Review of House Season 4 Premier
Still wonderful TV. As good if not better than any previous season. The same old plot-line but fantastic comedy and the twist of no team to help him yet.
Spoiler warning. Don't read if you haven't seen the episode.
We came late to House MD and spent the past few months watching all of the first three seasons. We adored it, viewing up to three episodes a night. Luckily we only just recently got to the end so we didn't have long to wait for this.
A quick re-cap from the end of Season 3 - he lost his entire team making this episode doubly interesting to see if/how they are replaced. I was very fond of those characters so it is important they get it right.
A large part of this opening episode revolves around House not wanting a new team and the others trying to "convince" him to hire one. This includes kidnapping his flying-V guitar and sending him ransom notes. Being House, he escalates by kidnapping a cancer patient.
Instead of interviewing a team he decides to use a janitor as his sounding board. He names him Dr Buffer. In the funniest line yet, they are discussing what the patient may be suffering from and the janitor says "it could be lupus". I laughed out loud.
The patient this time is a woman who was pulled from a collapsed building but is showing symptoms not consistent with that. As always, every treatment reveals new stranger symptoms which make less and less sense.
I have to admit for the first time ever in House, I guessed the solution. I think you will too. But that does not take from it at all.
Wilson is still a bumbling joy and I adore Cuddy. I have no idea where they are going with "the team". Will we see the old characters back? New characters? No characters? It's hard to tell but I love the producers and writers for having the balls to run with this story line. It's something the Heroes people could learn from.
I'll be watching every brilliant minute of this superb TV series.
Rated /5 on Sep 26 2007 by The Bandonian
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