Tag: David Shore

• May 21, 2012

  Goodbye, House: Ranking the seasons of House

  

  With House airing its series finale this evening, I thought it was time to bust out a list or two. I love House and I love lists. It seems only fitting. First up, one of the lists I “do best”: ranking the seasons. Obviously, the finale could have some influence on the placement of season…
• December 5, 2011

  TV Surveillance Podcast Episode 20 — Be More Like Lost, Walking Dead

  

  In the new episode of the podcast, I’m joined by The A.V. Club’s Zack Handlen for a discussion about the “mehs” of House season eight and the highs and lows of The Walking Dead season two. You can pre-order Zack’s new book on Amazon and also don’t forget to subscribe to the pod on iTunes.
• October 18, 2011

  Review: House, “Charity Case”

  

    Even at its lowest point (which was definitely season five, by the way), House has never been a bad series. It has turned in some really tepid episodes – and even those are relatively rare – and for the last three seasons, the series has been generally coasting, but there’s still something about House…
• October 4, 2011

  Season Premiere review — House, “Twenty Vicodin”

  House is pretty much out of ideas at this point. The series spent the majority of last season focusing on the House-Cuddy relationship, a decision that made half the audience swoon and the other half vomit. I was somewhere in the middle on Huddy, but it always sort of felt like if the series was…
• May 24, 2011

  Season Finale — House, “Moving On”

  For a season finale, “Moving On” is not an entirely exciting episode. In fact, this episode includes one of the season’s most obvious commitments to a medical case. At various points of the episode, I found myself just slightly bored with the proceedings. But despite all of that, “Moving On” is exactly what House ends as…
• April 12, 2011

  The TVS List: Three broadcast series that need to be canceled

  

  Note: I’m hopefully going to have more time to write things here over the next few months, so I’ll be trying to bring back the weekly list feature. Trying. Anyway, here’s the beginning of that attempt. It’s spring, which means it is the time of year that everyone takes to the internet to stump for…
• 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 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…
• 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…
• June 15, 2010

  TV Surveillance Dream Emmy Ballot: Writing for a Drama Series

  This week I’ll be pretending that I have an Emmy vote and discussing my picks for all the major categories. Once it gets closer to the time that nominees are actually announced, I’ll do an official “picks” column. Today: Writing for a Drama Series!