House: Let Them Eat Cake
(S05E12) final spring, I went to take in Ira Glass give a talk about his popular NPR radio (and now TV) show This American Life. He outlined the formula for the show’s success, and he plus talked about House. Websites have documented the formula for every episode: Every episode is essentially the same. So, why does it work every moment? final night, I was hooked by Emmy the trainer rolling down stairs, and I was next hooked by the discovery of her surgery. I know that every separate diagnosis and pop quiz and treatment is going to be bunk until the big, strange reveal at the end. However, it’s nearly like I am the same as House with my need to know what that weird reveal is going to be.
That said, I was thinking a lot about the formula final night. One of the things that didn’t work for me so well was the war amidst House and Cuddy by their offices. Even though I enjoyed it when House destroyed her toilet, the moment was so by the top and so slapstick that it additionally lost me. It was just too much. I liked it better when they stuck to things like making House’s office stink for a time– a prank without serious financial consequences like the destruction of a toilet. But that is probably something I should discuss with my therapist, seeing as that is television. I just need to lighten up.
Then there’s the new part of the formula: Each physician takes turns bonding with the patient. that instance it was Taub. Each of the physicians sees themselves in the patient and responds accordingly. In that case, Taub called Emmy on her hypocrisy. She kept insisting that she was getting healthy by having weight-reduction surgery and Taub the plastic surgeon kept throwing back to her that she wasn’t actually healthy; she was pretty. Big difference.
I was surprised that Taub didn’t reveal more about himself as both a plastic surgeon and a philanderer to Emmy. Instead, he revealed himself to House. House asked him how he felt when he was cheating, and Taub said that he felt superficially very happy, but he suspected that he was really depressing. Were you surprised that he didn’t hit on Emmy? I was a little surprised by it, but plus proud of him for not doing it, considering perhaps he has a chance to manufacture his marriage work. Who knows?
We keep getting more little details about Thirteen, that day that she hated her mother. More to the point, she hated what the Huntington’s made her mother become. It’s not tough to wonder what she is going to do when she starts to have symptoms in earnest. The sad thing is, I don’t think we’ll ever find out. I think the show will end before soon after, and her fate will remain a mystery. I like Thirteen a lot, and I like finding out more details about her slowly, as well as her interactions with Foreman. He has
Speaking of over-the-top, I dislike slapstick, but I did really love the prank House pulled on Kutner and Taub with the patient who had leaky breast implants and was singing in the ER. That was excellent, and I didn’t see it coming. There are so many smaller cases that occur simultaneously on that show that I didn’t think it was a huge stretch that Kutner had a case on the side. I didn’t suspect it was a fake until House climbed onto the “dead” patient in the morgue. Classic. But I was totally pissed at House for being with her in his office when Cuddy came to thank him for the desk. Do you think he was in his office with her on purpose, knowing Cuddy could come by? Or does House just persistently and tragically always undermine his relationship with Cuddy, without even trying?
Do you wish House and Cuddy would just get together already, or do you like the dance they’re doing? I have to go with the dance, considering I am afraid of the Sam and Diane syndrome from Cheers (couple finally gets together; show dies).
Fringe’ Show & Cast Photos
- FRINGE Walter (John Noble), Peter (Joshua Jackson), Olivia (Anna Torv) and Broyles (Lance Reddick) enter a governement warehouse to examine a mysterious cylinder found among the debris of a interpretation site explosion in the episode “The Arrival.” Airs Tuesday, September 30, 2008.
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FRINGE Peter (Joshua Jackson), Olivia (Anna Torv), Walter (John Noble) and Broyles (Lance Reddick) return to the lab to gather more info on a mysterious cylinder found among the debris of a interpretation site explosion in the episode “The Arrival.” Airs Tuesday, September 30, 2008.
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FRINGE Olivia (Anna Torv) chases a suspect through the woods in the episode “The Arrival.” Airs Tuesday, September 30, 2008.
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FRINGE Walter (John Noble, L) and Peter (Joshua Jackson, R) examine a mysterious cylinder found among the debris of a interpretation site explosion in the episode “The Arrival.” Airs Tuesday, September 30, 2008.
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FRINGE Olivia (Anna Torv) chases a suspect through the woods in the episode “The Arrival”. Airs Tuesday, September 30, 2008.
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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 13: Actress Jasika Nicole attends FOX’s “Fringe” premiere during the 2008 New York Television Festival at New World Stage on September 13, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Jasika Nicole
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Executive Producers John Wirth, Josh Friedman and James Middleton reach at The Paley Center and TV Guide
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Molly Stanton reach at The Paley Center and TV Guide
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson arrives at The Paley Center and TV Guide
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Mark Valley arrives at The Paley Center and TV Guide
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