Patient of the Week – Evan, AKA Brock from House’s fave soap, AKA Samantha’s boy toy from Sex And The City who is… not so young anymore actually and looking kinda haggard.  House kidnaps him and takes him to PPTH to save his life as he’s noticed he’s been slurring his speech in recent episodes.

When nothing comes up conclusive, he goes to leave, but House knocks him out and puts him in an MRI booth against his will. Still nothing is found and Brock goes to leave again but is unsuccessful because he can no longer walk.

Meanwhile Cuddy is dealing with a surprise state board inspection by this dweeby looking guy who is asking a lot of questions about what House is up to so she assigns Cameron and the old gang to keep an eye on him until the guy leaves. Oh and Wilson and Amber are buying a mattress together… more on that later.

In the DDX taub thinks House did something to make Brock’s legs not work.. on a side note he used to be my favorite of the newbies, but now… not so much, he’s such a debby downer, always thinking House is up to something, which he usually is, but Taub has become House’s motive police.  

Kutner runs a test on Brock where he pokes pins into his leg, I’m not sure what’s it called, but that’s not important. What’s important is how much sun damage Jason Lewis has had since SATC went off the air and now looks so old. He’s the poster boy for staying out of the sun. I know this is a recap about House but I just can’t get off this obsession about him looking SO OLD!!!  I was so into him and now… ok, back to the show.

Patient of the Week: Roz, a thirty-eight year old woman who six months ago converted to Hasidic Judiasm. She’s peeing blood and lost consciousness during her wedding.

The theme of this episode is about change and can anybody actually do it. Do people really change? I particularly like the episodes of this show that ask questions I don’t know the answers to. Have I ever changed? Have you? Can we as a species actually change or do we just like to think we can. When we get an email out of the blue from an ex-boyfriend and it sounds like he’s changed, has he? Well, if I’ve dated him, the answer is absolutely not.  But that doesn’t mean Cut Throat Bitch or Wilson can’t change, but according to house they can’t.  It really allowed for great House/Wilson scenes and exploration of their relationship, which for me is the crown jewel in this field of already shiny gems.

House meets Wilson at the elevator. He is still in shock that Wilson is dating Cut Throat Bitch, AKA Amber. House tells him it will never work, Wilson likes needy women and she’s strong and assertive. House says he gives it two months. Wilson takes that bet because it’s already been four. Wilson insists he’s broken the needy lady pattern, House doesn’t believe him and says he’ll need to talk to Amber to make sure.

House enters his office and asks the gang if they knew about Wilson and Amber. Kutner says he did because he asked her out. House cannot understand why.

Kutner: She has legs that go all the way up to Canada.
House: So do Canadians, doesn’t mean I want to date them.

Patient of the week: Cate, a shrink who is on staff at PPTH, but on assignment in the South Pole. She starts having severe pain in her abdomen, which would be fine if she weren’t isolated nine thousand miles away with limited medicines and resources. But she does have a webcam, which she uses to communicate with House and his team while they try to figure out what’s wrong. Cate is played by Mira Sorvino who is just absolutely remarkable in this role. She plays hard and sweet both so well. I want her to be on the show for good!

I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect with the big post-Superbowl  episode. When I first heard about it, I was thrilled, I love this show and this coveted spot would expose it to millions of potential fans. Sure I’m not really that willing to share Hugh Laurie with new fans, but I was willing to make a sacrifice. For House. These type episodes are usually two hours long and jammed packed but due to the Writers’ Strike the House writers didn’t have time to do a blockbuster, so I really curious to see what they’d come up with, and as usual they did not let me down.

Let me start by saying this was a Hugh Laurie-heavy show, which is perfect as it’s my favorite kind of episode. The early ones this season were delightfully packed with Hugh, Cuddy and Wilson. In order to accomplish this, the newbies were sent on a wild goose chase ultimately to get cable restored in all patient’s rooms so House can watch it. This involved Cameron. This story line was pointless and annoying and other than what I told you, didn’t really amount to much other than a lame attempt at the newbies trying to beat House at his own game. Personally, I’m just glad they’re gone for the episode. The only thing that came out of it in any real way was that House taught the newbies to stick up to him and demand to be listened to if they have a point which Kutner does at the end which… well let’s start from the beginning.

Patient of the Week: Maggie, AKA Donna from the West Wing! She presents with the inability to move her hands. I know it’s really sad that she dropped her daughter as a result of said illness but I don’t have time to be bummed as I’m so super excited the theme music is on which means Hugh Laurie and my fave show is back on the airwaves!

Merry Christmas everyone! Oh wait, it’s almost February but in House-land it’s the week before Christmas, very fitting if completely unintentional due to the Hollywood writers strike that had postponed this episode. House comes into his office and it’s been decorated for the Christmas holidays or as House puts it: “superficial representations of a hypocritical season celebrating a mythical season.”

House immediately knows Kutner is behind the decorations, as “Homie (foreman) knows better, Hymie (Taub) doesn’t care and Huntington’s (13) would’ve done a better job.” House realizes the newbies are no longer scared of him since his ‘game’ is now over. Kutner takes the blame and wants to know if they can have a secret Santa.

House then goes into who their patient is. She’s a single mom who tested positively for the BRC-1 gene so had both her breasts removed so she wouldn’t get cancer. Also she never lies to her daughter, she’s completely honest with everything she’s ever told her. Naturally House refuses to believe this since he knows that everyone lies. 13 truly believes that the patient isn’t lying, she sees the good in everyone, I’ve seen this character before, I call her Cameron. Come on, she’s exactly the same character as Cameron! I’m so annoyed.