House Returns for Sixth Season
House Season 6 Premiere, Broken
Hugh Laurie reprises his role in the sixth season as the sarcastic, anti-social, king of diagnostic medicine Gregory House. The end of the fifth season saw him being checked in to the Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital, and that is exactly where the sixth season picked up. Laurie did a wonderful job portraying Dr. House as he recovered from vicodin withdrawals in the open of the episode. Throughout the entire two-hour premiere the viewer is sympathetic to House's plight to leave the hospital and return to his previous life of solving puzzles and saving lives, thanks to the acting that Laurie brings to the screen.
Guest Stars Steal the Show
The season premiere guest starred veteran actors Andre Braugher as the head of the Mayfield Hospital, Dr. Darryl Nolan, and Franka Potente as Lydia, a visitor trying to communicate with her committed musician friend. Both Braugher and Potente brought a lot to the show, adding a layer of drama and interest that leaves the viewer hoping that House won't leave the hospital just yet. Braugher is excellent as a doctor just as stubborn as House who is doing his best to keep the sarcastic diagnostician from leaving before he is fixed. Potente also does a great job playing a woman who is lost and unhappy and finds solace in the only person just as lost and unhappy as she is. By the end of the episode, viewers are torn at having to watch the drama unfold between Potente's and Laurie's characters.
'Fixing' Dr. House
Most of the episode centers around Dr. House as he struggles with having to stay at Mayfield, and his infamous schemes to get himself out. As the episode continues, House eventually agrees to complying with what the doctors of the institute ask of him. When his lively roommate and partner to his schemes accuses the doctors of breaking House, House calmly replies that they didn't break him, he was already broken. For the first time in the show's long history, we see House admitting that there is something not quite right with his demeanor and behavior. He is lost, and we are drawn into wishing we could help him be found again. Dr. Nolan responds to our wishes and does what he can to show House that it is okay to trust and okay to understand his own feelings. Most importantly however, for the viewers, he does not deter House from being sarcastic and ingenious, and promises him that he will still have his 'edge,' the thing that makes him the best at solving the puzzles that plague the diagnostic medicine department at Princeton-Plainsboro.
New Season Promises Excitement
The end of the two-hour premiere featured a preview of what is to come on House in its new season. House butts heads with his fellows, and more importantly with the Dean of Medicine Lisa Cuddy, and as always it promises to be entertaining. His fellows struggle to fill the gap that House has left still battling for the reinstatement of his license, and we even catch a glimpse of the veteran Dr. Chase taking a risk that will keep us watching to find out what. Last and most certainly not least, we see House confronting Foreman and Cuddy to tell them that he quits. The season promises to have plenty of drama and excitement, and of course the always entertaining puzzles where we are on the edge of our seat until the very end to find out what surprise diagnosis saves the day.
- House returns for its sixth season
- House is on Fox, Mondays at 8pm
- The entire cast returns along with veteran guest actors
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