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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 16
Runtime: 42 min.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Premiered: 2007

Format:

Genres:

Drama, Mystery

Created By:

David Shore

Actors:

Anne Dudek, Hugh Laurie, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Kal Penn, Lisa Edelstein, Olivia Wilde, Omar Epps, Peter Jacobson, Robert Sean Leonard

Made In:

USA

Premiered at:

FOX

Season 3 finale was really great and the unex­pected turn of things has left House alone, with­out the team on the start of sea­son 4. This sea­son is shorter than usual due to the WGA strike, and only 16 episodes were pro­duced. But, in some ways that even helped the writ­ers to con­cen­trate on the main sto­ry­line much more. And there is sim­ply no bad episode in sea­son 4. We also got sev­eral new cast mem­bers both reg­u­lar and recurring.

Story

Well, House is all alone now, and dur­ing the first episode he will try to prove that he can work on his own, and that he doesn’t need the team at all. That didn’t turned out so well, and it was the time to find the new team. So, the House set up inter­view job — real­ity show with more than 30 doc­tors for 3 opened posi­tions. But in the same time old team is not gone, and they will be back on dif­fer­ent posi­tions in the hos­pi­tal. And dur­ing the first third of the sea­son House will weed out the most of the appli­cants and choose 3 of them. Also, there is a very impor­tant sto­ry­line about Wil­son and his new girl­friend that will cul­mi­nate with dark episodes end­ing the season.

Char­ac­ters

A biggest change in this sea­son is much larger cast and 9 reg­u­lar cast mem­bers. We will not see much Cameron or Chase, but they are still there. And the job inter­view story line gave as plenty new mate­r­ial for Hugh Lau­rie to fur­ther explore his House char­ac­ter and to bring more humor into the mix. Also, I really like the choice of actors for new team, and plot around the Anne Dudek char­ac­ter ‘Cut­throat Bitch’ that will be around for the most of the season.

Job Inter­view

It’s a shame that only 3 doc­tors had to stay, because some oth­ers were also great and was real fun to watch all sorts of prob­lems House imposed on all of them.

Con­clu­sion

This is really amaz­ing sea­son, and the deci­sion to reboot the series and infuse it with fresh blood for House to play with was great. Review of much darker sea­son 5 will be pub­lished soon.