What To Watch: Oct. 14
Normally I’d be making a long list of different shows from different nets. But tonight there’s really one show to watch. The rest have the bad fate of being on at the same night or time. So please, DWTS fans, pick this as the night to DVR your results show and watch “House”. I can promise you that Rocco DiSpirito will be just as eliminated at 10 as he is at 9.
Fox: House — This used to be my obsession show. I even wrote a blog for a Fox affiliate about it. But it’s been pretty uneven for the past two years. It looked more promising when Amber came back after being fired by House and then became Wilson’s girlfriend, because she was just as bitchy as House and they were perfect foils. For whatever reason, David Shore decided to screw that up by killing her off in such a way that House and Wilson were really messed up again. You knew it would take more than just time to fix this one. And now they have it with House’s dad’s death in “Birthmarks”.
Probably 2/3 of Greg House’s special mix self-loathing and egotism comes from his dad, and it had already been established that the two have never gotten along. So in a bit of a nod to “Son Of A Coma Man” (could be renamed “Best House Episode Ever”) House and Wilson end up on a road trip for House to get something he rarely gets nor seems to want — closure. And at the same time, he’s helping his ducklings solve the case of a Chinese adoptee who collapsed in China while looking for her birth parents.
So tonight’s ep seems to have all the elements of the classic “House” that we should all love — a melodramatic Hugh Laurie saving the day while everyone else is either forcing him to do something or is running around trying to save the patient. Good stuff. For at least one night, we get the show back at its finest.
For more about the show and other spoilers, go to House Is Right.
(Adam Taylor/FOX)
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