The 12th season of ER hit DVD back on 12 January, and especially when I'm sick, this is the kind of stuff I put on repeat, for better or worse. This, House MD, Scrubs, or any medical series in the book fits the bill, but ER most of all. Now that I type that, it seems rather morbid that I'm so attracted to medical dramas when ill.

Going back to 1994, I've been an unapologetic follower of the series. It's a guilty pleasure to some extent, but the acting and scripting has been consistently good throughout the show's run. Yes, it's a nighttime drama that went on and on and on, but they found ways to keep the show topical. I'm certain that, were it still on, we'd abruptly see a shift to Haitian relief efforts at present, just as season 12 followed members of the cast to Iraq and Darfur. The 6-DVD set contains unaired scenes on 16 of the season's 22 episodes. An added bonus to me is that the case only takes up the space of two standard DVD cases. Amazon has it for $31.99, or roughly $1.45 per episode.