Does anyone here watch the American TV series "HOUSE"?

by Nathan Natas 3 Replies latest jw friends

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  Nathan Natas

  (from wikipedia):
  House (also known as House, M.D.) is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (PPTH) in New Jersey.

  One of the doctors who has worked with House is Dr. Remy Hadley played by Olivia Wilde. Dr. Hadley is most frequently called "thirteen" because she was the thirteenth person to apply to work with House, and House could never remember her name, so he called her by her number.

  

  In recent past episodes, "thirteen" has been absent, but in the episode that aired April 11, 2001 titled "The Dig" she re-appears, and we learn that she has been in jail. House shows up to drive her home. At one point during the trip home, House stops at an address Thirteen has given him.

  House waits in the car while she gets out, goes to the door and rings the bell. A man answers, and after a brief greeting we can't hear, she knees the householder in the groin. She returns to the car, and House says to her, "I didn't know you were a Jehovah's Witness." She replies, "The weak lost faith when Christ didn't return in '75, but I still believe." (She was being sarcastic.)

  I'm trying to find a snip of it to share with y'all...
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  Broken Promises

  Yep, old news. There's already 2 other threads on this...
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  Nathan Natas

  I wondered if someone else might have posted on this, but I couldn't find those threads until AFTER I was informed the study material had already been covered. Please find it in your spleen to forgive me.

  Note to those unfamiliar with the character called "Thirteen":

  A. She's a very intelligent medical doctor, which means she did NOT attend AWAKE! University.

  B. She is bi-sexual.

  C. She has a past history of selling drugs.

  D. She has assisted suicides.

  E. She is not portrayed as a pedophile, so she cannot be a JW. All JWs are pedophiles or pedophile sympathizers.

  F. She has Huntington's Disease, a neurodegenerative genetic disorder that affects muscle coordination and leads to cognitive decline and dementia. It typically becomes noticeable in middle age.. She has arranged for her own suicide when she feels the time is right.

  The character is NOT a JW and is not intended to be mistaken for one. She and House are two intelligent people having fun with a bit of esoterica, that's all. Don't get your sacred panties in a bunch.
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  PublishingCult

  I'm a fan of Hugh Laurie, Nathan, but have not seen an entire episode of House yet. I am going to get the entire DVD collection and watch a couple episodes at the time, maybe do a marathon. I sometimes learn about good TV drama two or three seasons into the series (because I don't watch a lot of TV) and never bother trying to start watching- trying to understand and catch up not knowing every detail. I hate that. I saw the second to the last episode of Six Feet Under, was floored, so I went out and bought the first season on DVD.