“Black Hole” is the 16th episode of the season and it seems very much like a continuation of last week’s episode “Private Lives.” The stage turns slightly in this one putting the spotlight on Taub with his guilty conscience and trust issues. House is still pulling the strings: Wilson’s and Taub’s this time. To some [...]

This is my first House review and I just want to define my parameters right off the bat. First, there will be spoilers. If the most recent episode is waiting for you on TiVo or if you figure you’ll just watch when it comes up on a USA Network rerun in a week or you [...]

The Fall TV Season officially kicks off tonight, Monday, September 21, and that means all your favorite shows should be returning. If not, they will in January, unless they were canceled of course. But the new Fall season also means plenty of new shows that probably won’t last a season. With that in mind, a [...]

Episode #100 kicks off with a doctor turned culinary chef showing symptoms of, and diagnosing herself, with cyanosis.
Meanwhile, Thirteen starts to display side effects of Foreman’s trial drug, which he switched out with the placebo at the end of “Big Baby”. Foreman is forced to admit to Thirteen what he’s done.
Taub considers his lack of [...]

A special needs teacher coughs up blood and collapses during class.
Cameron is left in charge of “babysitting” House, as Cuddy has taken more time at home to spend time with Joy. The team is amused by this.
House exposes Thirteen and Foreman’s relationship, distracting him from lending any credibility to their diagnoses.
The new patient–Sarah–is found to [...]

Several individual favorites, one underdog movie and broadcast TV all enjoyed good nights at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday.
Slumdog Millionaire won the award for best ensemble in a motion picture, continuing its recent string of awards success (the movie also won the Producers Guild of America honor for best picture over the weekend). The [...]

“Joy to the World” opens at a Christmas program. A group of girls pressures one of their ensemble to sing a humiliating line about a teacher during their song. Predictably, while the ensemble is singing she begins to hallucinate, her knees buckle, and she vomits on stage.
Cuddy presents the case to House and the team [...]

A “Which one will bite it?!” cold open. A trainer is running a fitness infomercial in stadium bleachers turns her attention to an overweight extra complaining of pain in his sides. She collapses and falls down a stretch of bleachers a few seconds later.
Cuddy invades House’s after last week’s hostage crisis. From Cuddy purposely spilling [...]

“Last Resort” opens at Princeton-Plainsboro, emphasizing the frustrations of being a patient and/or a doctor in the clinic. After she coldly turns away an eager patient, Thirteen refuses to participate in the clinical trials Foreman is now conducting, despite the enticement of a treatment for Huntington’s Chorea. She subtley expresses a lack of interest in [...]

A female factory supervisor collapses on the job, clutching her chest and foaming at the mouth. The new patient–Sofia–is a 16 year-old emancipated minor who claims that she an orphan who started her professional life early to avoid foster care. Because she’s only 16, the team immediately runs pregnancy and drug tests.
Foreman tries to branch [...]

A cold open with the future patient already unconscious? The paramedics break in, and he punches one in the face as he’s being carted away in a gurney and then flees back into his home. The agoraphobic patient plotline makes for some great introspection for most of the characters, and this episode is very much [...]

One of the more intriguing cold opens, despite its dryness: A man finds himself blacking out, finding large portions of his day completely absent from his memory. No epilepsy, no drugs, no alcohol.
House does his best to discourage Cuddy from adopting. He expresses the same doubt to his team during the differential. Jerry Harmon is [...]

Thirteen and a woman are getting hot and heavy in her apartment. Her date has a seizure.  She’s taken to Cameron in the ER, Thirteen doesn’t know her name. Juicy.
Cameron brings House the case: tonic-clonic seizure, history of fatigue, retinal vein occlusion, no history of hypertension, not diabetic.
House enters Wilson’s office enthusiastically to find his [...]

A woman is hassling a couple she believes to be her biological parents, and after they ignore her she attempts a buddhist prayer. It involves lifting a statue of Buddha twice. On the second life, she falls to the floor and coughs blood. Back to blood coughing cold opens, eh? Not the most interesting way [...]

Cold open: A painter (Breckin Meyer), displeases a woman’s husband with a distorted portrait of his wife. A bit bland, but the lack of fainting/hallucination/mysterious bleeding grabbed my attention.
A brief scene with House and Lucas in the cafeteria sees Lucas hitting on Cuddy. Let’s see how this plays out.
The team examines Brandon’s paintings, noting there’s [...]

Last week, we saw Wilson officially denounce his relationship with House; claiming that they were never friends, and that he was only an enabler to House’s destructive behavior and personality. There was also something about a pregnant woman having leprosy.
Cold open: a crane operator collapses, a kickboxer passes out while cornering his opponent, a tuba [...]

In a season that started out with a Survivor twist, and struggled to find its footing with three new additions to the already packed seven member cast, “House’s Head” and “Wilson’s Heart” were two of the most emotional and innovative episodes of the series yet. The Twin Peaks-ish “House’s Head” examined the events of the [...]

Well, I knew that House had an angle going with the whole “cancer” thing, but I just couldn’t figure out what it was, which made that aspect of the show almost as entertaining to play along with at home as the Patient was. House’s disciples were all adorable (“Were you two showering together?” [...]

Ah, House, you rascal. I knew there was something going on when he kept pressuring the ducklings to take one of the girl’s spinal nerves despite no compelling medical evidence that his “plan” had anything to do with her condition. And in true House fashion, a patient who feels no pain gives them [...]

Hmmm, not exactly a stellar night for TV, but it was good to have House back to his old self instead of being all philosophical or running from Tritter. The guide had led me to believe that the patient of the week was a Gypsy and his parents refused ALL treatment, which would have [...]