House, M.D. posts

See season two and three plus DVD reviews at the bottom of this post. Other House-related posts:

• NEW: Review: "House's Head/Wilson's Heart": Season four finale review.
  
• Sophie's Choice in House's World: Which characters should stay and which should go?
  
• Dr. House, LLB: A profile of creator David Shore spurs reflections on the pseudo-legal framework of the show.
  
• Dragans of New York. Thoughts on the never-aired Hugh Laurie pilot, with some comparisons to House.
  
• Second-hand House news. Tidbits passed on to me from an interview with writer Pam Davis, and another with creator David Shore.
  
• The Metaphorical Medicine of House. Based on interviews with medical advisor Dr. Lisa Sanders (Q&A) and reviewer Dr. Scott Morrison (Q&A).
  
• The Church of House. How religion and House's atheism are presented throughout the series.
• TV Review: House Gets a Transplant. Thoughts on season four so far.
  
• Dr. House: Honorary Canadian? A silly post about the proportionally higher Canadian ratings for the show.
  
• How House changed my life. Part heartfelt, part tongue in cheek, all self-indulgent.
  
• The soundtrack to my life ... or at least my favourite show. About the upcoming official soundtrack release.
  
• Ending Season Three with a Bang? An Interview with House Writer Lawrence Kaplow (article) plus Q&A (edited transcript)
  
• Shipping is for sailors: Leave me out of the Huddy/Hameron nonsense.
  
• Behind "Half-Wit" and Beyond: An Interview with House Executive Producer Katie Jacobs. The article based on the interview. Q&A with House Executive Producer Katie Jacobs. The interview transcript.
  
• Hmm, I vaguely remember there's something I want to watch tomorrow. A collection of links about House and my ruminations on the original articles.
  
• A very special episode of House. A link to a House sketch by Canadian comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes
  
• Book Review: The Medical Science of House, M.D. by Andrew Holtz.
  
• Emmy who? I'm pretty much over the Emmy snubs, since Hugh Laurie and Lawrence Kaplow got other means of recognition.
  
• Predicting the Emmys through ignorance and randomness. Now I try to guess who will win. But really, it's an excuse to vent.
  
• I love them. I love them not. My reaction to the Emmy nominations.
  
• Inside House: Creator David Shore reflects on his philsophies of writing in general and on his hit show in particular.
  
• In TV, a Fine Line Separates a Hit from a Miss: Includes David Shore talking about how he thought the idea for this procedural medical show was a terrible one.
• Even in reruns, June's a good month for House: "Three Stories" is a Humanitas Prize finalist, David Shore gets the Banff World Television Festival Award of Excellence, the Peabody's are handed out, and the Emmys are on the horizon.
  
• I have special powers: Silliness about my "power" to convert my brother into a regular House viewer and get my mother interested in seeing the show.
  
• Errata: In which I overexplain my process of writing the House episode reviews, and make corrections to a couple of details in the "Safe" review.
  
• Dr. House meets Kenny. House won a prestigious Peabody Award, as did South Park.
  
• A Fun House at the William S. Paley Festival. A recap of the panel discussion.
  
• House and home. A preview of my adventures in LA, especially at the Paley Festival featuring House.
  
• That Damn Ball Torments House Fans. Yes, it's a whole post about the ball on House's desk. I never claimed to be deep.
  
• Hollywood Writers Honour Their Own at Writers Guild Awards. House's Lawrence Kaplow won for Episodic Drama, for "Autopsy." Yay!
  
• Favourite diversions of 2005: House of course is one of them.
• I don't do reruns was supposed to be a short note to regular readers not to expect an episode analysis for that night, but I do talk a bit about season one's "Damned if You Do" and the Humanitas Prize two of the show's episodes were nominated for.
  
• House's Lawrence Kaplow gets Writers Guild nomination. Well, that was kind of a self-explanatory, unimaginative title.
  
• House + Earl = engaging TV, defending the show against accusations of being formulaic - partly because it's not completely, but partly because there's nothing wrong with that, unless it's done badly.
  
• I don't like Mondays, where I mostly just whine, but the first paragraph talks about a House-related post I'm going to write, and points out a TV writer's blog that talks about House and its story template.
  
• Constructing House: An interview with House, M.D. writer Lawrence Kaplow, plus Q&A with Lawrence Kaplow. The first link is an analysis article written around the interview, the second is the raw transcript.
  
• Transcendent television, not really intended to be a review, but my reaction to the amazing “Three Stories” episode from season one.
  
• Pessimism ponders the still-full glass admits my bizarre paranoia about the ultimate demise of the show.

Season three episode reviews:

• "Human Error" (3.24)
  
• "The Jerk" (3.23)
  
• "Resignation" (3.22)
  
• "Family" (3.21)
  
• "House Training" (3.20)
  
• "Act Your Age" (3.19)
  
• "Airborne" (3.18)
  
• "Fetal Position" (3.17)
  
• "Top Secret" (3.16)
  
• "Half-Wit" (3.15)
  
• "Insensitive" (3.14)
  
• "Needle in a Haystack" (3.13)
  
• "One Day, One Room" (3.12)
  
• "Words and Deeds" (3.11)
  
• "Merry Little Christmas" (3.10)
  
• "Finding Judas" (3.09) (plus Guest Brother Blogger on this episode)
  
• "Whac-A-Mole" (3.08) (plus Brother and I babble about House)
  
• "Son of Coma Guy" (3.07)
  
• "Que Sera Sera" (3.06)
  
• "Fools for Love" (3.05) (plus Guest Blogger Brother on this episode)
  
• "Lines in the Sand" (3.04)
  
• "Informed Consent" (3.03)
  
• "Cane & Able" (3.02)
  
• "Meaning" (3.01) Plus a special guest blogger about this episode.
  

Season two episode reviews:

• "No Reason" (2.24)
  
• "Who's Your Daddy" (2.23)
  
• "Forever" (2.22)
  
• "Euphoria" (2.20 and 2.21)
  
• "House vs. God" (2.19)
  
• "Sleeping Dogs Lie" (2.18)
  
• "All In" (2.17)
  
• "Safe" (2.16) Plus Errata which explains a couple of corrections.
  
• "Clueless" (2.15)
  
• "Sex Kills" (2.14)
  
• "Skin Deep" (2.13)
  
• "Distractions" (2.12)
  
• "Need to Know" (2.11) and "Need to Know" reprise
  
• "Failure to Communicate" (2.10)
  
• "Deception" (2.9)
  
• "The Mistake" (2.8). Plus, some preliminary pre-review thoughts in This isn't a House review.
  
• "Hunting" (2.7)
  
• "Spin" (2.6)
  
• "Daddy's Boy" (2.5)
  
• "TB or not TB"(2.4)
  
• "Humpty Dumpty" plus a follow-up post, Because someone asked (2.3)
• "Autopsy" (2.2)
• "Acceptance" (2.1)

DVD review:

• Season two
  
• Season one