For the last eight years I have enjoyed the antics of Doctor Gregory House and I just wanted to take a few lines to say goodbye.
Almost every episode of House has the same basic plot. Patient arrives with weird symptoms, medical team spends most of the episode being abused by House and fails to find a cure, leaving the man himself to have a moment of genius and solve the problem. But the sameness of the plot didn’t matter, because you knew you would be treated to forty five minutes watching a damaged man heaping scorn and ridicule on the rest of humanity; and there can be no better entertainment (in my little world).
The final episode was a little disappointing; contrived to give us an ending that would satisfy. More enjoyable was the retrospective made by Hugh Laurie showing some of the crew behind the show; a fitting end to a great series.
Now I can clear the decks and look forward to the final season of Breaking Bad which starts next month. The final episode of the last season was the best TV I have ever seen and they could have stopped right there; but I am up for more if there is more on offer.
While waiting I have been watching Veep. Armando Iannucci is responsible for the glorious political comedy series The Thick Of It, and the movie spin-off In the Loop. Both feature Peter Capaldi as the scary Malcolm Tucker whose delicate command of the English language is a joy. For example: “Within your ‘purview’? Where do you think you are, some fucking regency costume drama? This is a government department, not some fucking Jane fucking Austen novel! Allow me to pop a jaunty little bonnet on your purview and ram it up your shitter with a lubricated horse cock!” And: “Just fucking do it! Otherwise you’ll find yourself in some medieval war zone in the Caucasus with your arse in the air, trying to persuade a group of men in balaclavas that sustained sexual violence is not the fucking way forward!” Sounds even more venomous in a Scottish accent.
Veep moves the action overseas, to the office of the Vice-President of the USA. There is less venom, but plenty of swearing and ineptitude; and Julia Louis-Dreyfus is excellent as the VP. Season one is almost finished; but a new season of The Thick Of It will be with us shortly, hopefully still with the very sweary Malcolm Tucker.
My weakened state has given me plenty of time to catch up on my collection of movies and TV shows. I have also caught up with Angry Birds (original, Seasons, Rio, Space) and made sure there are three stars on every puzzle. So I haven’t been wasting my time…
Pretty much up to date with entertainment now; so it is fortuitous that I am at last starting to feel more alive again. Off to see the doctor on Monday and I hope the blood tests will reveal that I am on the mend. Must be careful not to shout “lubricated horse cock!” when I see the results.
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2012-06-07| Jan saysIf you are up to a belly laugh and can access it check out “Not gong out” a BBC comedy series starring Lee Mac. Good luck at docs X
2012-06-07| genuinej saysYou seem to have overlooked Spartacus, Blood & Tits!
2012-06-08| Spike saysThe blood/tit ratio was badly skewed in the latest series so we stopped watching.