House

By Jonathan Toomey Episodes like this are why I've faithfully stuck with House after six and a half seasons. Sure, more often than not, House can get stale -- it's the same thing, week in and out, and even something shocking (like Kutner offing himself last year or Cameron saying good-bye two weeks ago) isn't e...

By Scott Tags: television medicine house wilson leukemia pcp liver transplant Almost entirely a Wilson character episode, so the medicine was fairly straightforward, if surprisingly sloppy Wilson is out hunting turkeys with Tucker, a friend who he helped defeat leukemia five years earlier....

By Charlotte Higgins Tony Hall, chief executive of the Royal Opera House, is an unlikely impresario. There's nothing flash about this softly spoken, modestly besuited man, someone who might be your accountant or GP. As we talk in his office (leather sofas, executive bathroom, a PA who addresses him as "sir",...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) Modern Family. Episode 2. "The Bicycle Thief" The Closer. Season 5, Episode 10. "Smells Like Murder" Body in cooler. House. Season 6, Episode 5. "Brave Heart" A cop who predicts that he will die at 40. Clever. Arrested Development. Season 3, Episode 13. "Development Arrested" The final episode. As well as bringing the story of the Bluth family to a conclusion, this episode is full of parallels with the pilot episode and goes some way towards explaining how the Bluth's wound up on TV in the first place. Castle. Season 2, Episode 5. "When the Bough Breaks" Rick gets an offer to write something other than Nikki Heat books.   [read the full post]

By Scott I should have the House Challenge Scores for the past two weeks up later this week, once I manage to rescue the scoring file from my toddler-damaged laptop. Tags: television medicine house vasculitis lymphoma strongyloides leukemia crohn’s disease The mystery was fairly bland in this w...

By Scott This episode of House started well but collapsed under the weight of its ridiculous medicine in a surprisingly short period of time. The soap opera was well done and enjoyable, though Last week’s House review A list of all prior House reviews

By J.M. Four of the five errors AP identified had already been corrected White House: "Of the five specific problems cited by AP, four had already been found and fixed." The AP report identified five different specific instances in which businesses reported inaccurate job numbers. From an Octob...

By Mike Betette October 30th Good luck! Of course you’ll have to do better than that to beat anyone that’s got “Zombieland”. Also, a little advice, always keep Michael Bay and Samuel L. Jackson on your roster. October 30 Gentlemen Broncos" Oct 30 “The House of the Devil”

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 Cougar Town 06.00 The Closer 07.00 House 08.00 Castle Cougar Town. Episode 3. "Don't Do Me Like That" 10th date jitters. The first episode to write Jules as more than just an older lady trying to reclaim her youth. This one is more about her tendency to help everyone in her life and put herself last. The Closer. Season 5, Episode 9. "Identity Theft" Brenda suspects that a murderer's confession is false, and she finds herself playing 'mother' for the first time. Sosie Bacon joins the cast and makes a great first impression as a 'daughter' for Brenda. I immediately liked the character and feel that this will be good for the show. House. Season 6, Episode 4. "Instant Karma" Rich guy, with sick kid. Castle. Season 2, Episode 4. "Fool Me Once" Con man.   [read the full post]

By Cenk Uygur This dangerous charade has to end, and that is why I think it was a fantastic idea by the White House to call out Fox on this phenomenon. They're not saying they won't go on Fox News or that Fox's point of view is illegitimate or unacceptable. They're simply asking people to recognize their poin...

By Scott An interesting premise initially on this week’s episode of House, but a slight episode over all. It was in many ways a rehash of House vs God, only not as clever You’d think after six years, Jennifer Morrison would know how to pronounce ascites.

By Scott The medical mystery was good this week — lots of unexplained bleeding usually is — though not terribly original. It earns a B+. The final solution generally fit the symptoms, and had a nice twist, so earns another B+. I have mixed feelings about the medicine overall. Most of it was quite good, bu...

By Rob In between, Olivia Wilde’s Thirteen struggled to cope with her Parkinson’s diagnosis and went off the rails completely, before being dragged back by her unlikely relationship with Omar Epps’ Foreman; Chase (Jesse Spencer) and Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) endured some ups and downs a...

By Rob The main case of the week, meanwhile, involved a man (played by Ashton Holmes) whose left arm worked independently from his right – frequently doing the opposite to what he wanted. But this seemed more of a distraction for House… as was the impending wedding of Cameron (Jennifer Morrison)...

By Scott As the episode ends, Foreman is officially put in charge of the team — what little team there is left. Taub has quit to take a surgical job and Foreman just fired Thirteen because he feels he can’t be both her boss and boyfriend. To further complicate matters, House has realized that difficult...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 07.00 House 08.00 Reaper 09.00 30 Rock House. Season 5, Episode 22. "House Divided" House treats a deaf kid, while being taunted by his own sub-conscious (in the form of Amber). For the first ten minutes of this episode I was completely distracted by the joy of having Anne Dudek back on the show. Then, once I realised she as playing a part of House sub-conscious that knew things he did not know he knew... I was completely un-distracted and knee deep in the episode. House trying to kill Chase? WTF?! 30 Rock. Season 3, Episode 19. "The Ones" Salma Hayek returns to the show and we learn that Elisa is a notorious murderer. Of course.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 06.00 House 07.00 30 Rock 07.30 Reaper House. Season 5, Episode 21. "Saviors" Cameron comes back to single-handedly run a case for House. Why? Maybe. Ken Marino returns. Always good. But the show finds a wonderful way to bring the equally awesome Michael Ian Black back for a few scenes. How? Well, he communicates through Karaoke machine. Of course. Watching Michael Ian Black sing it up was a hoot. I kept hoping for more scenes of him singing. They really, really should make this a recurring feature on the show. Then there was Michael Weaver. Seriously, this show is awesome. So, so funny. With great stories, too. Highlight? House (Anne Dudek!) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog Twitter   [read the full post]

By Scott Seth now develops a fever. The team suggests a post-operative reaction, an Arnold-Chiari malformation, pseudotumor cerebri, or Epstein barr virus. Foreman, who’s in charge now, favors that latter and starts Seth on ribavarin. Seth now develops urinary incontinence, which makes the te...

By Jennifer Thomas Later, after some brow-beating from Cuddy, House told her without elaborating that Cameron wasn't interested in jumping back on the team or jumping his bones. Cuddy tipped her hand slightly by not asking for more information, indicating that her only concern was that Cameron wasn't aft...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) Law And Order. Season 19, Episode 8. "Chattel" Children as slaves. House. Season 5, Episode 17. "The Social Contract" A patient who speaks his mind, and cannot stop. Best scene? House arranges to have the patient hit on Cuddy by talking about her amazing body. Hilarious. The Phil Silvers Show. Episode 3. "The WAC" Bilko competes with a lady sergeant for a jeep. Interesting that after only three episodes the show is already toying with the formula. Not only does Bilko 'lose' in this episode, but he also gets a girlfriend. The final scene, where she turns his own tactics on him are hilarious. As is the whole episode, it must be said.   [read the full post]

By Scott The medical mystery itself was good again this week and deserves a B+. The final solution almost fit, but should not have been as significant a puzzle as House’s team made it, I give it a B-. The medicine was very sloppy, and even the smallest amount of research would have shown that “generic” c...

By Jennifer Thomas This episode took no prisoners. It opened with a dying man clinging to every breath he could take and ended with the funeral of a man who couldn't take anymore. (Here's the "House" creators and Kal Penn talking about the episode.) But when Foreman (Omar Epps) and Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) go to h...

By Scott Tags: television medicine house locked-in syndrome varicella sclerosis cholangitis behçets disease leptospirosis An interesting concept felled by extremely poor medicine on this week’s episode of House. Lee is a roofer who ends up in the ER after a bicycle accident. He has suffered he...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) Law And Order. Season 19, Episode 7. "Zero" Judge with Alzheimer's. House. Season 5, Episode 16. "The Softer Side" House is in a good mood. Despite being haunted by the feeling that I've seen all of this before, I must admit that this is quite a stong episode. The case-of-the-week is good, the storylines for Thirteen and House are both very good. In fact, I was disappointed that the House storyline (he tries Methadone to ease his pain) was resolved at the end of this episode and won't appear in future episodes. Hmm. Is this the first season without a decent story arc? Lost. Season 5, Episode 9. "Namaste" Our heroes try to fit into life on the island in 1977. The Office. Season 5, Episode 18. "New Boss" Idris Elba appears as Michael's new boss.   [read the full post]

By Jennifer Thomas GUEST REVIEW: LAURA ENRIGHT Imagine being like House (Hugh Laurie). Imagine the filter that should keep you from spitting out the many inappropriate things you're thinking is damaged. Imagine making your livelihood in an industry where if the truth... GUEST REVIEW: LAURA ENRIGHT

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 30 Rock 06.00 The Jury 08.00 Law And Order 09.30 House 03.00 Wings 30 Rock. Season 3, Episode 10. "Generalissimo" Liz stalks another potential boyfriend, while Jack has a twin... So, even though this is an insane episode, it holds together very well. Sure, the events on-screen are crazy but, by showing them as being interrelated, the episode makes everything cohesive. The Jury. Episode 6. "Memories" Was a little girl molested by her kindly neighbour? House. Season 5, Episode 13. "Big Baby" The one with Cameron in charge. Yawn. Wings. Season 2, Episode 13. "Love Is Like Pulling Teeth" Joe promised to look after a sick Helen, but the guys are gathering for a ball game on TV...   [read the full post]

By Jennifer Thomas There were subtle signs at first that something about House was different. He actually asked Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) if he could have the bagel left on Wilson's plate. That's not like House. Normally he's snatching food off the man's plates like Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker." The...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 30 Rock 06.00 Raising The Bar 07.00 Law And Order 08.00 House 12.00 Wings 30 Rock. Season 3, Episode 9. "Retreat To Move Forward" Jack takes Liz to a retreat with him. Raising The Bar. Episode 7. "A Leg to Stand On" Jerry opts out of jury trial because he thinks the judge is on his side. He is. But Trudy take a message to the judge, forcing him to change his mind. Law And Order. Season 19, Episode 4. "Falling" Mike tries to stop a couple sending their child for an operation. House. Season 5, Episode 12. "Painless" A man is sick, House is cranky but manages to save the day, though all appears lost... Cuddy is struggling with the baby she has fostered, but I don't care... Wings. Season 2, Episode 9. "Friends or Lovers?" Joe and Helen go on a date.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 NCIS 06.30 House 07.30 Supernatural 08.30 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia 11.30 Night Court House. Season 5, Episode 10. "Let Them Eat Cake" For the second week in a row, Olivia Wilde totally steals the episode out from her cast mates as Thirteen confronts some bitter memories from her childhood. Last week, Wilde was the best thing in the episode because pretty everything else was rubbish. That is not the case this time out. She's still the best thing about "Let Them Eat Cake" but - across the board - this is a great episode. But this episode belongs to Thirteen, as she remembers her mother's final days. Sloppy writing, with regard to the climax, but this is a better episode than many recent ones.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 30 Rock 06.00 The Jury 07.00 Law And Order 08.00 House 12.00 Wings House. Season 5, Episode 9. "Last Resort" The hostage-siege episode. With Hugh Laurie and Zeljko Ivanek in the same room (and a gun between them, too) you expect it to be a truly superb episode with great performances. Not so. It's actually a pretty weak, kinda dumb storyline. And all the acting honors go to Olivia Wilde who blows the two guys off the screen for the majority of the episode. Olivia Wilde, however, made the episode worth watching. Thirteen starts off not caring about her life and - by the end - she is pleading not to be killed. Wilde brings the character (and the audience) on a wonderful journey and is the only thing worth caring about in this mess of an episode.   [read the full post]

By Jennifer Thomas And what's this? Another surprise kiss! You could sort of tell by the body language in the last two episodes that something was stirring between Foreman and Thirteen, but one never knows where these stirrings may lead, especially on a show like "House." The creative minds behind the show a...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) House. Season 5, Episode 8. "Emancipation" House is a superb detective series. It has a lot going on, and operates on a few levels, but it is also a great detective series. This episode has two patients (two stories) and some great detective work by the doctors in charge (House and Foreman). The House-realises-what-is-going-on bit at the end is simply mesmerising. It pulls you in and delivers the goods, week after week. And this is one of the best. Night Court. Episode 5. "The Eye of the Beholder" Weakest episode so far. Bull is annoyed that people make assumptions about him based on his appearance. His reaction seems too extreme for the realistic tone this show has set in it's early episodes. The story is nicely concluded, but the episode is light on laug...   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 30 Rock. Season 3, Episode 4. "Gavin Volure" Steve Martin guests in a hilarious outing. It's hard to pick highlights when every minute of the episode yielded about two, but I particularly loved Liz's idea of a relationship (basically lots of TV watching and 'no funny stuff'). The Tracy story was a winner, too, but the absolute highlight of the episode was Kenneth performing street theatre. That, alone, makes this episode of my favourites. And House is genuinely lovesick over his feelings for (and kiss with) Cuddy in the previous episode. I honestly thought House was faking the whole thing to take her mind off the baby fiasco, but the final scene (of him standing on her doorstep) has me convinced.   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 Law And Order 06.30 Raising The Bar 07.30 30 Rock 08.00 Keen Eddie 09.00 House 03.00 Wings Keen Eddie. Episode 13. "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" Keen Eddie ends with another good story and another great episode. House. Season 5, Episode 6. "Joy" I love the dark stories on House. I love when they show people being selfish and wrong. In this episode Cuddy is told she is going to be able to adopt a child. But the mother is a horrible weak person. And she makes all her decisions for the wrong reasons. And, in the end, she takes the baby back from Cuddy. It's heart-breaking to watch. But it is great storytelling. My heart broke for Cuddy in this one. Her desire to have a child, this past few seasons, has been extremely well-realised.   [read the full post]

By Scott A list of all prior House reviews Tags: television medicine house coproporphyria guillain barre carcinoid sibo sleep apnea An enjoyable episode of House; one of the better of the season. A good mystery, and the medicine was generally decent. Some nice battle of wits soap opera as well. Emmy...

By Scott A list of all prior House reviews Tags: television medicine house melioidosis cushing’s disease pancoast tumor scleroderma A cleverly set-up episode of House with some unfortunately very sloppy medicine. House is rooting around in Cuddy’s desk when Jason, a patient, enters looking f...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) Brian Austin Green does some of his best work in his scenes with Richard Schiff. The whole thing is a delight. House. Season 5, Episode 7. "The Itch" When you watch House you keep hoping for things to happen that never will. You want House to show his nice side and treat someone with compassion. In this episode Thirteen (who is dying) is spiralling out of control and you keep hoping House will treat her well, reach out to her. But if he doesn't then he's not really House any more. Highlight? The Sarah Connor Chronicles (time-travel conundrum) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog   [read the full post]

By Jennifer Thomas GUEST BLOGGER: LAURA ENRIGHT I've always looked at Foreman (Omar Epps) as the most independent of the three members of House's (Hugh Laurie) former team. Or perhaps the least intimidated by House. Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) often seemed more focused...

By Jennifer Thomas House seems to be receiving his own telegrams regarding mortality though not in quite so cruel a fashion. He and his "mini-me" private eye friend, Lucas (Michael Weston) went investigating the strange behavior of best-friend-again Wilson who, if they're surveillance was correct, cou...

By RikerDonegal(podcast@mail2tv.com) 03.00 The Closer 04.00 House 07.00 Harry O House. Season 5, Episode 4. "Birthmarks" Another classic. The case-of-the-week is every bit as strong as the departure-from-formula element of having House and Wilson drive cross country to House's dad's funeral. Wilson??!! Yeah, this fight didn't last any longer than the others! House and Wilson are starting to remind me of Duncan and Joe on Highlander. How many times did they fight and end their friendship? Lots. So many times that it eventually came to mean nothing. Never mind, it's great to see Wilson back. But - honestly - I miss the private eye guy! Best bit? House and the car keys (plus lamp). Highlight? Harry O (David Janssen) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book   [read the full post]

By asepinwall@starledger.com (Alan Sepinwall) On an unrelated note, this is, as far as I know, Michael Weston's final episode. Ausiello said the spin-off's no longer happening, and if that's true, maybe Lucas can pop up again from time to time. He turned out to be far more entertaining than I expected.)

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) House. Season 5, Episode 3. "Adverse Events" Best episode so far this season. An absolute delight from start to finish. There's no angst this week over Wilson (thank frak!) and instead we get a fascinating case, House in hilarious form and a script with layer upon layer of meaning and double meaning and hidden meaning. A bit like any conversation between House and his new best buddy: Lucas (the private eye). Lucas is fantastic. And the best development to hit this show since last year's addition of the new regulars. In fact the show pretty much has a whole new cast now. House has three different team-members (Thirteen, Taub and Kutner) and a brand new best friend (Lucus) who, for my money, is a much-better addition to the show than dreary old Wilson. So...   [read the full post]

By Diane Kristine So I wasn't upset that first year when the show itself wasn't nominated but Laurie was. And I was outraged last year when Laurie wasn't nominated, even though I was pleased the show was. I mean, there's no subjectivity there. It's just objective fact that Laurie deserves it, right?

By Diane Kristine Foreman is a bit of a jerk this episode, but he's got reason to be. Someone called to cancel the interview he had lined up with a hospital in New York, starting a chain of suspicion and denial throughout the episode that starts and ends with House. Foreman accuses House of interfering, too chil...

By Diane Kristine His conclusion is that Foreman and House are ashamed of Foreman's reasons for leaving, and that Foreman really doesn't want to go. Shame and pride have been hot topics lately, and the obvious answer to why House won't ask Foreman to stay is that he's too proud. But if he'd watched the episode,...

By Diane Kristine Foreman: He has acute scrotum. Wilson: By that logic a sociopath would make the best patient advocate in the world. House: Am I blushing?  In my favourite line of the episode, House retorts: "First I gotta tell Cameron and Chase that they're violating God's will."

By Diane Kristine As House tells Wilson later, "If I can figure out where you keep going wrong, I can nip this Cuddy thing in the bud before she becomes the fourth ex-Mrs. Wilson." Hector does go rug' is a lame anagram," House says. "Want a better one for Gregory House? 'Huge ego, sorry.'" I can't tell you how much I l...

By Diane Kristine The set up to the episode was highly promising, with two parallel medical mysteries, with Wilson trying to play House and corral the argumentative ducklings, with House and Cuddy trapped together, Cuddy's life seemingly in House's hands, and House creating a makeshift diagnostic de...

By Diane Kristine Cameron asks about his pain, Wilson futilely tries to convince him to stop taking fistfuls of Vicodin in order to relieve the pain that the Vicodin is causing, but House appears to have burned up a lot of the energy anyone's willing to devote to sympathizing much. Faking rehab and brain canc...

By opinionist Colbert’s “Better Know a District” hit list of abused and abandoned House members include: The Hill reports that sharp-as-a-stiletto Emanuel has ordered his greenhorn House Representatives to “don’t do it [the Colbert Report, that is!] … it’s a risk and it’s probably safer not to do it...