The New Scot and Watcher like this show.
It stars Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House:
I think Hugh Laurie is good-looking for his age, even if he is tall and skinny. (What Brit actor isn't?)
It also stars Jesse Spencer, Jennifer Morrison, Omar Epps, Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Robert Sean Leonard, Sela Ward (as his ex-wife):
More Yahoo! photos.
House leads his team of young doctors as they are confronted each week with a new baffling illness that requires their specialized attention. As a medical diagnostic mystery, the show is decent, but I think it's the "drama" that people are hooked to.
A cantankerous, misanthrope of a doctor, with a lousy beside manner--in fact he's usually downright hostile to patients and their loved ones. Why wouldn't he be? They're not honest with him and House sayinh things like, "Don't believe what people say, people lie"or"i'm not your husband, you don't have to lie to me"
Is House a hero? Someone was disturbed by the fact that House is such a favorite among Americans (especially males?)--I can't find the article or blog post right now; I vaguely associate it with Mere Comments, but I don't know if it is really there. (*edit -- it's at Boundless*) A flawed man who is addicted to painkillers and couldn't keep his marriage together because he drove his wife away. Bitter because one of his legs is paralyzed and he can no longer have the active sports lifestyle that he once had. Who can't relate to that? But maybe that is part of the problem. However, I don't think House makes excuses for himself. Does the fact that people like the character mean that people secretly wish they could be nasty in their interpersonal relations and get away with it? I don't think that is necessarily the case--I think they sympathize with a screw-up who is good at his profession but messes everything else up.
(Does he blame his ex-wife for choosing the surgery which left his leg paralyzed but saved his life? I'm not clear on that one. However, it appears that he would have preferred to save the leg, even if it would have cost him his life. Unreasonable, and he's definitely self-centered.)
He and his ex-wife had a tryst last season; if their marriage was valid, it's not adultery, even if she did get "re-married," but I think that it was cheating in her mind. But I wasn't paying attention to her reaction, so I'm not sure. She did want to leave her current husband for House though. I'm not a regular watcher of House, so I don't know how that story arc is proceeding.
I think Jennifer Morrison is pretty. (She plays Dr. Allison Cameron.)
Then there is Sela Ward, playing House's ex-wife Stacy Warner. (And yes, Lady Downstairs, she is over the age of 40.)
The Fall 2006 season premiere is scheduled for September 5. (Tomorrow!)
House Fansites
House M.D. Guide; Resources (has links to other pages)
HouseTV.org
Watcher prefers House over 24; next season of 24 won't start until next January. We'll see what happens to Jack Bauer next (and how he survives the ending of last season).
More Yahoo! photos for 24.
24 Fansites:
Official fanclub
24 Fans
www.kiefersutherland24.net
24weblog.com
Hrm, Bo Derek has a new series, Fashion House. (Fashion House also stars Morgan Fairchild--I don't know how they maintain their appearance, though Bo Derek claims to use nothing.) It and Desire are styled after Spanish telenovelas, and will be shown M-F on the first HDTV network, myNetworkTV. (Her official website.)
A promo pic of Bo Derek from the show. (And she's almost 50, dob: November 20, 1956.)
Youtube clip from Fashion House of Derek fighting with Fairchild.
Which reminds me, Project Runway photos at Yahoo!.
3 comments:
I like "House", although I am embarrassed when I watch it with my mother, who loves it. There is a lot of sex stuff, which I suppose makes sense in a hospital show. I like Dr. House's character--a loveable curmudgeon in my eyes. I wouldn't want to marry him though. He would NEVER admit when he was wrong. I do not like 24. It is too violent and treats rape too cavalierly.
PB, you like all kinds of women--young Asian women, middleaged white women. None of them are safe from you. ;)
Treats rape too cavalierly? Are we talking about season 1?
Yes we are. I deplore rape as plot device/new shocking twist to the story. That is why I stopped watching 24, and that is why I won't watch the Sopranos. I won't watch any show that has torture (the bloodcurdling screams turned me right off Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and rape is a particularly humiliating form of torture. In many cultures it is thought to ontologically pollute women (St. Augustine tried to free Christian women from this idea), and today even Western rape survivors often feel "dirty". During the wars in Bosnia, many Muslim women were rejected by their husbands and families for being raped. In totalitarian Islamist regimes like Khomeini's Iran, young female prisoners are raped because virgins automatically go to heaven, and their executioners don't want that. Rape is a horrible, despicable crime, but because it involves sex, some people find it "sexy." TV encourages this perverted attitude. As a matter of fact, the last episode of "House" that I saw featured a couple "playing rape". The show doesn't make it clear that this is just a marital game until the husband has a seizure, but I was shocked. I asked my mother why on earth she was watching this. House, for his grumpy part, calls the wife "Mrs Kinky", but I am afraid the show itself is kinky for coming up with this beginning scene.
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