![]() The ambitious Survivor-like competition for new fellows played out masterfully and most of the possible candidates were very compelling. Season 4 (2007-2008): This is far and away my favorite season of House. ![]() The middle of the season is very strong and Sela Ward and Hugh Laurie’s quality chemistry makes the final stretch pretty great, despite Vogler’s presence. However, after a few expected stumbles in the early going, the first season of House easily found an entertaining, complex gear. Season 1 (2004-2005): I think I’m a bigger fan of Vogler than most people (not that I love him) and that might make this season’s placement a bit surprising. ![]() Even the finale’s big move (no more team) didn’t really have much weight behind it. The Tritter story suggested certain changes and then immediately discarded them and was the first sign that House’s writers were sometimes more interested in shocking swerves than they were substantial character development. ![]() It started poorly and only descended into stupidity (on a narrative- and character-level) from there. However, the “arc” with Tritter and House never, ever worked. Season 3 (2006-2007): In season three, House continued producing fine procedural stories that kept our interest. The team’s rapport was better and Masters added just enough to the formula. Thankfully though, most of the non-Huddy content in season seven was great. Nevertheless, at times, Huddy-related stories verged on the melodramatic (“Family Practice” might be my least favorite episode in the entire run) and the ending was a bit of a disaster. Laurie and Lisa Edelstein acted the hell out of those scenes. I, for one, feel like the series had to go there eventually and I appreciate many of the things David Shore and his team tried to explore with that relationship. Season 7 (2010-2011): Your mileage of season seven is almost solely dependent on how you feel about the House-Cuddy romance. Season eight featured less “great” episodes, but also featured less awful, miserable ones as well. Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard and Jesse Spencer were awesome all season. I understand that many see the series as a shell of its former self in many ways. The lower stakes resulted in an amiable, enjoyable stretch of episodes that led into what has been a fairly powerful conclusion. Season 8 (2011-2012): This final season has been way less ambitious than the previous three or four years, but I think House has been better for it. The two-hour opener “Broken” is one of the series’ best and the events of that episode actually influenced the entire season. Season 6 (2009-2010): Season six featured many of the same problems that plagued season five, but it was also buoyed by a better focus on Chase and Cameron (albeit one that was powered by a fairly dumb plot) and a really solid arc for House. There were too many dumb, dull “event” episodes. Kutner killed himself because Kal Penn wanted to be a (temporary) civil servant. Those changes were shooed away in a half-dozen episodes or less. Season four ended on a powerful note that suggested big changes for the House-Wilson relationship. Season 5 (2008-2009): I’ve been on record about my frustrations with seasons five and six so I won’t belabor the point here too much. Nevertheless, here we go, ranking the seasons of House, from worst to best. I think there is a clear division in quality between the bottom four seasons and the top four seasons, that much is true. House has had a few stand-out seasons and a few that I thought I clearly disliked the most, but doing this list made me reconsider various things. Obviously, the finale could have some influence on the placement of season eight, but I cannot much impact either way. First up, one of the lists I “do best”: ranking the seasons. 2.With House airing its series finale this evening, I thought it was time to bust out a list or two. He played Robin's boyfriend Kevin in How I Met Your Mother, and currently stars in Kiefer Sutherland's White House drama Designated Survivor. The following year, he served as the Master of Ceremonies for the White House Student Film Festival. In November 2013, President Obama appointed Penn to serve on the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. His speech encouraged young people to register to vote and defended Obama's record. ![]() Later that year, Penn hosted coverage of the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. In February 2012, Penn acted as a co-chair for the re-election campaign of Obama. He was the Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement from April 2009 to July 2011. Harold and Kumar star Kal suddenly quit the show in season 5 – his character took his own life in a shock twist – after he amazingly took on a new role in Barack Obama's White House. ![]()
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