The last episode of season 5 is one of my all time favourite pieces of TV. The end part where he realises that the hallucinations were not real is chilling.
One aspect you’re forgetting about Foreman is when Taub intentionally destroyed the records of Foreman falsifying medical records, which might have helped him get dean of Medicide.
I think chase becoming the new house was actually perfect. Foreman took the light side and chase went down the dark path. It was a really great way to end it.
I think during the mid-seasons it was totally fitting that Cameron became a standard ER doc and Chase became a skilled surgeon. It both fits their characters and their function in the actual show. Cameron sees many patients, some get transferred to House; Chase does surgery well and shows up occasionally during operations on House patients. Foreman is House's most clear analog functionally (diagnostics office-type work) and Chase is House philosophically.
It didn't really feel right to me, it never seemed like he has much passion for medicine seen as his dad forced him into the field iirc, and he always seemed like he wanted to do things the easy way. Foreman felt like the more natural person to take House's role seen as the had been setting him for that from pretty early on. Chase in the ER made sense to me, or leaving medicine altogether to do competitive surfing
Rambi I mean with how opposed to his dad he was wouldn’t he have just gone into another field instead of continuing with medicine? To spite him at the very least? I never got an impression he wasn’t into medicine, afterall who would put up with house if they weren’t passionate abt medicine. It’s been a while since I binged the series for sure and I can totally back Forman as head of diagnostics but ig if we are considering filling roles foreman makes the most sense of any of them taking Cuddys role, since he expressed interest in that level of power. Chase taking diagnostics made sense to me after how he had changed over the series, alongside the fact that he was house’s first underling. Anyways idk I feel like if he wanted to do things the easy way why would he work for house?
@@notquinlynnie7705 I like Chase's overall ark, and it does make sense that Foreman would take the role just for the power and pay, but he just doesn't really seem natural for it, but he did seem natural for diagnostics seen as he showed many of the same personality traits as House. I guess I do think Chase is interested in medicine overall, I suppose seen as he's already put all the work into pursuing it as career, but I don't think diagnostics is really the right place for him and I just can't see him heading the department seen as was never the one butting heads with House. He was normally okay with going with House's theory and carrying out the treatment- what I mean is he didn't appear to be doing much of the whole "diagnostics" part, at least not as much as House and not as much as Foreman was interested in doing. As for who else should have taken Cuddy's role, I think James would have made the most sense seen as he had actually spent a long time heading a department already so had the experience. But I guess as the video talks abut, the lives and careers of the cast gets in the way of fulfilling these natural cross-season story arcs. The last seasons weren't too bad, though I unfortunately hated the two mentees in the final season, they were both just too annoying to me.
@@rambi1072 chase was opposing house less than everybody else but if u actually observe he was the only one trying to understand and learn how House thinks and he liked puzzles
I feel like Taub's whole character is to be the neutralizer. He is pretty bland, but that's the point? Tbh I really like his character because he is just such a loser.
He’s obviously not a loser…despite his “blah” appearance and small stature, he is shown time and time again at being capable of charming the ladies, was a very successful plastic surgeon, and managed to get on House’s team. There’s tons of other big wins for him on the show. His shortcoming is his inability to remain faithful, which normally wouldn’t be an issue for someone that looks like him.
House and thirteen was always my favorite dynamic. I always remembered 13 as a really strong independent character; Like if they did meet later in life it would be an unremarkable event in both of their lives. They both just seem bigger than each other in a way that makes their interactions interesting and mysterious. Olivia Wilde is talented af.
@@vanillaannihilation5871 the show ends with house faking his death Despite that, it's nice to think he'd still find 13 to kill her and fulfill his promise when she needed him
Oh boy I can't wait for the next video to be 2 hours of Cuddy and Wilson. Especially Wilson, he's such a fantastic character and I love the way that you analyzed these guys so that's going to be fun no matter what.
Going back to this comment, I'm honestly kinda disappointed on the Wilson front. Wilson himself and his character is almost never covered. His relationship with House is brought up in how he affects the show's structure and all that but it doesn't really go into the depths of it. Still a good series but I was hoping there'd be more to it.
Perhaps weirdly, I liked Taub. Sure he was a boring uncharismatic jerk, but that made for an interesting contrast with a bunch of beautiful charismatic sometimes-jerks. He was the only married person in a show filled with people who were mostly alone, and sure his marriage was complicated but most are in one way or another. I empathized with Taub more than most of the other characters because he was just a normal dude bumbling through life like most people, making stupid regrettable decisions and trying to keep things from falling apart. I also feel like the actor lent a certain subtlety to the role that I appreciated.
For me he was the least interesting and most vanilla boring character, and I really wish they'd picked someone else. I always found myself skipping through the side stories involving him
I personally dont care for Taub. The only one i might have hated more than him is/was Kutner. But hey, I'm glad u (and whoever else) likes/liked him. To each their own. I love when people love and/or are passionate bout someone/something. I wish everyone respected what everyone loves/likes, u kno what i mean? That's why I always say "to each their own"
Your analysis of Foreman leaves out an important factor: he’s ambitious. Which means that even if he did become head of diagnostics, it wouldn’t be that significant since he’d quit the moment a more prestigious position came along. Chase makes more sense as House’ successor because he cares more about the work itself: especially by season 8. Also, in the early seasons no one was “the next House” because the writers didn’t know how the show would end. They didn’t need a “next House” because, for all they knew, House would still be head of diagnostics when the final episode ended.
But I can assure that in season 1 you get hints that Chase does has the skills to fill the position of House. And, in season 3, in the last episode, he shows the same deductive habilites as House to read people (and these kind of scenes happened a lot). I think they knew that Chase would be his successor. Even the psychological part is on point: Chase's father was a conflicting figure and his mother was an addict. He could never make peace with that until he meets House: a conflicting and addict father figure that he learns to accept and even love. When House fakes an illness to get high, Chase is the only one that give him a hug. By being his successor, he overcomes his trauma with his father figure and he let himself be himself and not get push around.
I was so confused by why they killed him off. Interestingly they did a good job hinting at his depression, which I noticed on rewatches. I looked it up and I could never seem to find out why he actually left.
Yeah!I love and hate Kutner's death at the same time. On one hand,he is my favorite character so his sudden death make me kinda griefing for a bit. But on the other, his death done so well that it turn season 5 into my most favorite season
I always thought that they really did Cameron's character a disservice with the way they wrote her out of the series. It just made her look like a bitch. Cameron: I will forgive you no matter what. Chase: I killed someone. Cameron: Okay, nope, goodbye. And there was the episode later where she returned to make Chase sign the divorce paper I believe and he tried to come clean with her, but it somehow just managed to make her seem more unlikeable.
The way they wrote it wasn't that she left him BECAUSE he killed him. It was because he didn't think he did anything wrong. He was horrified that he viewed cold blooded murder as not only justifiable, but the Right Thing To Do. And as a character who was born and raised on the moral high horse, and who ALSO struggled with the choice of killing the SAME PATIENT herself in that very episode and decided NOT to do it, it made sense for her to conclude that Chase was corrupted beyond salvage. I still think it was a mistake in how her character was handled, but it was a bit more nuanced than just leaving him cuz he killed a guy
@@randomfox12245 I know it wasn't the reason per se, I just tried to illustrate how rushed it felt to me when I watched it for the first time. She continously assured him that whatever happened she would support him, then still dropped him like hot potato after he came clean. Of course it was easy to say meaningless reassurences when she thought he was cheating on her. But it still would have been more justified if she at least tried to be true to her words. Moral high horse as you said. And it's not like Chase was a cold-blooded murderer. He obviously felt a tremendous amount of guilt over his actions. So snapping to the viewpoint that he is irredeamable so fast when she theoretically loved him was rushed and too drastic in my opinion. Seems like realistic breakups were not the strongest part of this show as House and Cuddy's was far from perfect too. But at least it mostly came from their preexisting relationship dinamics so it felt a little more realistic.
1st, when wife says that, no one's ever expecting a murder confession! Especially in this kinda way. 2nd I always understood that Cameron left chase because she still hadn't dealt with her past traumas and why she tended to marry/date those who she could fix. Chase stopped being broken and needing her, and she stopped wanting to be married.
I like the foreman didn't end up as the head of diagnostics, I feel like his "peace" at the end was side-stepping becoming house and instead someone that manages people like house, i.e the Dean of Medicine.
Her scenes with house were one of the biggest highlights of the show. Showing both sides, they were always able to see through each other's facades. A brilliant relationship and a great storyline
22:01 Olivia Wilde has some of the most magnetic eyes. But in all seriousness, her episode with House in Season 7 is one of the most heartfelt episodes in the series
He cried at the hospital after Kutner died, probably because he really saw him as a friend but denied it to his face some episodes before. I also loved his overall shamelessness but yeah, he was a pretty awful person.
I actually like foreman's "backwards" character arc. he's forced to mature because he gets punished for behaving like house. he grows into a better person while chase grows into a more complete one
You're entirely right about Amber being a better pick instead of Taub, as much i DO actually like him and the "everyman but also a cheating wuss" personality he brings to the teams dynamic. But you've gotta admit the episode where she dies and House has to piece the events together is top quality. One of my favourite episodes and one of my favourite season finale for the whole show.
I genuinely have no idea how I can watch an hour long analysis about a show I barely watched years ago and be completely shocked when it turns out I’ve already finished it. Your editing and narrative pacing skills are immaculate, bless you.
Really love this. I'm looking forward to your take on Wilson. I see a lot of people saying how Wilson is a true friend, Wilson is the best guy, just praising him and praising him. Where I think he really works though is that he *isn't* the best guy. In his own way he's just as dysfunctional and broken as House is, but he puts a layer of charm over it so people don't notice. He's one of my favourite TV characters ever.
@@gauloiseguy Yes exactly! I hear people say 'why is Wilson friends with House when House is such an asshole' but they should be asking 'why is House friends with Wilson if Wilson's such a good guy'. They have their question backwards.:)
god I completely forgot Masters even existed. In contrast I remembered Amber being really interesting, I was actually convinced she was part of the team before this video
Wait, what? Lol what do u mean u thought she was part the team? Have u not watched the show? Or not finished watchin it? Or havent seen it in a while? And also, why would u watch all these vids of ur behind and/or havent seen it? Just curious. I personally hate spoilers and hate spoiling people and hate watchin people be spoiled (even if they dont rly care lol, i do)
@@frankbarrie6785 I watched the show back when it first aired so.... more than a decade ago lol. I did rewatch the first 3 seasons over the years but the latter ones are a blur
Mentioning Foreman going from "The Next House" to taking over Cuddy's job makes me wish we could have seen an actual episode of House having to fill in for Cuddy for... Reasons. Like the MASH episodes when Hawkeye had temporary command of the unit. As Col. Potter pointed out on his return "Hard to be the clown when you also have to run the circus, isn't it?"
Taub's one line comments and subtle banter were pretty cool imo, and his awful personal life situation was funny and it was cool to see him better himself
I think it's true to life that Broken isn't the end of the series. For me it gave the show added value that things carry on, sloppily, even after the moment where you think everything should end on a happy button. People go back to their vices even after "life-changing" experiences, and they limp on towards being better. House at the series finale is better off than he was at the beginning, even if he's worse than he was at the beginning of S6. That's life.
I think you confused yourself in comparing "everybody dies" and "broken". Everybody dies is the happily ever after ending for house md because both house and wilson seem to be approaching the end of their lives (wilson-cancer/house-wilson's death+going back to jail) but house decides to throw all that away by "killing" himself and spending the last few months with wilson. "Everybody dies" msg is to try to aim for happiness but broken asks the viewer "when things go wrong, how are you supposed to deal with it?" At first, house was against the system but when he fk up freedom master,(he reinforced freedom master's Delusions which made him jump off a carpark) he saw how fk up himself was and ask for help. He talks to dr nolan and slowly gained a deep connection with Lydia but she leaves him(her friend got better). Older seasons of house would have taken Vicodin to numb the pain but instead finds dr nolan and talks to him and he feels. In the end, house walks out of Mayfield not because he has a happier life but instead because he has a healthier mindset Now i ask u which sounds more realistic: Everybody dies or broken
i remember the contrast when Cuddy's mother Arine was in ill, Forman said "it doesn't mean we all have to go to jail to save her", quite different from when he was dying...
Foreman is like House in attitude, but House trains Chase even in the earlier seasons to become as knowledgeable as he is, to bring out the real GENIUS. Plus Foreman tries his hardest to avoid becoming like House whereas Chase tries his hardest to follow and follow Dr House (even if it is bc of his own unresolved father issues)
Tbh Taub was needed in this show....he was the character that everyone hate to love but love to hate. And that’s what made it entertaining to watch his downward spiral 😂
Idk what this series is; a review, a retrospective, a love letter, an essay about how the show should have ended on the episode "Broken," or all of the above... but I love it, give me more!
Amber is a hell of character played by a hell of an actress. You can't help but be interested in "cut throat bitch" especially in the dream sequences. Cameron and 13 even Cuddy are just so damn intrinsically attractive that it's easy to get involved in their characters but "Cut Throat Bitch" not as much but damn (scene stealer)
I always understood Camerons divorce because in a way it’s her final move in her character arc. Chase was just as damaged as the rest of the members on the team. The whole team was broken just in different ways.
I think the reason Chase becoming the new House works better than with Foreman is because Foreman very much DOESNT want to become the next house, and is running away from it through the entire show, so him succumbing to it would be like surrendering to it, we've also seen him take the mantle of Head of Diagnostics before and it always feels like he is just pretending, or just keeping the seat warm until house comes back, hence why the position of Dean of Medicine makes some sense, he is now in a position that is wholy his own but with an edge that Cuddy didn't have, allowing him to more easily agree with experimental treatments, since he was in the trenches with House, but also more firmly putting his foot down against his antics when he goes too far. Meanwhile with Chase, while he doesn't want to be like House, he accepts their similarities and runs with them, not caring as long as it helps him save lives, essentially showing us what an effective well adjusted House could be like without the pain, drugs and misanthropy, and when he finally takes charge it feels like the end of an arc, like it was building to it from the start even if it wasn't. Basically Foreman becoming the next House is a tragedy, Chase becoming the next House is a victory.
i never even watched house, and yet i just binged parts 1 through 4 of this series in one sitting, that's a testament to the brilliance of your analysis of Movies and TV shows.
Even though Kutners death was rushed and came out of nowhere because of his department from the show, I kind of liked it that way, death is scary and is always sudden and the show portrayed that very well in my opinion, suicides are mostly silent and tragic to their loved ones and close ones, the people who do it never tell anyone of their troubles and that hits hard when Kutner just basically disappears into his darkness and ends his life.
40:15 I used to hate Foreman. He used to walk around like he was some know-it-all human but in fact he was a bigger egotistical jerk without half the skills than House. But over the years, I learnt that leadership is not easy. And you will get walked all over if you are all the time trying to be nice. So respect to Omar Epps
Cameron talks about falling in love with her first Husbands best friend. She told the story to Wilson. I think what bound them was that they both loved the same person who was dying. She does mention that they never hot physical but that they connected. That might have been her Husband in the finale.
I loved the Dibala storyline, Chase really struggled and it was sad to watch but I enjoyed how complex and morally ambiguous the decision was. Cameron at one point wanted him dead too, anybody remember" you shouldn't have said that warning" when he was almost assassinated? When the husband tried to avenge the wife....
For some reason, the way Taub's segment begins with just "TAUB" against a black background, that piano tune and then you going "oooooh Taaaaub.", it gets me laughing out of reflex, like... YEAH THAT'S TAUB, THAT'S TAUB IN 7 SECONDS.
I think Peter Jacobson is a very underrated actor. On paper Taub is boring and unlikeable but he becomes very relatable and sympathetic and actually funnier in the later seasons, thanks to his performance in my opinion.
Foreman doesn't know what he is good at and what he wants. He tries to make a good career without realizing what is or is not good for him. That's why it is consistent for him to try to replace Cuddy even if he is annoyed by the bureaucracy.
Just watch season 3 episode 12 again. It's one of the bests. House does not know what to say to the girl and sedates her. Cameron advises something, Foreman advises the opposite and Chase says "Keep her sedated." Chase is the true heir of House.
House MD has one of those special places in my heart where I love watching anything about it, will listen to any explanations about its faults (and usually agree), and still love it exactly the same regardless. This series is a well put together, great excuse to think about House at length while I try to stop myself from rewatching it yet again 👏🏻👏🏻
I did like Amber as Wilson's girlfriend though. I wish they'd had more time together, but House's Head/Wilson's Heart are two of the best episodes of the show.
Taub and Rachel dating for ~10 years isn't unheard of though for doctors. That would actually be the length of time for med school+residency. So if for financial or other reasons they wanted to get married after residency but starting dating before med school, it makes sense.
These videos are INCREDIBLE. House MD was my LIFE while it was airing - I started watching on TV around the end of Season 2 and I was hooked, even right til the end. Watching the show go down the path that it took at the end was bittersweet - your essay is summarizing the exact points that it became a hard pill to swallow in the later seasons, and I look forward to watching you pull together the conclusion. The work you've put into editing and all of the incredible pulls from episodes is a nod to not only the show, but to the fans like myself who obsessively watched it over and over and over again - my DVD's are well loved, and I just wanted to say THANK YOU for taking the time to make this incredible series. Here's to the last 2 episodes!
Taub was the worse pick, yes objectively. The single Mormon dad or the old hoot with all the knowledge and none of the field experience would have work a million times better.
Literally? Right now! You must've uploaded this through the night. Thought the whole series was uploaded and upset I wasn't going to be able to binge the whole thing. In Australia and really happy to see it up now. Love your stuff tho bro.
There's something about Foreman that made me hate his character forever. When he got sick and almost died, he tried to infect Cameron on purpose by ripping her suit. I just can't believe he's allowed to be part of the team, let alone keep being a doctor after that. It is mentioned later but it's never given the spotlight it needed. I mean, true, slowly dying must be terrifying but risking another person's life (a person who is trying to save you too, no less) ruined his character in my eyes. The fact that he gets away with it consequence free is just the icing on the awful cake.
That entire situation is very strange. Foreman injected her because “either she’ll find it, Houses rat will find it, or the CDC autopsy that’s been delayed due to safety will find it” but then House ends up being the one to find the disease in the apartment not Cameron so what was the point infecting her, meanwhile she’s in the hospital (while infected yet not isolated) and is looking at the test results at the same time. I don’t think there’s any way of looking at the situation that makes sense.
Yea at the first season he was the most interesting character to me because he's the only one who actually stood up to House and acted upon it fully while being compared to House. Even when he injected Cameron with what he was infected and got cured (with the motor problems), I was really interested at where he would go because you have a character who is trying to show he is different to House while being just as capable yet is becoming more and more similar with his own motor problems and possibly a fractured relationship with the team but it literally lasts one episode before he's back to himself, but less interesting up to where I've watched so far.
This series is genius - it’s just so entertaining 😄 And 32:46 made me laugh so hard „wait - who the hell is that? Is that her husband! And her child?! *WHAT* “ 😂
Watching this reminded me of all the great little moments sprinkled throughout the show. I remember stopping my binge mid Season 7 because I realized Broken was such a good end point. That Chase/Cameron blackout divorce talk scene is so chilling. Really enjoying the series and your analysis!
From this entire series of essays, I think this one is my favorite part. Really got me thinking about how the characters are tools to contrast, create conflict and situations with the main character. It feels like storytelling 101 but I never stopped to think or read about it.
Surprised me that breaking down all the supporting characters Cuddy gets less time than Taub. But I am guessing she and Wilson get far more of an in depth evaluation in part 5 :)
I discovered this channel earlier today, and I'm not ashamed to admit I have been binch-watching this all day. Excellent work Jesse. Can't wait for part 5!
I actually think the end of season 5, while great for other character arcs, doesn't work for Cameron and Chase. It goes beyond realistically thinking they'd stay together. Their relationship is fraught and it always has been. Chase has a lot of unacknowledged baggage and abandonment issues that he carries with him into their relationship. It's why he can't accept that Cameron doesn't want a relationship in the first place, and it's why he clings on when it's clear they're in different places and Cameron is not ready for it. The episode where Chase proposes is a major, major red flag that he at first heeds, but then clearly ignores because it looks like maybe she does love him after all. It all sets up the exact situations that later happens. If we accept the premise that Cameron wants to "fix" everyone, she runs up against an obstacle when following Debala's death, Chase refuses to be fixed. Up to this point we've mostly seen him bend to her will: he sleeps in places with her he knows it's inappropriate in order to keep her interested, he is understanding about the sperm, and he says he's going to quit the job with House. But when he changes his mind, it becomes a point of tension because she realizes she can't change him, even if she does see him as broken or ruined. It's important to note that I'm not trying to place blame, but it is in character for her to try to manipulate him into agreeing with her, and for a while, it works. he even says as much, that he'd compromise his own medical opinion and disobey House and Foreman if she'll stay with him. It's a point that in the past he seemingly refused to cross, but the waters were murky - like in season 3, with Airborne, when he insists that he isn't changing his opinion based on his relationship, but also has doubts when he and Cameron got distracted by sleeping the patient's bed, a distraction that almost killed the patient. And Cameron enjoys having this power - she liked teasing him into agreeing with her in Airborne, and she's satisfied when she finds out in season 6, Teamwork, that he'll do anything to stay with her. Cameron has issues with insecurities about being hurt, so it makes sense that she'd feel the need to control the situation; Chase has insecurities about being abandoned, so it makes sense he'd do anything to avoid it. It's an unhealthy relationship, and his analysis of it the whole relationship in season 6, Lockdown, was spot on. If we hadn't gotten to see them divorce, we would have been left with the cognitive dissonance that either they would eventually and they would never get their happy ending, or that they'd slowly grow to resent each other as they realized the relationship could never be what they wanted, because it was always uneven (Chase always felt more attached then Cameron). I think we needed to see the divorce, even if it was ugly. It gave us a kind of catharsis. Also, small nitpick. Cameron has a brother. Chase mentions him in season 3. It's possible that's who's at the end and the baby is just a niece or nephew, although I agree they made a dumb decision to try to make it look like she got to have her happy ending with marriage after all 🙄
48:50 it makes sense that Foreman takes the management job. I doubt anyone would not take such an offer, even if it means that you don't really do the job you like. But in all reality, you have the power to delicate stuff, that you don't like.
I wasn't a huge fan of Talb at first, but he grew on me. More so than the characters who never got a chance to grow on anyone. Can't wait for the next part.
Park is literally me(socially awkward and lives at home) I'm not ashamed to admit it, cost of living is expensive😆😆 but watching her be on the show gave us glasses wearing, sci fi loving, useless trivia loving geeks hope❤
House and Fringe followed by Boston Legal are my favorite TVshows of all time. I guess sometimes, what you watch certain times of your life create a sense of nostalgia. Just as I heard in part one in the analyse of House, to watch these TV shows gives me a feeling of "coming home". But I was really happy to see the videos here. It gives a kind of freshness to the "homecoming" even if it was in shorter version than to watch the whole show again. I don't know how else to explain it. But it made me really happy to find House again. Thank you.
One thing I'm surprised you didn't talk about- (though there's two parts left, so it could still happen-) is the writers strike in Season 4. That and I think season 4 had schedule conflicts as well. When you're talking about the new cast but how the old cast is still there, I always assumed it was because Cameron and Chase were still planned to be a major part of the show, but the actors had other things going on. I mainly say this because there are a few episodes where Cameron or Chase don't appear at all. And maybe that's why the show had 9 main characters and no time to give all of them proper arcs. Like characters like Kutner and Taub were just there to fill the screen time Cameron and Chase couldn't fill.
Honestly I liked Taub, he was normal and at least in the start he played a similar role to Foreman in the first few seasons of combating House's non-normalness
Taub I did like for giving a more normal, Everyman to the cast but I always go back to how making his whole thing cheating, when you have Wilson who is already there and so much more complex and well liked, makes the thread fall even flatter. I did partially appreciate how well they used Amber and her exit, and I think having more down to earth person was good for the teams makeup, but I kind of agree part of me still wants her to have been the one picked.
I really have to argue in defense of Taub, i particularly like his character. You can tell they were struggling when they decided to add new cast, and so its surprising to me that they went the direction they did with Taub. He's a horrible man, he has few redeeming qualities, its a shocking and strange decision to make a character whose decisions are horrible and also aren't given excuses for like House's decisions are. Somehow, i like him still, he has such a unique personality in the group that I think they played on perfectly, they were able to give him moments of humanity that felt right for his character, like him destroying foreman's records. I particularly appreciate that they decided to take a House formula but give him no leeway, the only way you like him is by spending time picking apart his character over the amount of time that you're forced to be with him.
Foreman is becoming house SLOWLY. Chase became house QUICK. CUDDY was always house but the opposite end of the spectrum. Which is why Chase and Foreman fall easily into a nice dichotomy later
i've become absolutely entranced with this essay series of yours ever since you uploaded the first two, and i'm absolutely chomping at the bit for the rest. fun fact: i didn't even know what House was until this series somehow, but now i'm finding it everywhere (probably because of you, lol). each video since the first two has been well worth the wait: your points are succinct, well-researched, well-argued... and it's just a lot of fun hearing what you have to say. you're able to describe a picture on which the series was painted (well, at least from your lens, but it's still an interesting and compelling picture) and i wanna go where your brain takes me. thank you for such a wonderful experience!!
Ive watched this series front to back 3 times. It is truly a gift finally hearing someone else talk about this series in more than passing. Thanks bro.
13:20 Wait wait wait... They've been together for 20 years and they've been married for 12 years are two separate things. They could be together for 8 years and then married.
Idk the Chase killing someone and living with it was one of my favorite plot points of that season, I like how House MD breaks through the stereotypical Dr. show in that way and other ways in other seasons. That's what makes me like House MD over those other medical shows, its never the same story and it's not afraid to dive deep into subjects like that.
I really have to thank you for this breakdown, it's not stuff that's impossible to put but it's one of the most enjoyable things I've watched on RUclips, I've watched House a few times and it's stuck with me, and this 5 part documentary or breakdown, it's just fantastic. Amazing work on editing writing and everything put into these videos, absolutely fantastic. Been a subscriber for a while and can't say I've ever been let down. I wish you all the best in whatever you pursue. Much love and respect.
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The last episode of season 5 is one of my all time favourite pieces of TV. The end part where he realises that the hallucinations were not real is chilling.
Hands down.
When I did my first binge, I knew the ep was coming up and told a friend I needed to watch it with someone around.
One aspect you’re forgetting about Foreman is when Taub intentionally destroyed the records of Foreman falsifying medical records, which might have helped him get dean of Medicide.
I think chase becoming the new house was actually perfect. Foreman took the light side and chase went down the dark path. It was a really great way to end it.
Sort of how it was written from the start
Foreman didn't want to become house and Chase didn't care about being House which is the reason why he became the new House
I think during the mid-seasons it was totally fitting that Cameron became a standard ER doc and Chase became a skilled surgeon.
It both fits their characters and their function in the actual show.
Cameron sees many patients, some get transferred to House; Chase does surgery well and shows up occasionally during operations on House patients. Foreman is House's most clear analog functionally (diagnostics office-type work) and Chase is House philosophically.
I also feel the exact same about chase. The evolution from rich boy who can’t dress himself to the next head of diagnostics felt right to me.
Same, he was my favorite character by the end.
It didn't really feel right to me, it never seemed like he has much passion for medicine seen as his dad forced him into the field iirc, and he always seemed like he wanted to do things the easy way. Foreman felt like the more natural person to take House's role seen as the had been setting him for that from pretty early on. Chase in the ER made sense to me, or leaving medicine altogether to do competitive surfing
Rambi I mean with how opposed to his dad he was wouldn’t he have just gone into another field instead of continuing with medicine? To spite him at the very least? I never got an impression he wasn’t into medicine, afterall who would put up with house if they weren’t passionate abt medicine. It’s been a while since I binged the series for sure and I can totally back Forman as head of diagnostics but ig if we are considering filling roles foreman makes the most sense of any of them taking Cuddys role, since he expressed interest in that level of power. Chase taking diagnostics made sense to me after how he had changed over the series, alongside the fact that he was house’s first underling. Anyways idk I feel like if he wanted to do things the easy way why would he work for house?
@@notquinlynnie7705 I like Chase's overall ark, and it does make sense that Foreman would take the role just for the power and pay, but he just doesn't really seem natural for it, but he did seem natural for diagnostics seen as he showed many of the same personality traits as House.
I guess I do think Chase is interested in medicine overall, I suppose seen as he's already put all the work into pursuing it as career, but I don't think diagnostics is really the right place for him and I just can't see him heading the department seen as was never the one butting heads with House. He was normally okay with going with House's theory and carrying out the treatment- what I mean is he didn't appear to be doing much of the whole "diagnostics" part, at least not as much as House and not as much as Foreman was interested in doing. As for who else should have taken Cuddy's role, I think James would have made the most sense seen as he had actually spent a long time heading a department already so had the experience.
But I guess as the video talks abut, the lives and careers of the cast gets in the way of fulfilling these natural cross-season story arcs. The last seasons weren't too bad, though I unfortunately hated the two mentees in the final season, they were both just too annoying to me.
@@rambi1072 chase was opposing house less than everybody else but if u actually observe he was the only one trying to understand and learn how House thinks and he liked puzzles
I feel like Taub's whole character is to be the neutralizer. He is pretty bland, but that's the point? Tbh I really like his character because he is just such a loser.
Katya Dokurova he’s a loser but he kicked formans butt at basketball.
Taub is like the sip of water between bites of food
Taub f**k up knocking up two people at the same time was the comic relief and a good climax. Loved it
He’s obviously not a loser…despite his “blah” appearance and small stature, he is shown time and time again at being capable of charming the ladies, was a very successful plastic surgeon, and managed to get on House’s team. There’s tons of other big wins for him on the show.
His shortcoming is his inability to remain faithful, which normally wouldn’t be an issue for someone that looks like him.
@katya2451 *bland, not "blend?" 🤷♀️
I always loved the idea that eventually House would find Thirteen.
This has always been cannon in my head.
What do you mean exactly? have only seen House on TV sorry.
House and thirteen was always my favorite dynamic. I always remembered 13 as a really strong independent character; Like if they did meet later in life it would be an unremarkable event in both of their lives. They both just seem bigger than each other in a way that makes their interactions interesting and mysterious. Olivia Wilde is talented af.
@@vanillaannihilation5871 the show ends with house faking his death
Despite that, it's nice to think he'd still find 13 to kill her and fulfill his promise when she needed him
Thirteen was the only character who could pull off mysterious and deep on par with House or better; often better.
Oh boy I can't wait for the next video to be 2 hours of Cuddy and Wilson. Especially Wilson, he's such a fantastic character and I love the way that you analyzed these guys so that's going to be fun no matter what.
I’m already making grabby-hands at a Wilson-centric video.
@Alexander Supertramp The next video will be made specifically for you.
wilson is best boy
Going back to this comment, I'm honestly kinda disappointed on the Wilson front. Wilson himself and his character is almost never covered. His relationship with House is brought up in how he affects the show's structure and all that but it doesn't really go into the depths of it.
Still a good series but I was hoping there'd be more to it.
Perhaps weirdly, I liked Taub. Sure he was a boring uncharismatic jerk, but that made for an interesting contrast with a bunch of beautiful charismatic sometimes-jerks. He was the only married person in a show filled with people who were mostly alone, and sure his marriage was complicated but most are in one way or another. I empathized with Taub more than most of the other characters because he was just a normal dude bumbling through life like most people, making stupid regrettable decisions and trying to keep things from falling apart. I also feel like the actor lent a certain subtlety to the role that I appreciated.
For me he was the least interesting and most vanilla boring character, and I really wish they'd picked someone else. I always found myself skipping through the side stories involving him
To me Taub seemed very realistic character, other characters seemed sci fi Chase sexy surgeon, 13 sexy high iq bi doctor etc...
I've got a soft spot for Taub, too. He's just so loveable
Hated Taub at first but he grew on me when I remembered he is a plastic Surgeon, like hes not even in his lane so to speak and he's holding his own.
I personally dont care for Taub. The only one i might have hated more than him is/was Kutner. But hey, I'm glad u (and whoever else) likes/liked him. To each their own. I love when people love and/or are passionate bout someone/something. I wish everyone respected what everyone loves/likes, u kno what i mean? That's why I always say "to each their own"
Your analysis of Foreman leaves out an important factor: he’s ambitious. Which means that even if he did become head of diagnostics, it wouldn’t be that significant since he’d quit the moment a more prestigious position came along. Chase makes more sense as House’ successor because he cares more about the work itself: especially by season 8. Also, in the early seasons no one was “the next House” because the writers didn’t know how the show would end. They didn’t need a “next House” because, for all they knew, House would still be head of diagnostics when the final episode ended.
But I can assure that in season 1 you get hints that Chase does has the skills to fill the position of House. And, in season 3, in the last episode, he shows the same deductive habilites as House to read people (and these kind of scenes happened a lot). I think they knew that Chase would be his successor. Even the psychological part is on point: Chase's father was a conflicting figure and his mother was an addict. He could never make peace with that until he meets House: a conflicting and addict father figure that he learns to accept and even love. When House fakes an illness to get high, Chase is the only one that give him a hug. By being his successor, he overcomes his trauma with his father figure and he let himself be himself and not get push around.
@@elviejomundo2446 Good points.
Cameron/Chase's wedding mirroring House's commitment was elegant and satisfying. Loved that scene.
I actually think that Kutner's suicide was treated realistically and tactfully, regardless of the actual circumstances behind the story decisions.
I was so confused by why they killed him off. Interestingly they did a good job hinting at his depression, which I noticed on rewatches. I looked it up and I could never seem to find out why he actually left.
Agree, one of the best depictions of any medium
Yeah!I love and hate Kutner's death at the same time. On one hand,he is my favorite character so his sudden death make me kinda griefing for a bit. But on the other, his death done so well that it turn season 5 into my most favorite season
White Castle hamburgers. Little onions the burst flavor right into his flavor zone. That's why he left.
that episode gave me one of my favourite songs ever also
I always thought that they really did Cameron's character a disservice with the way they wrote her out of the series. It just made her look like a bitch.
Cameron: I will forgive you no matter what.
Chase: I killed someone.
Cameron: Okay, nope, goodbye.
And there was the episode later where she returned to make Chase sign the divorce paper I believe and he tried to come clean with her, but it somehow just managed to make her seem more unlikeable.
The way they wrote it wasn't that she left him BECAUSE he killed him. It was because he didn't think he did anything wrong. He was horrified that he viewed cold blooded murder as not only justifiable, but the Right Thing To Do. And as a character who was born and raised on the moral high horse, and who ALSO struggled with the choice of killing the SAME PATIENT herself in that very episode and decided NOT to do it, it made sense for her to conclude that Chase was corrupted beyond salvage.
I still think it was a mistake in how her character was handled, but it was a bit more nuanced than just leaving him cuz he killed a guy
@@randomfox12245 I know it wasn't the reason per se, I just tried to illustrate how rushed it felt to me when I watched it for the first time. She continously assured him that whatever happened she would support him, then still dropped him like hot potato after he came clean. Of course it was easy to say meaningless reassurences when she thought he was cheating on her. But it still would have been more justified if she at least tried to be true to her words. Moral high horse as you said.
And it's not like Chase was a cold-blooded murderer. He obviously felt a tremendous amount of guilt over his actions. So snapping to the viewpoint that he is irredeamable so fast when she theoretically loved him was rushed and too drastic in my opinion.
Seems like realistic breakups were not the strongest part of this show as House and Cuddy's was far from perfect too. But at least it mostly came from their preexisting relationship dinamics so it felt a little more realistic.
1st, when wife says that, no one's ever expecting a murder confession! Especially in this kinda way. 2nd I always understood that Cameron left chase because she still hadn't dealt with her past traumas and why she tended to marry/date those who she could fix. Chase stopped being broken and needing her, and she stopped wanting to be married.
I like the foreman didn't end up as the head of diagnostics, I feel like his "peace" at the end was side-stepping becoming house and instead someone that manages people like house, i.e the Dean of Medicine.
Olivia Wilde’s 13 was probably my second favorite character. Behind House.
Mmmhmmm
I liked chase tho lol
Her scenes with house were one of the biggest highlights of the show. Showing both sides, they were always able to see through each other's facades. A brilliant relationship and a great storyline
I hated Taub
Kutner was great too
22:01 Olivia Wilde has some of the most magnetic eyes. But in all seriousness, her episode with House in Season 7 is one of the most heartfelt episodes in the series
Honestly, I like Taub- the fact he has no redeeming qualities, is where his quality is
Be Better.
Throwing tomato's at a billboard of himself was his redeeming quality.
@@Bonesph Classic Taub
He cried at the hospital after Kutner died, probably because he really saw him as a friend but denied it to his face some episodes before. I also loved his overall shamelessness but yeah, he was a pretty awful person.
Ikr? He's just such a scumbag hahaha.
I actually like foreman's "backwards" character arc. he's forced to mature because he gets punished for behaving like house. he grows into a better person while chase grows into a more complete one
I love throughout every episode so far there's been one constant:
"Goddamit, Broken was a perfect ending."
You're entirely right about Amber being a better pick instead of Taub, as much i DO actually like him and the "everyman but also a cheating wuss" personality he brings to the teams dynamic.
But you've gotta admit the episode where she dies and House has to piece the events together is top quality. One of my favourite episodes and one of my favourite season finale for the whole show.
I genuinely have no idea how I can watch an hour long analysis about a show I barely watched years ago and be completely shocked when it turns out I’ve already finished it. Your editing and narrative pacing skills are immaculate, bless you.
Really love this. I'm looking forward to your take on Wilson. I see a lot of people saying how Wilson is a true friend, Wilson is the best guy, just praising him and praising him. Where I think he really works though is that he *isn't* the best guy. In his own way he's just as dysfunctional and broken as House is, but he puts a layer of charm over it so people don't notice. He's one of my favourite TV characters ever.
Agreed. Wilson and House are like a marriage between coping mechanisms.
@@gauloiseguy Yes exactly! I hear people say 'why is Wilson friends with House when House is such an asshole' but they should be asking 'why is House friends with Wilson if Wilson's such a good guy'. They have their question backwards.:)
I grew up on House M.D just like you so this series have been amazing and a enlightening, thank you so much!
house is not er....
@@campkira House makes ER look like Sesame Street...
god I completely forgot Masters even existed. In contrast I remembered Amber being really interesting, I was actually convinced she was part of the team before this video
Wait, what? Lol what do u mean u thought she was part the team? Have u not watched the show? Or not finished watchin it? Or havent seen it in a while? And also, why would u watch all these vids of ur behind and/or havent seen it? Just curious. I personally hate spoilers and hate spoiling people and hate watchin people be spoiled (even if they dont rly care lol, i do)
@@frankbarrie6785 I watched the show back when it first aired so.... more than a decade ago lol. I did rewatch the first 3 seasons over the years but the latter ones are a blur
@@frankbarrie6785 even with rewatches, it’s pretty easy to forget that amber wasnt apart of the team considering she was a big part of the show.
@@frankbarrie6785 she worked with the team a decent bit before she got fired. She kinda was part of the team for a hot minute
@bree walden; womanizer are you unwell?
Mentioning Foreman going from "The Next House" to taking over Cuddy's job makes me wish we could have seen an actual episode of House having to fill in for Cuddy for... Reasons. Like the MASH episodes when Hawkeye had temporary command of the unit. As Col. Potter pointed out on his return "Hard to be the clown when you also have to run the circus, isn't it?"
Taub's one line comments and subtle banter were pretty cool imo, and his awful personal life situation was funny and it was cool to see him better himself
I think it's true to life that Broken isn't the end of the series. For me it gave the show added value that things carry on, sloppily, even after the moment where you think everything should end on a happy button. People go back to their vices even after "life-changing" experiences, and they limp on towards being better. House at the series finale is better off than he was at the beginning, even if he's worse than he was at the beginning of S6. That's life.
Well said.
I think you confused yourself in comparing "everybody dies" and "broken". Everybody dies is the happily ever after ending for house md because both house and wilson seem to be approaching the end of their lives (wilson-cancer/house-wilson's death+going back to jail) but house decides to throw all that away by "killing" himself and spending the last few months with wilson. "Everybody dies" msg is to try to aim for happiness but broken asks the viewer "when things go wrong, how are you supposed to deal with it?"
At first, house was against the system but when he fk up freedom master,(he reinforced freedom master's Delusions which made him jump off a carpark) he saw how fk up himself was and ask for help. He talks to dr nolan and slowly gained a deep connection with Lydia but she leaves him(her friend got better). Older seasons of house would have taken Vicodin to numb the pain but instead finds dr nolan and talks to him and he feels. In the end, house walks out of Mayfield not because he has a happier life but instead because he has a healthier mindset
Now i ask u which sounds more realistic: Everybody dies or broken
You elegantly put my feelings to word.
Literally ive watched 4/6 of his house vids so far and he keeps talking about how broken would be the perfect ending. I couldn't agree less.
i remember the contrast when Cuddy's mother Arine was in ill, Forman said "it doesn't mean we all have to go to jail to save her", quite different from when he was dying...
It always is different when you or your loved ones are the dying or struggling patient.
I can’t believe he never touched in my favorite member of the team: The Janitor
Easily the best fellow in the show.
Was he not in SCRUBS ?
That's in scrubs
No, it was house. Hehad a janitor helping him when he was trying to insist to cuddy that he didn't need a team
Foreman is like House in attitude, but House trains Chase even in the earlier seasons to become as knowledgeable as he is, to bring out the real GENIUS. Plus Foreman tries his hardest to avoid becoming like House whereas Chase tries his hardest to follow and follow Dr House (even if it is bc of his own unresolved father issues)
Tbh Taub was needed in this show....he was the character that everyone hate to love but love to hate. And that’s what made it entertaining to watch his downward spiral 😂
Noone needed Taub, he was boring as hell. All he did was cheat.
Amber would've been WAY more interesting!
@@yannieangerer8558 *No one 🙂
"Time will tell if we made the right choice."
Time: I'm hear to tell you, you didn't.
they did
"i'm not good looking , not charming."
*BRUH HAVE YOU LOOKED IN A MIRROR?*
Idk what this series is; a review, a retrospective, a love letter, an essay about how the show should have ended on the episode "Broken," or all of the above... but I love it, give me more!
Amber is a hell of character played by a hell of an actress. You can't help but be interested in "cut throat bitch" especially in the dream sequences. Cameron and 13 even Cuddy are just so damn intrinsically attractive that it's easy to get involved in their characters but "Cut Throat Bitch" not as much but damn (scene stealer)
I always understood Camerons divorce because in a way it’s her final move in her character arc. Chase was just as damaged as the rest of the members on the team. The whole team was broken just in different ways.
These are amazing. Finally somebody talking about house. Keep it up
I think the reason Chase becoming the new House works better than with Foreman is because Foreman very much DOESNT want to become the next house, and is running away from it through the entire show, so him succumbing to it would be like surrendering to it, we've also seen him take the mantle of Head of Diagnostics before and it always feels like he is just pretending, or just keeping the seat warm until house comes back, hence why the position of Dean of Medicine makes some sense, he is now in a position that is wholy his own but with an edge that Cuddy didn't have, allowing him to more easily agree with experimental treatments, since he was in the trenches with House, but also more firmly putting his foot down against his antics when he goes too far.
Meanwhile with Chase, while he doesn't want to be like House, he accepts their similarities and runs with them, not caring as long as it helps him save lives, essentially showing us what an effective well adjusted House could be like without the pain, drugs and misanthropy, and when he finally takes charge it feels like the end of an arc, like it was building to it from the start even if it wasn't.
Basically Foreman becoming the next House is a tragedy, Chase becoming the next House is a victory.
i never even watched house, and yet i just binged parts 1 through 4 of this series in one sitting, that's a testament to the brilliance of your analysis of Movies and TV shows.
Even though Kutners death was rushed and came out of nowhere because of his department from the show, I kind of liked it that way, death is scary and is always sudden and the show portrayed that very well in my opinion, suicides are mostly silent and tragic to their loved ones and close ones, the people who do it never tell anyone of their troubles and that hits hard when Kutner just basically disappears into his darkness and ends his life.
40:15 I used to hate Foreman. He used to walk around like he was some know-it-all human but in fact he was a bigger egotistical jerk without half the skills than House.
But over the years, I learnt that leadership is not easy. And you will get walked all over if you are all the time trying to be nice. So respect to Omar Epps
Cameron talks about falling in love with her first Husbands best friend. She told the story to Wilson.
I think what bound them was that they both loved the same person who was dying. She does mention that they never hot physical but that they connected.
That might have been her Husband in the finale.
This is my new addiction please make 9 seasons of this thanks
Ok but after season 5 its going downhill quickly
I loved the Dibala storyline, Chase really struggled and it was sad to watch but I enjoyed how complex and morally ambiguous the decision was. Cameron at one point wanted him dead too, anybody remember" you shouldn't have said that warning" when he was almost assassinated?
When the husband tried to avenge the wife....
I never watched House but here I am almost 3 hours in to one of the deepest-dives into a television show I've ever seen.
26:37 What person in this world who achieves love and personal fulfillment hasn't gotten there through a lot of complicated and "unnecessary" steps?
Ah, my old nemesis, Shade of the Lamp. Haven't seen you since Preston Jacobs reviews...
For some reason, the way Taub's segment begins with just "TAUB" against a black background, that piano tune and then you going "oooooh Taaaaub.", it gets me laughing out of reflex, like...
YEAH THAT'S TAUB, THAT'S TAUB IN 7 SECONDS.
I think Peter Jacobson is a very underrated actor. On paper Taub is boring and unlikeable but he becomes very relatable and sympathetic and actually funnier in the later seasons, thanks to his performance in my opinion.
Foreman doesn't know what he is good at and what he wants. He tries to make a good career without realizing what is or is not good for him. That's why it is consistent for him to try to replace Cuddy even if he is annoyed by the bureaucracy.
Just watch season 3 episode 12 again. It's one of the bests. House does not know what to say to the girl and sedates her. Cameron advises something, Foreman advises the opposite and Chase says "Keep her sedated." Chase is the true heir of House.
Absolutely LOVED Taub's character, which is hilarious considering you're right about everything about him.
House MD has one of those special places in my heart where I love watching anything about it, will listen to any explanations about its faults (and usually agree), and still love it exactly the same regardless. This series is a well put together, great excuse to think about House at length while I try to stop myself from rewatching it yet again 👏🏻👏🏻
If Amber had been on the team instead of Taub, the show would've been a lot better for it. And you're right that they had buyer's remorse about it.
I did like Amber as Wilson's girlfriend though. I wish they'd had more time together, but House's Head/Wilson's Heart are two of the best episodes of the show.
A Jew named Christopher. What were they thinking?
Also his character was boring as all get-out
@@BG12sofia I'm not sure I've rewatched any sequence in House more often than the end of S4.
Masters was the most boring character
Eh, you could also argue that it would be unbalanced. Amber was too much like House. That's why it probably wouldn't have worked.
Taub and Rachel dating for ~10 years isn't unheard of though for doctors. That would actually be the length of time for med school+residency. So if for financial or other reasons they wanted to get married after residency but starting dating before med school, it makes sense.
These videos are INCREDIBLE. House MD was my LIFE while it was airing - I started watching on TV around the end of Season 2 and I was hooked, even right til the end. Watching the show go down the path that it took at the end was bittersweet - your essay is summarizing the exact points that it became a hard pill to swallow in the later seasons, and I look forward to watching you pull together the conclusion. The work you've put into editing and all of the incredible pulls from episodes is a nod to not only the show, but to the fans like myself who obsessively watched it over and over and over again - my DVD's are well loved, and I just wanted to say THANK YOU for taking the time to make this incredible series.
Here's to the last 2 episodes!
I do feel bad about Cudy's ending; she had many interesting plot lines with all the team.
the fact that you remembered "he's interesting" long enough to dunk on it... salud
Taub was the worse pick, yes objectively. The single Mormon dad or the old hoot with all the knowledge and none of the field experience would have work a million times better.
Facundno Bueno I disagree.
Literally? Right now! You must've uploaded this through the night. Thought the whole series was uploaded and upset I wasn't going to be able to binge the whole thing. In Australia and really happy to see it up now.
Love your stuff tho bro.
still 2 more... once u done.. you can skip the whole not medical part...
Yeah i found the series yesterday, what timing
There's something about Foreman that made me hate his character forever.
When he got sick and almost died, he tried to infect Cameron on purpose by ripping her suit. I just can't believe he's allowed to be part of the team, let alone keep being a doctor after that.
It is mentioned later but it's never given the spotlight it needed. I mean, true, slowly dying must be terrifying but risking another person's life (a person who is trying to save you too, no less) ruined his character in my eyes. The fact that he gets away with it consequence free is just the icing on the awful cake.
That entire situation is very strange. Foreman injected her because “either she’ll find it, Houses rat will find it, or the CDC autopsy that’s been delayed due to safety will find it” but then House ends up being the one to find the disease in the apartment not Cameron so what was the point infecting her, meanwhile she’s in the hospital (while infected yet not isolated) and is looking at the test results at the same time. I don’t think there’s any way of looking at the situation that makes sense.
Yea at the first season he was the most interesting character to me because he's the only one who actually stood up to House and acted upon it fully while being compared to House. Even when he injected Cameron with what he was infected and got cured (with the motor problems), I was really interested at where he would go because you have a character who is trying to show he is different to House while being just as capable yet is becoming more and more similar with his own motor problems and possibly a fractured relationship with the team but it literally lasts one episode before he's back to himself, but less interesting up to where I've watched so far.
This series is genius - it’s just so entertaining 😄 And 32:46 made me laugh so hard „wait - who the hell is that? Is that her husband! And her child?! *WHAT* “ 😂
Watching this reminded me of all the great little moments sprinkled throughout the show. I remember stopping my binge mid Season 7 because I realized Broken was such a good end point. That Chase/Cameron blackout divorce talk scene is so chilling. Really enjoying the series and your analysis!
From this entire series of essays, I think this one is my favorite part.
Really got me thinking about how the characters are tools to contrast, create conflict and situations with the main character. It feels like storytelling 101 but I never stopped to think or read about it.
Wow, I definitely didn't remember that Cameron is remarried in the finale! I wonder if anyone did 🤔
If the point of her arc is that she loves broken characters, it's not bad that she's married. Why couldn't she learn?
Just a simple thank you for this series man. Its damn near as entertaining as the actual series.
How tf are you getting me to sit through like 4-5 hours worth of House commentary
That's like 4-5 episodes of the show but nooo I'm here
They basically took Amber's persona and wrote it in to The Good Doctor as Dr. Morgan
It's just a pity that Morgan isn't as interesting to watch as Amber was.
And Cameron's as Dr. Browne. All of them are basically cheap imitations.
Surprised me that breaking down all the supporting characters Cuddy gets less time than Taub.
But I am guessing she and Wilson get far more of an in depth evaluation in part 5 :)
Yh part 5 is about love I think so makes sense
I discovered this channel earlier today, and I'm not ashamed to admit I have been binch-watching this all day. Excellent work Jesse. Can't wait for part 5!
I actually think the end of season 5, while great for other character arcs, doesn't work for Cameron and Chase. It goes beyond realistically thinking they'd stay together. Their relationship is fraught and it always has been. Chase has a lot of unacknowledged baggage and abandonment issues that he carries with him into their relationship. It's why he can't accept that Cameron doesn't want a relationship in the first place, and it's why he clings on when it's clear they're in different places and Cameron is not ready for it. The episode where Chase proposes is a major, major red flag that he at first heeds, but then clearly ignores because it looks like maybe she does love him after all. It all sets up the exact situations that later happens. If we accept the premise that Cameron wants to "fix" everyone, she runs up against an obstacle when following Debala's death, Chase refuses to be fixed. Up to this point we've mostly seen him bend to her will: he sleeps in places with her he knows it's inappropriate in order to keep her interested, he is understanding about the sperm, and he says he's going to quit the job with House. But when he changes his mind, it becomes a point of tension because she realizes she can't change him, even if she does see him as broken or ruined.
It's important to note that I'm not trying to place blame, but it is in character for her to try to manipulate him into agreeing with her, and for a while, it works. he even says as much, that he'd compromise his own medical opinion and disobey House and Foreman if she'll stay with him. It's a point that in the past he seemingly refused to cross, but the waters were murky - like in season 3, with Airborne, when he insists that he isn't changing his opinion based on his relationship, but also has doubts when he and Cameron got distracted by sleeping the patient's bed, a distraction that almost killed the patient. And Cameron enjoys having this power - she liked teasing him into agreeing with her in Airborne, and she's satisfied when she finds out in season 6, Teamwork, that he'll do anything to stay with her. Cameron has issues with insecurities about being hurt, so it makes sense that she'd feel the need to control the situation; Chase has insecurities about being abandoned, so it makes sense he'd do anything to avoid it. It's an unhealthy relationship, and his analysis of it the whole relationship in season 6, Lockdown, was spot on. If we hadn't gotten to see them divorce, we would have been left with the cognitive dissonance that either they would eventually and they would never get their happy ending, or that they'd slowly grow to resent each other as they realized the relationship could never be what they wanted, because it was always uneven (Chase always felt more attached then Cameron). I think we needed to see the divorce, even if it was ugly. It gave us a kind of catharsis.
Also, small nitpick. Cameron has a brother. Chase mentions him in season 3. It's possible that's who's at the end and the baby is just a niece or nephew, although I agree they made a dumb decision to try to make it look like she got to have her happy ending with marriage after all 🙄
I've never seen an episode of House before but I've been loving these videos.
48:50 it makes sense that Foreman takes the management job. I doubt anyone would not take such an offer, even if it means that you don't really do the job you like. But in all reality, you have the power to delicate stuff, that you don't like.
say whatever you want about Taub, his Foreman impression is one of the funniest jokes in the series.
i love his deadpan delivery jokes
Great vids so far, looking forward to watching this one and the next ones
I wasn't a huge fan of Talb at first, but he grew on me. More so than the characters who never got a chance to grow on anyone. Can't wait for the next part.
I actually quite liked parks character and her crush on chase
But adams was just kinda there
I liked adams more
@@AverageAlien I had a crush on Adams.
@Alexander Supertramp yup, as a character she wasn't interesting.
Park is literally me(socially awkward and lives at home) I'm not ashamed to admit it, cost of living is expensive😆😆 but watching her be on the show gave us glasses wearing, sci fi loving, useless trivia loving geeks hope❤
House and Fringe followed by Boston Legal are my favorite TVshows of all time. I guess sometimes, what you watch certain times of your life create a sense of nostalgia. Just as I heard in part one in the analyse of House, to watch these TV shows gives me a feeling of "coming home". But I was really happy to see the videos here. It gives a kind of freshness to the "homecoming" even if it was in shorter version than to watch the whole show again. I don't know how else to explain it. But it made me really happy to find House again. Thank you.
One thing I'm surprised you didn't talk about- (though there's two parts left, so it could still happen-) is the writers strike in Season 4. That and I think season 4 had schedule conflicts as well.
When you're talking about the new cast but how the old cast is still there, I always assumed it was because Cameron and Chase were still planned to be a major part of the show, but the actors had other things going on. I mainly say this because there are a few episodes where Cameron or Chase don't appear at all. And maybe that's why the show had 9 main characters and no time to give all of them proper arcs. Like characters like Kutner and Taub were just there to fill the screen time Cameron and Chase couldn't fill.
5:30-- Kutner’s “I love you” cracks me up every time. 😂
Honestly I liked Taub, he was normal and at least in the start he played a similar role to Foreman in the first few seasons of combating House's non-normalness
Taub I did like for giving a more normal, Everyman to the cast but I always go back to how making his whole thing cheating, when you have Wilson who is already there and so much more complex and well liked, makes the thread fall even flatter.
I did partially appreciate how well they used Amber and her exit, and I think having more down to earth person was good for the teams makeup, but I kind of agree part of me still wants her to have been the one picked.
In the first episode chase has he breakthrough (the x ray) that solves the case.
I think he was always destined to take over for house
Having binged house a few times this analysis has me hooked with the details
I really have to argue in defense of Taub, i particularly like his character. You can tell they were struggling when they decided to add new cast, and so its surprising to me that they went the direction they did with Taub. He's a horrible man, he has few redeeming qualities, its a shocking and strange decision to make a character whose decisions are horrible and also aren't given excuses for like House's decisions are. Somehow, i like him still, he has such a unique personality in the group that I think they played on perfectly, they were able to give him moments of humanity that felt right for his character, like him destroying foreman's records. I particularly appreciate that they decided to take a House formula but give him no leeway, the only way you like him is by spending time picking apart his character over the amount of time that you're forced to be with him.
Thanks for making this, it's one of my favorite TV shows and you're one of my favorite youtubers
Foreman is becoming house SLOWLY.
Chase became house QUICK.
CUDDY was always house but the opposite end of the spectrum.
Which is why Chase and Foreman fall easily into a nice dichotomy later
i've become absolutely entranced with this essay series of yours ever since you uploaded the first two, and i'm absolutely chomping at the bit for the rest. fun fact: i didn't even know what House was until this series somehow, but now i'm finding it everywhere (probably because of you, lol).
each video since the first two has been well worth the wait: your points are succinct, well-researched, well-argued... and it's just a lot of fun hearing what you have to say. you're able to describe a picture on which the series was painted (well, at least from your lens, but it's still an interesting and compelling picture) and i wanna go where your brain takes me.
thank you for such a wonderful experience!!
The "messy ins and outs" were the most enjoyable part of the show lol
I'm starting to think you take pleasure in watching your audience squirm waiting for each part. Another great video my good sir!
This is amazing, so comprehensive and first class production values, thanks appreciate your effort.
Taub's charisma allowed me to watch more of the later seasons.
Ive watched this series front to back 3 times. It is truly a gift finally hearing someone else talk about this series in more than passing. Thanks bro.
I am LOVING this series. This deep dive into House is extraordinary
I pretty much watch it on Pop TV everyday still. I watched it as much as you do. These analyses are amazing and edited so quick.
All I wanted was for Cudy to be in the last episode :(
"by loving damaged people she is able to predict how she I going to get hurt"
That line hit hard
Chase makes more sense. Foreman proved on multiple occasions that he thought he could do it but actually couldn't.
13:20 Wait wait wait... They've been together for 20 years and they've been married for 12 years are two separate things.
They could be together for 8 years and then married.
I know, sometimes I think my man is too young.
Heck, they could've been previously married, divorced, and remarried 12 years ago and those statements would still be true.
Idk the Chase killing someone and living with it was one of my favorite plot points of that season, I like how House MD breaks through the stereotypical Dr. show in that way and other ways in other seasons. That's what makes me like House MD over those other medical shows, its never the same story and it's not afraid to dive deep into subjects like that.
I really have to thank you for this breakdown, it's not stuff that's impossible to put but it's one of the most enjoyable things I've watched on RUclips, I've watched House a few times and it's stuck with me, and this 5 part documentary or breakdown, it's just fantastic. Amazing work on editing writing and everything put into these videos, absolutely fantastic. Been a subscriber for a while and can't say I've ever been let down. I wish you all the best in whatever you pursue. Much love and respect.