Early Thoughts on ""The Confession"
Before I write a fully-fledged review, I find myself once again trying to wrap my head around an episode. This is one fan brought so low as to be grovelingly grateful for any crumb of decent ANYTHING. The theme song's back! Everything's gonna be okay! Brilliant of TPTB to wait 4 eps until the theme song came back, along with Chase, Taub, and the diagnostics office!
Chase and Taub are back! Kickin' it old school!
Wilson's on screen! (Although he keeps giving me the impression he doesn't give a rat's ass.)
This episode made no sense at all, but it had some funny lines! Sight gags! Stuff! And more stuff! And that wall gag! GENIUS! It made no sense (and switched the locale of the offices) but it was worth it for Wilson's reaction.
Oh, wait, it wasn't. Actually, this was kind of a shitty episode. Maybe shitty is a bit strong, but lazy writing all the way. I mean, Cedarville? Are we back in the 1950s and somehow Bob winds up in PPTH via time travel? (Whatever happened to the cases where people had gone to dozens of docs before they went to House?)
What does it say about an episode that the best thing I can think of about it is that it didn't make me angry, or want to puke? Just...meh. They're not even trying to be a serious program any more. The whole show has morphed into a meta parody of itself, with all of the characters becoming caricatures, the "fun" back in the form of jokes that aren't funny, and wild n' crazy antics! And everybody involved knows that, so in later episodes we might possibly be spared any form of gravitas. "House" can't pull it off any more. It's back to hooker-on-a-Segway time. You want serious character development? Sorry, we just got tired of doing that. We'll just give Taub two babies for more hilarity and maybe a tug at the heartstrings.
Chase looking at Adams's nonexistent breasts was rather disconcerting.
Lots of fan speculation that the H/W scenes are off-kilter because House and Wilson haven't found their footing as friends. Honestly, I think it's because neither actor cares. They say the dialogue and go home.
And as I said on Twitter last night, Altruist Guy's and Galactica Guy's defining characteristics were overdone and obviously a symptom from the first scene. And both were diagnosed by one of the ducklings in the same crazy way. I mean, come on, it's one thing to repeat plot-lines from earlier seasons, but a plot line from two episodes ago?
Anyway, these are scattered speculations. This season is kind of sucking so far, just not as epically as last season.
Chase and Taub are back! Kickin' it old school!
Wilson's on screen! (Although he keeps giving me the impression he doesn't give a rat's ass.)
This episode made no sense at all, but it had some funny lines! Sight gags! Stuff! And more stuff! And that wall gag! GENIUS! It made no sense (and switched the locale of the offices) but it was worth it for Wilson's reaction.
Oh, wait, it wasn't. Actually, this was kind of a shitty episode. Maybe shitty is a bit strong, but lazy writing all the way. I mean, Cedarville? Are we back in the 1950s and somehow Bob winds up in PPTH via time travel? (Whatever happened to the cases where people had gone to dozens of docs before they went to House?)
What does it say about an episode that the best thing I can think of about it is that it didn't make me angry, or want to puke? Just...meh. They're not even trying to be a serious program any more. The whole show has morphed into a meta parody of itself, with all of the characters becoming caricatures, the "fun" back in the form of jokes that aren't funny, and wild n' crazy antics! And everybody involved knows that, so in later episodes we might possibly be spared any form of gravitas. "House" can't pull it off any more. It's back to hooker-on-a-Segway time. You want serious character development? Sorry, we just got tired of doing that. We'll just give Taub two babies for more hilarity and maybe a tug at the heartstrings.
Chase looking at Adams's nonexistent breasts was rather disconcerting.
Lots of fan speculation that the H/W scenes are off-kilter because House and Wilson haven't found their footing as friends. Honestly, I think it's because neither actor cares. They say the dialogue and go home.
And as I said on Twitter last night, Altruist Guy's and Galactica Guy's defining characteristics were overdone and obviously a symptom from the first scene. And both were diagnosed by one of the ducklings in the same crazy way. I mean, come on, it's one thing to repeat plot-lines from earlier seasons, but a plot line from two episodes ago?
Anyway, these are scattered speculations. This season is kind of sucking so far, just not as epically as last season.