The Confession 8.05
RSL had some of the great lines of the night.
"I understand your confusion. I was having a baby for lunch." This is the great H-W nonsense I always loved. Loved. Very nicely written and performed. Or, They're baack!
Old-school episode! Great visuals, the card table in the huge empty room, Park meeting Taub. Chase and Taub sitting on the floor. Loved how stuff (at last!) is seen and not mentioned: House stealing the toaster. Funny, funny stuff, deliver during DDX, and not over the top. I may even stop steaming about them go-karts.
But for an episode with so much humour, why was it shot so dark? I did find the first 15 min online but w/o CC, and couldn't speechread most of it. Lighten up the exposure, friends.
Tension: Chase and confessions, House and his birth father.
RSL looks terrific, hilarious too. Those great hesitations and gestures. Feints. The cafeteria scene with Taub (and the entire hospital staff looking on & wondering about their bets) was amazing.
Loved that at the end of it, POTW did actually lie to his wife to keep his marriage.
If there's construction outside the DDX room, are they expanding Wilson's office? Eh? Or changing geography that we just have to pretend we understand, like when they changed his office? Or was that the Wilson garage door?
Taub and the babies, wonderful, tender, so sweet. Again, well done, as it could easily have got mushy icky sentimental. Monkey DNA. All the betting, lying, and then also Foreman explaining how he wants to keep House out of prison, serious conversations, but not ponderous. Telling us House is doing his clinic hours, but now, please, show some clinic patients.
A bunch of people are standing up for themselves, without violence. Wilson to Foreman, Chase to Foreman, Foreman to Chase, Taub to House, and on and on. Very nice lack of anvils here, at last. I'd read about Wilson's "no" before I saw it, and you have to see it. Wilson Grows a Pair, but doesn't have to be a jerk about it. (Also, I thought his No just meant Not now. Not No Forever.)
I almost didn't bother tuning in, and at first didn't mind having slept through the first 15 min. Today I saw the opening titles online. They're beautiful, I think much nicer than ever.
Altogether, the epi was well put together, cohesive, and restrained, but also very funny, as House used to be. Kudos!
"I understand your confusion. I was having a baby for lunch." This is the great H-W nonsense I always loved. Loved. Very nicely written and performed. Or, They're baack!
Old-school episode! Great visuals, the card table in the huge empty room, Park meeting Taub. Chase and Taub sitting on the floor. Loved how stuff (at last!) is seen and not mentioned: House stealing the toaster. Funny, funny stuff, deliver during DDX, and not over the top. I may even stop steaming about them go-karts.
But for an episode with so much humour, why was it shot so dark? I did find the first 15 min online but w/o CC, and couldn't speechread most of it. Lighten up the exposure, friends.
Tension: Chase and confessions, House and his birth father.
RSL looks terrific, hilarious too. Those great hesitations and gestures. Feints. The cafeteria scene with Taub (and the entire hospital staff looking on & wondering about their bets) was amazing.
Loved that at the end of it, POTW did actually lie to his wife to keep his marriage.
If there's construction outside the DDX room, are they expanding Wilson's office? Eh? Or changing geography that we just have to pretend we understand, like when they changed his office? Or was that the Wilson garage door?
Taub and the babies, wonderful, tender, so sweet. Again, well done, as it could easily have got mushy icky sentimental. Monkey DNA. All the betting, lying, and then also Foreman explaining how he wants to keep House out of prison, serious conversations, but not ponderous. Telling us House is doing his clinic hours, but now, please, show some clinic patients.
A bunch of people are standing up for themselves, without violence. Wilson to Foreman, Chase to Foreman, Foreman to Chase, Taub to House, and on and on. Very nice lack of anvils here, at last. I'd read about Wilson's "no" before I saw it, and you have to see it. Wilson Grows a Pair, but doesn't have to be a jerk about it. (Also, I thought his No just meant Not now. Not No Forever.)
I almost didn't bother tuning in, and at first didn't mind having slept through the first 15 min. Today I saw the opening titles online. They're beautiful, I think much nicer than ever.
Altogether, the epi was well put together, cohesive, and restrained, but also very funny, as House used to be. Kudos!