Exclusive: House Boss Previews 'Fitting' Finale
House closes out its eight-year run on May 21, but the march towards the final curtain call will begin to play out on screen next month.
Series creator David Shore tells TVLine that a storyline will kick off in late April that will “build†to the show’s swan song. “The final four episodes are, to some extent, [part] of a piece,†he explains. “But the last one is very, very much a much separate culmination of those episodes.â€
Shore prefers to keep the specifics of the plot under wraps, but describes the hour-long swan song as “a fitting ending†that will feature “a few†of the show’s alumni reprising their roles. (He would only confirm that Olivia Wilde, a.k.a. Thirteen, will be one of them; as TVLine previously reported, ex-leading lady Lisa Edelstein declined an invitation to return.)
“[Series finales] get put under such a microscope,†sighs Shore, who is penning the still-untitled episode with longtime House scribes Peter Blake and Eli Attie. “And I sort of resent that in a way. I understand that people are going to be paying attention to it, but… we will have done 177 episodes. I would like to think every single one of them speaks for the series. I don’t think this one should speak much louder than the rest of them.â€
