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Four top-rated TV shows return for their fall season
By Ben Tepfer and Rebekah Jones
Posted: 9/29/08, 12:28 AM EST Section: Clicker
This season will surely be filled with the expected, as well as some surprises. Pam and sales associate Jim Halpert are finally engaged, though Pam seems to have met a new guy friend at art school, sure to make that octagon a nonagon. Angela and Andy are busy planning their wedding, but organizational disputes (and Angela's secret meetings with Dwight in the warehouse) make their relationship's length questionable. It is going to be another wild year in the life of employees of the paper industry.
"House" - Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on FOX
The tragic death of Dr. Amber Volakis has continued to be a moving theme in the medical mystery's fifth season.
Dr. James Watson has chosen to resign, but knowing television these days, he will most likely be back soon. In the mean time, Dr. Gregory House has hired a private investigator to keep an eye on Watson.
In Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, things seem to be the same as always: House has an adversarial and sexual-tension driven relationship with Chief Hospital Administrator Lisa Cuddy, the doctors who work under House like to roll their eyes at him and no day is complete without the breaking of some ethical or hospital rule.
The new patients this season are not any more or less unique than the previous ones. Yet, in every episode, around twenty minutes in, the doctors misdiagnose the patient. All the same, House manages to keep its medical curriculum innovative and House's wit fresh.
"Grey's Anatomy" - Thursdays at 9 p.m. on ABC (though it won't be on this week because the vice presidential debate)
At the end of last season, we left Meredith Grey surrounded by candles that formed the outline of the house she hopes to live in with McDreamy (Dr. Derek Shepherd). By the end of this season's two-hour season premiere, the two are not any closer to moving in. After all, how many times have the two of them been together and broken up in the past four seasons?
Grey and Shepherd aside, the episode wasn't too much different than the finale, or, for that matter, every other episode: Mark Sloan creates sexual tension with every woman, Cristina Yang is in desperate need of a man, George O'Malley is oblivious that Lexie Grey likes him, and Izzie still has not gotten over the death of her fiancé. Dr. Erica Hahn and Dr. Callie Torres have finally admitted they are attracted to each other; though neither have expressed they are lesbians.
"House" - Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on FOX
The tragic death of Dr. Amber Volakis has continued to be a moving theme in the medical mystery's fifth season.
Dr. James Watson has chosen to resign, but knowing television these days, he will most likely be back soon. In the mean time, Dr. Gregory House has hired a private investigator to keep an eye on Watson.
In Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, things seem to be the same as always: House has an adversarial and sexual-tension driven relationship with Chief Hospital Administrator Lisa Cuddy, the doctors who work under House like to roll their eyes at him and no day is complete without the breaking of some ethical or hospital rule.
The new patients this season are not any more or less unique than the previous ones. Yet, in every episode, around twenty minutes in, the doctors misdiagnose the patient. All the same, House manages to keep its medical curriculum innovative and House's wit fresh.
"Grey's Anatomy" - Thursdays at 9 p.m. on ABC (though it won't be on this week because the vice presidential debate)
At the end of last season, we left Meredith Grey surrounded by candles that formed the outline of the house she hopes to live in with McDreamy (Dr. Derek Shepherd). By the end of this season's two-hour season premiere, the two are not any closer to moving in. After all, how many times have the two of them been together and broken up in the past four seasons?
Grey and Shepherd aside, the episode wasn't too much different than the finale, or, for that matter, every other episode: Mark Sloan creates sexual tension with every woman, Cristina Yang is in desperate need of a man, George O'Malley is oblivious that Lexie Grey likes him, and Izzie still has not gotten over the death of her fiancé. Dr. Erica Hahn and Dr. Callie Torres have finally admitted they are attracted to each other; though neither have expressed they are lesbians.
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John Ross
posted 10/19/08 @ 11:28 PM EST
I don't think you've actually ever seen The Office. Pretty poor review, sir/ma'am. I'm kind of unhappy to read this.
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