mooks and midriffs 12/21/14

I recently began watching Grey's Anatomy on Netfix.  After watching Merchants of Cool, I found many similarities between two of the characters and the ideas of the nook and midriff.  Alex Karev is one of the main characters in the show.  He is very rude and acts very much like a child in many situations early on in the show.  His character is attractive, making him appeal to a lot of the audience so that they will continue to watch the show.  He is "stuck in adolescence" since he is very impulsive. Though he is a doctor and has to make good decisions for the welfare of this patients, he often messes up in both his work and personal life.  For example, when he was dating Izzy Stevens on the show, he decides to sleep with another girl just because he could.  His personality embodies the concept of a mook as described in Merchants of Cool.  

The character who reminds me of the midriff persona is Izzy Stevens.  She used to be a model but is now a doctor.  Later on the show we learn that she only became a model to pay her way through college and medical school.  We learn that she used to act much older than her age during that period of time that she modeled.  She was only entering college, but she did many photo shoots in lingerie.  In the pictures that are shown of her modeling, she looks like she is trying to be older than she is.  The charter herself looks very young and innocent, so it embodies the idea of a midriff when she was shown modeling lingerie in her late teens and early 20s.  A midriff also seems sort of spicy and not that smart, and in the beginning of the show the other characters assumed that because she was a model, playing into the stereotype of a midriff.