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- FOX
- Sep 20, 2009
- FOX
- Sep 20, 2009
Summary House (aka House MD), from executive producers Paul Attanasio, Katie Jacobs, David Shore, and Bryan Singer is a new take on mystery, where the villain is a medical malady and the hero is an irreverent, controversial doctor who trusts no one, least of all his patients.
Created By: David Shore
- FOX
- Sep 20, 2009
- FOX
- Sep 20, 2009
Summary House (aka House MD), from executive producers Paul Attanasio, Katie Jacobs, David Shore, and Bryan Singer is a new take on mystery, where the villain is a medical malady and the hero is an irreverent, controversial doctor who trusts no one, least of all his patients.
Created By: David Shore
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Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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13% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
76
88% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A trite, untrue mental-illness mystery insults the show's high IQ, but doesn't diminish the opener's capture-the-imagination thesis: that a redeemed House can be just as compelling as a rude House.
It’s a meeting of the brilliantly analytical minds, and a master class in acting, when Hugh Laurie clashes with Andre Braugher as a crafty but also damaged psychiatrist who holds the key to House’s future, in House’s tremendously entertaining and ultimately moving two-hour sixth-season opener.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 103 User Ratings
7.7
82% Positive
84 Ratings
84 Ratings
12% Mixed
12 Ratings
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7% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 103 User Ratings
7.7
82% Positive
84 Ratings
84 Ratings
12% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
7% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
Broken A. Epic Fail B+. The Tyrant A-.
Instant Karma B. Brave Heart B.
Known Unknowns B. Teamwork B-.
Ignorance Is Bliss B. Wilson B+.
The Down Low B+. Remorse B+.
Moving The Chains B-. 5 To 9 B+.
Private Lives B-. Black Hole B-. Lockdown B+.
Knight Fall C+. Open And Shut C+.
The Choice B-. Baggage B+. Help Me A.
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SEASON 6
House is too often dismissed as a formulaic show, as if formula were always a bad thing. It breaks its boundaries often enough, and though tonight's episode--appropriately titled "Broken"--would seem to be a prime example of that, half the fun is seeing the formula applied to strangers, in a very strange land.
Other complications arise as well, and Laurie is superb in this episode, carrying scenes so strongly that for long stretches the viewer will forget the absence of his regular colleagues entirely.
The episode has a few sentimentality issues (any plot point involving a music box walks a very fine line), but it doesn't matter much because the characters are so vivid they even outshine House at times, which can only be good for him.
It's a generally strong episode as House attempts to annoy his doctors so much that they'll sign off on his departure.
The episode is clearly constructed as a showcase for Laurie--who is seemingly incapable of a boring performance--but the writers really haven't done him much of a favor. There are too many beats that refuse to be reconciled; too many times when House is forced to behave absurdly badly to get what he wants, just to backtrack when he gets it.
The series keep going with great moments but it also started to fade in some aspects.
I really hated the special 1st episode and the next. Then it started to pick it up. The best episode to me is the one with Lisa Cuddy and her stressful life, it comes to get you and at the end you yield out laud really.
So far my favorites seasons are 4 and 5.
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SEASON 6
It begins strongly, with the bold new direction of a redeemed House, as well as some other new dynamics. For awhile, we almost feel like the show can return to its greatness. Then it slowly falls apart, in ways that aren't even really worth getting into. At first it seems like it could just be a symptom of the show getting too tired at the end of a long season. But rest assured the lousiness is set to follow the show from there to the end.
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SEASON 6
I will watch every so often when I can't find anything else on. Vomit, faint, convulse, get rash, bleed from every orifice. Fight, back stab, nearly kill the patient, grumble, oops. Once the first team broke up it never seemed to get its momentum back. I did like the season where House was choosing his next team but the two male doctors are pretty boring. Now there are others on the team and I am not crazy about them. If you are doing the same basic medical scenario every week, you need interesting characters.
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SEASON 6
