Shore talked about May 21′s series finale, “Everybody Dies,” and described the show’s ending as “bittersweet”:
“It’s definitely an ending. I don’t want to say more than that. We never do happy endings. But we also try not to simply do miserable endings. Bittersweet is the most you can hope for us.”
When pressed for details, Shore said that the final moments of Monday’s episode, “Holding On,” are a jumping-off point for the events in the finale:
“House is put into a very difficult position, and it’s about him assessing his future. We developed this idea months and months ago, the idea for this final episode, which when you see it it’ll sort of become clear. There were many things I liked about this idea. It allowed us to explore who he was and the nature of this character and take a look at who he is as a human being and his values as a human being. It also allowed us to naturally bring back other people, so I started making phone calls.”
“For eight years, I worked as hard as I knew how, to make House as good as it could be. I frothed and fretted over every detail, every line, every moment. Driving home in the small hours, I pounded the steering wheel as I replayed mistakes in my mind. I tossed and turned every night, plotting the next day’s maneuvers, until I reached moments of near-madness — some would say nearer than near — because I loved House with all my heart, and loved the other characters and the world in which they moved just as much.” - Hugh Laurie.
