House MD

How can we not have a thread for House? As of now it's in its sixth season.

A bit late, but the 2-hour premiere "Broken" (the one they filmed in a psychiatric hospital) was definitely worth seeing. The best character study of House himself that they've done for House in a long time.

More recently, House's medical team is gone except for Foreman, Chase, and Cameron. Chase is in some trouble for killng James Earl Jones' "evil politician" character. Do you think his struggle is an interesting and emotionally honest subplot or unnecessary angst?

edited 19th Oct '09 11:51:06 PM by newtonthenewt

Do you think his struggle is an interesting and emotionally honest subplot or unnecessary angst?

The former, I think. I can understand that any doctor who had such a strong belief in "do no harm" would have a hard time dealing with the fact that they went against their own morals when their beliefs were put to the test.

I agree with you entirely, and I'm interested to see how it's resolved. But I could also see people thinking that Chase's emotions are played up a little too much.

I've never seen the appeal of this show. It's okay if I've got an hour to spare and don't want to think too hard, but over several episodes the characters just get annoying, and there's never any kind of development to them.

I agree that most of the characters are uninteresting. I found myself bored at the Foreman/Thirteen relationship problems last season. Call me unsympathetic, but I was really bored.

I personally dislike medical/occupational dramas in general, so I'd say that House himself is what makes the show. That is, if you find that kind of cynical and selfish character interesting. It helps to like the deadpan humor, too.

edited 20th Oct '09 6:35:55 PM by newtonthenewt

Yeah, The Foreman/Thirteen stuff got pretty boring after a while (by a while I mean like two episodes). Their romance always seemed a little forced.

Speaking of Thirteen, did she get Put on a Bus with Taub? I'm glad the original cast is back, but the way they handled Taub leaving rubbed me the wrong way—he didn't even get to quit himself, it was Thirteen who did it for him.

Maybe they were waiting to see if it stuck enough to get the fans to refer to them as "Foreteen."

I think Thirteen will be back. I'm thinking they're foreshadowing Chase leaving, so there will be a spot

In the latest House episode House came to an 80s party in a period costume. He defends his choice by claiming that nobody had specified that it was supposed to be the 1980s. I am no expert on this sort of stuff and couldn't tell what period his costume was supposed to be from, but to me it looked a lot like the costume Hugh Laurie wore for his role as Prince George in Blackadder in th 80s.

If true it would make this a hillarious Shout-Out.

I assumed that's what it was.

I still like Foreman.

But in Blackadder the Third the Duke of Wellington is still alive and everyone wears Regency-esque clothes.

Another really good episode this week. It seems that this season is being good sporadically.

The focus on Wilson was a nice change, I agree. He's one of the more interesting characters, I think.

Also, this is the first time we got to contrast him against House at every step of the way.

edited 30th Nov '09 10:52:39 PM by newtonthenewt

I found seeing the House Team's cases from an outsiders perspective to be absolutely hilarious.

Xanatoses (Xanatosi?) ahoy!

In the latest episode (with the drug dealer as the patient), House made a quip about Chase along the lines of:

"Is it safe to leave you alone with the patient, or will you smother him with a pillow?"

This was obviously in reference to Chase killing James Earl Jone's character. But Chase laughed in response.

Anybody else think that Hugh Laurie was ad-libbing it and they just said Throw It In!?

edited 12th Jan '10 10:42:40 PM by newtonthenewt

Seemed like that to me.

House is back, and I think that the last episode was great. The soap was put on a back-burner, which left a lot of room for a Wilsom-vs-House subplot, besides one of the more interesting patients in the season.

The House-Wilson thing was awesome. I like how Wilson was a forest imp in the porn film, probably as an allusion to RSL's role as Puck in Dead Poets Society.

My stupid television addict connections: The patient was played by Donna from That Seventies Show. RSL's character's father in Dead Poets Society was played by Red Foreman from That Seventies Show.

edited 9th Mar '10 10:24:27 PM by newtonthenewt

Tommorrow's episode "Lockdown" is the one that Hugh Laurie himself directed. Going to want to see that.

Hm. It's a Bottle Episode, which features House rather little and has no medical mystery. I predict Mixed Reviews.

Thoughts on the episode "No Reason" - BLAM Episode or A Day At The Bizarro?

House/Cuddy are getting cuter.

Okay, what the FOX is going on?! There's no House tonight, and no excuse! There's just an episode of Human Target—which, I might add, they somehow managed to still find room for on Wednesday despite American Idol having started up. I fear the worst.

I dunno, House getting canceled? I just don't see it. It's one of the most popular shows on television right now, isn't it? Although, admittedly it's not as compelling as it once was.