my parents have recently recommended two tv shows to me, grey's anatomy and house, and i watched both of those this week. although they were more-or-less compelling, i probably won't be watching either again, b/c medical dramas are gross. i almost got sick during house b/c they KEPT INJECTING PEOPLE WITH NEEDLES. like, in every scene someone was getting blood drawn or jabbing themselves w/ a syringe or crying b/c the nurse couldn't get the needle in. thinking about it now is making me a little dizzy so i'll stop. yuckarama. maybe i should just watch that britney spears show next time i'm home on a veronica mars-less tuesday--it's got to be less nauseating. and no, i don't like britney spears, and yes, i think she and her husband are skeezy--that is how grossed out i was by house. [i kept flipping over to britney when the needles got to be too much, so it's not like i have no basis of comparison.]
grey's anatomy wasn't as bad by comparison--i was pleased to see the guidance counselor from joan of arcadia as the psychic patient of the doctor played by the girl who was gerard depardieu's daughter in that one movie.
in other news, i spent all of yesterday afternoon dying roving with kool-aid, now that i have re-mastered the whole spinning wheel thing. pictures are up at flickr, and probably they're totally bizarre looking (bowls of wet brightly-colored wool? yeah). all my reds came out the same, including the one i mixed with pink lemonade in an effort to lighten in--well, something to experiment with next time!
I kind of like watching House, although I too am horrified by the gratuitous needle action. I also love trying to reconcile Hugh Laurie "brilliant doctor" with Hugh Laurie "brainless simp" from Black Adder. My problem with House is that it gives me false hope in the medical profession for solving differential diagnosis cases... and living with one who has had no such luck in the real world for a decade is also a lousy reconciliation.
ReplyDeleteI watched the first Grey's Anatomy, and was left with the distinct impression that it was like an hour long episode of Scrubs, but without any funny bits.
And trust me, you would be nauseated by Britney and Kevin: Chaotic, but not because there are any needles. For more distressing reasons than that. What's worst of all is that I will probably wind up watching it more than the other two combined.
(MIke)
house is on at the same time as veronica mars, so i've never watched it before. the character is pretty interesting but medical dramas just aren't my bag. grey's anatomy has a pretty good cast but again--all medical dramas seem exactly the same to me. scrubs is awesome b/c it's funny--other medical shows are all depressing with stupid romantic subplots. i understand your own house-related frustration and that totally beats my needle phobia.
ReplyDeletei think the britney show is pretty fascinating. it's like an anthropological study!
one of my favorite shows is this reality show where they perform extreme plastic surgery on people. like this one woman had a hundred-fifty pound tumor on her stomach, and this guy had a birthmark on half his face. there was this marathon on once, and despite episode after episode of the same story (deformity transforms otherwise beautiful individual into freak of nature, saintly doctor steps in and saves the day) the extent of the deformity and its improvement after surgery never ceased to amaze my girlfriend and i. man, those doctors are heroes. i think i teared up like every episode. it's also pretty gross, which is cool. i think it's called super surgery or something like that.
ReplyDeletejordon
is that show on discovery health? or maybe all the shows on discovery health are like that . . .
ReplyDeleteha! Discovery Health rocks, because they are almost all like that. Doctor 90210 is cool because it follows several plastic surgeons around... one of which had to go through chemotherapy or something herself at the same time. People cut open on a table in surgery = fine. People getting flu shots or blood drawn = a nightmare.
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actually, after checking out discovery health's website, they must've just slapped all their gross-out surgery episodes together, since it doesn't look like it's just one series. actually, i think that tumor show had its own name, something like "the 150-pound tumor." insert "attack of" at the beginning, and you've got a troma movie.
ReplyDeletejordon
mike--dr 90210 is also playing on E! now, i think.
ReplyDeletejordon--i can totally see that as a low-budget spectacular event sort of movie. but it's still sort of gross.