So after finishing off House M.D. (okay, last post and I'll shut up about House for a while) I got to searching Hugh Laurie and end up finding tons of great stuff on YouTube. One thing that I did find was that Laurie was one of the stars of two huge British sitcoms. Jeeves and Wooster and A Bit of Fry and Laurie, both co-starring Stephen Fry. They both look like hilarious shows that I'm seriously thinking about picking up in the very near future. But anyway, here is a couple of clips from A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
Enjoy
Jeeves and Wooster: The Complete Series
A Bit of Fry and Laurie: The Complete Series
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
House M.D.: Season One Review
The Players
Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House
Jennifer Morrison as Dr. Allison Cameron
Omar Epps as Dr. Eric Foreman
Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase
Lisa Edelstein as Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson
Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital is the setting for the best...yes, the best medical drama I have personally ever seen. Dr. Gregory House, along with his crach diagnostics team, Foreman, Chase and Cameron, are presented, on a weekly basis, with an ultra rare set of symptoms and are forced to act against the clock to try and figure out exactly what they must do to save their patients. In the first season alone they are presented with such ailments as: neurocysticercosis, tuberculoma, anthrax, leprosy, acute intermitent porphyria, copper allergy and african trypanosomiasis, just to name a few. House takes great pleasure in trying to figure out the puzzles that surround the patients who are suffering, and only wants the cases that have a challenge to them.
On the other hand, you get to see House, working clinic duty. Almost the exact opposite of the ultra rare cases, this is where we get to see House diagnose the simple cases, such as this gem...
patient: "I'm having pain in my legs"
House: "Have you been doing any running lately?"
patient: "Well, I have been running for about two hours every morning. I'm training for the big marathon.
House "Hmmm...Odd, you're running two hours a day and getting pain in your legs??? I'm puzzled"
So who is Gregory House?
In a backstory (and in a much later episode) we hear that House has had a thigh muscle infarction in his right leg, basically disabling his leg and forcing him to walk with the use of a cane. Bitter, depressed and sarcastic are just a few words I'd use to describe Dr. House, who "loves nobody" and believes that "everybody lies". Constantly putting pressure on his trio of doc's to do better, come up with better answers and figure out the problems, House alienates himself from, not only his trio, but everyone else that comes around him. If it wasn't for his sheer brillance in the medical field, he'd have been fired from his position years ago.
Season One hits with a bang, delivering House at his finest, right from the get go. This is not one of those shows where you have to drag through two or three seasons, just to get to the good stuff. Here, some of the great episodes are laid out to you from the first disc and do not let up.
If you have any desire to see a Grade A show, with great acting, great plot and some twists, turns, excitement, suspense, tears and huge laughs, then do yourself a big favor and pick up the first season of House M.D. Trust me, you will not be disapointed.
"Candy canes?! Is this some sort of SICK joke??"
Andrew
6/17/2008
Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House
Jennifer Morrison as Dr. Allison Cameron
Omar Epps as Dr. Eric Foreman
Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase
Lisa Edelstein as Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson
Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital is the setting for the best...yes, the best medical drama I have personally ever seen. Dr. Gregory House, along with his crach diagnostics team, Foreman, Chase and Cameron, are presented, on a weekly basis, with an ultra rare set of symptoms and are forced to act against the clock to try and figure out exactly what they must do to save their patients. In the first season alone they are presented with such ailments as: neurocysticercosis, tuberculoma, anthrax, leprosy, acute intermitent porphyria, copper allergy and african trypanosomiasis, just to name a few. House takes great pleasure in trying to figure out the puzzles that surround the patients who are suffering, and only wants the cases that have a challenge to them.
On the other hand, you get to see House, working clinic duty. Almost the exact opposite of the ultra rare cases, this is where we get to see House diagnose the simple cases, such as this gem...
patient: "I'm having pain in my legs"
House: "Have you been doing any running lately?"
patient: "Well, I have been running for about two hours every morning. I'm training for the big marathon.
House "Hmmm...Odd, you're running two hours a day and getting pain in your legs??? I'm puzzled"
So who is Gregory House?
In a backstory (and in a much later episode) we hear that House has had a thigh muscle infarction in his right leg, basically disabling his leg and forcing him to walk with the use of a cane. Bitter, depressed and sarcastic are just a few words I'd use to describe Dr. House, who "loves nobody" and believes that "everybody lies". Constantly putting pressure on his trio of doc's to do better, come up with better answers and figure out the problems, House alienates himself from, not only his trio, but everyone else that comes around him. If it wasn't for his sheer brillance in the medical field, he'd have been fired from his position years ago.
Season One hits with a bang, delivering House at his finest, right from the get go. This is not one of those shows where you have to drag through two or three seasons, just to get to the good stuff. Here, some of the great episodes are laid out to you from the first disc and do not let up.
If you have any desire to see a Grade A show, with great acting, great plot and some twists, turns, excitement, suspense, tears and huge laughs, then do yourself a big favor and pick up the first season of House M.D. Trust me, you will not be disapointed.
"Candy canes?! Is this some sort of SICK joke??"
Andrew
6/17/2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Arrested MacGyver
Just to give you an update, Ruth and I have finished off the first season of House, and...WOW, what a fucking great show. Definitely moved to the very top of my list of favorite shows. I'll do a little review of that soon, and post it up here.
Next up, Arrested Development and MacGyver. We're nearly done with the first discs of both of them. No opinion yet, I'll let ya know.
Lastly, we picked up the first seasons of C.S.I., Grey's Anatomy and Six Feet Under on Friday, as well as Scrubs: Season 2.
Andrew
6/16/2008
Next up, Arrested Development and MacGyver. We're nearly done with the first discs of both of them. No opinion yet, I'll let ya know.
Lastly, we picked up the first seasons of C.S.I., Grey's Anatomy and Six Feet Under on Friday, as well as Scrubs: Season 2.
Andrew
6/16/2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
HOUSE!!
So we've got five episodes left of House M.D. and let me tell you, if you haven't seen it...you must! After coming off the Dexter kick that we were on, we made no hesitation getting right into another terrific series, and one that, in my opinion, may be better.
We loved it so much, in fact, that we gathered up a small grouping of DVD's and took them to the mall tonight to sell, so that we could buy the second season. I'll do a more formal review when we're finished with season one, but I was so excited about finding such a gem, that I had to say something about it.
It's a marvelous show, and one last time, seek it out, buy it, watch it and love it!!
Enjoy the video. Don't worry nothing really gets spoiled in the vid. Just a video showing how depressed a man Greg House actually is.
Andrew
6/12/2008
We loved it so much, in fact, that we gathered up a small grouping of DVD's and took them to the mall tonight to sell, so that we could buy the second season. I'll do a more formal review when we're finished with season one, but I was so excited about finding such a gem, that I had to say something about it.
It's a marvelous show, and one last time, seek it out, buy it, watch it and love it!!
Enjoy the video. Don't worry nothing really gets spoiled in the vid. Just a video showing how depressed a man Greg House actually is.
Andrew
6/12/2008
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