The thirty-eighth TV show: #677 House
House is an odd show. Technically, I suppose, it's a drama, set in a hospital, with a bunch of ongoing story elements. However, it's also a medical procedural. The first scene of an episode sets up someone with a disorder (in later seasons making it a mini drama of who actually has the problem and why it goes wrong). Then after the opening credits, the real story unfolds, mixing the doctor's personal lives with solving the case.
The titular House is played by Hugh Laurie, who puts in an amazing performance as the brilliant doctor who is, to keep it polite, not a nice person. He's a medical Sherlock Holmes, set up to be brilliant and finding the right things, but not that focused on personal interactions. He's certainly morally ambiguous in several places, getting too up close in his staff's personal lives to gain control or seeing it as something else to investigate.
And what makes this all work so well is the sense of humour that comes through. Hugh Laurie is originally a comedian. He can pull off the serious work as well, but there's enough of a dark humour to make it work. It gets samey when binging it, but at a right pace it works well to watch.