Give David Chase some credit. He promised Alan Sepinwall of the Newark Star-Ledger an interview right after the finale of The Sopranos aired. Sure enough, even though he's on a sabbatical in France and is denying all interview requests, he kept his promise and spoke to Sepinwall yesterday, despite the controversy surrounding how his series closed out its run.

Did he reveal what happened in final scene, where Tony Soprano eyes some shady figures while waiting for his family to arrive for dinner, after it cut to black? Of course not. But he did try to allay fan's assertions that he pulled the rug out from under them.

I didn't see the season finale of FOX's House (I started watching the first season then stopped - I'll catch the rerun this summer), but everyone tells me it was really great. However, I'm wondering if everything that happened in the episode was completely understood by fans.

Star-Ledger columinsts Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz ask David Shore, who wrote and directed the episode, exactly what was real and what was a dream in the season finale. According to Shore, the only two scenes that were real were the beginning where House tries to treat a patient with a tongue problem and gets shot, and the very end where he gets taken to the emergency room and asks for that experimental drug. Everything else was a dream.

FOX is showing two episodes of House every Tuesday night during the summer.