I absolutely promise not to include any spoilers in this review.
Now, House. House, House, House. I swear, his relationship with Cuddy has been the most juvenile piece of crap I've ever seen on tv. I know that House is an emotionally-stunted and self-centered spoiled brat and that is part of his "charm" (and I use the word loosely) but the writers really missed a grand opportunity to use his relationship with Cuddy to show some kind of character growth in him. I mean, seriously, his addiction to Vicadin used to be an integral part of the character and they allowed him to evolve past that. Would it really be to much to ask to have him grow up? Just a little?
But no, his entire relationship is centered around making sex jokes to the woman he's supposedly in love with. Last week I thought they might finally be advancing his character a little, because here he was potentially learning that he was being a self-centered asshole and doing somehting nice for Cuddy to make it up to her. I didn't review last week's, but I felt like their problems just came out of nowhere because the writers haven't been building anything up this season. To be honest, I don't know what the writers have been doing this season. But no, we're back to sex jokes and Cuddy smiling as though it's charming.
I've always felt like Cuddy was a basket-case herself, though, with a severe mother complex and she just needs someone else to mommy, hence her attraction to House, the world's oldest and most self-centered infant. The final scene of the episode was especially telling: House, drunk off his ass, with his head on Cuddy's lap. "I'm right next to your vagina!" he says, but I would disagree in principle. You're right next to her womb. Because she has officially become your mother.
And so the plot is laid for next week, and I assume the approaching end of the season. House has lost hs powers. Again. Haven't we done this story before? I mean, he's like freaking Superman. "You cannot love a mortal woman without becoming mortal yourself. Now get in that chamber and give up your powers!" House lost his powers when he went off Vicodin. He lost his powers when he went back on Vicodin. He lost his powers that time when Cuddy played a trick on him and convinced him that his diagnosis was wrong. He lost his powers when they changed his carpet or moved his desk or whatever. The point is that House is a delicate flower that needs to be nurtured (read: enabled) and if everyone doesn't kiss his ass then people die. Except this time it's by his own choice.
So does Lisa "Lois Lane" Cuddy accept that she is destroying the most brilliant mind on the entire planet and getting people killed, or does she sacrifice her great love for the greater good and break up with House once and for all. It's drama!! I assume he'd go back to being his miserable cynical self . . . but wait, did he ever give any of that up? This season has seen him as miserable and cynical as ever. And if he applied a fraction of the time to his cases as he does to fucking with everyone, he'd be saving peole left and right. He might actually be able to take more than one case a week! I thought it was rather telling in last wek's episode when the kids asked him, "So, if you only see on patient at a time, what do you do all day?" Well, he certainly doesn't spend it diagnosing or working. He spends it goofing off and preventing anyone else from doing any work. And now rather than man up and accept that he doesn't actually do any work even when he is working, he's blaming it on his relationship with Cuddy.
The subplots this week concerned Taub and Foreman living together and getting on each other's nerves. Taub has become the show's official whipping boy, as he continues his descent into utter pathetic-ness. Poop jokes are always amusing, and definitely fit with the juvenile nature of the show. And the other subplot was continuing the trend of making Amber the most annoying character ever. Seriously, is there anything that she doesn't pass judgment on and butt into? Why is any of that crap any of her business in the first place? And now they're dragging Chase into it. I guess he misses Cameron so much that he's going to start putting the moves on the newest bleeding heart busy-body. Or maybe they'll just become "friends?" I don't know. And, increasingly, I don't care.
Oh, and you know how I said at the beginning that I promised not to include any spoilers? Well I lied!! Because everyone lies!! Get it?
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