finally
"Somebody's gonna die." She was seething as the end credits rolled. "Somebody's gonna die for leaving me hanging like that!"
I smiled.
At long last -- after five excrutiating weeks of baseball-induced hiatus -- the best show on TV had returned, and even though the last few seconds of the episode had become one doozy of a cliffhanger, I was more in awe than annoyed.
"That's how ya do it," I said. And the writers on the Fox medical drama "House" know exactly how to do it: how to pull in an audience with dynamic characters; how to develop the relationships between those characters; how to weave compelling stories that won't always wrap up neatly in a 60-minute slot; and, of course, how to leave fans dying to know how it all turns out. They also know how to turn a phrase or two.
Last night, it all worked: smart -- really smart -- dialogue; depth of character; intriguing situations; sublime acting from a talented cast. I didn't even hate token-girl Cameron as much as I used to; maybe I'd missed even her. And then, suddenly, it was over. Too suddenly.
She sighed, but I smiled as I turned off the TV. "Best show on TV."
Of course, if there were any more than a week to wait for the next installment, I might have felt homicidal too.