Yeah, I watched it

I’d been debating in my head about watching the new NBC show, Inconceivable, since I heard about it. I mean, the O in the title is of a fertilized egg, and it’s a drama, but I ended up watching it because I figured there was a strong chance of seeing lots of pregnant people/birthin’/babies, and I don’t have cable to watch all of the baby shows in the Discovery/TLC/DHC lineup. 

I also feel like "fertility issues are the new gay" for popular culture.  How many years ago was it that Ellen came out, and caused an uproar, and had her show cancelled — and Roseanne kissed Sandra Bernhardt, and more uproar, but then, all of a sudden, every show had it’s token gay person, and it was funny! Oh, the charming gays! And then Will & Grace broke new ground!… by having a hit comedy based on every stereotype EVER about gay men. 

Maybe it’s because my life has been centered on fertility for the last year and a half or so, and so I notice it more than someone else would, but truly — it seems everywhere.  When Baby M of the 80s was this huge ethical debate, and fertility treatments might be mentioned on Dateline or whatever, and now, there’s an entire SHOW on the topic.  Not only that, ER had the whole lesbian-mom story (ooh, blending the gay and the fertility!), and they are previewing next week’s show that seems to feature a surrogate story.  Celebs use surrogates, openly, or discuss their fertility treatments as a matter of course.

The show was okay, a medical drama with the lead doctor as the cocky brit with a GWB smirk on at all times, which annoyed, but Ming Na was great.  If I were actually in the process of going through fertility treatments, though, I’d probably be freaked the fuck out by the end.  Let’s see, there was the surrogate who gave birth to –whoops! Her own baby, as evidenced by the fact that the baby was black, and the intended (and supposed bio) parents were white. (And rich, and dressed in all gray and black, and were cold-hearted rich people, of course.)  The last scene shows the spurned lover of GWB (who also happens to be a nurse at the clinic) switching out some couple’s semen with a sample she ‘collected’ from the doc himself. If I were in treatment? I’d be looking for a doctor who wasn’t so Rico Suave with an office full of hot and vengeful nurses. 

I’ll probably continue to watch, on the days I get in a nap, I end up awake at 10, and that’s when the progesterone goes in (and yes, I see the irony in watching Inconceivable while letting a progesterone suppository melt), and you can only take so many forensic crime shows. Especially when the alternative is about TTC/pregnancy/and baaaayyyybbbeeeesss.

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