@@bronzeager1298 I couldve used another episode, for some of the stuff i wouldve included in it, but the author kept me locked in. ive burned every scene into my brain to the point that i cant watch it anymore, but this was a perfect 6hour joyride back down memory lane
To rewrite Broken as the finale, Wilson would need to make a larger appearance (possibly picking house up from the hospital) because at the end of the day the show is about their friendship at the core of the series
@@mishmash3927 Honestly it could easily be done, Wilson being there before and after House went into in patient care could be representative of how their bond is able to make it thru the thick and the thin
Wilson would have picked House up, but House, being House, didn't call him for a ride. That bus ride was far more therapeutic for him than a well-meaning interrogation by Wilson would have been.
@@asimhussain8716 it’s a result of LGTBCDETC pushing and pushing They don’t get it, ofc it can be brotherly love but they’ll never want it to be cous it’s all made for them even when it’s not
I think that you missed the point of House's "but I can change" revelation. It may be easy to dismiss, because we generally accept that people can change. It's difficult, and it almost never happens the way we might want it to, but we accept that people can change. That said, House has been repeating the mantra that people don't change throughout the whole series. So, for him to embrace change in the finale, it seems kind of fitting. So, what is he resolving to change? And why? Throughout the series House's relationship with Wilson has been the one glimmer of nigh unflinching happiness in his otherwise miserable life. So for Wilson to face certain death, it presents itself as the worst thing that could possibly happen for House. He's been informed that he will lose his one glimmer of light, there's nothing he can do to stop it, and he knows that the chances of him finding a replacement are infintismaly small. Now, the pivotal piece to recognize is that House is incredibly self-centered. He drinks and does drugs. He engages in risky behaviors. He acts out. He challenges authority. He always puts himself first. Even when he was with Cuddy they would argue about small pieces of inconsideratness, that just prompted him to justify his position, w/o sacrificing anything. He even realized at one point that Cuddy made him a worse doctor, and in putting himself first, he resolved to sacrifice future lives for the sake of his happiness. So the reason his self-centeredness is so important, is because that's the reason why he was passed out in a burning building with a junky. He saw the darkness coming, and as per his tendency to put himself first he seriously considered killing himself. And after hearing all of the appeals from his hallucinations he decided to put his desires aside for Wilson's sake. And ask "What does he need?" "He needs me." " I could end it right now, but then he would be forced to face the end alone." "I can change. I'm going to put him first." So, he faked his death, giving a nod to Sherlock Holmes, I think. And decided to live for Wilson, like Wilson did for him. Now, do I think this was a lasting change? No. He likely puts a gun in his mouth 5 seconds after Wilson was gone. But we didn't see that part. We saw House sacrifice himself for his best friend. We saw him change.
This is exactly what I thought when I watched the show for the first time too, thank you for wording it so beautifully. I hope more people read this because this idea behind the ending is what really made me sob as the show ended, even if other season endings seemed more clear cut etc. This change was crucial to his character, and without letting him take that step before the show ended would have been disappointing. He finally accepted a need for self sacrifice, even in a short term sense, for another person who he loved, and that was an amazing ending to the show in my opinion [not perfect, but nothing is :')]
This is incredibly well said!! Hit the nail right on the head. It was fricking beautiful, and I'm glad someone else acknowledges it in this way. Very dark but satisfying take on it.
When I first saw the finale, my immediate thought was that House did not succeed in getting out of the burning building. He died there, just as Wilson would die soon enough. The motorcycle sequence was their idea of heaven, riding off together for an afterlife free from pain and consequences. I was also like 16, so take this analysis with a grain of salt lol
16 year old you missed the entire scene where he and Wilson have an entire conversation about him faking his own death, how he faked his own death, and what they were going to do now that he had faked his own death, huh?
I feel bad for the folks who were watching this as it came out instead of in one long sitting like I just did. This documentary is a work of art. I can't wait to forget all about it so I can watch it all over again.
I think the song choice in the finale was phenomenal! They gave House his send off with the funeral. The motorcycle scene, the actual fade-to-black finale scene, was about Wilson. It used the song that called back to Amber's death, a huge event in Wilson's story, because it was the finale to his story. And by making it NOT about House, it was even MORE about House by showing how much he's grown from being a childish, detached, narcissist... if that makes sense.
I totally think the finale was about Wilson or maybe the relationship House and Wilson have. I kinda think that the reason they didn;t end w/ You Can't Alway Get What You Want is because explitly framing Wilson as what House needs as they drive off into the sunset would have been too romantic. By using a song that is a callback the the other very important Wilson relationship, they are saying that House has just an important role in Wilson's life as Amber had (which the show explicitly said) while making the connection more subtle and hinting the aspect of death that frames the interactions between Wilson and Amber and Wilson and House in the finale
I think it's awesome how Wilsons song is "Enjoy yourself" and House's song is "You can't always get what you want". It perfectly frames their characters. Wilson's probably was that he lived for everyone else but himself while Houses problem was that he only lived for himself.
@@ToqTheWise even if that was true, the ending reveals that House realises lief is about otters, and in that respect Wilson rubbed of on him. I dont actually believe he is selfish though, hes a idealist/romantic, they always end up dissapointed. Wilson as some have Saïd is too perfect, but that is what House will do anything for him .
"It's like he was in the middle of doing his taxes and thought 'I don't have to do this if I kill myself' and then, you know, came to his senses" *MOOD*
I have definitely been there, though usually it's looking ahead to some dreaded thing that has to be done. 'Man this sucks hard, but I wouldn't have to do this if I kill myself.'
I actually think the reason for House having to go back to jail works perfectly. Not only is it a stupid prank that House never thought would make him risk anything, since he's already done much worse and gotten away with it, but it's also a direct consequence of House's grief over Wilson's unavoidable death. His grief for his death is the thing that would ultimately prevent him from being there for it, and it also comes out of absolutely nowhere to slap him in the face right when he thinks he and Wilson can have a good time. I don't think it's "just a prank" or "just a device", it's the manifestation of his pain and grief that he can't process or deal with that's robbing him of the most important thing in his life.
@TheBobBrom I think the point was that they thought he had done it on purpose to clog the pipes to get back at Foreman, and since he couldn't prove his intentions and he was already out on parole, they couldn't leave him out knowing he was causing damage to the hospital when he should have been in jail? I honestly have no idea lmao, but I also guess that this time he damaged a shit ton of equipment as well as injured actual patients and doctors, which didn't happen the first time around?
@Robin Right but you could have picked any of the events listed and said "House is finally in a situation he can't meddle out of." The consequences are a given-no one's suggesting changing those. The question is why that prank ... which has, at best, an indirect connection to Wilson, when the examples provided in the video would be much more directly connected.
I just think it's too random and too....silly, especially considering the crimes under House's belt before this. It's very much a vehicle of getting House to be suicidal and thus relatively unimportant with what the rest of the episode deals with, which is fine, but honestly disappointing with the rest of the material the episode has to work with, because that premise feels like a standard episode, rather than a season finale one, let alone the series' finale. Personally would have preferred the Chase tie-in as suggested, as it would feel more in-line with a medical mystery drama to end with a medical mystery gone wrong rather than none at all. And would have made for a great 2-parter. The only downside is that Chase would have ended the show guilty that his injury not only got his mentor fired but caused his mentor's death, and would become just as jaded and depressed as House is, unless House also revealed that he was still alive, and physically passed the torch to Chase, but that ruins the fact that Wilson is the only one that knows.
Thank You! Even though Jesse's take has perfectly good reasoning the way he analyzed it, I think that he was a little too critical for the sake of being critical in that matter. I thought the exact same thing You did, "House's pranks never really had a huge consequence for him, as Cuddy or Foreman or anyone else he has a relationship to just let him off the hook. Now though, his actions had such a big effect that there is just no way he can squeeze himself out of that situation." It adds that in that scenario we, the audience, and House himself did not see that coming which caused a meaningful surprise effect. Having him go to jail because of his fake marriage or not cooperating with his P.O.'s restraints may be more convenient since they were "a given". But I still believe there was actual meaning to the story how it really went down.
I think one of my least favorite things about House’s final season was that the series has always drawn parallels between House and Wilson’s inability to maintain relationships, and said that they couldn’t commit to the day-to-day, but could do big romantic gestures. I wanted House to have to do the day-to-day with Wilson-sacrifice on solving puzzles, actually go to talk with his parole officer, do the work on staying clean that he couldn’t do with Cuddy. Them riding off into the sunset was cool and all, but it was just another dysfunctional big gesture, not the actual work that needs to go into a major relationship, be it romantic or platonic.
But hey, it works because when you only have 5 months to live, you wanna give up on changing yourself. Because House is doing all of this for Wilson, he's both commiting to the mundane and sticking to his love for extravagance, because it's all they're gonna do from that point on.
@@valx5 oh, you're right. Thanks for the hint, since because it wasn't called House part 7, youtube didn't suggest it as a possible continuation... ^^ ( ua-cam.com/video/0G1feXY5-jQ/v-deo.html )
By 'destroying his entire life' House knew what he was doing. And part of that is becoming a nobody, and even if he ends up arrested later on, those 5 months are the only thing even slightly worth living for.
I think the out of nowhere reason of why he went to jail it’s something to the effect of his bad actions finally catching up with him, like he thought he could get away with anything but the reality gave him a slap in the face, sometimes life is like that.
Man, I wish House ended like that, with "we hope to never see him again". Like, "Hey, show's over. Want to know if House changed and is able to cope with bad things happening in his life? Want to know if this is only temporary as 'people don't change'? You can't always get what you want" PS: I wanted to end with "You're gonna carry that weight", but its a different franchise
My favorite episode is 'The Dig' when Thirteen gets released from prison and House is there to pick her up. Just thinking about the ending where he promises to kill her when her Huntington's gets too hard to handle, it makes me tear up. He never shared that sort of closeness with any of his assistants.
That's a hell of a point, actually! He got closer with Chase I think in part of being a fatherly/mentor figure in his life and was the only one he hung out with of his own volition, but other than that, this is an intimacy he definitely never shared with any of his other fellows.
@@konroh2 yes it is, if it’s based on something no one else in your life understands. If you are chronically ill and aware of the progression your illness(es) WILL make, knowing there is someone who will end it when you can’t, is the best love letter, the most important part of a relationship someone can give. Wilson turned off Ambers life support machines, because it was the best for her. House won’t let Wilson suffer when his cancer reaches a certain point. I know that not every healthy person can understand that. But your loved ones usually don’t want to let you go. So you suffer through endless, useless therapies and torture high pain just to give them more time. While it does give you time too, it’s not always worth it from the patients point of view. House made a promise of which 13 knew he would keep because he knows pain, he knows that life is not worth living at all costs. Most doctors agree with me as most of them have seen way too much that they‘d want to prolong their life if it means they have no control over their body and life. But unfortunately not every country allows a medically supported death with dignity. So people have to choose illegal options or suffer. If someone is offering you to get legally in trouble for it, then yes, it means something! Intimacy doesn’t need to involve sexuality or a life long bond. It means you connect on a deeper level with each other. I have kids, I‘m fighting and will fight (I don’t have Huntingtons but multiple other, rare illnesses) but at a certain point fighting is only causing unnecessary trauma and pain - for everyone involved. Not everyone wants that and that should be okay! Do you know how terrible Huntington’s is? Or some other chronic illnesses? You don’t just loose control over your body, you get dementia, psychosis, you loose everything that makes you, you. Not that the physical symptoms are better, at a point you can’t eat because your muscles get no or wrong signals from the brain, so you’re severely underweight. Breathing is affected, many die of pneumonia because they can’t stop fluid going down their trachea. And the worst part? You are aware of it, you watch yourself getting worse and worse, you know where it’s heading and you cannot do anything about it. So yes, they shared a moment of intimacy with each other and it means a lot that he made that offer.
@@juliaspoonie3627 I understand that you are saying that at a certain point life isn't worth living, but I disagree with that. Life is worth living, there are people who are in pain, who are suffering, who are seeing themselves succumb and yet who recognize that life is still worth living. The problem with your argument is that it's very close to saying that we should murder all people with mental illnesses, or with deformed bodies, especially if they don't know what's going on or if they want to be dead. I know this needs to be a nuanced conversation but there's usually a natural progression, it's very rare for someone to be completely aware of what's going on while losing all function, but it does happen. The problem is that the line drawn between life and death is irrevocable, while the line drawn concerning pain and suffering is subjective. Is there a certain point where all suicides are okay just because a person doesn't want to deal with life anymore? Grief, trauma, stress--we could draw the line anywhere. I think it's much more intimate to say you'll be with someone as they undergo dementia and loss of function. I know many people who have seen their spouses deteriorate and have lovingly cared for them until the end--that's true intimacy. This speaks to a larger worldview as well, whether God's in control, whether all life ends at death, whether life is valuable no matter the circumstance. It's certainly true that suicide seems more acceptable within a worldview that doesn't think there's any ultimate purpose to life, and to me that's unacceptable. Love is much more a person saying, "I'll be with you," rather than "I'll kill you."
@@konroh2 Saying that people should be able to choose their own death is miles away from saying that all disabled people should be murdered. That's an insane statement. Yes, people live with chronic pain and disability, and they want to continue to live. Those are not the people we are talking about here. We are talking about terminal diseases that will kill you either way and people who don't want to suffer. You seem to be against suicide for religious reasons, and that's fine - you are absolutely able to live out your life to the very end, and I hope it is a long and fulfilled one. But just because you have a certain viewpoint does not somehow mean that everyone else secretly thinks the same, or that any other viewpoint is somehow invalid. There are people that don't believe in God, or the afterlife, or that suicide is bad. If those people get a diagnosis of Huntington's disease, or Dementia, or anything that they know will kill them one day, they are able to think beforehand about what they wish for. A lot of terminal diseases end in pain, suffering, and confusion before finally death comes. This could be days, this could be months. And those people (not you, but people who think differently than you) can therefore decide if they want their last days to be ones of endless suffering or to end it before they have to experience that suffering. They themselves can draw the line of what they want to experience in this life. For someone who wishes to live until their last breath, "I'll be with you" will be a true form of love. For someone who doesn't want to live through it, it would be an ultimate act of betrayal, a sign that they would rather see you suffer like they would instead of accepting your personal wish. Just imagine the opposite - if you were in a situation where you have a few painful days left in your life and you ask someone to stay with you, and instead of doing that, they promise to kill you when they feel it's right. It would be an unforgiveable thing to say. Love isn't doing what you think is best, love is supporting your loved one in whatever they decide is best for themselves. Love is accepting other people for who they are.
Right, even if it is only one of those "the actor had to leave" situations, it actually hit so so hard, because depression can be completely invisible inside an outwardly happy-go-lucky person, and that's what Kutner was. We didn't get to know him super well, but that doesn't lessen the tragedy and I think is well reflected in House's struggle with grief. I feel he was like "Well I didn't even care about the little guy as I care about none of my life's NPCs, so what I'm feeling can't possibly be grief". Just like he said to Nolan "I'm not depressed" lmao. I'm glad we as a society are finally getting to a place where we can at least think about the possibility that we might be struggling, and acknowledge that struggle for what it is.
I disagree with pretty much all of this one. The point was that the prank that actually got him in trouble was some lame bullshit he didn’t even think twice about. Not to mention that it was motivated by his feelings for Wilson. Plus, it wasn’t small. The ceiling collapsed on 3 people, one of whom was inside the MRI at the time. Someone could have been seriously injured or killed by falling debris or electrocution. The idea that it was something small that House wouldn’t even consider as a risk was important, and House’s being sent back to prison was important, too. It was one last chance for House to show Wilson how much his friendship matters. That’s what the whole episode is about
"the prank that actually got him in trouble was some lame bullshit he didn’t even think twice about" Exactly! Any other thing would feel appropriate, deserved. We would see it coming and so would House. All of those were calculated risks he took. This one wasn't, this was a total surprise and how stupid and mundane it is, is what makes it real and shocking. It's also both completely his fault and completely avoidable and pointless. Unlike helping Wilson with the chemo or trying to save a patient or even helping someone get a Green Card. It was pointless and that's the point. It's kinda sad, smug and pretentious that this guy thinks he's a better writer than the team of writers in this great show while missing so much.
@@christopherbertoli7322 He was an addict but he was functional and also a genius. He knew what he was doing. He knew that breaking the rules to solve the case could get him in trouble and did it anyway. Calculated risk doesn't mean he knew he'd get away with it, only that he knew the likely consequences of his actions before doing them and did it anyway. With the prank he never thought for a second about that getting him back to jail. Didn't even cross his mind. He didn't think "this will probably get me in jail but I'll do it anyway because I have to to please my puzzle-solving mind" like he did when solving the cases or "because I just want to" like when he married a foreigner. In all of those instances he KNEW the risks. "House was only getting away because he was protected due to being that good" exactly, THAT is an example of a calculated risk. He always thought he could mess around and break the rules because he counted on the Dean of the hospital protecting him. If it was only about "season timing" they could have used any of those regular law breaks, as the video proposes, and make that his ticket back to jail. Season timing would be to randomly have the officers investigating his marriage finding something suspicious and discovering the forgery or something like that and it would be underwhelming because it was expected (by both House and the audience), because it was a calculated risk on House to do that. Same with helping Wilson with his chemo or saving a patient. EVERYONE would see it coming. There is a reason they chose to do it over a simple and mundane prank none of us (including House) thought twice about. A reason you obviously don't want to even address because I already explained it in the comment you replied to and you just ignored it and claimed it was "season timing".
@@christopherbertoli7322 "If an addict walks into a casino, goes over to a roulette table and puts everything on 21 then loses, that isn't a calculated risk" If that addict KNOWS he can lose, it is a calculated risk. You seem to have a problem with the concept of calculated risk so just move one from it and use the other way I explained it. It's an expected outcome. Addicts are not retards, addicts just can't quit but they know the consequences of their actions. They know what's the most possible outcome, they just don't care because they're addicts. Knowing the risks and still doing it is the concept. "that isn't a calculated risk. That's them feeding their addiction and their friends enabling them." Yes, House counts on their friends enabling him while doing risky stuff. That's why it's a calculated risk. I can't explain this in any simpler terms. Why you are convinced that "friends enabling you" is somehow mutually exclusive with "calculated risk" is a complete mystery to me. Yes, they are enabling him and yes he is counting on that as a variable. Friends enabling him is part of the calculated risk. He knows and he uses and manipulates them. In the smallpox case he DID take a calculated risk, he was just wrong. You really have an issue with this concept. Calculated risk doesn't mean you know you'll get away with it. Hence the word RISK. You can still be wrong, lose your money, go to prison. The only thing that means is that you KNOW the consequences of your actions, you considered them and still decided to take that RISK. Him being wrong about smallpox doesn't mean it wasn't a calculated risk. "No backup plan, no way out of the room. He's either right or he dies." YES, EXACTLY. And he knew that beforehand but still did it. Calculated risk doesn't mean you have a back-up plan if you're wrong. I really don't know how to explain this in other terms. Maybe the definition will help. Definition of calculated risk: a hazard or chance of failure whose degree of probability has been reckoned or estimated before some undertaking is entered upon See? Nothing about a back-up plan, nothing about being 100% sure of being right or getting away with it. It's just a RISK you take after estimating the hazard. That's it. House was always a genius from episode one, it's not the last episode that sets him as a genius. If you think he's just an addict that got lucky you're either really really dumb and missed the entire point of the show or have some sort of history, predisposition and hate towards addicts and missed the entire point of the show. In any way I can't express my points in any simpler way so I'm done here. "there's been a lot of Esthers" And there have been COUNTLESS MORE of the others. There is a reason Esther has a name as an outliner and the hundreds he saves are the norm.
@@92brunod I think both of you are right in a way, as House's character is a complex one. Yes, House is a genius, knows what he's doing, counts on his friends to bail him out, etc. However he's also an addict which in turn means he also has moments of weakness where he stops being a genius and isn't exactly sure what's going to happen. The tricky part is to distinguish which parts are House being a genius with massive plot armor and which ones are showing House in his most vulnerable state. Another aspect to House's personality is his impulsiveness. Impulsive people generally tend to act before they think. Now House is not your typical impulsive person, and ordinarily is a very calculated one which is paradoxical in and of itself. However as mentioned he's never portrayed as a perfect character so it's very much plausible that some of the situations he gets himself into were not thought out and calculated ahead of time. In fact we as the audience simply don't know in most cases, as we can only judge his actions based on the outcome, as we can't really see deep inside his mind to actually know things for certain. What we do know however is that correlation doesn't equal causation. The fact that he didn't get caught doing something or had someone bail him out of a tough spot doesn't necessarily mean he had it planned all along. Sometimes that's certainly the case but not always. So as I said, you're both right, it ultimately boils down to which situations were planned and which were actual screw ups. That's for each of us to decide as none of us have the factual answer from the writers and showrunners.
If you search for Hugh Laurie you'll easily come across a video of him playing piano in a jazz club. I like to imagine it's House somewhere in South America after Wilson's death. Doing medical favours for the locals for painkillers and maybe something stronger. And one day his ageing body will OD. As a severe haemophiliac with a bum knee, who is depressive and misanthropic, i idolised house. His world and cold logic made comforting sense. Now older, though i still believe that the world functions on pure causality, i understand the mechanics of life are more complicated than pure function of logic. Especially when you include other people into the equation. Constants fray. You still fall. And it still hurts. Thank you for making this series, it was comprehensive and expertly put together.
Wilson’s Heart was the first episode I had seen more than a few minutes of. Was bawling by the end despite not knowing who any of the character’s were. Bought the DVDs and bawled again the second time. And pretty much set off again just watching the damn clip here.
@@electricfishfan But it’s completely fine to use a gender-neutral term, sex and gender/gender expression aren’t explicitly connected so to use “they” works great as inclusive language! :)
What changed in house's moment in the warehouse could be described as hitting "rock bottom". Admittedly, he's been in similar places before, but in a burning building on street drugs is potentially pretty pretty revelatory.
This. These 6 episodes. Holy crap man. You are seriously gifted in the way you did this whole thing. I´ve seen a lot of similar thing. This is the best. By far. Thank you. Not necessarily for _what_ you did, but also for _how_ you did it.
Jaycie Victory 13 killed her brother because he also had Huntington disease, she worried no one would kill her when the disease gets bad so House promises her he would kill her
trosinees They were asking about him studying Physics. And I believe it was in the episode where House was contacted by the FBI. It could’ve been a different government agency, though.
It's reasons (and video essays) like this that prove how brilliant this series, the cast, the writing, everything is. Doing a series six part video essay is quite the endeavour, and I just have to say brilliant job.
I admit if House ended with "Broken", it would be pretty damn good - you made great arguments there. At the same time, I would have troubles naming even a few shows that ended at least just as well as House eventually did. Not that the ending matters more than the journey to that ending - GOT proved that on all levels, it derailed into awfulness way before the finale, before season 8 even. The finale only finished the job, so to speak. House's ending feels finite, in a good way - like there really isn't more to see beyond that point and whatever is left is better left discontinued. We don't need to see Wilson die, we don't need to see what House does after that happens...because damn, that would be a pure portion of depression on a plate. Just thinking about it, knowing what's in store for them in those few months that followed is more than enough. About them 'tickets in a toilet' thing, it always seemed very purposeful to me - because it means he's having to return to jail because of a ridiculous, stupid prank instead of something actually serious. Think about it: You're about to go to jail and miss your best friend's last moments as a result - all because of such a stupid STUPID thing you expected to get away with. As you almost always had in the past - a set precedens that suddenly doesn't apply in the moment it matters the most. Imagine that versus doing something unarguably bad where jail time is just straight-up justified. Both will make you feel like shit, but because the first one is so stupid it will make you feel even worse.
Breaking Bad is more about acknowledging that we all have evil in our hearts. We need to work against this evil. We actually have a need beyond ourselves. We need the God of love to fill us, we need to acknowledge our weakness, we need to have faith in what God has done for us.
Something that I noticed that I haven't seen anyone mention is the theme of change. Starting after Tritter or maybe even before you'll get the occasional conversation that goes "So nothing's changed?" "Everything has changed", like the wall prank in s8 or the discussion about Cuddy and House dating at the beginning of s7 and like I said, immediately after Tritter when Wilson sees House in jail and that's just what I can think of now
when i saw the first video of this series being posted i thought to myself, "oh, a long form analysis / critique of an 8 season long show, i should have a few months to binge my way through House again before the series wraps up!" and here i am barely at the end of season 3 and this is out. really enjoyed all the videos. :)
I know the directors have confirmed that the ending was to be taken literally, but I'm still convinced that the ending is a figment of Wilson's mind when he died from cancer. He hears a ringtone that no one else seems to hear, he meets House right outside his home, House literally says "I'm dead" (sure it could mean 'legally' but oh well), and they ride off together. How House survived the explosion was way too specific and convienent. To me, it's either Wilson's final thoughts, or him meeting House in wherever death leads to.
I have been falling asleep to House episodes for years. For some reason, I just find the episodes so calming, and the ultimate closure I can find from every single episode gives me this macabre lullaby. I adore that this UA-cam series exists, and I will watch it a few times. One day, I may even reference it in my own video essay; there is just so much to unpack from the series via so many perspectives. This is why House MD is so brilliant. Very well done, and I really appreciate what you've done here.
Great work! My personal headcanon is that House either somehow snuck out of the country and is working as an illegal doctor in some third world country, or he became a musician in some dive bar. Most likely both with a giant beard and possible facial prosthetic. :D
Season 5 has my favorite finale. House in Cuddys office genuinely confused about what's happening is such an amazing moment. But I do love House doing everything possible to go deeper into his subconscious.
the shows we like the most are the ones we can rip apart because we care. House attracted me because of the puzzles and the darish main character but Seasons 6-8 started to speak more to me about life and personal character. Sure it ended weird and got boring, but House ending was like losing a friend you enjoyed being around.
Of all the things in this world, dr house finally gets defeated by the proverbial "its just a prank bro" I kinda love the irony tbh, even though i agree with your points
It might have been interesting if House had to do something that lost him his medical license in order to somehow save Wilson. Unable to practice medicine, House starts teaching at a university along with Wilson. Kinda bittersweet, House can no longer do what he loves but it just goes to show that House needs other people just as much as the rest of us and he's not about to lose his one and only relationship that stands the test of time.
This has been an incredible production! You clearly have a lot of love for the show and as someone who has also been through the entire series, start to finish, at least a dozen times, the attention to detail and effort that obviously went into putting these videos together has been really appreciated. Legitimately got chills when you suggested the "You Can't Always Get What You Want" alternative ending scene. I'll never be able to watch that without thinking of what could (should) have been... and I see that as a good thing since, like you, I was always underwhelmed by the way they chose to wrap things up. Thanks for creating this... I hope you make more of these longer-format series in the future and really look forward to whatever project you move onto next!
Great work! I know a bit off topic, but what's interesting is that in the German translation the last Episode is called "Last Act: Reicehnbachfalls", which, at least if you know Sherlock Homes, kinda spoils the ending, especially compared with "Everybody dies".
I actually had to wait a day to watch this when I was in a better mental state because this series got me so emotionally invested in a series I honestly never really cared about. Well crafted, amazingly edited, and without a doubt, one of the most enjoyable tv analysis I have ever seen. This reminds me a lot of YMS's Oldboy's video.
Honestly in all of tv House and Wilson worked the best together and i like to think as sad as it is once Wilson was gone House went as well knowing he enjoyed those last moments and now was good, no longer needing more.
I watched all of this as soon as possible. House is one of my favorite shows, and I too, watched it as a teenager. I disagree on some points made across this series, but you did an amazing job. Can't wait to see more from you in the future.
This is random but just want to say thank you for leaving a comment where you said you didn't agree with everything he said in the series but loved and appreciated what he'd done. There are a couple of awful comments further down that are just so rude and arrogant about the series. Seriously damning with faint praise. And I just don't get why ppl are like that sometimes. So, thanks! :)
@@jaycievictory8461 Of course! I'm a tiny creator and I know how powerful a positive comment can be. He put out hours of content that probably required waaaay more than that to make. Thanks for the thanks!
I hate that this is over, but this whole series was brilliant. From the moment you posted episode 1, this has been something I've been absolutely looking forward to. Thank you so much for putting together this thoughtful and critical response to one of my favorite shows. Seeing deconstruction like this is one of my favorite things to do on UA-cam, and this has been two notches above the rest. Really, truly awesome stuff you've created here, man.
in my head House kills himself after the death of Wilson. He was already near the edge and he decides to live in the building fire solely to spend his time with Wilson. Thus him saying "im dead Wilson" has a deeper meaning.
This has been a very cool series. I would disagree on the points about how the parole violation that House got caught for was meaningless - I think that was very much the point. House got away with violation after violation, and in the end the only reason he can't be there for Wilson wasn't because he did something meaningful, but because he did something incredibly trite for no good reason and it was relatively meaningless. His obsessive and addictive behaviour is what was preventing him from being there for Wilson, not his genuine and excusable acts. That seems like a deliberate plot move to me.
House believes people don't change. His near-death experience convinced him he wanted to live, he needed to change, to adapt. Who says it's easy? Why is it such a big deal that he's made his mind up that he's willing to try again? A lot of the "problems" you raise are just your taste, which is fine, but I think worth pointing out
I thought the ending was great myself. Who wouldn't want to be able to do that with your best friend in his/her final days. I do agree that the buildup to it was a bit chaotic and a little flimsy to say the least. Never the less, riding off into the sunset together was far better than House going back to prison and missing those last days with his only true friend.
Hah, this came out the same day I watched the whole series, good shit. Reminds me of both why I am critical of House but why I also watched the whole thing. Some great TV in there, thanks for making the series o/
@@soeintyp9393 Sign me the F up for that. There are not nearly enough hours of commentary on everything great & terrible about House. Need more from the Longman gods.
I personally think that House actually did end up dying, either to the floor above falling onto him or the explosion. Either way, he finally realizes that, hey, maybe he *can* change, and that's his ultimate goal fulfilled, whether he sees it as such or not. He dies because it's a collapsing burning building, but he dies after finally coming to the aforementioned revelation. House never makes it out of a "back door". Wilson never checks the body to see if he's actually dead like Foreman said. The urn in the chapel is *actually* House's ashes. Wilson getting the message on what he says "isn't my phone", is probably Foreman messaging House's phone because he already knew that Wilson had it since they went to House's apartment to investigate and Wilson took it. This is also possibly more compounded that the text is from "E", possibly standing for "Eric", the only one who knows Wilson has House's phone. Then when all is said and done and Wilson finally sees what seems to be House again, House looks perfectly fine for someone who in a burning building seemingly crushed by falling wood and an explosion. I sort of see this as Wilson somehow deluding his memory of House back into existence for his final months on earth. Last part of that is extremely flawed logic, but it accounts for the seemingly impossible odds of House managing to survive the unsurvivable. I also like to see the ending as this since it gives a sense of closure, and actually gives weight to the title of the episode "Everyone Dies". Like I said, flawed theory, but it gives me closure.
Thanks for this series of video essays. I have no ideas how you manage to find the perfect clip for every single point you make. It’s genuinely amazing work.
I just finished all six parts. This was such a masterpiece man. Jesus Christ you really took this series in so many great directions. You're a wonderful writer and extremely intelligent. Your editing skills and abilities to fuse your writing with clips from the show (and almost include the context of those clips as a piece of the narration) is nothing short of genius. It's almost like you were having a conversation with the edited clips. So fucking cool. But mainly, I just love your points and thought provoking ideas. This was truly fantastic man. Truly.
I just decided to binge your six parter, definitely not the first time. But oh man did I need it. Thank you for such a well thought out series of videos. It actually really helped me calm down. There's a quote from a book I read recently that I thought was pretty relevant here, it's from a book called 'Seeds of Time', a few short stories mostly revolving on the idea of time travel, by the author John Wyndham (one of my favourites) who wrote amazing early sci-fi. The quote is this: "In the end, defeat, and the cold must come. First to the system, then the galaxy, then the universe, and the rest will be silence. Not to admit that is a foolish vanity." she paused. "Yet one grows flowers because they are lovely - not because one wishes them to live forever."
Excellent retrospective. To be able to look back and analyze these characters, their motivations, their fears and their feelings, it adds so much depth and complexity to a show I took mostly at surface level watching it all those years back. Your dissection of House’s personal and interpersonal relationships had me smiling, tearing up and questioning my own social struggles as I see many traits of House in myself and vice versa. I think you nailed it perfectly in this last part, that the show isn’t about how an emotionally abrasive, physically hurt, manipulative and social engineering intellect/sociopath emerges from a cocoon of reflection as a better man and finds true happiness. The real world doesn’t work that way. People are inherently broken things, in a world that doesn’t owe us anything. It sounds bleak, and it is, but I appreciate how the show doesn’t sugarcoat it, but explains that we need to find ways to cope with our flaws and feelings and move forward. It recognizes that no ones perfect, everyone is fighting their own battles, happiness is a constantly moving goal post that’s always just out of grasp. But for all that, broken people can still make meaningful connections with other broken people- a shared burden of pain gives strength to everyone.
The thing is he is a world renowned doctor, not a world renowned actor in one the most famous roles of all times, and if he got recognized he can just act as if he doesn't know what they are talking about, and it isn't like others in the room are gonna go "oh yeah, it is him!" :) I think it was a great finale, he knew what was most important in life, the time he had with the person he loved the most, his best friend.. money can always be transferred to accounts in various ways, you can´t live the normal life with your own bank account to get insurances etc Not everything in economics works as it does in the U.S, for example in pretty much all countries in the world outside of USA you can freely tell people your social security number since it isn't sensitive data in the same way as in USA
You know if the series had ended on the last spoken dialogue being the ‘and we hope to never see him again,’ it would have been perfect. It both fits the theme of his therapy but also on a meta level, as you’ve put it, if the show went on he was always going to have to get worse again. So if we never see him again, it can end happy.
These were so good. Thank you for putting in the time to make them and make me feel all the things. There's another youtuber named LadyKnightTheBrave and she's the only other essayist/critic who regularly makes me feel cathartic and cry, so thanks for providing that.
I think if they went on for a few more episodes & it could end (in my opinion) a better/perfect ending, they could iron out more details about how he survived, the time spent traveling with Wilson, Wilson dying, House dealing with his death (hopefully in a less destructive way than in the past), then house getting a fake identity & getting a job at a hospital as a janitor. Because if you remember House was inspired to become a doctor because when he was in a hospital once the doctors brought in a janitor because non of the other doctors could figure out what was wrong with the patient, the janitor was someone everybody hated but respected the opinion of & House wanted to be like that janitor. So in my opinion that would be a more fitting end than the one we got.
I mean, I watched some episodes here and there but not even a full season of House, however this was so narrative enganging that I saw this 6 episodes of yours. I hope one day you write your own show if you're interest on that, until then thanks for this essays they are beyond entertaining, they make me reflect about my own life and how I'm living. Great job man!
I remember the first time I watched this finale I was really young and it was before you could rewind and fast forward tv so the warehouse blew up and then there were credits so I went to watch something else and missed the part were he wasn't actually dead. So for yearssss i went on believing that at the end of House, House dies. It was a surprise when i finally watched the whole show beginning to end
I know we're not supposed to think about what happens to House after the show's over, but I like to think what happens to House is the same thing that happened to Frank Abagnale (The guy from Catch Me If You Can.) After Wilson's death, House will be found out, arrested, in prison for a few years, but eventually someone will recognize his gift and he works the rest of his life in the FBI or the CIA under their supervision. Either that or he goes somewhere like China and becomes a doctor there under false documentation, and since he can speak Chinese it would make sense.
The entire series was thoughtful and, for me, a great revisit to House. Very well done! Thank you for so many Thursdays of entertainment. I'll really miss it. I have to admit, your dig at Lost's finale made me curious what a Tribble video essay about it would look like, in case you needed something to do next...
I assume that House laid low and kept himself hidden well enough for the 5 remaining months of Wilson's life, and then just allowed himself to be found out and went back to prison, and he didn't care. He only did the "faking his own death" stunt for Wilson.
I really appreciate your series because I don,t give a plugged nickel about spoilers; who would refuse to see Romeo and Juliet just because we all know how that one ends. What I find unrealistic is your faulting a TV series, or a movie for that matter, for being unrealistic. The most glaring example of how acting fails by trying to make a story larger than life, which happens every time, is The Portrait, where Helen Mirren, 65-year-old and looking a decade younger, plays a 92 year-old whose decision to settle her case in arbitration is the movies key moment. The reason Adèle Bauer's niece consents to arbitration although she sees the arbitrators as a bunch of old Nazis is that her lawyer convinces her that she will die of old age by the time her case goes to court, which would mean that the Viennese Kunstmuseum keeps the painting. The arbitrators side with the niece, who promptly dies. EVERY SINGLE ACTOR in the DOCUMENTARY is (of course) totally convincing. The actors, however, all labour under 6 inches of sugar coating, even the lawyer, who is actually a delectably competent nerd but who is player in the movie by a guy way too good-looking to seem real.
Your videos are simply extraordinary. The narrative structure, the tempo, the selection of scenes to illustrate your points and your narrative voice are just exceptional. And so far, the choice of topics meets my taste quite well. You made me want to watch House from S1E1 to Broken again :) After more than a decade!
Fantastic job with this series. House is my favorite TV show of all time and just randomly coming across this was a treat especially with your takes on it.
I slept while watching your house series. I don't know which episode but there's a scene where someone is just screaming as loud as they could. Dude that woke me up and probably woke up the neighboor too. I have no ideia what your opinions on the show are, I'll have to re-watch everything because I slept during most of it, but I bet you are a chill guy.
I kinda love how the show in my view is actually pessimistic and this fits with the character of House. Every time House tries to change, to lay off drugs or to be in a relationship he fails or relapses. To change oneself is very difficult and the sad reality is that people mostly don't no matter how much they want to. Even if you do everything right something that is not in your control may happen, and the "tower" you 've been building collapses. With Stacy he knew he couldn't or was afraid to try to change that's why he let her go, but with Cuddy he tried his best and still got hurt in the end. With Wilson I think this was the last try and then tragically after his death (I assume) it's "game over"
so you wanted "you cant always get what you want" playing in the finalle? I guess you cant always get what you want
Gotem
bruh that was the whole point of this video
The irony
I'd be so pissed if I heard that song at the end...because it'd just slap the fact we can't get any more episodes right in our faces.
but if you try sometimes...
I'm nearly as sad about this series ending as I was when House ended.
absolutely same this was an utter joyride
I've never even seen House and I'm shook he got me to watch all 6 videos
And he went out on top instead of stretching it out another 2 episodes 😄
@@ithascome612 me too, but now i'm thinking of watching it
@@bronzeager1298 I couldve used another episode, for some of the stuff i wouldve included in it, but the author kept me locked in. ive burned every scene into my brain to the point that i cant watch it anymore, but this was a perfect 6hour joyride back down memory lane
To rewrite Broken as the finale, Wilson would need to make a larger appearance (possibly picking house up from the hospital) because at the end of the day the show is about their friendship at the core of the series
Totally had this same thought watching the video
@@mishmash3927 Honestly it could easily be done, Wilson being there before and after House went into in patient care could be representative of how their bond is able to make it thru the thick and the thin
„Friendship“, still hope they were gay together. The world just wasnt ready for them
Wilson would have picked House up, but House, being House, didn't call him for a ride.
That bus ride was far more therapeutic for him than a well-meaning interrogation by Wilson would have been.
god wilson breaks my heart. every time he cries i cry. a great character played beautifully by robert sean leonard
Oh, Lord, even that clip of Wilson's Heart had me weeping 😭😭😭
I've seen the episode 6 times and it still got me again
Me too.
Those two episodes are some of the best of the series
That's some tremendous acting by Leonard.
Glad I’m not the only one!
Wilson: "Tragically, we are both heterosexual."
Let's go with the Jack Kerouac approach and say it's only to appease the censors
do you remember when he said that?
@@asimhussain8716 it’s a result of LGTBCDETC pushing and pushing
They don’t get it, ofc it can be brotherly love but they’ll never want it to be cous it’s all made for them even when it’s not
@@alfonsopayan09 buddy what?
@@alfonsopayan09 it’s a reference to parks and rec, chill
I think that you missed the point of House's "but I can change" revelation. It may be easy to dismiss, because we generally accept that people can change. It's difficult, and it almost never happens the way we might want it to, but we accept that people can change.
That said, House has been repeating the mantra that people don't change throughout the whole series. So, for him to embrace change in the finale, it seems kind of fitting.
So, what is he resolving to change? And why?
Throughout the series House's relationship with Wilson has been the one glimmer of nigh unflinching happiness in his otherwise miserable life. So for Wilson to face certain death, it presents itself as the worst thing that could possibly happen for House. He's been informed that he will lose his one glimmer of light, there's nothing he can do to stop it, and he knows that the chances of him finding a replacement are infintismaly small.
Now, the pivotal piece to recognize is that House is incredibly self-centered. He drinks and does drugs. He engages in risky behaviors. He acts out. He challenges authority. He always puts himself first. Even when he was with Cuddy they would argue about small pieces of inconsideratness, that just prompted him to justify his position, w/o sacrificing anything. He even realized at one point that Cuddy made him a worse doctor, and in putting himself first, he resolved to sacrifice future lives for the sake of his happiness.
So the reason his self-centeredness is so important, is because that's the reason why he was passed out in a burning building with a junky. He saw the darkness coming, and as per his tendency to put himself first he seriously considered killing himself. And after hearing all of the appeals from his hallucinations he decided to put his desires aside for Wilson's sake. And ask "What does he need?" "He needs me." " I could end it right now, but then he would be forced to face the end alone." "I can change. I'm going to put him first."
So, he faked his death, giving a nod to Sherlock Holmes, I think. And decided to live for Wilson, like Wilson did for him.
Now, do I think this was a lasting change? No. He likely puts a gun in his mouth 5 seconds after Wilson was gone. But we didn't see that part. We saw House sacrifice himself for his best friend. We saw him change.
Damn, another amazing take on the finale, thank you!
This is exactly what I thought when I watched the show for the first time too, thank you for wording it so beautifully. I hope more people read this because this idea behind the ending is what really made me sob as the show ended, even if other season endings seemed more clear cut etc. This change was crucial to his character, and without letting him take that step before the show ended would have been disappointing. He finally accepted a need for self sacrifice, even in a short term sense, for another person who he loved, and that was an amazing ending to the show in my opinion [not perfect, but nothing is :')]
Excellent.
"Now, do I think this was a lasting change? No. He likely puts a gun in his mouth 5 seconds after Wilson was gone" lmfao
This is incredibly well said!! Hit the nail right on the head. It was fricking beautiful, and I'm glad someone else acknowledges it in this way. Very dark but satisfying take on it.
I will upload an in-depth multiple-part analysis of this analysis, and I'll argue why part 5 would have made a better ending.
Please don't
🤣🤣
When I first saw the finale, my immediate thought was that House did not succeed in getting out of the burning building. He died there, just as Wilson would die soon enough. The motorcycle sequence was their idea of heaven, riding off together for an afterlife free from pain and consequences.
I was also like 16, so take this analysis with a grain of salt lol
16 year old you missed the entire scene where he and Wilson have an entire conversation about him faking his own death, how he faked his own death, and what they were going to do now that he had faked his own death, huh?
This comment is giving me some Bojack Horseman's finale vibes.
Sir that’s my emotional support video essay series
"House's Head" and "Wilson's Heart" are the two greatest hours in all of television.
I feel bad for the folks who were watching this as it came out instead of in one long sitting like I just did. This documentary is a work of art. I can't wait to forget all about it so I can watch it all over again.
I just watched through for a second time....figured i'd leave ya a comment so you could rewatch it too, enjoy
@@bababagginz thanks man, I guess 2 years is long enough to forget most of it.
@@RadJordy what about 10 months?
@@Maruhodo I still haven't rewatched it yet, so uh...make that 3 years.
I think the song choice in the finale was phenomenal! They gave House his send off with the funeral. The motorcycle scene, the actual fade-to-black finale scene, was about Wilson. It used the song that called back to Amber's death, a huge event in Wilson's story, because it was the finale to his story. And by making it NOT about House, it was even MORE about House by showing how much he's grown from being a childish, detached, narcissist... if that makes sense.
I totally think the finale was about Wilson or maybe the relationship House and Wilson have. I kinda think that the reason they didn;t end w/ You Can't Alway Get What You Want is because explitly framing Wilson as what House needs as they drive off into the sunset would have been too romantic. By using a song that is a callback the the other very important Wilson relationship, they are saying that House has just an important role in Wilson's life as Amber had (which the show explicitly said) while making the connection more subtle and hinting the aspect of death that frames the interactions between Wilson and Amber and Wilson and House in the finale
I think it's awesome how Wilsons song is "Enjoy yourself" and House's song is "You can't always get what you want". It perfectly frames their characters. Wilson's probably was that he lived for everyone else but himself while Houses problem was that he only lived for himself.
@@ToqTheWise even if that was true, the ending reveals that House realises lief is about otters, and in that respect Wilson rubbed of on him. I dont actually believe he is selfish though, hes a idealist/romantic, they always end up dissapointed. Wilson as some have Saïd is too perfect, but that is what House will do anything for him .
"It's like he was in the middle of doing his taxes and thought 'I don't have to do this if I kill myself' and then, you know, came to his senses" *MOOD*
I do tax work. I feel this.
I have definitely been there, though usually it's looking ahead to some dreaded thing that has to be done. 'Man this sucks hard, but I wouldn't have to do this if I kill myself.'
Relatable
Me at any slight inconvenience
Pov bernard black
I actually think the reason for House having to go back to jail works perfectly. Not only is it a stupid prank that House never thought would make him risk anything, since he's already done much worse and gotten away with it, but it's also a direct consequence of House's grief over Wilson's unavoidable death. His grief for his death is the thing that would ultimately prevent him from being there for it, and it also comes out of absolutely nowhere to slap him in the face right when he thinks he and Wilson can have a good time. I don't think it's "just a prank" or "just a device", it's the manifestation of his pain and grief that he can't process or deal with that's robbing him of the most important thing in his life.
@TheBobBrom I think the point was that they thought he had done it on purpose to clog the pipes to get back at Foreman, and since he couldn't prove his intentions and he was already out on parole, they couldn't leave him out knowing he was causing damage to the hospital when he should have been in jail? I honestly have no idea lmao, but I also guess that this time he damaged a shit ton of equipment as well as injured actual patients and doctors, which didn't happen the first time around?
@@Giuggiulu. Also, Cuddy always covered him up before, but this time Foreman is in charge
@Robin Right but you could have picked any of the events listed and said "House is finally in a situation he can't meddle out of." The consequences are a given-no one's suggesting changing those. The question is why that prank ... which has, at best, an indirect connection to Wilson, when the examples provided in the video would be much more directly connected.
I just think it's too random and too....silly, especially considering the crimes under House's belt before this. It's very much a vehicle of getting House to be suicidal and thus relatively unimportant with what the rest of the episode deals with, which is fine, but honestly disappointing with the rest of the material the episode has to work with, because that premise feels like a standard episode, rather than a season finale one, let alone the series' finale.
Personally would have preferred the Chase tie-in as suggested, as it would feel more in-line with a medical mystery drama to end with a medical mystery gone wrong rather than none at all. And would have made for a great 2-parter.
The only downside is that Chase would have ended the show guilty that his injury not only got his mentor fired but caused his mentor's death, and would become just as jaded and depressed as House is, unless House also revealed that he was still alive, and physically passed the torch to Chase, but that ruins the fact that Wilson is the only one that knows.
Thank You! Even though Jesse's take has perfectly good reasoning the way he analyzed it, I think that he was a little too critical for the sake of being critical in that matter. I thought the exact same thing You did, "House's pranks never really had a huge consequence for him, as Cuddy or Foreman or anyone else he has a relationship to just let him off the hook. Now though, his actions had such a big effect that there is just no way he can squeeze himself out of that situation." It adds that in that scenario we, the audience, and House himself did not see that coming which caused a meaningful surprise effect. Having him go to jail because of his fake marriage or not cooperating with his P.O.'s restraints may be more convenient since they were "a given". But I still believe there was actual meaning to the story how it really went down.
Wilson in the thumbnail -- our demands have been heard
He showed all the thumbnails in the first episode :P
Sometimes, you get what you need.
I left a comment for you but I'll put it here. You can rest your pitchfork arm now.
not really .. he plan to finish it with wilson anyhow..
I think one of my least favorite things about House’s final season was that the series has always drawn parallels between House and Wilson’s inability to maintain relationships, and said that they couldn’t commit to the day-to-day, but could do big romantic gestures. I wanted House to have to do the day-to-day with Wilson-sacrifice on solving puzzles, actually go to talk with his parole officer, do the work on staying clean that he couldn’t do with Cuddy. Them riding off into the sunset was cool and all, but it was just another dysfunctional big gesture, not the actual work that needs to go into a major relationship, be it romantic or platonic.
But hey, it works because when you only have 5 months to live, you wanna give up on changing yourself. Because House is doing all of this for Wilson, he's both commiting to the mundane and sticking to his love for extravagance, because it's all they're gonna do from that point on.
Well, you can't always get what you want.
great point hahaha@@matiasbosques3002
Damn, was hoping for this final part to be titled "okay, let's talk about the kitchen sink."
Episode 7 of 6 the kitchen sink
lol that’s exactly what he did!
@@valx5 oh, you're right. Thanks for the hint, since because it wasn't called House part 7, youtube didn't suggest it as a possible continuation... ^^ ( ua-cam.com/video/0G1feXY5-jQ/v-deo.html )
By 'destroying his entire life' House knew what he was doing.
And part of that is becoming a nobody, and even if he ends up arrested later on, those 5 months are the only thing even slightly worth living for.
I think the out of nowhere reason of why he went to jail it’s something to the effect of his bad actions finally catching up with him, like he thought he could get away with anything but the reality gave him a slap in the face, sometimes life is like that.
That whole driving though Cuddy's house might have something to do with it
Man, I wish House ended like that, with "we hope to never see him again". Like, "Hey, show's over. Want to know if House changed and is able to cope with bad things happening in his life? Want to know if this is only temporary as 'people don't change'? You can't always get what you want"
PS: I wanted to end with "You're gonna carry that weight", but its a different franchise
What’s “you’re gonna carry that weight” from?
@@MrAnonymoose Cowboy Bebop
So it's either a Beatles reference or a Stones reference.
See you space doctor...
@@PowLoTheOddMan It is Beatles reference...
or maybe. ''The Band'' the Weight.
My favorite episode is 'The Dig' when Thirteen gets released from prison and House is there to pick her up. Just thinking about the ending where he promises to kill her when her Huntington's gets too hard to handle, it makes me tear up. He never shared that sort of closeness with any of his assistants.
That's a hell of a point, actually! He got closer with Chase I think in part of being a fatherly/mentor figure in his life and was the only one he hung out with of his own volition, but other than that, this is an intimacy he definitely never shared with any of his other fellows.
Saying you'll kill someone isn't necessarily intimacy.
@@konroh2 yes it is, if it’s based on something no one else in your life understands. If you are chronically ill and aware of the progression your illness(es) WILL make, knowing there is someone who will end it when you can’t, is the best love letter, the most important part of a relationship someone can give. Wilson turned off Ambers life support machines, because it was the best for her. House won’t let Wilson suffer when his cancer reaches a certain point.
I know that not every healthy person can understand that. But your loved ones usually don’t want to let you go. So you suffer through endless, useless therapies and torture high pain just to give them more time. While it does give you time too, it’s not always worth it from the patients point of view.
House made a promise of which 13 knew he would keep because he knows pain, he knows that life is not worth living at all costs. Most doctors agree with me as most of them have seen way too much that they‘d want to prolong their life if it means they have no control over their body and life.
But unfortunately not every country allows a medically supported death with dignity. So people have to choose illegal options or suffer. If someone is offering you to get legally in trouble for it, then yes, it means something! Intimacy doesn’t need to involve sexuality or a life long bond. It means you connect on a deeper level with each other.
I have kids, I‘m fighting and will fight (I don’t have Huntingtons but multiple other, rare illnesses) but at a certain point fighting is only causing unnecessary trauma and pain - for everyone involved. Not everyone wants that and that should be okay!
Do you know how terrible Huntington’s is? Or some other chronic illnesses? You don’t just loose control over your body, you get dementia, psychosis, you loose everything that makes you, you. Not that the physical symptoms are better, at a point you can’t eat because your muscles get no or wrong signals from the brain, so you’re severely underweight. Breathing is affected, many die of pneumonia because they can’t stop fluid going down their trachea. And the worst part? You are aware of it, you watch yourself getting worse and worse, you know where it’s heading and you cannot do anything about it.
So yes, they shared a moment of intimacy with each other and it means a lot that he made that offer.
@@juliaspoonie3627 I understand that you are saying that at a certain point life isn't worth living, but I disagree with that. Life is worth living, there are people who are in pain, who are suffering, who are seeing themselves succumb and yet who recognize that life is still worth living. The problem with your argument is that it's very close to saying that we should murder all people with mental illnesses, or with deformed bodies, especially if they don't know what's going on or if they want to be dead.
I know this needs to be a nuanced conversation but there's usually a natural progression, it's very rare for someone to be completely aware of what's going on while losing all function, but it does happen. The problem is that the line drawn between life and death is irrevocable, while the line drawn concerning pain and suffering is subjective. Is there a certain point where all suicides are okay just because a person doesn't want to deal with life anymore? Grief, trauma, stress--we could draw the line anywhere.
I think it's much more intimate to say you'll be with someone as they undergo dementia and loss of function. I know many people who have seen their spouses deteriorate and have lovingly cared for them until the end--that's true intimacy.
This speaks to a larger worldview as well, whether God's in control, whether all life ends at death, whether life is valuable no matter the circumstance. It's certainly true that suicide seems more acceptable within a worldview that doesn't think there's any ultimate purpose to life, and to me that's unacceptable.
Love is much more a person saying, "I'll be with you," rather than "I'll kill you."
@@konroh2 Saying that people should be able to choose their own death is miles away from saying that all disabled people should be murdered. That's an insane statement. Yes, people live with chronic pain and disability, and they want to continue to live. Those are not the people we are talking about here. We are talking about terminal diseases that will kill you either way and people who don't want to suffer.
You seem to be against suicide for religious reasons, and that's fine - you are absolutely able to live out your life to the very end, and I hope it is a long and fulfilled one. But just because you have a certain viewpoint does not somehow mean that everyone else secretly thinks the same, or that any other viewpoint is somehow invalid.
There are people that don't believe in God, or the afterlife, or that suicide is bad. If those people get a diagnosis of Huntington's disease, or Dementia, or anything that they know will kill them one day, they are able to think beforehand about what they wish for. A lot of terminal diseases end in pain, suffering, and confusion before finally death comes. This could be days, this could be months. And those people (not you, but people who think differently than you) can therefore decide if they want their last days to be ones of endless suffering or to end it before they have to experience that suffering. They themselves can draw the line of what they want to experience in this life.
For someone who wishes to live until their last breath, "I'll be with you" will be a true form of love. For someone who doesn't want to live through it, it would be an ultimate act of betrayal, a sign that they would rather see you suffer like they would instead of accepting your personal wish. Just imagine the opposite - if you were in a situation where you have a few painful days left in your life and you ask someone to stay with you, and instead of doing that, they promise to kill you when they feel it's right. It would be an unforgiveable thing to say.
Love isn't doing what you think is best, love is supporting your loved one in whatever they decide is best for themselves. Love is accepting other people for who they are.
I always love House and Wilson's friendship,it was fun
They’re gay
Thank you for making this. I can see how much work you put into this 6-part video.
I don't think anything I've watched has made me cry as much as Kutner's suicide. It's so abrupt and so real. It hits so hard every time
Right, even if it is only one of those "the actor had to leave" situations, it actually hit so so hard, because depression can be completely invisible inside an outwardly happy-go-lucky person, and that's what Kutner was. We didn't get to know him super well, but that doesn't lessen the tragedy and I think is well reflected in House's struggle with grief. I feel he was like "Well I didn't even care about the little guy as I care about none of my life's NPCs, so what I'm feeling can't possibly be grief". Just like he said to Nolan "I'm not depressed" lmao. I'm glad we as a society are finally getting to a place where we can at least think about the possibility that we might be struggling, and acknowledge that struggle for what it is.
I disagree with pretty much all of this one. The point was that the prank that actually got him in trouble was some lame bullshit he didn’t even think twice about. Not to mention that it was motivated by his feelings for Wilson. Plus, it wasn’t small. The ceiling collapsed on 3 people, one of whom was inside the MRI at the time. Someone could have been seriously injured or killed by falling debris or electrocution.
The idea that it was something small that House wouldn’t even consider as a risk was important, and House’s being sent back to prison was important, too. It was one last chance for House to show Wilson how much his friendship matters. That’s what the whole episode is about
really joke is that a bathroom would never be above an mri room in a hospital
"the prank that actually got him in trouble was some lame bullshit he didn’t even think twice about"
Exactly! Any other thing would feel appropriate, deserved. We would see it coming and so would House. All of those were calculated risks he took. This one wasn't, this was a total surprise and how stupid and mundane it is, is what makes it real and shocking. It's also both completely his fault and completely avoidable and pointless. Unlike helping Wilson with the chemo or trying to save a patient or even helping someone get a Green Card. It was pointless and that's the point.
It's kinda sad, smug and pretentious that this guy thinks he's a better writer than the team of writers in this great show while missing so much.
@@christopherbertoli7322 He was an addict but he was functional and also a genius. He knew what he was doing. He knew that breaking the rules to solve the case could get him in trouble and did it anyway. Calculated risk doesn't mean he knew he'd get away with it, only that he knew the likely consequences of his actions before doing them and did it anyway.
With the prank he never thought for a second about that getting him back to jail. Didn't even cross his mind. He didn't think "this will probably get me in jail but I'll do it anyway because I have to to please my puzzle-solving mind" like he did when solving the cases or "because I just want to" like when he married a foreigner. In all of those instances he KNEW the risks.
"House was only getting away because he was protected due to being that good" exactly, THAT is an example of a calculated risk. He always thought he could mess around and break the rules because he counted on the Dean of the hospital protecting him.
If it was only about "season timing" they could have used any of those regular law breaks, as the video proposes, and make that his ticket back to jail. Season timing would be to randomly have the officers investigating his marriage finding something suspicious and discovering the forgery or something like that and it would be underwhelming because it was expected (by both House and the audience), because it was a calculated risk on House to do that. Same with helping Wilson with his chemo or saving a patient. EVERYONE would see it coming. There is a reason they chose to do it over a simple and mundane prank none of us (including House) thought twice about. A reason you obviously don't want to even address because I already explained it in the comment you replied to and you just ignored it and claimed it was "season timing".
@@christopherbertoli7322 "If an addict walks into a casino, goes over to a roulette table and puts everything on 21 then loses, that isn't a calculated risk"
If that addict KNOWS he can lose, it is a calculated risk. You seem to have a problem with the concept of calculated risk so just move one from it and use the other way I explained it. It's an expected outcome. Addicts are not retards, addicts just can't quit but they know the consequences of their actions. They know what's the most possible outcome, they just don't care because they're addicts. Knowing the risks and still doing it is the concept.
"that isn't a calculated risk. That's them feeding their addiction and their friends enabling them."
Yes, House counts on their friends enabling him while doing risky stuff. That's why it's a calculated risk. I can't explain this in any simpler terms. Why you are convinced that "friends enabling you" is somehow mutually exclusive with "calculated risk" is a complete mystery to me. Yes, they are enabling him and yes he is counting on that as a variable. Friends enabling him is part of the calculated risk. He knows and he uses and manipulates them.
In the smallpox case he DID take a calculated risk, he was just wrong. You really have an issue with this concept. Calculated risk doesn't mean you know you'll get away with it. Hence the word RISK. You can still be wrong, lose your money, go to prison. The only thing that means is that you KNOW the consequences of your actions, you considered them and still decided to take that RISK. Him being wrong about smallpox doesn't mean it wasn't a calculated risk.
"No backup plan, no way out of the room. He's either right or he dies." YES, EXACTLY. And he knew that beforehand but still did it. Calculated risk doesn't mean you have a back-up plan if you're wrong. I really don't know how to explain this in other terms. Maybe the definition will help.
Definition of calculated risk:
a hazard or chance of failure whose degree of probability has been reckoned or estimated before some undertaking is entered upon
See? Nothing about a back-up plan, nothing about being 100% sure of being right or getting away with it. It's just a RISK you take after estimating the hazard. That's it.
House was always a genius from episode one, it's not the last episode that sets him as a genius. If you think he's just an addict that got lucky you're either really really dumb and missed the entire point of the show or have some sort of history, predisposition and hate towards addicts and missed the entire point of the show. In any way I can't express my points in any simpler way so I'm done here.
"there's been a lot of Esthers" And there have been COUNTLESS MORE of the others. There is a reason Esther has a name as an outliner and the hundreds he saves are the norm.
@@92brunod I think both of you are right in a way, as House's character is a complex one. Yes, House is a genius, knows what he's doing, counts on his friends to bail him out, etc. However he's also an addict which in turn means he also has moments of weakness where he stops being a genius and isn't exactly sure what's going to happen. The tricky part is to distinguish which parts are House being a genius with massive plot armor and which ones are showing House in his most vulnerable state. Another aspect to House's personality is his impulsiveness. Impulsive people generally tend to act before they think. Now House is not your typical impulsive person, and ordinarily is a very calculated one which is paradoxical in and of itself. However as mentioned he's never portrayed as a perfect character so it's very much plausible that some of the situations he gets himself into were not thought out and calculated ahead of time. In fact we as the audience simply don't know in most cases, as we can only judge his actions based on the outcome, as we can't really see deep inside his mind to actually know things for certain. What we do know however is that correlation doesn't equal causation. The fact that he didn't get caught doing something or had someone bail him out of a tough spot doesn't necessarily mean he had it planned all along. Sometimes that's certainly the case but not always. So as I said, you're both right, it ultimately boils down to which situations were planned and which were actual screw ups. That's for each of us to decide as none of us have the factual answer from the writers and showrunners.
If you search for Hugh Laurie you'll easily come across a video of him playing piano in a jazz club. I like to imagine it's House somewhere in South America after Wilson's death. Doing medical favours for the locals for painkillers and maybe something stronger. And one day his ageing body will OD.
As a severe haemophiliac with a bum knee, who is depressive and misanthropic, i idolised house. His world and cold logic made comforting sense. Now older, though i still believe that the world functions on pure causality, i understand the mechanics of life are more complicated than pure function of logic. Especially when you include other people into the equation. Constants fray. You still fall. And it still hurts.
Thank you for making this series, it was comprehensive and expertly put together.
Wilson’s Heart was the first episode I had seen more than a few minutes of. Was bawling by the end despite not knowing who any of the character’s were. Bought the DVDs and bawled again the second time.
And pretty much set off again just watching the damn clip here.
Seriously, Robert Sean Leonard is a criminally underrated actor.
"we're always gonna want just a little bit longer" 😭
the way this show made you care more about character development than the cases was phenomenal.
I really love how they use variations on previous shots to drive home their point.
its only one person honey.
Never Mind “They” can be used in a singular context
@@electricfishfan But it’s completely fine to use a gender-neutral term, sex and gender/gender expression aren’t explicitly connected so to use “they” works great as inclusive language! :)
@@nevermind5865 It's a whole team of directors, DOPs and cinematographers making choices for the shots they want. It's they.
Conclusion: Andre Braugher is one of the most underrated actors of our time.
amen!! :D
So sad he's gone though. Such a phenomenal actor.
What changed in house's moment in the warehouse could be described as hitting "rock bottom". Admittedly, he's been in similar places before, but in a burning building on street drugs is potentially pretty pretty revelatory.
This. These 6 episodes. Holy crap man. You are seriously gifted in the way you did this whole thing. I´ve seen a lot of similar thing. This is the best. By far. Thank you. Not necessarily for _what_ you did, but also for _how_ you did it.
I like to believe after Wilson passes house does go on to get his PhD and study physics,like he previously said he wanted to.
And he finds 13 to kill her
I'd forgotten he said he wanted to do that. When was that? :)
Jaycie Victory 13 killed her brother because he also had Huntington disease, she worried no one would kill her when the disease gets bad so House promises her he would kill her
trosinees They were asking about him studying Physics. And I believe it was in the episode where House was contacted by the FBI. It could’ve been a different government agency, though.
@@trosinesss Sorry, I meant the Physics part, but thank you! :)
House should just have quoted Sherlock, "I am known to be indestructible" and said nothing more on the topic
It's reasons (and video essays) like this that prove how brilliant this series, the cast, the writing, everything is. Doing a series six part video essay is quite the endeavour, and I just have to say brilliant job.
"Tour de force" I think is the word for it.
I admit if House ended with "Broken", it would be pretty damn good - you made great arguments there. At the same time, I would have troubles naming even a few shows that ended at least just as well as House eventually did. Not that the ending matters more than the journey to that ending - GOT proved that on all levels, it derailed into awfulness way before the finale, before season 8 even. The finale only finished the job, so to speak. House's ending feels finite, in a good way - like there really isn't more to see beyond that point and whatever is left is better left discontinued. We don't need to see Wilson die, we don't need to see what House does after that happens...because damn, that would be a pure portion of depression on a plate. Just thinking about it, knowing what's in store for them in those few months that followed is more than enough.
About them 'tickets in a toilet' thing, it always seemed very purposeful to me - because it means he's having to return to jail because of a ridiculous, stupid prank instead of something actually serious. Think about it: You're about to go to jail and miss your best friend's last moments as a result - all because of such a stupid STUPID thing you expected to get away with. As you almost always had in the past - a set precedens that suddenly doesn't apply in the moment it matters the most. Imagine that versus doing something unarguably bad where jail time is just straight-up justified. Both will make you feel like shit, but because the first one is so stupid it will make you feel even worse.
I CRIED SO HARD WITH WILSON'S HEART
This is arguably the best analysis of a show on UA-cam, but can we get a Breaking Bad analysis in this style?
100% agreed!!!
yes pleasee
@Paul Jakens you're so right tbh
Meh
Breaking Bad is more about acknowledging that we all have evil in our hearts. We need to work against this evil. We actually have a need beyond ourselves. We need the God of love to fill us, we need to acknowledge our weakness, we need to have faith in what God has done for us.
The scene where Annie plays the cello will always be one of the most impacting House moments for me for personal reasons.
Absolutely. Same here (personal reasons.) That was an amazing rendition of the ending.
Something that I noticed that I haven't seen anyone mention is the theme of change. Starting after Tritter or maybe even before you'll get the occasional conversation that goes "So nothing's changed?" "Everything has changed", like the wall prank in s8 or the discussion about Cuddy and House dating at the beginning of s7 and like I said, immediately after Tritter when Wilson sees House in jail and that's just what I can think of now
when i saw the first video of this series being posted i thought to myself, "oh, a long form analysis / critique of an 8 season long show, i should have a few months to binge my way through House again before the series wraps up!" and here i am barely at the end of season 3 and this is out. really enjoyed all the videos. :)
End your viewing after Broken and make it your head canon ending!
@@morot172 nope. I like that it continued. I like what came after. It's more House this way.
I know the directors have confirmed that the ending was to be taken literally, but I'm still convinced that the ending is a figment of Wilson's mind when he died from cancer. He hears a ringtone that no one else seems to hear, he meets House right outside his home, House literally says "I'm dead" (sure it could mean 'legally' but oh well), and they ride off together. How House survived the explosion was way too specific and convienent. To me, it's either Wilson's final thoughts, or him meeting House in wherever death leads to.
I have been falling asleep to House episodes for years. For some reason, I just find the episodes so calming, and the ultimate closure I can find from every single episode gives me this macabre lullaby. I adore that this UA-cam series exists, and I will watch it a few times. One day, I may even reference it in my own video essay; there is just so much to unpack from the series via so many perspectives. This is why House MD is so brilliant. Very well done, and I really appreciate what you've done here.
Great work!
My personal headcanon is that House either somehow snuck out of the country and is working as an illegal doctor in some third world country, or he became a musician in some dive bar. Most likely both with a giant beard and possible facial prosthetic. :D
Season 4's ending will always be the best season finale
Amber dying is still as hard hitting after all these years.
Season 5 has my favorite finale. House in Cuddys office genuinely confused about what's happening is such an amazing moment. But I do love House doing everything possible to go deeper into his subconscious.
@@BrokenGodEnt just imagine if season 5 ended with the first 2 episodes of season 6
the shows we like the most are the ones we can rip apart because we care. House attracted me because of the puzzles and the darish main character but Seasons 6-8 started to speak more to me about life and personal character. Sure it ended weird and got boring, but House ending was like losing a friend you enjoyed being around.
Of all the things in this world, dr house finally gets defeated by the proverbial "its just a prank bro"
I kinda love the irony tbh, even though i agree with your points
Well god damn i've been watching these all day and i've never even seen an episode of House lol
It might have been interesting if House had to do something that lost him his medical license in order to somehow save Wilson. Unable to practice medicine, House starts teaching at a university along with Wilson. Kinda bittersweet, House can no longer do what he loves but it just goes to show that House needs other people just as much as the rest of us and he's not about to lose his one and only relationship that stands the test of time.
Or go study physics at Rutgers like he wanted to
I just saw these, when pulling an all nighter at work..... good shit man.... gooood shit
Wilson was the Doctor that House admired .
Thanks for creating this series!
To me Wilson was always the heart of this show, without him it wouldn’t have worked.
This has been an incredible production! You clearly have a lot of love for the show and as someone who has also been through the entire series, start to finish, at least a dozen times, the attention to detail and effort that obviously went into putting these videos together has been really appreciated.
Legitimately got chills when you suggested the "You Can't Always Get What You Want" alternative ending scene. I'll never be able to watch that without thinking of what could (should) have been... and I see that as a good thing since, like you, I was always underwhelmed by the way they chose to wrap things up.
Thanks for creating this... I hope you make more of these longer-format series in the future and really look forward to whatever project you move onto next!
Great work!
I know a bit off topic, but what's interesting is that in the German translation the last Episode is called "Last Act: Reicehnbachfalls", which, at least if you know Sherlock Homes, kinda spoils the ending, especially compared with "Everybody dies".
The most interesting episode was when he was filling in for a sick doctor. Teaching medical students.
I enjoyed his class
Three stories. It was amazing
I've never watched House nor have I watched the first 5 videos in this series. Still, though, I am watching this. Not sure why
I actually had to wait a day to watch this when I was in a better mental state because this series got me so emotionally invested in a series I honestly never really cared about. Well crafted, amazingly edited, and without a doubt, one of the most enjoyable tv analysis I have ever seen. This reminds me a lot of YMS's Oldboy's video.
Honestly in all of tv House and Wilson worked the best together and i like to think as sad as it is once Wilson was gone House went as well knowing he enjoyed those last moments and now was good, no longer needing more.
I watched all of this as soon as possible. House is one of my favorite shows, and I too, watched it as a teenager. I disagree on some points made across this series, but you did an amazing job. Can't wait to see more from you in the future.
This is random but just want to say thank you for leaving a comment where you said you didn't agree with everything he said in the series but loved and appreciated what he'd done.
There are a couple of awful comments further down that are just so rude and arrogant about the series. Seriously damning with faint praise. And I just don't get why ppl are like that sometimes. So, thanks! :)
@@jaycievictory8461 Of course! I'm a tiny creator and I know how powerful a positive comment can be. He put out hours of content that probably required waaaay more than that to make. Thanks for the thanks!
I hate that this is over, but this whole series was brilliant. From the moment you posted episode 1, this has been something I've been absolutely looking forward to. Thank you so much for putting together this thoughtful and critical response to one of my favorite shows. Seeing deconstruction like this is one of my favorite things to do on UA-cam, and this has been two notches above the rest. Really, truly awesome stuff you've created here, man.
in my head House kills himself after the death of Wilson. He was already near the edge and he decides to live in the building fire solely to spend his time with Wilson. Thus him saying "im dead Wilson" has a deeper meaning.
the way you didnt make us wait ages between the videos
I hate you for making me watch the final scenes to Wilson's Heart
This has been a very cool series. I would disagree on the points about how the parole violation that House got caught for was meaningless - I think that was very much the point. House got away with violation after violation, and in the end the only reason he can't be there for Wilson wasn't because he did something meaningful, but because he did something incredibly trite for no good reason and it was relatively meaningless. His obsessive and addictive behaviour is what was preventing him from being there for Wilson, not his genuine and excusable acts. That seems like a deliberate plot move to me.
House believes people don't change. His near-death experience convinced him he wanted to live, he needed to change, to adapt. Who says it's easy? Why is it such a big deal that he's made his mind up that he's willing to try again? A lot of the "problems" you raise are just your taste, which is fine, but I think worth pointing out
I thought the ending was great myself. Who wouldn't want to be able to do that with your best friend in his/her final days. I do agree that the buildup to it was a bit chaotic and a little flimsy to say the least. Never the less, riding off into the sunset together was far better than House going back to prison and missing those last days with his only true friend.
Hah, this came out the same day I watched the whole series, good shit. Reminds me of both why I am critical of House but why I also watched the whole thing. Some great TV in there, thanks for making the series o/
Have you seen The Americans yet? Some great TV there too.
@@soeintyp9393 Sign me the F up for that. There are not nearly enough hours of commentary on everything great & terrible about House. Need more from the Longman gods.
Oh shit, it's long man bad. What up MauLer
MauLer!
how do you watch the whole series in a day
I personally think that House actually did end up dying, either to the floor above falling onto him or the explosion. Either way, he finally realizes that, hey, maybe he *can* change, and that's his ultimate goal fulfilled, whether he sees it as such or not. He dies because it's a collapsing burning building, but he dies after finally coming to the aforementioned revelation. House never makes it out of a "back door". Wilson never checks the body to see if he's actually dead like Foreman said. The urn in the chapel is *actually* House's ashes. Wilson getting the message on what he says "isn't my phone", is probably Foreman messaging House's phone because he already knew that Wilson had it since they went to House's apartment to investigate and Wilson took it. This is also possibly more compounded that the text is from "E", possibly standing for "Eric", the only one who knows Wilson has House's phone. Then when all is said and done and Wilson finally sees what seems to be House again, House looks perfectly fine for someone who in a burning building seemingly crushed by falling wood and an explosion. I sort of see this as Wilson somehow deluding his memory of House back into existence for his final months on earth. Last part of that is extremely flawed logic, but it accounts for the seemingly impossible odds of House managing to survive the unsurvivable. I also like to see the ending as this since it gives a sense of closure, and actually gives weight to the title of the episode "Everyone Dies". Like I said, flawed theory, but it gives me closure.
Watching this as an incredibly huge fan of house was so interesting, Seriously well written and put together.
Thanks for this series of video essays. I have no ideas how you manage to find the perfect clip for every single point you make. It’s genuinely amazing work.
I just finished all six parts. This was such a masterpiece man. Jesus Christ you really took this series in so many great directions. You're a wonderful writer and extremely intelligent. Your editing skills and abilities to fuse your writing with clips from the show (and almost include the context of those clips as a piece of the narration) is nothing short of genius. It's almost like you were having a conversation with the edited clips. So fucking cool. But mainly, I just love your points and thought provoking ideas. This was truly fantastic man. Truly.
I just decided to binge your six parter, definitely not the first time. But oh man did I need it. Thank you for such a well thought out series of videos. It actually really helped me calm down.
There's a quote from a book I read recently that I thought was pretty relevant here, it's from a book called 'Seeds of Time', a few short stories mostly revolving on the idea of time travel, by the author John Wyndham (one of my favourites) who wrote amazing early sci-fi. The quote is this:
"In the end, defeat, and the cold must come. First to the system, then the galaxy, then the universe, and the rest will be silence. Not to admit that is a foolish vanity." she paused. "Yet one grows flowers because they are lovely - not because one wishes them to live forever."
I wasn't convinced until the last moments of this video. You were right, the show should have ended there.
So like, Wilson was hallucinating that final text message and everything after..
Although this show has some pretty strong Ghosts
Excellent retrospective. To be able to look back and analyze these characters, their motivations, their fears and their feelings, it adds so much depth and complexity to a show I took mostly at surface level watching it all those years back. Your dissection of House’s personal and interpersonal relationships had me smiling, tearing up and questioning my own social struggles as I see many traits of House in myself and vice versa.
I think you nailed it perfectly in this last part, that the show isn’t about how an emotionally abrasive, physically hurt, manipulative and social engineering intellect/sociopath emerges from a cocoon of reflection as a better man and finds true happiness. The real world doesn’t work that way.
People are inherently broken things, in a world that doesn’t owe us anything. It sounds bleak, and it is, but I appreciate how the show doesn’t sugarcoat it, but explains that we need to find ways to cope with our flaws and feelings and move forward. It recognizes that no ones perfect, everyone is fighting their own battles, happiness is a constantly moving goal post that’s always just out of grasp. But for all that, broken people can still make meaningful connections with other broken people- a shared burden of pain gives strength to everyone.
The thing is he is a world renowned doctor, not a world renowned actor in one the most famous roles of all times, and if he got recognized he can just act as if he doesn't know what they are talking about, and it isn't like others in the room are gonna go "oh yeah, it is him!" :)
I think it was a great finale, he knew what was most important in life, the time he had with the person he loved the most, his best friend.. money can always be transferred to accounts in various ways, you can´t live the normal life with your own bank account to get insurances etc
Not everything in economics works as it does in the U.S, for example in pretty much all countries in the world outside of USA you can freely tell people your social security number since it isn't sensitive data in the same way as in USA
I have watched all 6 parts and honestly wish they where longer I loved hearing your insight on my all time favourite show, thanks for making these! ❤
WIlson is the best and he ruined my romantic expectations more than Disney ever could. This video made so sad about him all over again.
How good is that use of Re: stacks in Wilson's heart tho
You know if the series had ended on the last spoken dialogue being the ‘and we hope to never see him again,’ it would have been perfect. It both fits the theme of his therapy but also on a meta level, as you’ve put it, if the show went on he was always going to have to get worse again. So if we never see him again, it can end happy.
These were so good. Thank you for putting in the time to make them and make me feel all the things. There's another youtuber named LadyKnightTheBrave and she's the only other essayist/critic who regularly makes me feel cathartic and cry, so thanks for providing that.
I love ladyknightthebrave! Great video essays. So thoughtful.
I think if they went on for a few more episodes & it could end (in my opinion) a better/perfect ending, they could iron out more details about how he survived, the time spent traveling with Wilson, Wilson dying, House dealing with his death (hopefully in a less destructive way than in the past), then house getting a fake identity & getting a job at a hospital as a janitor. Because if you remember House was inspired to become a doctor because when he was in a hospital once the doctors brought in a janitor because non of the other doctors could figure out what was wrong with the patient, the janitor was someone everybody hated but respected the opinion of & House wanted to be like that janitor. So in my opinion that would be a more fitting end than the one we got.
I mean, I watched some episodes here and there but not even a full season of House, however this was so narrative enganging that I saw this 6 episodes of yours. I hope one day you write your own show if you're interest on that, until then thanks for this essays they are beyond entertaining, they make me reflect about my own life and how I'm living. Great job man!
Thanks, I just love you way of making "house" make more sense.
I remember the first time I watched this finale I was really young and it was before you could rewind and fast forward tv so the warehouse blew up and then there were credits so I went to watch something else and missed the part were he wasn't actually dead. So for yearssss i went on believing that at the end of House, House dies. It was a surprise when i finally watched the whole show beginning to end
I know we're not supposed to think about what happens to House after the show's over, but I like to think what happens to House is the same thing that happened to Frank Abagnale (The guy from Catch Me If You Can.) After Wilson's death, House will be found out, arrested, in prison for a few years, but eventually someone will recognize his gift and he works the rest of his life in the FBI or the CIA under their supervision.
Either that or he goes somewhere like China and becomes a doctor there under false documentation, and since he can speak Chinese it would make sense.
The entire series was thoughtful and, for me, a great revisit to House. Very well done! Thank you for so many Thursdays of entertainment. I'll really miss it.
I have to admit, your dig at Lost's finale made me curious what a Tribble video essay about it would look like, in case you needed something to do next...
I assume that House laid low and kept himself hidden well enough for the 5 remaining months of Wilson's life, and then just allowed himself to be found out and went back to prison, and he didn't care. He only did the "faking his own death" stunt for Wilson.
This was heart wrenching, and gave me the closure I never knew I desired around this character and this show 🙌🏻🙏🏻
I really appreciate your series because I don,t give a plugged nickel about spoilers; who would refuse to see Romeo and Juliet just because we all know how that one ends. What I find unrealistic is your faulting a TV series, or a movie for that matter, for being unrealistic. The most glaring example of how acting fails by trying to make a story larger than life, which happens every time, is The Portrait, where Helen Mirren, 65-year-old and looking a decade younger, plays a 92 year-old whose decision to settle her case in arbitration is the movies key moment. The reason Adèle Bauer's niece consents to arbitration although she sees the arbitrators as a bunch of old Nazis is that her lawyer convinces her that she will die of old age by the time her case goes to court, which would mean that the Viennese Kunstmuseum keeps the painting. The arbitrators side with the niece, who promptly dies. EVERY SINGLE ACTOR in the DOCUMENTARY is (of course) totally convincing. The actors, however, all labour under 6 inches of sugar coating, even the lawyer, who is actually a delectably competent nerd but who is player in the movie by a guy way too good-looking to seem real.
Your videos are simply extraordinary. The narrative structure, the tempo, the selection of scenes to illustrate your points and your narrative voice are just exceptional.
And so far, the choice of topics meets my taste quite well. You made me want to watch House from S1E1 to Broken again :) After more than a decade!
What an excellent YT video essay retrospective series on an excellent TV show
Fantastic job with this series. House is my favorite TV show of all time and just randomly coming across this was a treat especially with your takes on it.
I slept while watching your house series. I don't know which episode but there's a scene where someone is just screaming as loud as they could. Dude that woke me up and probably woke up the neighboor too.
I have no ideia what your opinions on the show are, I'll have to re-watch everything because I slept during most of it, but I bet you are a chill guy.
I really enjoyed the 6 part series of this. Hopefully you can tackle other dramas
Robert Sean Leonard doesn't get enough credit. Only Wilson can put up with House's shit.
How can you go through a 6-part video series centered around an episode that's co-starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, without making a single Hamilton joke??
Discipline
Super easily, as it turns out.
You will never be satisfied
I got you, bro 😃
Oh, I wish I was in the room where it happened. The video editing, I mean.
I kinda love how the show in my view is actually pessimistic and this fits with the character of House. Every time House tries to change, to lay off drugs or to be in a relationship he fails or relapses. To change oneself is very difficult and the sad reality is that people mostly don't no matter how much they want to. Even if you do everything right something that is not in your control may happen, and the "tower" you 've been building collapses. With Stacy he knew he couldn't or was afraid to try to change that's why he let her go, but with Cuddy he tried his best and still got hurt in the end. With Wilson I think this was the last try and then tragically after his death (I assume) it's "game over"