House Season 2 GoldenGait episode reviews

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2x20: Euphoria 1

Whoa, awesome opening. Very cool. Slow motion bullets are always neat.

I love that House flat out admitted, with no pretense or sarcasm, "That is just so cool that you know that," when Foreman explained how he knew the bullet was ferromagnetic.

House capping a bullet in the dead man's *** in the morgue was great. Hysterical. Had me laughing aloud. He shot a dead guy! And then took out an entire MRI machine by sticking dead-times-two guy in it! Oh, lord, funny, funny, funny...

While Omar Epps usually really bothers me, I thought he did really well in this episode, gradually and effectively getting more and more off-the-wall. He was really quite subtle with it in the beginning, and his choked up conversation with the cop was really emotional. Nice job.

Funny line: "Get out of my temporal lobe, House."

It was great to see how much House cared that Foreman was infected with something. Even if he refuses to show it in front of his team, Foreman's sickness is really eating away at House.

Cryptococcus neoformans! I'd like to state for the record that any first year med student worth their salt and who didn't skip class the day they went over fungus in microbiology should have diagnosed that the minute Foreman stepped out onto that patio and the pigeon flew at him. It's one of those questions on the final you don't have to think about. regardless of the other symptoms in the sample history you're given, if "pigeon" in is in the question, pick "cryptococcus neoformans". It'll be the right answer. But in true House fashion, I was wrong. And I thought I was so damn smart this time.

Ooh, to be continued...

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2x21: Euphoria 2

Nice Jack Bauer reference, House. Keeping the advertisements in the FOX family, I see?

And Foreman slips further into his illness... So now we've had Cameron possibly get HIV, Foreman has this crazy something, but we haven't seen House or Chase in danger... They're next. Or maybe they won't put Chase at risk... I don't think I'd be too terribly engaged in that kind of episode. I'm just not sure I'd care as much.

He's using Steve McQueen? Poor little lab rat. House is ready to kill him? He was unwilling before...

Omar's still impressing me... Very nice. His performance in these two episodes outshines any of his others so far. His tearful conversation with his dad was heartwrenching.

Funny fight: "I'd rather be disabled than dead." "Right, because I make it look oh-so-sexy." No comment.

Wow, Cameron was cold. She wouldn't forgive Foreman! The man's dying, but she wouldn't forgive him! He really pissed her off to make her this objective. She's borderline uncaring there... Glad she finally accepted his apology before he went under. And I loved the way she told off Cuddy.

Ooh, this should be interesting... The lasting effects of the brain biopsy should make Foreman's character a little more compelling from now on. Maybe someone would remove a piece of Chase's brain, too.

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2x22: Forever

Fake out! Not the dad with the stomach flu, it's the mom!

I love how defensive and--dare I say it?--jealous House got when Wilson intimated Cuddy could have a thing for him.

Poor Chase... And Foreman is back to not being my favorite character. I'm not sure I'm going to like this episode.

House is going through Cuddy's trash? That dinner conversation was so awkward... Not a Cuddy fan, not a fan at all.

Funny line: "Friends divvied up... oddly she didn't fight me for House."

The murderous mommy storyline was interesting--I really liked the eventual diagnosis and how they got there. I liked the patient case in this episode a lot more than the leads' personal storylines. Although House's increasingly rude comments to Foreman were pretty funny, the best moment being House's frantic wail and plea for Foreman to argue with him.

Funny line: "Zesty bod... I think it's great you can look past the fact that she's the devil."

As sad as it is to have Mikey die, I'm glad to see they're not afraid to write a patient death. I was getting a little bored with them always finding the right answer in time to save everyone. I want to see more episodes where they figure it out, but not in time to do anything, possibly even post-mortem. Just to add to the realism a little--you can't save everyone, and sometimes there are incurable diseases even if you do recognize what they are immediately.

Cuddy insists she's a woman... I beg to differ. I still think she's a man.

House is so cruel, going after Cuddy about her desire for kids. At least he didn't tell Wilson.

Hillary Tuck, who played Kara in this episode, reminds me vaguely of Emilie de Ravin (Claire on Lost).

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2x23: Who's Your Daddy?

Poor House. I'm a sucker for that limp. I feel so bad for him! What made it so bad he's busting out the morphine? And since when does he have his own supply? Is this since the Cuddy-placebo incident?

Cuddy! Put a grown-up shirt on that doesn't make you look like a two dollar hooker.

Where does House know this guy from? I know a metric ton of exposition straight out of the gate is never fun for anyone, but we could get a little more in the first third of the episode, don't you think?

Whoa. One of the scarier episodes, visually. The bloated floater of a mother, House's dripping face... Yikes. And I'm watching this before bedtime. Possibly not a smart decision.

House and Cuddy's injection scene was hysterical.

I loved the whole team pacing the hallway as they follow House.

Oh, evil House. Getting with his friend's girlfriend in order to give him a reason to break up with her? That's low. And how in the world is he still friends with House after that? Why do people give this man so many chances? I do like that it was that story that made Wilson lose his appetite.

Oh good lord, House found 613. Cuddy slamming the drawer into House at the desk was hilarious, as was 613's creepy little laugh-snort.

Ingrid! Very funny little scene Wilson stumbled in on.

Mmmm... Not the best, not the worst. It took me too long to figure out exactly who was lying to who about what in the paternity and location department.

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2x24: No Reason

As I began to watch this episode, I wrote, "We haven't had an amazing personal House episode in awhile and we're due. This is the season finale, so I'm guessing this one's going to be it." Literally 10 seconds later, House gets shot. Yep. This one's going to be good.

Guest star shooter: Elias Koteas from (how appropriate) Shooter, Zodiac, Fallen, Gattaca, and my very favorite, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He was Casey! Now he's got no hair...

This episode had me going... I couldn't tell where the hallucinations/dreams/alternate reality split started. I'm very gullible. Initially, I wrote: "Aw. I wanted to see the battle as they took down Jack and rushed to stabilize House and get him to (presumably) the ER. That's half the fun! They skipped over all the drama!" And then I finally get it in the last minute of the episode. Thank you!

It was the two of them getting put in the same ICU room that first made me suspicious of the reality of the situation. Otherwise, who in their right mind would put House in the same room as the guy who shot him? There are no other rooms? This would have been the most ridiculous plot device.

Ew, oh that bulging eye was gross. A lot of people think my chosen field of medicine is nasty, but I could never be an ophthalmologist. Clinically, eyes just give me the willies.

I love that they had to chain House to his bed. And even better was his escape to the Mexican food place, still (I love it) in his hospital gown. House's imitations of the team were also great. I don't even mind that it was a hallucination.

I want Cameron's all-black outfit and sunglasses.

Very interesting that in House's psyche Cuddy's still really into treating House behind his back. I wonder if he's ever going to get over the fact that she and Stacy took those quads from his right thigh without his permission.

House's screaming match with Wilson and Cuddy was well done, but not perfect. I didn't like the swinging camera moves so much, and I think Hugh has done better work. But not often. This was a 9/10 for him. The punch was well done by both parties, though, the puncher and punchee. And I'm glad that was a hallucination.

Okay, in an episode that began with a moment that had much more sexual tension in it than most episodes of House (Cameron stopping House in the hall after he basically dared her to touch him), House's demonstration of surgical precision by robotically stroking her face and playing with the buttons on her shirt definitely counts as one of the biggest, bestest Hameron ship moments thus far.

Oh! He hallucinated Jack's wife as Tongue Dude's wife. There's the connection.

Awesome episode. Very good. So, the list of Best House Episodes so far now reads: 1x11, 1x21, 2x13, and 2x24.

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