desiredtragedy_

Hope it gets better.

If you sift through my last couple weeks of journal entries, for a bit I'd just as soon ceased to exist. Fortunately (I suppose), a road trip to help with fire victims helped me probably more than the victims (and I feel kinda weird and bad about that).

Great to see you posting again, though!

I'm going to share with you my swiftly authored House Overview in hopes of luring you in to the Wonderful World of House.

Okay, time for proselytizing about the Glory that is House, MD.

It's my favourite show not only because of my professions (music & medicine - House is a diagnostician & musician), or that it takes place in NJ not too far from Philadelphia (I grew up in South Jersey a half hour from Philly), but just 'cause it's the most awesome show in the Multiverse.

Brief overview:

House is a diagnostician who leads a team of specialists in figuring out diagnoses on cases no one else can figure. Due in part to a serious leg injury, he takes hundreds of Vicodin (hydrocodone & acetaminophen - same exact thing as Lortab or Lorcet), is exceedingly cynical and acidic and sarcastic in personality, delves into patient psyche to figure stuff out - one of his catchphrases is "Everybody lies," bears a striking resemblance to Sherlock Holmes (is an addict, a musician, into psychology, only takes cases he finds interesting, and even shares the apartment number 221B with Holmes.

Oh, and he says 'fuck you' to the rules, and protocol, and Cuddy, his boss, and he is TOTALLY un-PC. To an hysterical degree. Omar Epps, for instance, plays one of his team, and he openly says he hired him 'cause he was black and had a car theft record and he knew he could use his street smarts. Hell, he has his team break into patients houses and search them for clues.

The weird interaction between him and his staff and colleagues and patients is so absorbing it can become an obsession. I Jonesed for a new episode while the writers' strike was on.

My recommendation:

Rent Season I on DVD. You'll love it. Trust me.

Oh yeah, and he plays a number of instruments and demonstrates his talent on the show.

And Hugh Laurie (who plays Gregory House, the title role) is British yet speaks in a South Jersey dialect convincing enough that I, who grew up there, believed he was from there, but his natural accent is British.

I almost have a mancrush on him.

Again, rent Season I, and then all the others.

Hell, rent the first 3 all at once; I'm that certain you'll watch them all.