TV review: House season 7

The continuing adventures of a mad doctor.

House is a wonderful and very important series. It actually created a trend in TV and film writing, without him no mentalist, no lie to me, not even Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes.

The problem lies in the fact that the same characteristics that made him so endearing make him incredibly difficult to manage in the long run.

House at his heart is power trip for all us viewers. He knows everything but we never see him studying, he basically does and says whatever he wants and at his workplaces he only works when he is in the mood for it, hint very rarely. The problem lies in the fact that the keep us viewers entertained they had to up the ante all the time.

So House, with the passing of the seasons, became increasingly more childish and petty doing flamboyant and extravagant things just for the sake of it. While this is certainly fun it strains our suspension of disbelief to the breaking point, see if I received from somebody just a tenth of what the so called house “friends” received from him I would have in the least punched him and probably called the police.

Honestly I think that the producers of the show realize this but they are literally between a rock and a hard place. House by itself must be a terribly difficult series to write, burning ideas at an alarming rate, 23 episodes this year. This year they also had to face some executive meddling, they planned a multi episodes arc with House on the road which should have at least provided us with something different but Fox axed it and so they had to go back to the drawing board.

This season they actually tried a step in the right direction with a romance between House and Cuddy. The idea was certainly nice, even if the execution was still lacking because as usual nobody had the guts to slap House out of his childish antics. Sadly here they faced the large side of their viewership that regrets any hint of House “going soft” and so went back to the old “Vicodin fueled” status quo.

The ending went beyond silly. I don’t want to spoiler things too much, let’s just say that it didn’t make any sense and that house went beyond crazy all the way to criminal.

Is still entertaining but if it’s true that it’ll end next year I must say that it’s certainly the right moment.