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HOUSE Call!!Early Winter Programming Note!!

I like House.... by baj24	Dec 27th, 2004 09:48:54 AM
It's not a bad show. I havent got to watch it the last couple of weeks, but they're on the tivo. Also, don't you mean Veronica Mars airs on UPN?
House Rules.. by Purgatori	Dec 27th, 2004 10:17:51 AM
House is an awesome show that everyone should be watching. It tackles some controversial issues such as faith vs medicine head on. Spoiler below It killed off the baby of a lesbian couple (I had no idea that was going to happen, babies never die right) and then showed the lonely sadness of that small body on an autopsy table. Hugh Laurie is amazing as Greg House and he should be nominated for an Emmy, and he should win. He's a complete prick, but you can't help but love him. I hope and pray that Fox isn't stupid and cancels this show. Move it opposite something that isn't in the top 10 ratings so it has a chance dumbshits! This show is like CSI in a hospital (but better), only unlike NBC's wannabe, this one has engrossing storylines and good actors.
I'm lovin' this show! by Jumpstart	Dec 27th, 2004 11:38:29 AM
Seriously, and thank you thank you thank you Herc for giving it some coverage. However, my fears for this show are a. It's going to get cancelled and b. It's going to give in to all the fangirls out there who want to see Dr. House hook up with Dr. Cameron (even possibly Dr. Cuddy). Just the thought makes me grit my teeth (I know, it's just a TV show, but my love for Gilmore Girls is slowly fading with this new Rory love triangle.) Hey, wait...FOX is airing this on an extra night, and not some reality show crap? FOX, you've finally done something right, other than bringing back Family Guy. As long as you keep Arrested Development, I think I could learn to love you again...or is that my undying devotion to Hugh Laurie?
Was that a lesbian couple? by stargirl	Dec 27th, 2004 11:49:47 AM
I thought it was mother and daughter, but I wasn't watching closely. I really, really like this show. I gave up Amazing Race for it and haven't looked back. The AR cast this season looked really irritating anyway. The first episode was beyond annoying. Some people really aren't fit for TV, reality or otherwise.
aicn as fox pitchman by gredenko	Dec 27th, 2004 11:56:53 AM
wow, fox promo passing as news. thanks for that! this show is just like everything else on tv: formulaic. let's see, house will have some confounding case, he'll condescend to everyone, there will be a personal relationship strain between he and someone else on staff, eventually his brilliance will overcome his hubris and he'll sort out the case and people will forgive him for being an arrogant, mean-spirited prick. what is there about this that people like? oh, and we'll get a gratuitous cgi medical animation in each episode to lure in the folks who like that kind of thing on all of the CSIs. if this were a movie, people would be complaining that it's the most unoriginal, re-tread, knock-off thing in history, but i guess when it comes to TV, expectations are lower? I saw 2 episodes of this and like any 2 nickleback songs, they could be placed on top of each other and every dramatic point would occur at the same time. no thanks.
House by Fernwick_	Dec 27th, 2004 01:26:57 PM
Im glad they are trying to get this show out. Its one of the better shows on TV right now. Go house! I just keep thinking that Stuart Little's dad is pure evil! Fernwick
House -- cool show by Rinse	Dec 27th, 2004 01:28:36 PM
I don't know how long they can keep the formula engaging, so I'm enjoying it while I can. So far the second ep is my favorite -- the one about the college student who started with a cough and went downhill from there. The show demands that I pay a good deal of attention while watching it, though. Not sure how that plays with your average joe. Hope it lasts.
Best New Show by ed_wood_jr	Dec 27th, 2004 02:14:45 PM
Yeah, it sticks to its own formula as tightly as "Murder She Wrote" or "Perry Mason" did in their day, but there's nothing inherently wrong with old-fashioned tv. What makes the show great is the brilliant Hugh Laurie, giving us one of the most fun characters on the air right now.
Now would you be sweating this show and call it "compelling and by Mr. Profit	Dec 27th, 2004 02:51:44 PM
I swear some fanboys are like chickenheads in a night club, you buy them a couple of drinks and they give you head by 1:30am. I don't get why this site rides certain celebs dicks all the time no matter what they do.
Sorry; not a fan. by Techtite	Dec 27th, 2004 03:13:01 PM
I stopped watching House around episode #3, when for the third time in a row the final diagnosis turned out to be something totally simplistic and stupid. It seems like each week they have Oncologists and Neurologists and the like to cure a patient, only to find out the patient
Fresh episodes? by ryLRci	Dec 27th, 2004 03:18:04 PM
Herc, giving into WB terminology? Weak.
House is part of the Body Conspiracy!!! Belive in Sickness!!! D by Duty	Dec 27th, 2004 04:09:23 PM
Stay in your home, Stay in your house. Watch the little moving picture box that provides you the vocabulary of there agenda. Fresh propaganda, Aware of new illness. Heal with the pills!!! Heal with the pills!!!
Misc. by Gislef_crow	Dec 27th, 2004 05:06:39 PM
Umm, the show did break "the formula" in the fourth weeks - hospital is swept by contagion, one of the patients dies. And keep in mind, as well as the reruns on Monday, there is a new episode (starring John Doe and Blade; Trinity's Dracula - Dominic Purcell) on Tuesday.
It's the Character by emvan	Dec 27th, 2004 06:25:16 PM
The reason House is compelling TV is that House himself is, for TV, an extraordinarily well developed character, one with the psychological depth you'd expect in the lead character of a first-rate novel. He is not an egotist (look it up; it means someone with an inflated self-opinion who talks about themselves constantly). First and foremost, he is impossibly brilliant, and he knows it. Second, like most great doctors, he cares deeply, even profoundly about his patients (this was clearly established at the end of the second ep). Third, he is crippled both physically and (for reasons that are sure to be revealed) psychologically. He believes he is incapable of dealing with people, of making successful intimate connections. He therefore adopts a mask of egocentrism; he pretends to not care about his patients in order not to have to deal with them one-on-one. He attacks every bit of foolishness he sees with devastating sarcasm (which makes him likeable; we like anybody who can make us laugh, as the Sopranos has proved). What pushes the show into brilliance is the recognition that any psychological mask like the one House wears is in danger of becoming real. Sometimes House's sarcasm is directed at the undeserving, and we wince. Sometimes he crosses the line from play-acting at egocentrism into the real thing. The tension between who he really is, who he pretends to be, and who he is in danger of becoming as a result of the pretense -- that's what makes me watch every week. The admittedly formulaic medical drama is not the point here, it's the skeleton on which the psychological story is built.
fuck singer by smackfu	Dec 27th, 2004 10:47:14 PM
Hugh Laurie is the reason why House rocks...
Hugh Laurie rocks by coop	Dec 28th, 2004 12:57:46 AM
The cast and characters are great. I agree that the formula is a bit predictable and I hope it doesn't ruin it but it's entertaining to watch them anyway. Of course since I like it it'll be cancelled in a matter of weeks.
How is House a "prick"? by Hokeybutt	Dec 28th, 2004 09:28:41 AM
He's just the same old cliched "hardass" that you see in every cop, medical, law or comedy show. He comes off as gruff and unapproachable but deep down he's a big ol' softy who loves babies and (probably) puppies. I was under the impression that he was going to be a real nasty bastard... but that is certainly not the case. Mind you, the show is alright... and the actors are alright... but there is hardly anything "new" about House's bedside manner. Has no one ever seen "Scrubs"???
House lacks a great theme song by Big Bad Clone	Dec 28th, 2004 03:04:40 PM
"New Doctor in the hospital/ works downstairs and is misunderstood/ he's just there to take good care of me/ like he's one of the family/ House in charge of my days and my nights/ House in Charge of my wrongs and my rights/ I want House in charge of me!"
Totally formulaic by Gul Shah	Dec 28th, 2004 08:45:31 PM
I can't help it. I've been a fan of HL since Black Adder, Jeeves & Wooster and A Bit of Fry and Laurie. I'd watch him read the phone book. The supporting cast needs retooling, though.
Interesting point, Hokeybutt... by Darkman	Dec 29th, 2004 12:05:09 PM
After reading this article, I got to thinking: Drs. House and Cox are, more or less, the same character, but played differently (Note: this is not so much a slight as it is an observation). I love both "House" and "Scrubs", but find it inhuman to have to choose between them on Tuesday nights (along with "Arrested Development", these are the ONLY network shows I ever watch). Here's hoping that Hugh Laurie and John C. McGinley score much-deserved Emmy nods.
"House" is "M I" done right. by Napoleon Park	Jan 1st, 2005 03:24:03 AM
I love this show. it has no competition. Racing a Maze is some reality thing I never watch and Veronica Marsh I tried watching but it didn't grab me. Laurie is great, Omar Epps also very talented and Lisa Edelstien is beautiful and very funny on this. Does anyone else think that "House" and "Medical Investigation" would make a perfect side-by-side comparison of how to do a show right or wrong. Confident male lead heads a team of medical specialists and they try to diagnose a mystery ailment every week, both have the little CGI cartoon and the medical grossout moments. And both have good, talented casts. But with "M I" the writing isn't there and the show is a horrific bore as generic as its title. House is riviting. and speaking of the med gorss-outs, did you LOVe the episode with both a needle through the eye and a hole drilled into a skull? Total pre-code horror comics images on prime time broadcast TV and that's not even counting the "night terrors" dream sequence with Doc House snipping off the kids toe. This show's a hoot and I wonder how long it will be around. Way too good to last.

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