Daily Archives: November 23, 2008

Narrative Complexity and House

I was searching the web this afternoon and stumbled upon a very interesting article on Cracked.com about the ease of constructing an episode of House. House is a show that fits into Calabrese’s television narrative prototype of “Variation on a theme”. If you read the embedded image below, hopefully you can see how much House works this way (and enjoy a few laughs at this sarcastic and humorous article).Variation on a Theme

The original article can be found on Michael Swain’s blog on Cracked.com:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/write-your-own-house-episode/