Posts with tag omar epps
Posted May 20th 2008 1:09AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, House, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Episode Recaps
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S04E16) "
Her heart won't stop racing. No idea what's causing it." Doctor in inferior hospital.
"Are you sure it wasn't the bus that landed on her?" House.The season finale of
House packed a wallop. I let my Tivo get ahead of my watching it so I wouldn't have to see the commercials, and I had barely begun the episode when my next-door neighbor burst into my living room exclaiming, "Have you seen
House???" We barely had time to hit the pause button while yelling at her to leave and leave quickly without saying anything. But that is the kind of impact this kind of episode has. The season finale, which started last week, covered a bus-load of big themes: fear, wish-fulfillment, anger, risk-taking, the nature of friendship, remorse, and love. The episode was written by four writers, including producer David Foster: that was one of my first clues that this episode was going to be significant. They called in the big guns.
Continue reading House: Wilson's Heart (season finale)
Posted May 6th 2008 12:52AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, House, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
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S04E14]
"You don't deserve to be happy." House to Wilson.
"And yet I am. You?" Wilson to House
House treats the symptoms, but he doesn't treat the whole person. He doesn't even claim to. He often makes a clear point that he doesn't care. House likes medicine because he likes to solve puzzles, and what greater consequences can a puzzle have than a human life? But ultimately, even someone dying doesn't matter unless House can't figure out the puzzle.
So, if the above paragraph is true, then why does House go out of his way to kidnap a soap opera star he believes to be dying in order to save his life? Is it really because he can't stand the idea of not watching his soap? I don't think so; he even encourages angsty actor Evan Greer (
Sex and the City's Jason Lewis) to quit if he's not happy... well, sort of. But, back to the question: If House doesn't care, then why bother? Because it's a puzzle he can see daily, right in front of him, and he has to solve it. Apparently he has made multiple calls about it, because the actor knows who House is, so House simply takes matters into his own hands because that is what House does. House lives a life without consequences.
Continue reading House: Living the Dream
Posted Feb 4th 2008 7:08AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, House, Episode Reviews
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S04E11) "
Never before has a profession been so decried by someone who needed it so badly," Wilson [about psychiatry] to House.
One of my favorite parts of this episode was the quote I have chosen to put at the beginning of the entry. Wilson accuses House of not liking Cate, the patient, because she is a psychiatrist. House counters that there are many reasons he does not like the patient, and Wilson comes back with that retort. The reason I like it so much isn't because I think it's meant to be about House. I like it so much because I think it's a sneaky little slam on Tom Cruise. Or at least, if that is too much of a stretch, then I like it because it certainly can be applied to Tom Cruise and his very public outcries against psychiatry.
Continue reading House: Frozen
Posted Jan 30th 2008 12:10AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: OpEd, House, Episode Reviews
(S04E10) "Who's that from?" -- Kutner
"Santa, of course. Don't you know that I worship him? Oh wait, that's Satan. Sorry, I get them confused." -- House
Well, maybe it was the fact that I haven't seen an episode of House in nearly two months, but dear ol' Greggie seemed more cynical than his normal cynical self. Most likely it was due to the holidays. You know, the holidays that came and went over a month ago. I know that FOX is trying to save as many episodes of its hit shows as possible, but it would have been nice if they aired the House Christmas episode around, you know, Christmas.
Continue reading House: It's a Wonderful Lie
Posted Nov 21st 2007 1:01AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, House, Episode Reviews
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S04E08)
"Foreman, she's not wearing any underwear. You used to be more fun."-- HouseTonight's episode had parallel three plot lines running through it that investigated one theme: What is magic? And how much power can information give you? The three plot lines involved the case, of course; the game
House is playing with the fellows to see who gets fire, of course; and Thirteen and her mysteries. Of course.
Continue reading House: You Don't Want to Know
Posted Nov 7th 2007 12:08AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, House, Episode Reviews
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S04E06)
"My malpractice insurance doesn't cover alien autopsies." --House
"That's fine. X-files are the next wing over."-- Dr. Samira TerziTonight was apparently the "stand-up" episode of
House. It had more one-liners than an episode of
Seinfeld. And everybody got into the game-- not just
House. I guess "Whatever it takes" referred not only to medicine but to extorting laughs. It's a good thing it had so many zingers in it, because that was one of the only likable things about the episode.
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15 minutes for the lap dance, half hour to scrub the guilt off my soul... See you in 45!"-- House
Continue reading House: Whatever It Takes
Posted Oct 30th 2007 11:41PM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, House, Episode Reviews
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S04E05) "
She said her hoo-hoo burned." -- Kutner I will be reviewing
House for the next two weeks because
Richard Keller, my
House compadre, is otherwise tied up. I was going to follow the format for the review that Rich devised last week, because I think it's a great format. However, when I began writing the review, I realized that because the plot integrated with what was happening with the characters so intensely that it made sense simply to review the show. For even more
House, if you can't get enough, head on over to AOL.
I realized after I watched the episode that we never got to find out who the patient, Robert Elliot, really was. From the moment we saw him, he was mirroring the older brother mugger, and then the doctors, one by one.
Continue reading House: Mirror Mirror
Posted Oct 3rd 2007 1:04AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: OpEd, House, Episode Reviews
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S04E02) Hi, I'm Jen, and I am going to be sharing reviews of
House with Rich Keller, alternating weeks. Here's the way these reviews are going to work: We are going to include both reviews and recaps of each episode-- sort of reviewcaps, as our illustrious leader Keith McDuffee calls them. I will indicate in bold where the review begins and then, down below it, where the recap begins. So, if you don't want to have to read a recap, you can skip it.
I *know* tonight's post has a very long recap. I like the small details. Please give me a couple of times to find my groove. But this is one of the reasons I am putting the recap after the review, so if you haven't seen the show yet, please take that under advisement. And if you like recaps, or didn't get a chance to catch the episode, then you can find out about it there. I'm starting under the jump. Ready? Set? Go.
Continue reading House: The Right Stuff
Posted May 16th 2007 2:01PM by Tom Biro
Filed under: OpEd, House, Episode Reviews
(S03E23) Well, I guess we don't have to worry about Piper Perabo for the moment, at least. But seriously, folks. With revelations (both here in Spoilers Anonymous and in the comments) that Omar Epps' character, Foreman, wouldn't be leaving
House next season, combined with what happened this week, are we thinking that he'll actually stay on board as a doc on House's staff, or will he only remain as just a recurring character who works at the same hospital, or elsewhere? Inquiring minds want to know, and cliffhanger or not next week, I'm presuming we'll get the answer to that question. I mean, how long can one show stretch out someone's two weeks' notice?
Continue reading House: The Jerk
Posted May 9th 2007 11:23AM by Tom Biro
Filed under: House, Episode Reviews
(S03E22) There are times when House seems like he's just a bit
too smart when it comes to how he solves a particular case, and this week was one of those times. After being so sure of himself as to what the solution to the problem was with Addie, the college student, he just had it pop into his head randomly that she had tried to off herself in a creative way? Okay, if you say so.
Other than that bit of nitpick on my part, I thought this episode was actually pretty good. Foreman shared some *ahem* comments about his colleagues, such as not liking Chase, and Cameron stating that he thought she was weak. Neither of these things are a bit surprising, but will Chase's psych-out on Foreman and House, combined with Wilson's drugged-up rant and the minimal efforts by Cuddy, get Foreman to stick around? I'm not sure. Then again, do we really want Piper Perabo in the picture every single week?
Continue reading House: Resignation
Posted May 2nd 2007 11:08AM by Tom Biro
Filed under: House, Episode Reviews
(S03E21) Well, what a tangled web has been woven on our favorite doctor show now? "Family" was the title of this week's episode, and the prospects of a different family were essentially the topic of discussion for everyone involved. After last week's horrible course of events involving Foreman's decision to give chemotherapy to a patient only to have her die as a result, you wouldn't have thought that the team would go down a similar road without pondering the consequences, would you? Wrong.
Well, not so much that they "didn't look before they nuked," as was said during the show, but they were put in a unique position of having a marrow donor (the younger brother, Matty, to Nick, the kid who underwent the radiation treatment) who just so happens to show up to help out when he sneezes in a clean room. What ensued was nothing more than out of control and utterly frustrating. And that's just about House's experience with Wilson's old dog.
[Possible spoiler below if you haven't watched the show yet!]
Continue reading House: Family
Posted Apr 25th 2007 10:46AM by Tom Biro
Filed under: House, Episode Reviews
(S03E20) It's funny this episode came along when it did, because in just the last week or so, I've said to a few of my
House-watching friends that it had been a bit since we had a big tragedy on the show, and sure enough, here we are. The title of this week's episode, "House Training," is a curious one, as what went down wasn't as much about the value that House adds to his friends' and colleagues' lives, but how they're trained "with him" or "by" him, even indirectly. Additionally, Cuddy gives House the business with a laugh-out-loud quote about how now that Wilson is playing with a toy in the sandbox (her), now he wants it too. Ouch.
We also got to see Foreman's mom and dad make an appearance, and at a very critical time in his medical career. Between the effective killing of a patient and needing to learn how to give grim news, along with the sadness of his mother not regularly knowing who he is, Foreman has a lot to think about right now. Interestingly to me was that his father didn't bring up God, his mother did - followed by Chase - which kind of flipped the script on how his dad was portrayed the last time he was featured. Whether or not any of that will have an effect on the young doc is another story, though.
Continue reading House: House Training
Posted Apr 18th 2007 1:01PM by Tom Biro
Filed under: House, Episode Reviews
(S03E19) "Work smarter, not harder." If those weren't the words that summed up Dr. Gregory House's way of doing things, then I'm not sure what would be. That said, when he uses them on Dr. Chase - the least likely candidate of his team to get a compliment like that - it's even more proof that his way of doing things, from the straight diagnosis down to his habits, rubbing off on the team. Strangely, I think that's a good thing.
This week, we had a fantastic combination of a very cool medical case, drama between Cameron and Chase, and some interesting developments with Cuddy and Wilson, even if some of it is being driven by House. And remember what we'd been talking about a few weeks ago regarding how this show was (hopefully) not going down the too-much-sex route as far as plot goes? Well, this week sex was behind the medical issue going on, but not in the way you might have thought.
Continue reading House: Act Your Age
Posted Apr 5th 2007 10:21AM by Tom Biro
Filed under: House, Episode Reviews
(S03E17) Aside from the fact that we got some serious focus on the "feelings" that the
House "team" has for each other, their jobs, and life in general, I've got to say that this was one of the better cases that we've seen on the show in some time - or least one really worth talking about in a recap. Yet again,
House is also the place for guest appearances, with the All-American Rejects' lead singer,
Tyson Ritter, playing himself having photos taken for a cover of some publication. I think I watch enough television to have seen a decline of this across the board, but it seems to be back in full effect on a lot of progams.
As for Chase and Cameron, who were "busted" on the makeout tip in the janitor's closet last week, there's no hanky panky going on for them at the moment, but there's something more than just them seeing each other as a sex object going on. Cuddy clearly has had a moment when she is listening to their patient, Emma, talking about being 42 and how that was too old to be having another go at having a baby. At the same time, House hearing that Cuddy would trust him as the person to save her baby (fetus!) was a bit touching, too.
Continue reading House: Fetal Position
Posted Mar 28th 2007 11:36AM by Tom Biro
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, FOX, House
(S03E16) While I'll leave my commentary as to whether
House is devolving into the rest of television - as in full of sex - for later, I'll start off by saying that we might have a pretty good relationship blooming when it comes to Cameron and Chase. Well, at least when it comes down to getting down. As far as our lovely doctor in charge goes, however, it seems that our addiction to certain types of medication is having negative impact on our ability to do certain basic things, such as go to the bathroom.
As far as shock value goes, we're usually treated to the "victim" of the story having a problem of sorts, and not House himself. This week, seeing his face when he looks at the case file of his next patient, a war veteran, was just fantastic. If you noticed, he said that he had never "met" the man before when Cuddy asks if he knows him. Of course, he left out the part that just seconds earlier, the man had tied off House's blown off leg while fighting in Iraq.
Continue reading House: Top Secret
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