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House has to be the most self centered, unpleasant, tedious and vile human being ever to appear on TV. Viewers cut him slack for his disgusting behavior because he's a successful doctor. But that in no way excuses his flaunting of rules, abuse of patients and coworkers, and addiction to mind altering drugs. He's pure evil and depressing to watch. Change his profession to automobile mechanic and you'll see what I'm talking about. He gets cars running but is scum of the earth. What a hero.

The rest of the cast is good. The cases are preposterous which allows us to forgive their endless missteps of unnecessary invasive tests, misdiagnoses, and failed treatments. Each episode they're finally successful around attempt ten, which is hardly a ringing endorsement of their talents.

Three stars for the supporting cast. No stars for the House character and for the blubbering incompetence on display throughout most of the episode. Three stars.

A 10 year old boy's father chases tornados and dies in a thrilling scene they left on the cutting room floor. The boy's chain-smoking mother (Heche) goes into a depression that lasts until the lad is 25 years old yet still in high school. One day a package containing his father's diary arrives so he immediately abandons his sad-sack mom to pursue his uncle. Things go off the rails at this point, with his uncle and another man (Baldwin) running some sort of storm chasing tour company (how do customers book that?). I won't spoil the rest of the movie except to say nothing happens and it takes a really long time to not happen.

There's a subplot involving an invention that uses a storm to communicate with God or something. It is poorly explained and aside from endangering the boy's life from time to time plays no part in the story.

Twister was such a good movie because the subject matter was inherently interesting and the characters were fun. In this movie the subject of storms is made boring and everyone is either wooden or depressed.

Three stars for duping me into sitting through it until the end on the false hope of something interesting happening. No stars for failing to follow through. Three stars.

The premise is an Ark is sent to a nearby star to prepare it for mass colonization. En route there is some kind of accident and the remaining crew are faced with a series of survival challenges: water, food, air, etc. You've seen this type of sequential "we're all gonna die" plot many times before. If only they had Wesley Crusher or Spock.

They don't. What they do have are the best and brightest minds on Earth. Or so we are told. In reality, these people are unfailingly immature jerks. One can imagine a reality show back on Earth where one by one they were voted off the planet. Every stereotype is represented. The only ones missing are telephone sanitizers and marketers who can't decide what color the first wheel should be.

The episodes are all the same. A problem. Lots of squabbling. A deus ex machina saves the day. Every time. It gets wearisome. Especially when the characters are so unsympathetic and unlikable.

Three stars a decent premise. It seems that's as far as TV goes these days. A decent premise, a cast chosen at random, and a story cobbled together by ChatGPT trained on adolescent dramas. Three stars.