A hospital where impossible cases keep piling in. A doc with a weakness for painkillers. And a show that can actually get away with cheesy lines like, "Almost dying changes nothing. Dying changes everything."
This has to be "House."
Who's that? A handsomely compensated Hugh Laurie returns as everyone's favorite wacko doctor (OK, second fave, Doogie Houser fans), a defeated yet brilliant medicine man with the coolest limp since Richard III.
Buzzed about: The greatest bromance on TV, between House and Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), is finally put to the test this season, after a death—you guessed it—changes everything.
The "ooh" factor: Surgery without anesthesia! House's temper tantrums! More surgery without anesthesia! Where "ER" lays the soap opera on thick n' creamy, "House" goes right for the jugular with its sympathetic cast of misfit docs and their microbial nemeses. Or at least the subclavian vein (sorry, we've been watching a lot of medical procedurals...).
The "eh" factor: Are the writers beginning to run out of mystery ailments? The season opener begins with a baffling disease that takes the docs for a loop. Is the patient pregnant? Does she have MS? Has she gone insane? Unfortunately, the surprising final diagnosis seems like it's scraping the bottom of the obscure ailment barrel.
The verdict: Perhaps the only hospital in which you'd actually want to extend your stay. "House"'s successful equation? 1 drugged-up doc + ∞ obscure diseases = 100% TV gold.
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