better TV

[cherydactyl]

Last night I saw the last three episodes from last (first) season of House, M.D. (Or just "House" if you prefer...) I came to this show while it was in re-runs, and had not yet seen these last three. I love that my library stocks popular TV shows. I wouldn't have seen these episodes if they didn't. I wouldn't have seen Firefly. Both brilliant.

I have liked Hugh Laurie for a long time. I think he is f***ing brilliant in House. If you also like him in House, I would recommend the movie Peter's Friends.

The penultimate story in the first season ("Three Stories") is beyond doubt one of the finest "hours" of television I have seen in a long time. It was by turns hilarious, poignant, frustrating, outrageous, and totally amazing. And it has Carmen Miranda.

I am doubly glad that I got to finish all the first season shows, in order for continuity, before the next new second season episode, due in a little over two weeks, because the dynamic House has with his ex looks very different after seeing these last few episodes.

Comments

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

Oh,..and if you haven't seen it...find "Balckadder Back and Forth"! Hugh Laurie and other actors from the various series appear in it. It's a special from 1999, I believe. Not as consistently good as some of the series, but well worth seeing!

[ka-crow.livejournal.com]

Is that the Christmas Carol one, where Nursie turns up as Queen Victoria, and Baldrick is the Bob Cratchit figure?

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

No, this is a different, newer special than that one. A modern day Blackadder invents a time machine...

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

haven't seen it! Sounds fun. I have 3 of the other seasons on DvD but didn't get 4 because it was so bleak. :-( I mean, understandably so - WW1 was not amusing for the British mainly but still...