[sperry]

Wait, "House" is good?

I saw that episode where someone had a rare disease, but House was a dick to them instead of a proper doctor. The interns couldn't figure out what the disease was, and struggled to understand how House could be so flippant towards the poor patient. But House has an epiphany and figures out what's going on, but doesn't tell the interns until *after* he does some absurd treatment/procedure (so absurd he almost gets fired), but in the end everyone realizes that he in fact saved the patient's life. Oh, and there's some limping.

Should I watch another episode? 'Cause I was under the impression that the show is just an advanced form of mad-libs... just insert a different patient/disease/absurd solution. Same goes for all the crime/forensics dramas... hell there's like 5 of those shows with the only difference being the city the show takes place in...

The only formulaic shows I can stand are comedies, simply 'cause the formula there is "tell different jokes within the bounds of the characters/environment". Old Scrubs episodes, for example, are the same shit over and over, but at least the jokes are funny. Hell, Family Guy is the ultimate example of this... the formula/plot has next to nothing to do with the show, it's *only* jokes. As long as the jokes stay funny, the show is watchable. But I have a hard time understanding how people get into dramas with virtually identical plots every episode... it's like watching the same movie over and over again... you know exactly what's about to happen.