One of the doors is marked “Princeton/Plainsboro Teaching Hospital” or somesuch.
I really enjoyed this show and I though the acting was very good (especially the main patient). I hope they continue to focus on patients/cases/diagnoses rather than delving too closely into personal/love lives of the cast (that turned me off about a few shows, medical and law-oriented).
Thank you! Much obliged!
Well the one good part of the show is that it seems getting into the personal/love lives will be more difficult because it seems like (so far, but who knows) NONE of them has much of a life outside the hospital ;).
I thought it sucked.
She’s gorgeous for a doctor. Very, very pretty + smart = stunning. Anyway, I thought he sounded like he was BSing her because he enjoys annoying people and she and Omar will push harder to prove they are not just a pretty face and a street thug.
Laurie did that too-nasal thing that Brits think makes them sound American but his accent was otherwise pretty good. But what does he do with his eyes to look so burnt out? I’m impressed with Laurie as a dramatic actor but comic actors tend to make better dramatic actors than the other way around. To paraphrase the saying, drama is easy; comedy is hard.
With shows like this and “Lost” we may have entered another Golden Age of TV.
I enjoyed the show, I liked the interplay between the characters. I wasn’t thrilled about the way they handled the medicine, I suppose it could be dead on accurate, it just didn’t seem that way. His explanation of the condition made me think that half the country should have it.
I’ll tune in next week.
I saw the numerous previews and thought it looked interesting.
I read the Washington Post’s review, where they called the show the best thing in network television in years.
So… I watched the show and was underwhelmed. If this is the best writing that is done on network TV, then the writers should go back to school! The characters were all cardboard cutouts with big flashing neon signs going “Bzzt Bzzt This character has flaws and problems! Watch more episodes to see what they are! Bzzt Bzzt” There was no subtlety, just spoon-fed drama.
Sorry to rain on everyone’s parade, but I thought I should play Devil’s Advocate.
Not so long ago, it actually was pretty common in North America. It’s still very common in many parts of the world.
The observable correlation between eating meat from animals that lie around in their own muck is what lead to the biblical edicts against it in the first place. “Jeepers, God punishes people who eat pigs pretty severely! Guess that’s a no-no.”
Stringent food inspection and hygienic education has seriously reduced parasite-related disease here.
Love Hugh Laurie, liked his character, think Edelstein is extremely hot, so all that was good. Found the show itself was okay - a bit too close to a CSI ripoff, and a bit too much of Laurie saying “okay, let’s experiment and try that” - can’t there be a little more, oh, detective work or something?
PS: Laurie is also an author - he wrote a book called “the Gun Seller” which is kinds of a Bond-ian spy thriller, except the lead guy is a bit more fatalistic, sarcastic and outside the normal spy game. Kind of like if Laurie was playing him. Fun and funny and surprisingly good as a novel.
Allow me to retort, if I may.
I generally don’t put much stock in what TV critics have to say. I know my tastes.
But permit me to quote Tom Dorsey, who reviews for the Louisville, KY Courier-Journal:
“One of the rules of dramas, especially medical dramas, is that the audience has to like the main character. The character may not have to be as kindly as Dr. Marcus Welby, but viewers have to identify with his plight as they did with Dr. Mark Greene on ‘ER.’
‘House,’ which makes its debut at 9 tonight on Fox, tosses the rule book out the window. ‘House’ is about Gregory House, a bah-humbug physician if ever there was one. Nobody likes him. He doesn’t even like himself. Everybody fears his savage criticism, particularly when he calls them morons and idiots. He grills patients like hot dogs on a barbecue.
But he’s brilliant at figuring out what ails people, except for himself. Dr. House should identify with his patients because he walks with a cane and pops pain pills, but she doesn’t. He’s an enigma wrapped in anger, who is only barely tolerated because he solves medical mysteries no one else can. Hugh Laurie plays the predator to perfection.”
I am not disputing that aspect of the show. Hugh Laurie was very ggod in his role, he is a fine actor. I loved him in Wooster and Jeeves. My beef is with the character itself. Maybe I am just too cynical. It seems like a bunch of writer and producer types got together in a corporate boardroom and threw character traits at the wall to see what would stick. “Let’s see… Grissom on CSI is popular, so let’s make him a cold, unlikable curmudgeon with a great mind. But… we’ll make him rumpled and unshaven, sorta like Columbo meets Grissom! Yeah! No social skills, but we need some vulnerability. How about some manifestation of pain? Cool, we’ll make him crippled! All the medical knowledge could not save him so he is bitter! And pops pain pills! Now we could build a whole season on that!!!”
Yeah, i am too cynical.
You see where I am coming from and what I meant about the writers.