On the previous episode of
House, the quirky doctor (
Hugh Laurie) was still pining over Wilson (
Robert Sean Leonard). He even hires a private investigator, played by Michael Weston in a recurring capacity, to check on him to see if he is. We found the answer when House visited Wilson, who was only too happy to slam the door in his face.
This whole House-not-being-friends-with-Wilson thing is just one of the many changes
House underwent going into its fifth season. And while ratings may not be comparable to last season's premiere (due, in part, to the change in timeslot), the whole mess and the addition of new characters gave the writers of
House more room to maneuver in terms of storyline and relationships, according to Laurie.
“The first three seasons, we've always been a small show,” Laurie told If Magazine. “Half the size of any comparable one-hour drama. There are only six regular cast members. And so I think the writers were always had half a mind to sort of expanding it at some point once they got the thing sort of going. They had a mind to expand it just to give themselves more possible ways to go, more possible combinations, possible relationships.”
In fact, one of such stories really shook
House apart, the show and the doctor alike. One of the contestants in last season's a ala
Survivor type of competition for new staff members was Amber (Anne Dudek), cutthroat bitch, who later on was revealed to be Wilson's girlfriend. Her death at the end of the season severed the ties between the two former BFF's.
For his part, Laurie said filming a show with a bigger cast is actually easier than when the show was intimately small.
“Oddly enough, the smaller the show, the more logistically complicated," he said. "If everyone is in everything, it becomes a very complicated thing to shoot. “I think it's worked wonderfully well. I think the new cast members are absolutely terrific and we're a very happy group. We get along very well.”
-Glenn L. Diaz, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source:
If Magazine
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