For all his great performances, this is perhaps his finest as it is furthest away from the real Hugh Laurie and has created a fantastic TV character that will, if he continues with many more seasons, typecast him in the same way that Kiefer Sutherland and Jack Bauer are now almost inseparable. Basically, timelines are truncated so that months become weeks or even days, which makes for better TV as long as you don't really work in diagnostic medicine and get frustrated by inaccuracies.įor British audiences, Hugh Laurie is perhaps best known as Bertie Wooster or George but to Americans, he is Stuart Little's dad or just House. Of course, Foreman, Cameron and Chase keep making appearances as Cuddy has appointed Foreman to keep an eye on House, Cameron is there as the head of emergency medicine and Chase seems to do all the surgery! This isn't a show that takes reality too seriously as each case would probably take months and there would be all sorts of wrangling with insurance companies and HMOs as the tests take their time to come back and medicine runs its course. Meanwhile, Cuddy's biological clock is ticking and the unresolved sexual tension between her and House just won't go away. Whilst Cuddy is trying to persuade Wilson to stay, those complicated cases keep on coming and it's up to House and his three little helpers in the department of diagnostic medicine at Princeton Plainsboro to try and work out exactly what is wrong with the patient, chasing every blind alley and bending every rule in the hope that they can cure them rather than kill them. Rather than tell Wilson how sorry he is and that he wishes he wouldn't leave, all House does is tell Wilson is that he's an idiot and is just going through clichéd bereavement behaviour.

Picking up where the previous season ended, House still hasn't approached his best friend, Wilson, who is mourning after his girlfriend died and has decided that the best thing to do is quit and get a change of scenery. House being House, he appointed all forty of them before referencing all manner of game shows and whittling the group down to three: Taub, Kutner and Thirteen (names don't really matter to him). For the following season, House tried to prove that he could manage without a team but was ordered by Cuddy to hire a new one, giving him a pile of applications. Season three finished with House's team ceasing to exist, with Foreman and Cameron resigning and Chase being fired. After the frankly silly fourth season which was badly hit by the writers' strike and saw the whole season disrupted and become disjointed and unsatisfying, we're back to a full 24 episode season.

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