It really is. Seems like the TV staples of my teen years have been dropping like flies lately.

What hurts is that they were all rather young when they passed away...

Yep. Poor Lamont Bentley passed away a few years after the show got cancelled.

I'm surprised that show had gotten renewed, considering how hard it was for me to take.

Awwwwwww, hell no!

I honestly thought he was born and bred in France.

The soapiness is what drew me into Grey's Anatomy in the first place back in the day, so that was never been an issue for me. The issue that I had was that while the non-white characters weren't stereotypical, they weren't nearly as fleshed out as their white counterparts were.

His character was exactly what I had in mind, actually. As much as I loved Burktina, I didn't get enough out of his character beyond his being a perfectionist who was in love with a stubborn woman. The half-assed way that they wrote Preston Burke out was just the icing on both cakes of the on-and-offscreen debacles.

I find that she parades these non-white characters as visual proof that her onscreen canvas is diverse, but their backgrounds are rather one-dimensional in a way that she doesn't allow her white characters' backgrounds to be.

I honestly believe that Sherman-Palladino thought that she was turning a stereotype on its head by depicting a Black man as the snappy French guy.

It doesn't help that Fanny seems like a boho-ish version of Emily Gilmore, though I have to say that I was more upset by the fact that they (seemingly?) killed off Alan Ruck's character instead of letting him thrive on past the first episode.

Please tell me that Andy finally drop-kicked Shanna's ratchet ass to the curb so that I don't have to see her on the show anymore.

No problem and yes, Eva is dead wrong.

Considering that Shonda's surface attempt at diversity on her shows isn't all that great, methinks that she needs to get her house in order before calling another show out for their lack of diversity.

Well, there was this show that aired on Showtime about a decade ago...

I take it you were not a fan of this classic?

1. I've read that Jennifer Love Hewitt was very close to her mother, so my heart goes out to her (especially since I, too, lost my mother to cancer).

You know, I came into Season 5 with an open mind and didn't understand why viewers hated that chick almost instantly. I tried to look past Zou Bisou and even thought that there'd be a decent plot about her trying to prove to the SCDPers that she actually deserved to be there, but she lost me after she quit her…

There's an evolution?

Oh, there's no question that they both can't act. Yet, as much as I can't stand Betty, I'd much rather watch her be a terrible mother than watch this tired Mama-I-Wanna-Act thing they've got going on with boring-ass Megan.