House Closing

The penultimate episode of House's first season, "Three Stories," is a classic. It broke the format and was where we learned how House hurt his leg. The show deservedly won an Emmy for writing.

Trouble is, now House tries to top itself at the end of the every season, and come up with a story where some major life-changing event occurs. The regular episodes are usually better.

That's how I felt about the week's finale. We saw (spoiler alert) a recurring character, the calculating Amber, die. (Also, House went into a coma and Thirteen learned she had Huntington's.)

They shook things up a bit this season by bringing in new blood, and I applaud that. But big, operatic finales don't excite me, not if they're big just to be big.