Thursday, December 28, 2006
Best Television of 2006 - Part 2
House
Yep, late on this one too, and I've only seen the first "season". And yet...
Now this is a bit hit in America, of course, so they have money to spend on it, but still - if you win a race because you have good equipment and training, it doesn't mean that you should be disqualified in favour of the guy five seconds behind wearing plimsolls and winkingly milking the home crowd.
Hugh Laurie is great, and don't let the voice put you off - it's only British people who think his accent is dodgy, American critics all approve. Thankfully, after the first few episodes the focus shifts from CSI-for-diseases to character. They're funny! They're pretty! They're complicated! Great.
I just can't get enough of Laurie; nor, apparently, can the great women of America. This is surely the most unexpected, and welcome, second act of anyone's career. He's finally moved out of (fat fraudulent jester) Stephen Fry's shadow; and he's given hope to us all.
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House
Yep, late on this one too, and I've only seen the first "season". And yet...
Now this is a bit hit in America, of course, so they have money to spend on it, but still - if you win a race because you have good equipment and training, it doesn't mean that you should be disqualified in favour of the guy five seconds behind wearing plimsolls and winkingly milking the home crowd.
Hugh Laurie is great, and don't let the voice put you off - it's only British people who think his accent is dodgy, American critics all approve. Thankfully, after the first few episodes the focus shifts from CSI-for-diseases to character. They're funny! They're pretty! They're complicated! Great.
I just can't get enough of Laurie; nor, apparently, can the great women of America. This is surely the most unexpected, and welcome, second act of anyone's career. He's finally moved out of (fat fraudulent jester) Stephen Fry's shadow; and he's given hope to us all.
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