I am not attached to this TV show

[phoenix64]

So, Life. It has a lot of potential, but I have my doubts that it's going to be able to grab the audience it needs. I had my own difficulties watching it; as amiable as it all was I spent most of the show feeling a bit sick. What we as a society have allowed our prisons to become is pretty awful. We can begin to grasp how incredibly wrong that is when we talk about how horrible it is for an innocent person to be sent to prison, but do we really believe that any person who is guilty of any crime serious enough for a prison sentence deserves that kind of hell? And why can't we deal with the fact of what we are allowing to happen to these people in light of the fact that most of them will eventually re-enter society?

OK, sorry, sore subject, preachifying over with now. Yes, Damian Lewis gives a lovely and sweet performance. I'm a little bewildered by the comparisons to House. Is it because he's *gasp* unorthodox? Because he's certainly reacted in a completely different manner than Gregory House to what's happened to him. Of course it's kind of hard to say how miserable House was before the infarction.

Also, small complaint: don't expect everyone to understand what Pelican Bay is and why that means it really is like he spent most of the last twelve years in a cave.