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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 24
Runtime: 42 min.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Premiered: 2008

Format:

Series

Genres:

Drama, Mystery

Created By:

David Shore

Actors:

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

After two parter end­ing sea­son 3, and the death of Wilsons girl­friend Amber, House and Wil­son rela­tion­ship has hit the rock bot­tom, and Wil­son decides to leave to hos­pi­tal and cut House from his life. And that’s the story line in the begin­ning of the sea­son 5. This time, we got full 24 episodes sea­son and dif­fer­ent episodes and story line struc­ture than before, and that were not as good as the for­mula used in first four seasons.

Sto­ries

First half of this sea­son is bet­ter because sto­ries are House-​Wilson related and they involve new char­ac­ter, pri­vate inves­ti­ga­tor hired by House to spy on his team and Wil­son. Also, very impor­tant is the episode reveal­ing how House and Wil­son met. But, then we will get involved in not so inter­est­ing and for the most part badly exe­cuted sto­ry­line involv­ing For­man and Thir­teen. Well, hav­ing many main char­ac­ters is inter­est­ing, but you still need to have sto­ries for each one of them, and in the case of this series, that is not very inter­est­ing, since the House is and should be in the cen­ter of atten­tion. Many view­ers agree that in terms of writ­ing this is worst sea­son of House.

House Sea­son 5 promo

But toward the end of the sea­son things will get bet­ter and a lot darker. With the depar­ture of Kut­ner (Kal Penn started work­ing for the White House, and his char­ac­ter had to go), House is slowly start­ing to go deeper into the addic­tion, cul­mi­nat­ing with Chase bach­e­lor party and hal­lu­ci­na­tions of Amber.

Char­ac­ters

As I said, writ­ers tried to show us more of the supporting-​main cast and that didn’t proved to be the best idea. But, we get to see more of the Hugh Lau­rie explor­ing House, and show­ing real addic­tion caused insan­ity. Also, first half and Wil­son sto­ries were great.

Hope­fully, sea­son 6 will get back on track with House cen­tric storyline.

Con­clu­sion

This is still excel­lent sea­son, if you get over some writ­ing prob­lems. Any­way, sea­son 6 has just begun, and we will see if this sea­son will be bet­ter, and I expect just that.