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House: Season 3 (15)
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There are exceptions to the rule, of course, but for most successful TV shows, formula is everything. Week in, week out, every episode of a CSI, an ER, a House is the same. Permanently changing the tried-and-trusted structure risks death for the foolhardy network executive.
The recipe for House is as follows: patient gets hideously ill, arrives in hospital. Arrogant, brilliant, socially withdrawn, modern-day Sherlock Holmes Gregory House M. D. (Hugh Laurie) and his team misdiagnose the patient at least twice before finally, in a moment of revelatory genius, stumbling upon the answer. It might sound banal but, thanks to sparky writing and the dark attraction of the roguish doc, it has proved one of the most popular shows on the box. Yet at the end of the second season it appeared that creator David Shore was intent on ripping up his winning lottery ticket, after House was shot (by a man named Moriarty, Holmes fans) then operated on, losing his trademark limp and, possibly, his grouchiness. Refreshingly, however, while Season 3 occasionally treads new ground (a mid-season arc sees our man on trial for drug possession, and there’s an episode set entirely on a plane), House is soon back to his cantankerous self. And instead of learning to love himself and others (as might happen on Grey’s Anatomy), his behaviour deteriorates as the season winds on - not for nothing is the penultimate episode called The Jerk. Even though this very solid third season ends on a note of dissolution and, again, potential formula revamp, the good news is that House - as well as Laurie’s uncanny, brilliant, nuanced performance, American accent and all - remains on firm foundations, and should be able to withstand any coming change.
Reviewer: Tom Ambrose
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| My lovely TV show | | | HOUSE IS SIMPLY GREAT ... Read More
| | | ARmy2510 About me | | 15:37, 20 June 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: House: Season 3 | | | i love House. although I dont like the odd daft episode they do with hallucinations or flashbacks or whatever.
It is at its best when Hous is being an obnoxious git but a medical diagnostic geniuis.
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| | | shool About me | | 15:59, 28 July 2008 | Report This Post | |
| | | | house season three. | | | My respect and adoration for this tv show, velevated to classic satus by Hugh Lauries' performance can only be summed up by Dr. House's belligerent yell atb Dr. Cuddy, "YOU CAN'T STOP OUR LOVE!!!" House keeps getting better and better. Bring on Season Four. ... Read More
| | | nyama About me | | 11:50, 14 January 2008 | Report This Post | |
| | | | house season three. | | | My respect and adoration for this tv show, velevated to classic satus by Hugh Lauries' performance can only be summed up by Dr. House's belligerent yell atb Dr. Cuddy, "YOU CAN'T STOP OUR LOVE!!!" House keeps getting better and better. Bring on Season Four. ... Read More
| | | nyama About me | | 11:41, 14 January 2008 | Report This Post | |
| | | | HOUSE SEASON 3 | | | It seems hard to believe, considering British television's pedigree in television drama, that the best programmes currently filling our schedules originate from the USA. 'House', along with '24', is probably one of the best dramas to hit the small screen in a decade, not because it's the most original consept in the world, but because it concentrates on an element of drama Britain seems to have deserted. Character. Okay, you may never understand the medical jargon being thrown at you at break ne... Read More
| | | THE GREEN CELL About me | | 09:25, 05 November 2007 | Report This Post | |
| | | | HOUSE SEASON 3 | | | It seems hard to believe, considering British television's pedigree in television drama, that the best programmes currently filling our schedules originate from the USA. 'House', along with '24', is probably one of the best dramas to hit the small screen in a decade, not because it's the most original consept in the world, but because it concentrates on an element of drama Britain seems to have deserted. Character. Okay, you may never understand the medical jargon being thrown at you at break ne... Read More
| | | THE GREEN CELL About me | | 09:25, 05 November 2007 | Report This Post | |
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House: Season 3
Released: 04 November 2007
Pretty poor. An unfunny gag reel; a cursory tour of the production offices; an anatomy of The Jerk; and a commentary by Shore and director/executive producer Katie Jacobs on an episode called Half-Wit, which isn’t even the best or most pivotal of the season.
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