Comments on: A recipe for House

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:47:09 +0000

The whole show is so paper-thin. My ten-year-old nephew said towards the end of a recent episode. “It’s the last ad break. House will figure out what it is after this.” I was surprised someone so young could pick up on how predictable this show has become. He also asked “Why do they always talk so fast when they’re discussing the diseases?” Well, so they can sound important I guess…

By: Swanny

Swanny — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:30 +0000

@RoyB

Yeah the show has changed dramatically since Cameron and Chase were reduced to minors, so in some way you can only enjoy the show if you like Kutner, Taub and Thirteen. But I don’t agree about the “lost any sense of having a story arc”. The show didn’t revolve around Cam and Chase. After they left the team, we had the storyline about House picking out his new team, Thirteen’s Huntington’s, Wilson dating Amber, the bus crash and Amber’s death, Wilson leaving PPTH and House coping without him, and now this season we had House having Wilson spied on by Lucas, Cuddy’s adoption failure and the whole House/Cuddy thing. So yeah, total lack of story arcs

By: RoyB

RoyB — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:44:29 +0000

My local GP describes House MD as “Garbage” (from a medical perspective), but it does make for entertaining TV, which is the Producers’ intent no doubt.

It has become formulaic & lost any sense of having a story arc ie: it’s largely treading water since the 3 interns were reduced to minor characters. It’s all a bit direction less.

You can make a drinking game based on who will be the next character to appear in the office doorway, to the “surprise” of the current occupant… (any old soap opera rules can be adapted.

I still watch House MD, but really it’s just out of habit.

By: Kat

Kat — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:57:08 +0000

I agree its very formulaic but i still watch it Hugh Laurie is just fantastic to watch

Matt, i don’t agree about CSI, i still think it’s the best Crime show out there. And sometimes they don’t solve the case or get the right guy; which I can’t remember happening in House…

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:14:10 +0000

Would be good if only some cases got solved…would like say 25% of them to result in the paient dying still despite House’s / teams best efforts.

Also, what about some eps where the team solves the case without House helping…

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:21:25 +0000

house is good but it needs to have more patients, having only 1 the whole ep is boring! if they really wanted to bring us in they should have made house and cuddy a couple in the last ep instead of him saying no. we would see a different side then, it should all be focused in the emergency room, get rid of forman he is boring as hell!! atleast next season it will start with a clean slate because there was no big ending like the last and then we wont have to see half the season about the previous, like house and wilson

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:00:03 +0000

Funny read, but I still think House is as good as it’s even been. I think if you have watched this show just for the cases, you would be sorely disappointed by the end of season 1. While the cases themselves can be interesting, it’s just a background to the main part of the show, the interaction between the main characters, it’s still as interesting as ever.

Look at some crappy crime shows, CSI etc. It’s got all the same forumlatic crap but is backed up with bad and cheesy writing/acting.

By: Jener

Jener — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:25:41 +0000

My favourite bit is; “Fade to Awesome”. I guessed that the audience would get tired of it after six seasons. Maybe everyone’s not as stupid as I think they are (but they probably are).

By: RichoTB

RichoTB — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:00:52 +0000

House is awful. Its Grey’s Anatomy with a cranky douche for a protagonist. Nothing ever happens, and no I don’t count the new team as character development. See one episode, seen them all. Its the most formulaic show on TV

By: knoxoverstreet

knoxoverstreet — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:02:15 +0000

All shows are formulaic it’s what they do with the formula. Why single out House?? It’s still one of the best written/well acted shows on tele and low ratings do not equate to lack of quality,in fact it’s often the opposite. And if we take demos into account (which we should) it still does very well in the under 49s. In fact in the states extremely well while still getting quite good numbers in TP.

By: Benno

Benno — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:47:38 +0000

My interest in House went slightly down after reading that.

By: Someone BBBA

Someone BBBA — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:35:51 +0000

They left out – “House rattles off a whole heap of medical jargon really really quickly so as to convince the audience that what he is saying has some grounding in medical reality, only we’re too stupid to understand it.”

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:43:20 +0000

For once id like to see them solve the disease in less than 55mins (that usually how you know when its solved and the only thing i that irritates me, they go through lots of tests and then with 5mins to go pull the solution out of thin air.)

Perhaps they should do an episode where House just Googles the symptoms instead of doing the differential.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:25:22 +0000

I agree but I still like house for how in the end the medical answer, a lot of the time is a simple one.

By: Brodie

Brodie — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:40:45 +0000

LOL. That is so true. I tired of House mid way through the third season, havent been back since. You could add that synopsis for any episode though.