It's not a really special, exciting, unique and interesting episode. Just simply wonderful. This show has so rich characters and derfor Christmas episodes gets just so cosy. This episode is also a great addition to the best season of House. The episode dose provide good moments aswell as cosy, like House witnessing a childs brutal honesty, or the fun with the team doing Christmas Santa (...No wait, I mean Satan. I always get them confused).
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Favourite scene so far
acutler20 January 2009
Warning: Spoilers
I'm not saying this is the best "House, MD" episode: it isn't. It's a fairly average episode of House: which is still above average TV.
But it does contain my favourite scene: where the daughter tells her mother she is going to die, with House observing. It's House's reaction that sells the moment for me, as he is momentarily moved.
It does seem to be kids who are the one type of patient that ever genuinely surprise/outwit House (see 2.2 Autopsy or even 3.23 The Jerk). Generally speaking I hate kids in TV shows (I did so even as a kid), but "House, MD" usually does kids very well, and the production team cast and direct kids consistently to a high standard.
Liana Liberato's performance here (as the kid) is probably the best performance of the episode.
But it does contain my favourite scene: where the daughter tells her mother she is going to die, with House observing. It's House's reaction that sells the moment for me, as he is momentarily moved.
It does seem to be kids who are the one type of patient that ever genuinely surprise/outwit House (see 2.2 Autopsy or even 3.23 The Jerk). Generally speaking I hate kids in TV shows (I did so even as a kid), but "House, MD" usually does kids very well, and the production team cast and direct kids consistently to a high standard.
Liana Liberato's performance here (as the kid) is probably the best performance of the episode.
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