House

It has taken a few years, but I have finally found a television show that I could put in my weekly routine. After a significant hiatus from making shows worth watching, one of the networks (FOX) have surprised me by making a medical drama that is gritty, topical, and goes totally against the grain of how you expect your doctors to act. House is a refreshing television show where the main character is a lovable, manipulative ass that insults his patients, walks with a cane, belittles his co-workers, is addicted to pain killers and is an extremely flawed hero. Finally someone who is not perfect physically, not telling us how we all need to be perfect based on their sense of right and wrong. Dr. Gregory House is played by Hugh Laurie who is probably best known as the dad in the Stuart Little movies or Jasper in the live action 101 Dalmations. House tells it like it is and lets the chips fly where they land. Getting the patient well is more important than the rules, hurt feelings, or stepping on toes.

Yes, it is only a television show that has a script and actors supposedly playing real people. So I know that it is all fake and that House and the cast of characters he spends his quality time with are only as real as the show writer’s imagination and the actor’s ability to convey the character. The daily lives of these characters are compressed into one, maybe two hour segments that show the range of emotions each is going through. Knowing all that makes me want to watch television even less but sometimes a show just catches your attention and grows on you.

Now the reason I found it is the network changed the broadcast time from 9:00 PM to 8:00 PM. I am normally getting ready to settle down for the night around 9:00 and the change has opened up an opportunity for me to waste an hour watching the idiot box. I thought that I was done being baby sat by a screen writer and a ensemble cast of Hollywood’s finest but I love well done medical shows and this is a good one. I am still a M*A*S*H fan, a early ER fan and now have another show to add to my list of favorites; House.

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Cobb