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"House" Mini-cap: Don't have a nice dayNiceness as a sickness? Oh, yeah, House is definitely back. Last night's first-post strike episode, "No More Mr. Nice Guy," opened with a not-so-sly wink at the writers strike that kept the show off the air for months. Picketers holding familiar-looking red, black and white signs march up and down the sidewalk. But wait, those are nurses, not Hollywood scribes. And so enters Gregory House, M.D.
With the nurses on strike, the
This fellow doesn't complain. He just smiles constantly. And he says everything tastes like lemon meringue pie. So, clearly, we have our Patient of the Week. But the rest of House's team is perplexed by his theory of "niceness as defect." As the misanthrope's minions scramble to find out what's causing the patient's plague of niceness, we get our first reference to the newly revealed bisexuality of Olivia Wilde's character, Thirteen.
It ain't much, but at least it's something. Now if House uses Thirteen's sexuality as an easy punchline each episode, this could get really old, really fast. Hopefully Olivia's comments in a Feb. 4–10 TV Guide magazine cover story pan out: "There's romance ahead, and it's shocking. Whoever you'd imagine her with isn't who she ends up with, and it causes all sorts of complications." Now, that issue hit the newsstands before Thirteen's sexuality was outed in the last pre-strike episode, which aired Feb. 5. So, I'm going to go out on a limb and say they might actually explore her bisexuality in whatever romance they have planned. Since there are only two other recurring female characters, Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) and Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), perhaps my naughty "who wants to play doctor" scenario wasn't too far off. I mean, we can dream, right?
But back to the poor sick/nice man. The team diagnoses him with syphilis. And then they decide that House's extreme jerkiness might be a symptom of something else as well. So they test a vial of his blood that happens to be lying around. Bingo, syphilis. So they start treatment on both men. But then something weird happens. House gets nice. Hugh Laurie plays it so well you almost believe him. Almost.
Have these doctors never watched the show they're on? Oh, wait. Fine, but they should still know better. As House's team past and present convene to wonder whether the cure and its accompanying niceness are also curing House's genius, we're reminded how big and unwieldy the cast has become. Foreman, Taub, Kutner, Thirteen, Cameron and Chase — that's a lot of second opinions.
While the docs muse over the very nature of genius, House is working out a joint custody agreement with Cutthroat Bitch/Amber (Anne Dudek) for his best friend and her boyfriend, Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard). It's silly and kind of out of character for House (why wouldn't he just swap her lubricant with Super Glue?), but the wrangling over arrangements, pick-up and drop-off times does give us the show's one other slightly lesbianish moment. Amber asks when she and Wilson will have time to, shall we say, get intimate. House replies: "You can have it tonight. The L Word is on." Again, it ain't much, but at least it's something.
So, how does it all end? House doesn't have syphilis (he switched the vials to mess with his team's heads, duh). The patient doesn't have syphilis (he has some disease I've never heard of which causes encephalitis which causes his brain to swell which might be why he was nice all these years, much to his wife's chagrin). Cuddy wears a black tank top (this is apropos of nothing, but was quite nice to behold). And Thirteen is still single (but tune in next week, because maybe her 31-side will finally come out, so to speak).
So, what did you think of the return of House and Co.? Will Thirteen become Thirty-one? Did Cameron ever sleep with House? And did anyone really think he was becoming a nice guy? Discuss. Submitted by on April 29, 2008 - 10:20am. |
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I love...
...This show!
Hugh Lauries humour is so dry and us brits love dry humour. The show is so clever, hopefully they will use 13's bisexuality well and not use it to drag in audiences.
Been catching up on season one while the strikes been going on and it just gets better!
I wonder...
...when I'll get to see this episode here in Brazil... maybe next year :(
Oh who am I kidding? I'll soo download it! lol
Ok let me say something here... I adore Olivia W. But I'd love it even more if the bi character was Cuddy! lol... 13 is too young for my taste LOL
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Oh woman! Cuddy is so hoooot!!!!!
I vote for 13 and Cameron.
If only...
Well...
Yawn
I thought this ep was quite boring. But I like to look at 13 cause she's the hottest one on the show. I wouldn't mind her cuddling with Cameron, because Chase, he wears me out. But I am curious to know if Cameron slept with House
*pause*
yeah, but that's not really hot, so I hope they didnt
I'm so glad that house is back
This is one of the shows that i have really missed over the strike. I have to say i'm for thirteen and cameron getting together. I can actually see them as a couple rather than just two hot women together. I agree with Ulthran. If they've gone for the bisexual angle, then putting her with a woman makes sense, otherwise they wouldn't have bothered.
Thank you...
...Dorothy. Great recap as always! I just watched the episode and I had missed the "31" line, if it wasn't for your blog! And you've read that tvguide article, too. I would have left a link to it in the last blogs comments, but I just couldn't find it.
I'm still going for 13+Cuddy! My theory is the following: They have a fling, nothing to serious. Then House finds out and teases them about it. 13+Cuddy decide to play it serious to mess with House, but after
5mina while he finds out and that's the end of it, probably of season 5 (or of next episode) and of my theory. So not much plot for our team, but soundsso hotplausible to me. Please tell me if I'm completely delusional here...Well, I'm off to watch a german rerun of House (the dubbing voices are so silly! Especially Camerons!).
I'm excitedly looking forward to the next three eps!! And your reviews!!
PS: I really like the (comical) energy between Hugh Laurie and Anne Dudek, although I'm not sure yet if I like her character or not.
I would love for 13 and
I would love for 13 and Cuddy to get together. HOT HOT HOT!
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I agree, I vote for a 69...
Olivia Wilde
is damn fine to look at!
I think I'd be happy with either Cam or Cuddy. Just as long as it ain't one of the guys, I'll be set.
Cuddy-Thirteen would be lots of fun!
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I LOVE House!
I'm so happy there's finally a recap of House on AE! I work at a clinic and my doctor is obsessed with this show which is what got me watching and half way through my first episode I was hooked!!
I've been spending the past month catching up from Season 1 and it's been so worth it! I'm only up to S4E3 now so I'm still behind and don't know much about the new storylines and characters but I'm definately looking forward to 13's 31 ;)
I'm hoping for 13/Cameron actually...13 gives me the whole "I have a dark history" vibe. Maybe it's just me :P
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My best guess is Chase dumps Cameron and then gets with 13 who probably becomes interested in Cameron and then the confusing plot twists ensue. I am basing this assumption off the TV guide article. So I am betting on a Chase/13/Cameron love triangle thing going on. Yawn. Or the same thing with House and Cuddy, but I am not really banking too much on that. Either way she is going to end up with a guy. This is American tv. I won't hold my breath for anything good.
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Cuddy + Thirteen = hot ^^
I think Thirteen and Cuddy would be a hot couple ^^. Chase is boring and CB is all over Wilson anyway
House rocks ! I love that show
I loved this episode and I
I loved this episode and I am voting for 13 and Cuddy, OMG I would so have a heart-attack followed by a syncope followed by faint spells and other unnamed body contractions!
Damn, Dorothy, here I go dreaming again....
I am so voting for Lisa Edelstein for AE's hot 100!
wilde + ?
Thirteen/Cuddy
Thirteen/Cuddy would be the BEST THING EVER. Well, actually, it would be the second best thing ever. I would have loved it if Cuddy were a total lesbian from the get go. That would have been awesome. But since we don't have that, let's all root for her revealing a bisexual side and hooking up with Thirteen. That would be incredibly hot. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much since American TV almost always disappoints in this respect, though. Oh well. If it flakes out, I can always write it as fanfiction!