Category: House

• April 12, 2011

  House, “The Dig”

  I’m willing to face the consequences of this statement: I actually like Thirteen. I know that many House fans have hated her from the beginning because she was more or less replacing fan favorite Cameron, and I can see their point of view. The way that Cameron was shoved not-so-gently off the stage so that…
• March 22, 2011

  House, “Fall From Grace”

  As we continue into the post-Huddy period of this season of House, it looks like the series is fairly confident in hitting the same notes each week with just enough variation to make subsequent episodes worth watching. Last week, House hung out in a swanky hotel with a bunch of hookers and jumped off a…
• March 15, 2011

  House, “Out of the Chute”

  After last week’s controversial episode, House and House could have gone a number of troubling directions. I suspected “Out of the Chute” would be overly melodramatic and annoying and since the series has gone this troubling route in the past, there was an outside chance that this episode didn’t actually deal with the fall-out of the…
• March 8, 2011

  House, “Bombshells”

  In my review of last week’s episode of House, I expressed my frustrations with the series’ inability to stick to any interesting development in regards to House and Cuddy. In “Recession Proof,” the series suggested some compelling tensions between the two of them but ultimately avoided any major blow-out so that it could provide the…
• March 1, 2011

  House, “Recession Proof”

  I know I’ve been one of the only supporters of this season of House. And I can see why a lot of people are frustrated with the series at this point. The version of House that we all fell in love with in those earlier seasons has been completely deconstructed in such a way that…
• February 15, 2011

  House, “You Must Remember This”

  I couldn’t bring myself to review last week’s episode of House because it was just annoyingly melodramatic, overwrought and fake. When I praised the first half-dozen or so episodes of season seven, I based that opinion on the fact that the series had stopped trying to pull these MAJOR moments out of its basic framework…
• January 18, 2011

  House, “Larger Than Life”

  My goodness, it’s been a long time since the last episode of House. Since a bit before Thanksgiving, actually. Throw in the usual breaks that come with the World Series and we’re still only nine episodes into this season, including tonight’s “Larger Than Life.” Even though I am enjoying this season for what it is,…
• November 23, 2010

  House, “Small Sacrifices”

  Last week, I praised House for avoiding some of the melodramatic nonsense this season that made the last two sometimes excruciating to watch. So of course, this week’s episode, “Small Sacrifices” brings back the melodrama in full force! Stupid column. Anyway, “Small Sacrifices” is definitely the worst episode of the season, even if it does feature a…
• November 15, 2010

  Tonal transition: Why House is having a creative resurgence in its seventh season

  In its seventh season, the general consensus on FOX’s House is that it is a series way past its prime, one that’s a shell of its former self and one that’s basically no longer interesting on a week-to-week basis. If you would have asked me, a long-time fan of the series, my opinion on House…
• November 9, 2010

  House, “Office Politics”

  I can’t remember the last time I wrote up House this season and that was mostly because I felt like the first string of episodes, while really solid, were exploring a lot of the same things in only slightly different ways, so it wasn’t really worth my time to again write “I’m totally enjoying how…
• October 12, 2010

  House, “Massage Therapy”

  I’ve been saying this all season (and really for the past few seasons), but if House wants to transition into a character-centric drama that just happens to be based in a teaching hospital where crazy, mystery-based cases often occur, that’s fine by me. At a certain point, the mysteries became boring (right around season four),…
• October 5, 2010

  House, “Unwritten”

  I’m not sure how much individual episode analysis is warranted for House at this point. Even when the cases are somewhat interesting for a season seven case, they’re not so compelling that I really want to right about them. So yeah, this week’s case is kind of fun and it kept my interest for most…
• September 28, 2010

  House, “Selfish”

  House is no longer going to be the series that it was in the early seasons. It’s now going to be about House’s relationship with Cuddy, primarily, and House’s “improvement” secondly. For some fans, that’s a hard paradigm shift to get behind. For me, I’ve more or less resigned myself to this fact and am…
• September 21, 2010

  Season Premiere — House, “Now What”

  The season seven premiere of House is faced with a high degree of difficulty for success. “Now What” needs to somehow convince us that the House-Cuddy hook-up at the end of season six wasn’t random or rash, but also attempt to present a honest and real representation of a relationship that many of the series…
• June 1, 2010

  2009-10 season wrap: House

  Over the next few weeks, I’ll be summarizing my thoughts on many of the series that ended just as the “official” television season came to a close recently. Overview: Oh, House. I’ve profiled my frustrations with how the series has changed since the original team broke up at the end of season three, and even…