House is scrutinized after an incident involving a patient and violence.
New episode!
The title sort of gives the resolution away doesn’t it?
The patient’s wife busting into the meeting at that moment was about as unlikely a thing as I’ve seen on a show in a long time. And I watch “Glee”.
As I sat there not giving a shit at all whether Chase lived or died, I realized I was done with this show.
Gee, I thought that despite the wife-ex-machina, this episode was more interesting and had a a lot more tension than the last few.
I enjoyed this episode. I’m really digging this season to tell the truth. I’m tickled the Cuddy Machine is gone. I didn’t mind less Wilson tonight either. I was kind of hoping Chase would die though, just for the lols.
This episode was awesome! Especially in the directorial flourishes.
To wit: In the very first dialogue scene, between House and Jeffery Wright, they totally violated the 180 degree rule. Whenever Jeffery Wright was talking, he was in the right-hand half of the screen, and facing to the right. When House was talking, he was in the left-hand half of the screen, facing to the left. TOTALLY violating all the rules of film. Yet they made it work. Brilliant. (actually, I may have the left/right mixed up, but it amounts to the same thing)
Second: after that volley, they show Jeffery Wright interviewing the other doctors on House’s team. The camera glides effortlessly from Jeffery Wright to Taub, to Wright, to Ye, to Wright, to the Prison Doctor Chick, yadda yadda yadda,… with NEVER a cut! Obviously this can be accomplished easily with modern camera and computer tricks, but it is rarely done, and made the overall experience both surreal and sublime.
Somebody (director? Producer?) at this show is working overtime at keeping things interesting, and it is working. At least, it is for me.
House’s team are diagnosticians. Why were they all performing surgery on Chase? Were the actual surgeons all on a smoking break?
Taub has a background in plastic surgery and was the one performing the procedure. Obviously in real life they’d be relying on other people for their surgeries or tests, but that’s TV’s artistic license for you.
Every medical show is like this. Grey’s Anatomy especially. All the major characters crammed into the operating room as ‘one of their own struggles to survive’. Don’t TV doctors ever go home after a long day?? Are all of them on the same schedule all the time?
I don’t know what they actually did, but as I was watching it, I thought they could have accomplished the shot by simply moving the actors in and out of the chair as the camera moved back and forth.
I think they *did *do this for most if not all of those scenes…
I know this is a minority opinion on this board, but I think the show has gotten better and better each season. If it ends, I will mourn.
I’ll mourn, too. I’m in it till the bitter end, good or bad, and I am hoping they will go out with an awesome finale. ‘How should House end?’ - another topic for discussion to come.
I wonder if he’ll kill 13?
Looks like you were correct! Behind the scenes footage…
Seems waaaay too soon for that. Doesn’t she have Huntington’s? I thought that took a decade or so to go from ‘barely noticeable tremors’ to knocking at death’s door. I’m guessing they put that away for a rainy day if the show was still on for 5 or so more years. If they pull it out in the next several weeks, it would be rushing it.
I was hoping Chase getting stabbed was all some screwed up hallucination brought on by him consuming an abundance of Foster’s and that it was really Dr. Park that was the one dying. She needs to go. I can’t decide what’s more distracting, her character or her acting.
Her voice. Either way, I agree with you that she needs to go.