The iTunes Store has free episodes of 30 Rock and 3 Lbs. 30 Rock is NBC’s Saturday Night Live-ish sitcom; 3 Lbs is the new brain surgery drama with Stanley Tucci. I was curious about both shows and took advantage of the free episodes to check them out. Beware that free episodes don’t stay free forever; if you’re looking at this weeks after it was posted, odds are that iTunes will want you to pay for these episodes.

I’m not generally fond of sitcoms. 30 Rock was funny enough to almost get me to watch it regularly. Tina Fey is funny and appealing; Alec Baldwin is generally at his best when he’s playing over the top bizarre characters, and the story (a blind date gone awry) was funny. If sitcoms are your thing, I’d check it out. Available for free at the iTunes Store.

Every review of 3 Lbs that I read compares it to House, generally unfavorably. Brilliant somewhat hostile doctor solves incredible medical problems, surrounded by somewhat caring, somewhat flawed staff who try to undo some of the damage he does. Where House is a brilliant diagnostician, Stanley Tucci’s Dr. Hanson has narrowed his field to neurology.

If you saw Tucci in The Devil Wears Prada, think of his character, prissy and disapproving but with a hidden streak of warmth, picked up and transplanted from the world of fashion to the world of neurosurgery.

I found 3 Lbs to be more believable than House… Hanson seems to take things more seriously than House and isn’t as inclined to comically abuse his patients. House sometimes stretches the viewer’s believability that the good doctor can get away with some of the stuff he pulls on his patients. But a lot of its appeal lies in the same.

Available for free at the iTunes Store.

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