[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: TV shows

[Kathryn]

Lynn:
 
Definitely wrong by my observation.  We attended a Murder Mystery Dinner
recently and one of the evening long jokes was that whenever the Sweeney
theme-song came up, everyone was supposed to get up and do some specific
movements.  A majority of the women there were the first to jump up and
swooned over the John Thaw character.
 
Oh, what in the world is House?
 
 K

Hmm, I always preferred Carter to Regan but then I encountered the show long
after Thaw had become Morse in my mind so maybe that had an effect.

US medical comedy/drama ie it successfully mixes comedy and drama in a way
that is rarely well done but works fantastically when it is, I was comparing
the mix of the two to MASH when describing it to someone else, I mean it
takes skill to mix a good deal of laughs with a storyline about dying
babies! Stars Hugh Laurie (with facial hair and an American accent!) as the
most unsympathetic un-people-friendly doctor you have ever met in your life.
Very good and I just discoevred it on cable in the UK (Hallmark I think) -
season's nearly over in the US, but it is well worth watching in my opinion.
Laurie's delivery and timing is probably what makes the show work so well.

K

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