Even if the writers of this week’s episode of ‘House’ haven’t heard of Dooce — Heather Hamilton Armstrong, the blond blogger who discloses everything — they encapsulated personal blogging very well this week.
The title of this week’s episode, “Moving the Chains” reminded me of the ends of Dylan Thomas’s famous poem “Fern Hill.” The last lines of the poem are: “Time held me green and dying/Though I sang in my chains like the sea.” The reason why this episode reminds me of the poem is more complicated [...]
This is why I liked it: Well written! The veritable opposite of last week! Fine. The performances last week were brilliant. But tonight’s episode redeemed a lot of what seemed to be an over-simplification last week. Thank God House is still in therapy [with the great Andre Braugher!].
I have been worried about how the writers [...]
For a show whose protagonist vehemently claims to be an atheist, House certainly deals with a lot of religious themes and striking coincidences. One of the strong commonalities of the best and most interesting House cases is that the underlying causes are always weird, inconceivable ailments that can only be caused (and discerned) by putting [...]
I am not going to post any spoilers in the first paragraph of this post, just in case your eye strays. You’ll have to read the full entry if you want the goods. And if you do read the entire post? Please don’t complain that there are spoilers because THERE ARE SPOILERS ABOUT HOUSE IN [...]
One of the disadvantages of watching House from the beginning of Season 1, as I have been doing with friends all winter, is that you start to recognize when the storylines are being recycled. In “Here Kitty,” Kutner approaches Taub, who is ill-humored, and says that Taub should confide in him because they are friends. [...]
Do you think the priest is right? Do you think House wants to find faith? Does House function as a physician so he can help others, or is it really all about the puzzles?
Oh, who are we kidding? It’s Dr. House. And what’s even more interesting than an endless examination of House’s psyche is the [...]
