House

I've never reviewed House before (being mainly a Supernatural fan), and until I read some of the other reviews, didn't know I was a 'Huddier' (or whatever it is called when you want House and Cuddy together). In any case, I hate that they broke up - I thought that the episodes in which they were together were good and that they make a great couple. I mean enough of the drama of loving each other, both being adults, and yet not being able to work it out. That's just goofy to me. And let's face it, where else is someone like House going to find someone for him? Personally, I'd be placing a pillow over his face in the first week of dating him. ;o).



That said, this episode was very well-written in that it didn't have House sulking and self-pitying while morosely lying in bed by himself or self-medicating on the bathroom floor. The different prostitutes got on my nerves though after about the third or fourth one. At first I thought it was cute and really liked that the first (the one in the bathtub) looked liked Cuddy, but after three or four it just got stupid. And, how realistic was it for his team to all go visit him in his hotel room? Nah, couldn't buy that. Lastly, the scene with him jumping, although well done, could be seen a mile away - I mean it has been done in other shows/movies and there was really only one way for the show to go without having House lose face. Again though, it was well done and the music, as in most House episodes was great.



As for the guy not wanting to go out with Masters, okay, but why? I think he should have said something - anything - not just sat there. I'd feel awful if I ever asked anyone out and they said no; or worse, just sat there saying nothing. (By the way, the guy that played the cowboy was hott) :O), and the guy that played Carnell was very good and believable.



All in all, a really good episode.

Finally after all the Huddy episodes, we're finally treated with the type of an episode that started the phenomenon. This is the House we've all grown to love, the reason we tuned in week in and week out. Not because we enjoy seeing him suffer, of course we want him to have a happy ending at some point but that is not one of the strong suits of this show. It never has been.



This is just the thing that the writers of this great show do best. The whole episode was fantastic, we saw House get involved with diagnosing the patient again after episodes and episodes of him spending time with Cuddy with the his team doing most of the heavy lifting. After a long while; he was again miserable, hopeless, and reckless while somehow remaining in full control.



I hope the show continues on this path, and not succumb to the pressures of Huddy shippers. The ending scene was great, it foretell the problems House will face as the jump from the hotel balcony for me was a metaphor of him jumping off from a high point in his emotional life (being with Cuddy) into a pool (pool, duh) of dopamine/vicodin and losing himself.



I'm fairly certain a lot of people here will disagree with a direction I'm hoping this show continues on, but I will tell you that you wouldn't have wanted him to be with Cuddy as bad as you do if it hadn't been for episodes like this.

Good episode of House, with some eventful scenes, but some were just downright ridiculous and silly. I mean I get that House is trying to get over Cuddy but I felt like that dominated the entire episode. I really came in tonight looking forward to an interesting medical mystery, but instead we got more of the House/Cuddy thing.



I just feel that's how it's been all season since the premiere. The medical mysteries have been pushed aside to make time for the House & Cuddy interactions. The golden days of the show was when it could manage a great balance between the emotions of the characters and the medical mystery itself and tie it in somehow.



I'm not saying the final scene wasn't great, because it clearly was, with great cinematography and an albeit shocking ending that really kept me at the edge of my seat trying to decide whether or not House was dreaming when he took the leap. Good episode overall.

House is dealing with his broken heart. I guess he does represent a segment in our society that cannot deal well with broken hearts. It is difficult and this episode was very honest on how one copes with personal failures. It is sad though that House had to be destructive in dealing with the break up. On the other hand, the medical story dealt with a lot of broken bones. In contrast to how House deals with his broken heart, the patient is coping well with his broken bones. Instead of sulking, his outlook in life is very positive. With the heart operation, he will not be able to bull ride again - and bull riding was his life, it was his passion. But this did not bring him down, he's a fighter and he'll find another thing that he can be passionate about.

I think that this was probably one of my favorite episodes of the season. I liked the part when House told the room service guy that after he and Wilson had sex, he was gonna slit his throat and disembowl him in the bath tub. That part had me laughing hysterically because it was soooo random. The ending made me laugh too. First I thought that he was gonna commit suicide, and when he jumped I'm like OMG! NO! Then he landed in the pool and I couldn't do anything but laugh. I'm glad the whole House/Cuddy thing is gone (for now anyway) since I knew that it wouldn't last and plus I think that it kinda ruined the show (not like totally but it seemed kinda sappy with the romance thing thrown in), and I started watching way before the whole "Huddy" thing was introduced and I liked it better then. So I hope that they don't bring them back together. It was the whole reason why I stopped watching for a while, but episodes like this make me come back for more. 10/10

This was a superb episode. I have read other reviews. I think afew people missed some of the metaphors and irony of this. First, since no one mentioned it, House jumping into the Pool was a direct "cleansing" or "born Again Baptism" . Jumping in the water or being dipped. Same thing. House is REBORN is the symbolism. It worked. House has cleansed himself of his guilt, Cuddy, her restrictions, and rules. the Pain exists, the pills exist, bu House lives with them. he will have to find someone who accepts him for who he is not mold him into what they THINK he should be.



The other irony of this episode lies in THE CURE.

House solved a most difficult case (Yes, for the first time in quite a while there was an actual difficult case that could not be cured with an IV drip). But the bullrider, was left a shell of his former self. His non verbal response to Masters was proof that the Life has been sucked out of him. Sure, he is alive, but he can no longer DO what he did. He is LOST, and House is FOUND. That is the BALANCE to this brilliant episode.



ASIDE: This is not related to THIS specific episode but I have a few qualms with HOW House takes medication. The BOTTLE they always show is SMALL.

Vicodin are big pills. If he is taking them by the handful he wouls have empty large bottles around but they always show him holding a very small bottle. I don't know why. Second, if he is in this muchphysical pain, he would have tried more potent pain pills, percocet, Oxymorphine, Oxycontin, even MSIR and methadone. But they stop at Vicodin which although extremely addictive is far less potent than one oxycontin. I assume they are BANNED from showing him taking more powerful drugs..but it does take away from realism.

House now copes with his break up with Cuddy following last week as he empties his bank account and moves into a hotel complete with lots of hookers, room service, and his rediscovering of Vicodin. Meanwhile, the team takes the case of a roughed up pro bull fighter who Masters feels a certain attraction to. Wilson and his involvement in Cuddy and House's post break up is caring but annoying as he can't just let his friends be as neither of them wants to apologize or get back together (or so they say). But seeing House revert back to his ass like ways for instance when he calls Cuddy on her bluff and his threat of arrest his team or let him do his job and the follow up, "And, she caves." House is going back to old form, and I feel understanding and also a tinge of regret after having seen him struggle so hard to kick his addictions in Season 6 when his life was just starting to get on track to what thinks of as "happiness." But sooner or later he'll have to face Cuddy and when that day comes I'll be quite ecstatic.

I must say that this was one of the best episode made in this season so far.



Hugh Laurie-House had an outstanding performance (anyway he is a great actor).



The case wasn't so interesting, at least for me. House solved it pretty easily (he even managed to find time to go to hospital and see his patients between "hooker-breaks").



And I personally love the interaction between House and Masters. I kind of detested her at first, but I must admit that her character brought a new perspective to the show.



And the ending was awesome. I really expected that he is about to commit suicide in front of Wilson's eyes.

The "Out-Of-The-Chute episode opening scene was one of the best I have seen on TV this season. The dark song "This Night" by Black Lab in the background was an inspired pick by someone in the production while the slo-mo bull-riding photography gives that rare glimpse of a place you have never been and don't ever want to go. The violence of an enraged bull is awesome and only slo-mo can show it to us.



Congrats to those technicians and artists who brought this scene to the screen.



The remainder was less thrilling with strange jumps from 40 feet into the shallow end of a pool, and patients awakening from major heart surgery in their room unintubated with no nurse in attendance.

Good one. I scared the s**t out when he jumped! Let's hope this ain't telling us House is reaching the end. But to tell the truth I think this is how they show us that we won't get more of him. It's like a circle...I mean, this is how it all begun. House on Vicodin, depressed, losing his mind, and keeping all of us thinking he might die all of the sudden. Anyway, I always loved this show, but it has to end someday. I asume there won't be an eighth season...let's hope I am wrong, and if it's goes on and on, let's hope it ain't ends up like The Simpsons, who didn't stoped when they had to.

A great episode of House here because they played the breakdown of Gregory exactly how it should have been done: awkwardly. He struggled with sex addiction, alcohol addiction and he just tried to defer his feelings with odd behavior. The ending with it looking like he was going to jump to his death only to fall into the pool was the perfect way for the writers to say, "You fans are in for a treat with this storyline."



The case they were working on today was good today. House just seemed fun tonight, it moved at a different level, they had comedy that worked. Strong quality tonight.