Just about every damned show on TV that isn’t a cop show is a hospital show. Of course, that’s not quite true but we’re now watching Nemocnice Na Kraje Město and just finished watching House (I know I mentioned this the other day, but I thought it was hysterical – the bit where House says to his rehab guy “I want to get better” and the Czech subtitlers wrote “Pivo” (beer)), so it just seems overwhelming. The wife likes Nemocnice na Ružove Zahrada, too.
Yes, they are sleeping together
Anyway, why do we watch them? Hospitals are the most miserable, gloomy places in the world. People die in them. It’s not a dramatic, exciting death like on the cop shows where there are gun fights, bombings, cars going over cliffs and bodies plunging out of windows, usually within the first 5 minutes. It’s not like there’s any suspense about who killed them. They came into a hospital. The chances of walking out alive are less than 100%
Still, it’s drama and suspense. Will your favorite patients live or die? But they are also soap operas. I am pretty glad that House in rehab section is over so now he can get back to the hospital and start being a normal jerk again. Come on, I watch for the one-liners. Yes, I’m that shallow. Watching Hugh Laurie, who you know to an evil, loathsome, arrogant, obnoxious but sometimes funny character open up to his inner feelings and actually having a romantic relationship was sort of vomit-inducing.
I can’t claim that any other genre is better. I love Star Trek, but I have to admit that fairly frequently on the various T.V. series (Oh, Data wants to have a child, isn’t that cute?) and constantly on the films, it became far more about the characters than the action. That’s what killed E.R. , for me any way, but I guess it made George Clooney a star, so I’m sure the producers know what they’re doing.
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