"House" Shocker

OK. talk about good TV. Last night's House (FYI: Spoiler alert) focused on the sudden and unexplained suicide of Dr. Kutner, played by Kal Penn. Read info here and on my friend Kate's Buzz Suger report. And if you want to be even more creeped out, check out Fox's memorial page. I know live people who have died and not gotten this much recognition.

The whole experiment is interesting on so many levels:

1) Kal Penn is leaving the show to go work for Obama as Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison.

2) The suicide happened in the first 5 minutes of the show and did not do any sort of melodramatic lead in or come up with some canned explanation - nice. Suicide in real life is never that simple. Also the fact that this was how they got rid of the character was an interesting choice and helped move the story and the development of House's character along.

3) The internet marketing component and buzz is so intriguing. See memorial page and links above, as well as, hey, yours truly is blogging about it! They are treating this like the death of a real person, a friend. The blogosphere is hopping with this story today.

Will be intriguing to see how things pan out. I used to hate this show, but once I started watching, I was hooked. I hate House's character but then that is kind of the point. You tune in to see if he will finally be redeemed or make a change - and he never does. But I will say that I enjoyed Kal Penn on the show so much and am really sad to see him go. He brought a certain levity to the cast that they will either need to make up for or replace. Time will tell.