I saw the season premiere of House last night (it was shown Tuesday, but I have Tivo). If you're not familiar with it, the basic premise is Dr. House and his team investigate hard to diagnose patients (it’s like a medical mystery). What makes the show so entertaining is that Dr. House might be the best TV character on any show right now. He's always vacillating between being a curmudgeon and a total pr**k and has some of the most hilarious lines in each episode. In the first episode I saw, it had this "I can't believe they said that on TV" line when they finally found out the woman they were diagnosing had rabies and House turned to his bitten underling Dr. Foreman (who is black) and told him, "Now go get your shots before I have to have another affirmative action hire."

Anyway, the season premiere involved a death row inmate (played by L.L. Cool J) mysteriously dying (like every patient House sees). I was afraid there was going to be some moral lecturing, but, as always, the show avoided that. Dr. Cameron - the woman underling to House and the most touchy-feely - did at one point say, "You know that the death penalty is a racist punishment given disproportionately to blacks." To which Dr. Foreman replied, "That just means they need to kill more white people."

So, it's a great show (one of Sarah and my favorites) if you haven't checked it out. It's not like Arrested Development (season premiere this coming Monday – you watch!) which is in risk of getting canceled, but I thought I should mention it.

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