Monday, May 21, 2012

TV: House






GENRE:
Medical Drama
DAY&TIME:
Monday 9pm
NETWORK:
FOX
SEASONS:
Eight
STARRING: Hugh Laurie (Blackadder, Stuart Little),
Robert Sean Leonard (Dead Poets Society, Swing Kids)

SHOW RUNNER:
David Shore (Law & Order)
PLOT:
A jerk of a diagnostic doctor with zero bedside manner takes on hard to solve cases with his team of doctors.
GENERAL THOUGHTS:
This show is ending tonight. It may have been a bit formulaic but it was always full of compelling drama with some well-earned laughs thrown in.

THE 10 BEST HOUSE EPISODES
(IN AIRING ORDER):
1 Three Stories
(S01E21)
House gives a lecture about three cases involving legs. Carmen Electra makes a fun cameo appearance.

2 Euphoria, Parts I & II
(S02E20&21)
A police officer is shot and starts laughing uncontrollably. Then Foreman gets the same symptoms and must be quarantined.

3 Airborne
(S03E18)
House and Cuddy are on a flight when a passenger becomes ill and Cuddy fears an epidemic.

4 House’s Head/Wilson’s Heart
(S04E15&16)
House comes to after a bus accident and tries to piece together who was riding with him in a series of flashbacks.

5 Last Resort
(S05E09)
A man takes Cuddy & House hostage and has Thirteen act as a guinea pig for treatments with dangerous results.

6 Locked In
(S05E19)
House treats a paralyzed patient after a motorcycle accident. Most of the episode is shot from the patient’s point of view.

7 Private Lives
(S06E15)
A blogger has her treatment put online while House and Wilson discover secrets about each other. Chase goes speed-dating.

8 Bombshells
(S07E15)
Cuddy has a series of dreams about her relationship with House as she is about to go in for surgery.

9 Nobody’s Fault
(S08E11)
When one of House’s team in injured by a violent patient, the team must be reviewed and retell the story.

10 Post Mortem
(S08E20)
Wilson decides to go on a road trip with House to live dangerously. Chase treats a man who only wants House.

UPCOMING REVIEWS:
TV Season Wrap-Up, MIB3

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