Terrible
I'm shocked at the review and all the commenters saying that this episode was good except for this and that. I spent the whole episode thinking about how I was going to come here and rate it an F minus minus minus minus minus. And now I have!

Let me just second that opinion. Kings does not end on a cliffhanger, and does not leave threads hanging. It leaves enormous, heartbreaking possibilities open for another season, but as a series ender, I find The New King to be entirely satisfactory within itself, just frustrating in the larger context of TV networks…

It's probably best to refrain from describing it much at all, and just get them to try an episode instead. I saw an ad for it on TV before it started airing, and read a bit about the show concept, and thought it sounded absolutely horrible and there was no way I was going near it. Later on I saw Ian McShane on The…

That was indeed great. And then at the end it turns out to be Silas who has had the heat correctly applied to him.

Hulu has the entire series all the way back to the beginning. You can go back and catch up there if you care to.

Woohoo!
The AV Club delivers! I thought you guys had given up. Thanks for coming back to this show.

Pancreatic cancer has something like a 10% survival rate, and that's including people who were diagnosed before it bloated their bellies out so far that they could no longer see their toes. House's magic instant hallway diagnosis was a death sentence, and it made the scene all the more poignant if you knew what…

Funny, I haven't seen anyone mention what seems like the most obvious way to start out next season: House returns from the institution at the beginning of the first episode, and we have more standard Princeton-Plainsboro antics with a bit of extra flavor coming from references to House's stay in the loony bin, but…

Sigh, read before posting. "Only deaf people don't enjoy Bach."

The "ignorant" turn was clever, but I think it's ultimately invalid. Turn it the other way: "Only deaf deaf don't enjoy Bach." Even though deafness itself is not insulting, this sentence is insulting to anyone who doesn't enjoy Bach, because it assumes that there are no other valid reasons for not enjoying him. Still,…

Alan,

Homer's stupidity used to be motivated. He forgets Maggie because he's self-centered and he has very little to do with her. He drinks dish soap because it came free in the mail and he feels obligated to take advantage. He's slow with "Lisa needs braces" because he's fixated on beer and going with the flow of the…

Amazing how in this modern world you can be a bigot without even a single ill thought, simply by using the "wrong" word.

That is astonishingly new given the age of most of the words we're using. And considering that "handicapped" is still in common usage (see for example "handicapped parking space") I don't think it's nearly as cut and dried as you make it sound.

I just don't understand why we can't do this same thing WITHOUT mutating our language and criticizing everyone who doesn't keep up with the latest mutations.

Let's stop beating around the bush. The proper word is "crippled".

They are fellows. This was mentioned explicitly during the whole reality show arc that set up New Coke. No comment on the rest, though….

Since we've spent almost no quality time in the clinic for years, how about a season or two that's nothing BUT the clinic? I always thought those parts were the best. House congratulating the Chinese lady on her impending grandchild was what got me watching this show on a regular basis.

I realize the lyrics aren't explicit on this point, but I always interpreted it as a malfunction which cut off communication and doomed poor Tom to die in space.

That is pretty damn funny. I wonder if anyone told Lincoln that the song they picked is about an UNSUCCESSFUL space mission.