House, M.D.

I missed this week's ep.--was it any good?

i'd say par for the season

it was a joke :(

Lot of good House and Wilson action. Problem is that I absolutely buy their relationship, but don't buy House and Cuddy at all.

So we've had Progressive Flo and now the State Farm guy, could the Allstate deep-voiced guy be next?

Lot of good House and Wilson action. Problem is that I absolutely buy their relationship, but don't buy House and Cuddy at all.

― ailsa, Tuesday, October 12, 2010 5:52 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

this wz inevitable, but I think millions of fans would've felt jipped if they couldn't have seen House's and Cuddy's epic fail for themselves.

was Libby/Sam ever properly introduced or did she just show up this season?

dr. girlfriend was introduced last season and fought with house for wilson's affections until there was some detente i forget the reason why though.

Wilson ended up kicking House out of his, er, residence iirc...not over any warfare, most of which I think Wilson wz unaware of, but just bcz Wilson wanted to take it to "the next level" or whatever...

I haven't watched too muchof this new season, but I think Sam is my favortire character right now...

I just hate that every episode they are checking someones house for toxins. house should check cuddys box for toxins.

I just wish they were a little more consistent with House's "everyone lies" bit. I mean, the last episode the girl was flat out lying about the battered women's group she never went to. House never even questioned that or her other lies. Of course, maybe thats the point, he questions the truth-tellers but has a blind spot for sociopaths/liars?

I don't know that she was sociopathic so much as flat out crazy.

Yeah, my second sentence was kind of second guessing myself in relation to the showat large. I just remember watching that episode and immediately wondering why House was taking her statements at face value, considering the previous ep's reiteration of the "EVERYONE LIES".

sometimes they do some work to coordinate e.g. mistakes in how the team handles the case with whatever personal-professional-life plot is running alongside it. sometimes they don't.

This increased emphasis on Chase being RROWR HOTT LADYKILLER is really cracking me up.

they would do well to keep throwing in reminders of his speed-date-a-cretin experiment.

^that was my favorite episode last year

is Stephen Fry booked to appear on the show anytime soon as House's fatter, smarter brother Mycroft House?

I feel like they dress Cuddy really well, but every other woman on this show gets these clothes you would never really see anyone wear, like last episode's new girl with the leggy Paula Poundstone look.

Cameron was wearing vests all the time, too, which always rang false in 2004.

amber tamblyn (the new girl) is more impressive if you saw her in her old weird-cop-show 'the unusuals'. she's, like, acting!

compare to: jennifer morrison moving from 'house' to 'how i met your mother'.

this episode of house is told from the pov of paralyzed mos def

rerun. odd choice since his enunciation isn't the greatest.

most emotionally false feeling episode of house ever

aw. except for the scenes with rachel + house which were adorable

did you feel let down by your own comment there?

OK Rachel + House SO FUCKING CUTE

That kid is ridic adorable.

ok, but the other two relationships in the episode (patient of the week and other patient of the week, and chase and chick we've never seen before in the show) felt totally bogus on every level

tbg I'm sick and was half sleeping through the whole thing. I mainly just tuned in when the cute kid was on screen.

wonder which genius decided to turn this show into grey's anatomy

― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, October 11, 2010 10:46 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark

i've only now caught up on the first four or so episodes -- and the ep where boy gave sister part of his lung was touching ... but otherwise this is my feeling about this season so far. does it get better. b/c i'm really close to giving up.

newp!

I don't think its that awful yet. They've certainly reached a plateau irt the House/Cuddy relationship and I think they're going to paint themselves into a corner very soon, if they haven't already. I really liked this week's episode, particularly with how they handled Amber Tamblyn's character (until the very end, which I thought was a bit of a cop out). It was kind of interesting to see someone not bullied down by House by the end of the episode (again, until that stupid last scene).

What in the heck is with this trend lately that all TV shows have to start out with funny and/or abrasive characters and said abrasive character has to devolve, soften up and fall in love? It happened with Chuck, it happened with House M.D., It happened with Psych and I believe it happened with Scrubs.

I think some of these writers need to go back and watch those terrible episodes of Night Court where Phil the Bum dies and realize that softening up a character that originally had an acrid-type personality isn't a great idea. I still have nightmares about Kind Dan.

Considering what he did to Amber Tamblyn's character (can't even be bothered to remember her name), House is still quite clearly an irredeemable asshole. He just happens to be an asshole in love.

he roofied candace bergen, too!
clearly it's cutty that's going over to the dark side, not the other way around.

come to think of it, that would probably be the best possible outcome.

it's only fair, her and wilson did get a drug-free house, after all.

house and cutty boning just grosses me out for some reason, its like when mulder and scully started porking... there's no coming back from that

the T2-ing of house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRw1fc4dcq0

I'd say that the show picks up after the first 4 or so episodes from this season. The last episode was great... I won't spoil it.

The end with Amber Tamblyn (I'm assuming that she is the Joan of Arcadia girl) wasn't a botherable cop out (seeing as how she didn't cop out the rest of the episode) but a necessary cop out for setting up the next episode. But yeah, House sure looked like the biggest asshole for not even trying to say anything comforting at the very end. Not that I mind House being an asshole. And House + Cutty has been fine with me because it hasn't been cheesey.

Haven't seen this week's yet but I just need to say that I really dislike Tamblyn.

And I agree with Eisbaer, the ep where the boy gave his sister part of his lung was very touching and the best of the early episodes

I thought this week's episode was terrible.

I don't know, I'm kind of tempted to say that if you found this week's episode "terrible" then I'm not sure if watching House, M.D. is the right choice for you. Although it was a little more pushed to the edges than a typical episode, I think it pretty much contained every single piece of what this show is all about - medical mystery, House being a dick, outraged team, dripping sarcasm, oddly touching romantic lives of the team, etc etc

The magic marker whiteboard DDX routine didn't get much play that episode, as opposed to the previous episode where they used Taub's face.
Also the 'epiphany' moment lacked a certain majesty.

True. I guess I don't think this was like the "ultimate" episode or anything, but a fairly standard structure to it. It didn't feel as gimmicky as I thought it was going to be based on previews.

I wish HOUSE took spec scripts, then I could pitch an episode where House goes head-to-head against a diagnostic computer program like WATSON on jeopardy.
House's honor is at stake, but in order for House to stay true to his principles, he'd have to defer to the computer's diagnoses because on every rational level, the computer should have the edge on House. Meanwhile, WATSON makes a move on Cutty...

^this seems like a credible storyline for next season.

I don't know, I'm kind of tempted to say that if you found this week's episode "terrible" then I'm not sure if watching House, M.D. is the right choice for you.

lol wat? i've been watching since the first season. if you meant to say that if i found this week's episode terrible than you're not sure if I should still be watching -- then i'd agree with you. but any kind of original charm of appeal this show had has been totally sucked out by this point. tho i didn't find this ep as horrific as the original hooking up episode (kissing swollen leg ew), i thought it completely failed to generate any drama or stakes at all. i was expecting a real "DID HOUSE GO TOO FAR?" ep, but maybe they just can't make those anymore. it reminded me of a dozen other House episodes I've seen except in this one Cuddy was enabling House instead of fighting with him. that's not enough dynamics change to do anything for me. afaic, this show's peak was the two-part foreman dying episode and it's never quite matched those stakes since (and i really had hoped the small pox ep this season might match it, but no dice). the biggest problem imo actually is that House himself seems less and less interested in the case week by week. it feels so totally incidental. whoever compared this season to grey's anatomy is otm, except grey's anatomy was always fun and silly when it did all that relationship bullshit. this is just dreary.

See, I think we have a fundamental disagreement on what is good about the show, or at least when it gets invested in any kind of "stakes". I thought that Foreman dying arc was sort of silly and couldn't really get into it.