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Too Close, Too Compromised: “Killing Eve” and the Promise of Sandra Oh | Los Angeles Review of Books

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Summer Kim Lee on representation, attachment, and being too close to Sandra Oh, from Grey's Anatomy to Killing Eve. TELEVISION Throughout my time as a graduate student, I binge-watched Shonda Rhimes’s first television show and medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy. However, I was not binge-watching the entirety of the show, but only the first ten seasons — more than once. In those 220 episodes that aired from 2005-2014, actress Sandra Oh played the toughened, irreverent, yet fiercely loved and loving cardiothoracic surgeon Cristina Yang. What happened was this: when I reached Cristina’s last episode, at the end of the tenth season, I would stop and replay the whole series again from the beginning. This viewing cycle carried me through bed bugs in Brooklyn, a break-up, and a dissertation. When people found out I did this, and were rude enough to ask why, I always told them that Cristina Yang was my last attachment to representation. Put another way, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang was my last attach

Too Close, Too Compromised: “Killing Eve” and the Promise of Sandra Oh Summer Kim Lee on representation, attachment, and being too close to Sandra Oh, from Grey's Anatomy to Killing Eve. By Summer Kim Lee December 4, 2018 Television Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit? LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts freely accessible to the public. Help us continue this work with your tax-deductible donation today! Donate Throughout my time as a graduate student, I

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