House: Season 8 - Early Review

[augussta]

The eighth season and beyond is a difficult time for any TV show. You’ve lost a few beloved cast members, done the obvious plots more than once, and might consider drastic change to keep things fresh. And so it is for Hugh Laurie’s cranky pill-popping Doctor House. Or is it

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[januarynineteen]

ALL OF THIS. It pisses me off so much. Cuddy was the only one who tolerated him and allowed him to keep his job, either because she still felt guilty about his leg, she was in love with him, she appreciated his genius and figured the amount of lives he saves outweighs the money he costs the hospital, or some combination of the three. It was always their thing and nobody would get it because they didn't know the history and they didn't see House the way Cuddy did.

Just, ugh. And why did Cuddy have to leave her job? How the hell does the asshole who everybody hates already anyway get away with scaring the Dean of Medicine and head administrator to the point that she leaves her hospital, moves away and takes a new job somewhere else while he gets to continue working at the same hospital? How did Foreman of all people get to take over her job? Wasn't he put in charge of House twice before and was highly unsuccessful at it both times? Didn't he have a criminal record for burglarizing houses and stealing cars? Didn't he get fired at New York Mercy for going against regulations? Didn't he tamper with the Huntington's drug trial data and almost lose his medical license in the process? How does someone who was never more than an assistant department head suddenly jump up god knows how many positions and how is anyone at that hospital even okay with that? If I worked at PPTH I would be like, "Oh hell no, I am not working under one of House's lackeys."

God, this show. I would give everything to be nineteen and in love with it again. And be able to say, "God, this show," and mean it in a good way.