(S03E05) After quite a bit of leaving us in the cold for Major League Baseball, FOX has finally brought House back for our viewing pleasure. And, just as House smacks us in the face regularly with his obnoxious behavior, the show hits us hard by showing the good doctor shoving something where the sun doesn't shine on David Morse, who will apparently become a new character on the program. This week's tough situation to deal with is a young husband and wife who end up in the hospital after an attempted robbery is foiled by the husband in a diner. After Jeremy, the young husband, takes out the assailants, his wife Tracy has trouble breathing, and she's rushed to the hospital's care.
Of course, just before the re-premiere of the season, we hear about how House seems to be, pretty much, based on Sherlock Holmes' character traits, and you just can't miss that. I've gotta say, that I watched this show a bit differently last night just to see if I could keep track of anything that might be Holmes-like. Howabout you?
So far this season, we've been sans an outside character, where Stacy was introduced last season, and House most certainly needs a foil. David Morse, playing the embarrassed-in-the-clinic Detective Tritter, closed this show in a way that makes us definitely wanting to see what's coming next. Typically, I watch this show and move week to week looking to see what kind of obnoxious jokes and wacky cases House will solve, but not necessarily too much about what the plotlines are going to be, except maybe as far as Cuddy being preggers or Cameron a) wanting House or b) becoming more snippy. For at least the next week or two, it looks like House's attitude is going to officially come back to bite him.
I thought the "hook" for this week's show, the interracial relationship that the two primary patients were undergoing, was a lot of fun to see with regard to the doctor's interaction - especially when the show came to a close. The team also seems to be getting slicker and slicker at giving House back a bit of his own medicine, this week playing some pranks on him with regard to Wilson dating another woman inside the hospital. As it turns out, it's Foreman who was not only behind the prank, but is dating the woman, not Wilson.
As it turns out, House is sort of right when it comes to Cuddy trying to become pregnant, but she isn't as of yet - or at least so says her pregnancy test. We knew that House would get bitten for hopping back on the pills, and his return to using the cane. As far as his character development goes, I can see some sort of drug dependency issues becoming part of his keeping his job, which could reverse his use of the cane, and so forth. I'm all for forcing the drug issue with him, and since it's clear that the people who care most about him - his team, Cuddy, and his best friend Wilson - aren't able to get through to him, someone's going to have to.
If anything's been a "theme" this season, it's secrets. Think about it - Foreman now has a girlfriend, who is white (something you know House will hammer him on), Cuddy is looking to become pregnant, House is potentially faking his need for a cane, and Cuddy was hiding the fact that House cured the patient at the season's open. I'm not sure we could handle any more secrets, could we?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-01-2006 @ 10:19AM
Angi said...
I loved this weeks episode! Cameron was so SNARKY! Why do you think House is faking with his leg. I have seen him rub it and sit down alot more, so I can't see how he is faking it. Then what would be the point of the scene were he took the cane out of the closet all sad,ect,ect??
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11-01-2006 @ 11:35AM
Walt said...
Sherlock did have that 7% solution helping him along, only because there wasn't Vicodin back in that day...
Both characters are a bit on the misanthropic side...
But yes, the villains in House are almost always health related and not criminal, so there's no "Professor Moriority" to keep House humble. The David Morse storyline will be fun to watch, if only to keep House honest -- Will the good doctors continue breaking and entering in the cause of justice, er, saving lives?
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11-01-2006 @ 12:05PM
Grace said...
I agree with the first post. I don't think that House is faking about needing his cane at all.
Also, Morse will be on for 6 to 7 weeks. I hope no longer.
I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!
Grace
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11-01-2006 @ 12:23PM
Tucker said...
Did anyone find Foreman's interactions with the patients a bit odd this week? It seemed a little too Cameron, he's been relatively businesslike with the patients, but he was all soft and cuddly this time around. I know they were trying to get at the "situation hits home" thing, but still... It seemed very un-Foreman-like.
And Chase's sucking up to House is getting a little annoying.
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11-01-2006 @ 12:38PM
BobbyBuz said...
The show itself is getting very annoying. Have they ever made a correct initial diagnosis? Seems that every week they need to go through a myriad of sicknesses and remedies before they finally get it right.
I realize House is very unconventional, but it's getting to the point of being ridiculous.
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11-01-2006 @ 12:46PM
Jose said...
How great was the transition on House's face when Morse puts the cuffs on him. It's like he was living in a fantasy world where he has supreme power within the confines of his workplace, and this all comes crashing down when the cuffs come on. It was like he ceded alpha male status to the cop in an instant.
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11-01-2006 @ 4:12PM
courtney said...
David Morse is wonderful - House needed a good foil - he seems to be it. I wonder if the Morse character will be House's Moriarity.
Other Sherlock Holmes stuff: detecting by close observation of relatively inocuous things - noting how she may not be a music fan because her locker only had books and no CDs, looking in Cuddy's trash to determine her appetite to see if she might be pregnant, etc.
House's lack of social skills are similar to Holmes as well. He could be brusque and inappropriate in his search for the truth.
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11-02-2006 @ 6:39PM
Douglin said...
BobbyBuz: House is a detective show, about medicine. Complaining they never make a correct initial diagnosis is like complaining that on CSI they never walk into the crime scene take a quick look around and then they know who did it. Or that the first person they question on Law & Order is never the one who did it.
Do you really want them to get it right in the first 8 minutes then just sit around as the patient gets better...wow that would be gripping television...
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11-03-2006 @ 10:46AM
Deb in PA said...
Okay. I absolutely agree that if they diagnosed the patient right out of the fate, what would be the point of the show? Keep in mind that in REAL life people go through a battery of tests every day to determine illness or disease. This show is for entertainment, not reality. In watching the show faithfully, I can say for sure that if the sickness shoe was on my foot, i sure would want House and the team on my case. I am sick in real life, and i would have had a much better outcome 9 years after the fact if I had had just ONE doctor take the time to look at all the facts. I saw every specialist, had every test, and for almost 4 solid years, doctors and tests were almost literally a full time job. By the time I got a diagnoses, it was too little too late. If you can manage to keep your perspective that it is television, and not your PCP, maybe you would have a more intelligent thing to say. Just imagine if there were more doctors in the REAL world that took that much time and effort. I'd settle for one that didn't treat people like a drive through fast food place. I don't care what happens to the characters in the show...I watch it because it is interesting. All docotrs should be as brutally honest as House.
If you can't handle it, change the channel or watch daytime television....that'll make you poke your eyes out.
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11-05-2006 @ 11:56AM
Sander Janssen (The Netherlands) said...
The show is here (holland) also on television.
It is really shocking to watch.
Do you know why?
Because it is pure propaganda.
It looks like the show is made to make the people mentally ready for the shit that happens in hospitals.
Your all inside the box, think out of the box and find real life beyond hospitals en docters!!!
I don't want you guys feel bad about this, I just want to let you know that you are all blind. step out of it.
It is NOT normal that you must have all those tests.
It is NOT normal your must suffer more then necessary.
It is NOT normal to heal after a lot of fear and pain.
That's al about the show, its makes you feel alot of fear and you think it's normal. Sense after every show that at the end there is a moment of happiness that make you feel like "you see, the docters know's what's best for me"
It makes me vomit.
Maybe I'm acting to seriously about this, but the guy above me lost reality.
For that guy special: dive into your own dept, your mind. That's were your problem is.
The one's that say I'm talking bullshit: Hey, that's fine. Stay asleep till you wake up in your own private nightmare.
The one's that think I'am not talking bullshit: Think again. Do research, don't take things for granted. that's what the problem is!! Go find things out for yourselfs.
Greetings,
Sander Janssen, The Netherlands.
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