A partially paralyzed patient arrives. Also, Cuddy’s mom wants to sue the hospital.
I missed the first fifteen minutes so I have no idea what was going on with Foreman. I saw the end result but I don’t know how it got started.
Forgettable-sitcom-dad POTW story was boring and predictable. Not his disease, just his outcome.
I cared little for the whole thing with Cuddy/Wilson/Cuddymom. And so he’s just popping them like candy again and nobody says a thing except to bribe him into behaving?
Setting off a fire alarm for no good reason is a criminal offense. Of course…moms in TV land get away with such things.
I realized I just don’t care anymore. I suppose I’ll still watch the show, but I’m over it.
Starting to feel the same way StGermain.
They’ve just gone as far as they can. It’s like watching the last season of E.R.
I will keep watching because I love watching House and Wilson interact, but…I think I might be getting over it too. I don’t care about the personal lives of the doctors, and their hijinks and shenanigans. I want to see House solve puzzles. I really hope they either come up with something stupendous to revive the series, or let it go while it’s still sort of good and not devolve into more of a soap opera than it already is.
I think everyone is over it, which is why they keep trying to reinflate the bubble by adding Cuddy’s mom, and Cuddy/House and adding Masters instead of leaving a gap when 13 was away. I think they realize that none of these stories are sustainable so they add them as temporary stopgaps.
I don’t even remember how the POTW was resolved. They spent more time on the girlfriend story than his sickness. I still love the House character and the House/Wilson confrontations are usually fun. I don’t know how long Hugh Laurie is contracted for, but one more year seems to be all the show can sustain now. They may be highlighting the other doctors in order to facilitate a spin-off.
I began watching because I enjoyed the medical/puzzle-solving portion of the show. There are ample precedents for taking a show about one thing and turning it into a relationship drama. I don’t understand why everything has to have a love story or personal redemption. Can’t it just be a simple cop show? The only show I can recall that dealt equally and successfully with the main topic and the personal aspect was Hill Street Blues.
My sentiments exactly.
I can’t find any cites more recent than about a month old, but a season eight isn’t all that assured. Fox and Universal are in negotiations, of course, and as far as I know, they’re still ongoing, but if they don’t reach an agreement, Universal may shop the show around to other networks, possibly even placing it on their own network, NBC.
Also, only Hugh Laurie and Olivia Wilde (Thirteen) have contracts for beyond this season. They have to renegotiate with Omar Epps, Jessie Spencer, Lisa Edelstein, et. al. Robert Sean Leonard is currently appearing on Broadway, and his commitment will coincide with filming of season 8, so if it comes to pass there may be no Wilson in the early going.
http://blogcritics.org/video/article/house-md-creator-david-shore-talks/
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Season-8-of-House-M-D-in-Danger-of-Not-Happening-194404.shtml
So did Donal Logue get his money back from his cousin, or not? (Good to see the guy from Breaking Bad again, BTW)
They should’ve kept House’s hookers.
Stopped watching regularly a long time ago, around when Cameron left. This week’s subplot of Cuddy’s mom using a lawsuit to bring the two of them together again was horrible. The show is much better when the two of them are at each others’ throats.