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House: season 6, episode 15
"Black Hole"
March 15, 2010 - 10:03p.m.
Let's get the boring stuff out of the way first. This paragraph is for those of you who still care about the medical mysteries of House, and those of you who fast-forwarded through the patient segments of tonight's ...
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House: season 6, episode 14
"Private Lives"
March 8, 2010 - 10:03p.m.
Look, I know we all don't want to admit this, but I think this whole Internet fad may be in it for the long haul. Oh sure, it looks like just another flash in the pan, with all these ...
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House: season 6, episode 13
"5 To 9"
February 8, 2010 - 09:02p.m.
Okay, I think I've finally pinned down what infuriates me about House's insistence on a House/Cuddy pairing. I suspected this before, but watching "5 to 9" (Wordplay!) gave me the actual proof I needed to clarify my ...
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House: season 6, episode 12
"Moving the Chains"
February 1, 2010 - 10:02p.m.
Tonight, Wilson makes a big deal of "seeing through" one of House's traditional mind games. Foreman's jailbird brother, Marcus (Orlando Jones) is getting out of jail, and when Foreman ignores his brother's request for a ride from ...
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House: season 6, episode 11
"Remorse"
January 25, 2010 - 10:01p.m.
Most of the critics I know think Brian Cox was the superior Hannibal Lecter, but I prefer Anthony Hopkins. Cox's performance is subtler, more realistic, and more dangerous--he's less a super-villain than a wolf that pretends it's ...
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House: season 6, episode 10
"The Down Low"
January 11, 2010 - 08:01p.m.
I recently moved in with an old high school friend. We're both guys, both single, both straight, and while it's been pretty great so far--I'd forgotten how much fun it is to live with a buddy--I won ...
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House: season 6, episode 9
"Wilson"
November 30, 2009 - 09:11p.m.
Of all the various couples six seasons of House have shown us, House and Wilson has always made the most sense. I don't mean romantically--there's no sexual chemistry between the two, beyond that basic TV assumption that any ...
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House: season 6, episode 8
"Ignorance Is Bliss"
November 23, 2009 - 08:11p.m.
The previews for this week's episode, "Ignorance Is Bliss," had me nervous. Of everything that frustrates me about what House has become, the one thing I'm least able to tolerate is the back-and-forth between House and Cuddy--for reasons ...
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House: season 6, episode 7
"Teamwork"
November 16, 2009 - 08:11p.m.
It's never a good sign when a show starts forcing conflicts without adequate justification. Drama should come naturally from established character interactions--external forces obviously come into play, but at its core, conflict is all about people bashing into people ...
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House: season 6, episode 6
"Known Unknowns"
November 9, 2009 - 09:11p.m.
"Known Unknowns" started off on a bad, heh, foot; the acting in the cold open was lousy, and freaky as the swelling hands and feet were, I wasn't exactly keen on spending the next forty minutes trying to solve ...
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House: season 6, episode 5
"Brave Heart"
October 19, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
It's dumb, but the less you have to make your life worth living, the easier it is to live your life. With no significant emotional attachments, you can just glide, not really happy, not really sad, simply coasting from ...
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House: season 6, episode 4
"Instant Karma"
October 12, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
How much do we have to pay for our own good fortune? And how do we know when the bill's coming due? That's what Roy Randall, the Father of the Patient of the Week, is concerned with in ...
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House: season 6, episode 3
"The Tyrant"
October 5, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
James Earl Jones is the title character in this week's House episode, "The Tyrant." Unsurprisingly, he's also the Patient of the Week. He's still as captivating a screen presence as ever, even stuck in a hospital bed ...
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House: season 6, episode 2
"Epic Fail"
September 28, 2009 - 09:09p.m.
There are many reasons not to like Superman Returns: the nonsensical plotting, the reduction of a heroic archetype to mid-level stalker, and the way Brandon Routh and Kate Bosworth wander through the picture like a pair of prom dates too ...
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House: season 6, episode 1
"Broken"
September 21, 2009 - 10:09p.m.
When House first started back in 2004, it had a simple but compelling premise: a driven, acerbic doctor played by Hugh Laurie uses his wit to solve the unsolvable. Sure, he was a misanthrope and he said some nasty things ...
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House: season 5, episode 24
"Both Sides Now"
May 11, 2009 - 09:05p.m.
I was excited back in the fall when Noel said he was stepping down from regular House coverage; I loved his write-ups, but the chance to do my own was too good an opportunity to pass up. The resulting season ...
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House: season 5, episode 23
"Under My Skin"
May 4, 2009 - 09:05p.m.
I'm generally indifferent to cold opens--the routine is so set at this point that there's no real excitement to them--but tonight's seemed especially generic. Pretty ballerina gets dropped on stage, has breathing problems. Woo-hoo. The dialogue was ...
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House: season 5, episode 22
"House Divided"
April 27, 2009 - 09:04p.m.
The best episodes of House are often the ones that have House pitted against himself. Partly it's because the structure of the series is so consistent that any change catches our interest (even if that change is ultimately shallow ...
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House: season 5, episode 21
"Saviors"
April 13, 2009 - 09:04p.m.
So, Kutner's still dead. Any chance of House waking up to find last week's suicide in the shower with Patrick Duffy died with "Saviors"' cold open. As Kal Penn heads off to do more valuable things with his ... -
House: season 5, episode 20
"Simple Explanation"
April 6, 2009 - 08:04p.m.
And to think, I actually wanted to get out of covering this week. (Sick again. Stupid sinus headache can go screw.)
Kudos to the Fox marketing department; while the ads were big on convincing us that this week's episode ...
