dr. gregory house-related stories
Posted Sep 23rd 2009 2:07PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, House, Reality-Free
We used to be big
House watchers in this house a few years ago. We loved seeing Dr. House be snarky and cynical, and while an addiction to Vicodin is tragic, it was part of who he was. Really, maybe that's part of what addiction is -- it becomes familiar and part of your psyche, and you don't want to give it up. I'm no therapist, though (clearly).
We lapsed with the show as it became more and more predictable, and even the addition of the new team and the
Survivor-like way House picked them wasn't enough to make it must-see TV. We watched only an episode or two last season. House's spiral was sad, and we didn't want to watch it anymore. I know long-running shows have to evolve, but we had lost the old House.
Continue reading Did you want House to stay in the asylum a little longer?
Posted May 25th 2009 10:00AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Early Looks, Reality-Free
During the pilot episode of the new FOX drama
Mental, Annabella Sciorra's Dr. Nora Skoff tells Chris Vance's Dr. Jack Gallagher that his recent decision to strip down butt-naked to help a patient deserves some of her Harvard business school advice - ask for royalties because the video of it is sure to be more popular than Paris Hilton's sex tape. To that, I offer some insight from a Syracuse University TV production graduate - there's a reason FOX held off on premiering
Mental until the summer. It's not very good.
Continue reading Mental -- An early look
Posted May 29th 2007 10:35PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: House, Episode Reviews
(S03E23) Here's something I found odd about tonight's episode, though not really having to do with it being a season finale. Why is it that a seemingly not-so-well-off Cuban couple can go through great pains to find House, and yet this is what I believe to be the first time a foreign patient has sought out House's expertise?
Continue reading House: Human Error (season finale)
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