Grey’s Anatomy. We pretty much wanted to ask the same questions so we decided to write them down in a paper, I was the one who asked all the questions as my cousin and sister stared at Shonda with admiring eyes. The night was full of questions and fascinating answers. For the first question, I asked why she had to kill off McDreamy (Derek, Meredith’s husband) character. She answered with the most surprising answer, she stated that she had to fire the actor Patrick because he was having an affair with one of the extras in the cast. She said she had to kill his character because then fans would expect for him to come back throughout the show. Next, I asked why did she kill both lovers Lexi and Mark responding to my question she said that she was just gonna kill one character, but she wanted to make it romantic by killing both so they can be together forever. Our biggest question that every fan of Grey’s has asked was, “would Meredith