House: Season Three DVD Review

Is there an abrasive, egomaniacal doctor in the house?

There is in this third season of “House,” with Hugh Laurie back as Dr. Gregory House, an infectious disease specialist at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital who is about as sullen and as caustic as they come.

Perhaps too much so. The show is an acquired taste, with each episode pushing the envelope on what’s believable--and what isn't--to such a degree, the show courts the absurd in ways that can be as rousing as it is off-putting.

And yet Laurie, former star of the BBC series "A Bit of Fry & Laurie," does grow on you, probably because, in a crunch, his character usually tends to do the right thing.

Grade: B-