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(S03E14) Cuddy's got a boyfriend, Cuddy's got a boyfriend. Oh, wait, spoke too soon. Love was in the air this week during House, but perhaps not in as positive a manner as one might expect. Well, then again, this is House.

With Valentine's Day coming this week, we should have seen it coming that the creators of this show would take this opportunity to not only set up Cuddy on a blind date, but create a little drama between two one-time players and a climax of drama with two others. You asked for character development, and you got it. While this episode spent quite a bit of time focused on a young woman's medical condition, one that had House intrigued not because he likes solving cases, but because it could have some potential for "fixing" his little pain problem.

(S03E13) After last week's episode gave us a lot more great stuff with regard to the cast of House, even with some medical stuff going on, we're treated to some old-fashioned Dr. House attitude combined with a new character and a somewhat intriguing case. When checking out the previews for this week, we were treated to seeing House in a wheelchair, which opened up some curiosity in my head, as you never know if something else happened to him, if he was hit by a car, or if he was just faking. As it turns out, he just wanted his handicapped space back, now that new researcher Dr. Whitner has been given his original space, sending the good doctor 46 yards out into the parking lot.

So, the only reason he's playing wheelchair tag with the new researcher is that he bet Cuddy that he could stay in the wheelchair for a week. And lost. Well, sort of.

(S03E12) It's certainly been a while since we've been treated to Dr. House's charms and ability to make patients feel better in a single bound, but now he's back, and better than ever. Or, at least he's out of jail, and back on the Vicodin. One of the better strings of dialogue that this show has had was in last night's show, when House and Cuddy are discussing the fact that she perjured herself to keep him out of jail, and now he's going to do clinic duty, and next he's going to do his paperwork because she kept him out of jail, and so on and so forth. He's *so* right, and she *so* knows it, and that's why you have to love their interaction, because it digresses to the high school-esque flirting situation, even if it is only from one side, every so often.

(S03E11) Let me say that I couldn't be happier about the resolution of the Tritter plot line this season, because it was definitely getting under my skin, and based on comments that TV Squad readers have been leaving here for the last few episode reviews, that was the case for more than just me. That said, I can't say I was pleased with how Tritter handled things at the end, but we'll get to that later.

I'm also starting to feel - and not just with this particular show, but all of them that I watch - that DVDs have spoiled me, because the whole waiting over the holidays, and then two weeks off here, three weeks there, is a bit draining. But at least FOX isn't pulling a Lost with us, and we only have to wait until January 30 for the next installment.

Back to the brass tacks, though. I think that our level of frustration with Tritter and how that situation was going down was completely emulated in how Cuddy decided to end it all by perjuring herself and coming up with a solution to get House out of court and Tritter off the cases of her staffers. For a minute there, I almost believed her while she was in the witness box, but that would have been too perfect, wouldn't it? The court scene was definitely one that I was looking forward to, as we got a pretty good promo showing House answer his phone, which you knew wouldn't go over too well.

(S03E10) For weeks now we've been hearing that the Detective Tritter storyline might be coming to a close, and people have been exclaiming in the comments here, and elsewhere, that they were kind of sick of it. Part of the issue with the whole issue he's brought to light is that it has a longer-term bearing on the whole picture, as opposed to some of the other mid-season plotlines (Stacy, for instance), so I'm seeing more and more why it's become more integral to what's going on, rather than just something that goes by the wayside. After a two-week wait for a new episode, I was not only happy to see some solid story progress, but for a pretty cool case to solve as well.

(S03E08) Sometimes, your show's primary plotline is the one that you might not see as the big story if you're a casual viewer, and this latest thread for the last few weeks on House is just that. Detective Tritter is, slowly but surely, making life a living Hell for those around Dr. House, and it's pretty clear soon who that is really going to affect the most.

At the same time, this was one of the more intriguing cases that House and his team have dealt with in recent times, and the stunt he pulled with the envelope in the opening moments of the team's initial diagnosis was fantastic. That said, we're definitely seeing his team "grow up" together, and the way they're interacting with each other, and their boss, is becoming quite interesting. Additionally, seeing Wilson have his car towed away by the police and the other ways he's playing with the cancer doc is somewhat amusing, if only that we know it'll cause a bit of a stir with House and company - or will it?

It's Friday. Let's talk about hot guys.

Nine out of 15 male actors on People magazine's list of Sexiest Men are on television. The one I'm most excited about seeing on the list is John Krasinski, of The Office. He has that sweet guy thing going on, whereas some of the finalists are just smoldering sexpots (see: Jake Gyllenhaal).

Also in the Top 15 Sexiest: Taye Diggs (Day Break), Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy), Omar Epps (House), Josh Duhamel (Las Vegas), Enrique Murciano (Without a Trace), Rodrigo Santoro (Lost), Eric Mabius (Ugly Betty) and John Cho (The Singles Table- NBC midseason).

Who's missing from this list?

(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?

(S03E04) Quick question: a) is House getting a little bit unrealistic this season or b) am I just off my gourd? I'm not usually one to nitpick at television shows, because c'mon, they're television shows, and only partially reality in the case of a show like House. I've got to say that there were a couple things last night that bugged me, most prominently Foreman's quick-to-grab attitude when he wanted to bring Adam, the autistic child, into a scanner, and he was complaining about only having half an hour to do so, and grabbing at the kid's PSP unit to try and take it away and move him along. If there's anything on this show that is just not going to happen, especially in the case of an autistic child, it's that. Just seemed a little out of place, though not necessarily out of character for Foreman. Now, don't get me wrong, this isn't to say that I'm in any way frustrated to not be watching this show, it just seems to be a bit "different" to me.

What I *loved* about this week's episode was how Cameron kept trying to diagnose what House was doing by having his meetings with his team in various rooms in the hospital, since he said he would not work in his office until the old carpeting was back, with his bloodstain from last season's finale. Additionally, it was fascinating to see Cuddy and Wilson discussing the possibility that House could have Asperger's Syndrome, which is a "mild and rare" type of Autism, so perhaps that was why he took the case in the first place. Wilson's primary belief for this was how his pal reacted to not being able to have the carpet in his office, and how he was compensating and "fighting back" elsewhere, such as taking the conference room at the same time Cuddy was set to have a meeting. Best of all, this week, we have the return of House's teenage stalker.

(S03E03) In the third episode of this third season of House, we'd been shown in previews that it would be one of the more "controversial" episodes of the series, or at least of this year's batch of shows. As it turns out, it definitely fit that bill, though the controversy wasn't as plain as day as what the advertisements would have us believe. This time around, House and his team are given a patient who has been doing a number of medical tests and experiments on rats, who had recently started coughing during a dissection of one of his "patients," passed out, and had one of his rats start biting his lip while he was out cold. As it turns out, this doctor was fairly well-known within the medical community for a number of his "experiments" in the past, including a number on humans, namely babies.

Faced with the medical dilemma of a patient who knows what he is talking about and doesn't want to suffer through whatever pain he is in for, the team must do what they always do, choose whether or not to treat the patient for his pain, or attempt to cure what ails him, even if it is against said patient's wishes.

(S03E02) The previews for the second episode of this season of House created a bit of a stir in my stomach, what, with a potential alien abduction or something along those lines happening to a patient and all. In reality, did we really think that the creators of this show would *ever* go all X-Files on us, though? Hope not.

Much as last week ended with the dilemma of Gregory House snagging a prescription from Wilson's office to "treat the pain," we open with the good doctor about to take a jog, iPod Shuffle and all, and are quickly greeted by the pitter patter of his footsteps, back at the door, just seconds later. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when his leg pains him, leaving him no choice but to investigate the closet where he happens to have some Vicodin in a jacket pocket. And yes, that was indeed a glimpse of the cane that he's left behind since his surgery and treatment. Some part of me was frustrated by the writers in this episode, as the unethical behavior by Cuddy and Wilson (why should this shock me with how House acts half the time) combined with the oddity of the story seemed a bit far fetched, even for a show where medical miracles come along just about every week. By the end of the show, the pit in my stomach was somewhat cleared up, but that doesn't mean that this was stellar by any means.

(S03E01) [Some spoilers ahead! If you don't want to hear more about the premiere, then stop here!] As one of the early-on season premieres of the fall 2006 crop of shows, House will probably get a decent amount of "drop in" viewership for tonight's episode. Those who are just dropping in for the first time will see a very different Gregory House than the show originally presented, and those who have been along for the whole ride - even if you just caught up this summer on DVD or rerun - might just have a lot of wide-open mouths, even as the show opens up. The good doctor, who we left in a hallucination at the end of last season after he was shot, has apparently seen some big changes since having surgery, combined with Cuddy's ketamine treatment.

The show opens, as always, in dramatic fashion. A man, seemingly bound to a wheelchair with some unknown ailment, is seeing flashes of light combined with his particular reality. This reality includes his son, wife, and other family members participating in a barbecue, around a swimming pool. In some deliberate fashion, in what seems to be an attempt on his own life, the man moves his automatic wheelchair towards the pool, surveys the scene, and moves it forward, leaving us to see him sinking in the deep end just before the opening credits. And so it goes.

The new season of House kicks off tomorrow night, but before you settle into watch the abrasive wiseass genius cure all kinds of wacky diseases, I invite you to check out a few bloopers and outtakes from last season. The video is after the jump, and I'm not sure where the footage came from, but I would guess it's from one of the DVDs. It's about five and a half minutes and contains the usual blooper fare: botched lines, cracking up in the middle of a dramatic moment, and various hijinks, but there are some great moments when Hugh Laurie, rather than admit he messed up, just begins to improvise. Also, as far as I could tell, he never loses his American accent even when he's out of character. That's dedication, I'm telling you. Have a look:

[via GMMR]

(S02E24) Wow. The second season of House, unfortunately, came to an end Tuesday night, and shocking isn't even the word that should be used to describe it. Most weeks, I really have a good handle on what's actually happening in-episode. This week, I gotta say that I was lost, found, lost, found, and lost. And that's a good thing.

When a man walks into House's office after he and the team are trying to diagnose a patient, asks who he is, and then proceeds to drop a pair of bullets in him, it almost looked for a moment as if it could be the end for our hero, er, favorite obnoxious doctor. But as the episode unfolded, we were shown a House that not only was able to walk without pain in his leg, but was so thrown off by his actions that he was trying to figure out what was real and what wasn't. That got worse once he found himself hallucinating, with the first instance being his "meeting" with an attractive woman outside the room of his current patient. As it turns out, not only was that woman not really there, but she was actually the now-dead wife of the man who came to shoot him.

(S02E23) What's curious about shows that are super-formulaic in nature, is that when they're good, you don't care about how things are constructed, it's all about what is constructed and how the characters interact with each other. And yes, I know, this has been harped on to know end by me and some commenters on this site for a long time now, but that's a good thing. This week's episode, "Who's Your Daddy?" was pretty much spot on when it comes to that concept, with a young girl named Leona coming to the hospital after experiencing a horrible vision of flooding and her dead mother on the plane she is flying on. Leona, we have been told, is a survivor of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina put on the New Orleans area, and is now, for some reason, re-experiencing things that terrorized her.

At the same time, House is experiencing horrible leg pain, which has got to be pretty bad considering what his pain threshold on a regular basis is. He's storming around his apartment, even climbing up a step stool to get a box, hidden on top of a bookshelf, that contains needles and other pain medication that looks like his "last stop" when it comes to fixing what ails him. Once again, Cuddy rings him up on the telephone, and we get to hear his funny answering machine message, but also see that she knows how to push his buttons by saying exactly what curiousness would bring him in to treat a patient.