It looks like I'm getting sidetracked on twitter more and more. See
@cuddylicious for more continuous info about and thoughts on House MD... Just a quick recap with a few things (from my tweets and LJ comments and more):
SpOiLeRs
- 7x12 You Must Remember This
Cuddy invoking "House rules" on lying (relying on technicalities): hilarious... Later, House was lying in Cuddy's bed, bouncing a ball against the wall = serious thinking. Cuddy comes out of the bathroom, deliciously dripping-wet and only covered in a towel. "Your happiness doesn't take [Wilson's] away," she tells House. He still has trouble accepting that he deserves to be happy. The dynamic couple in bed at the end: heavenly!
This was an episode that definitely had me laughing a lot between the insights. House was weaving a web with layers of truth, perception and deception intermingled. The kids were a nice touch, House was hilariously outrageous and entertaining, but underneath he really is trying to be "good" for Cuddy. It feels like his original self, buried under years of adversity, betrayal and loneliness, covered up with sarcasm and self-loathing, is shining through a bit more each day. It's a beautiful and painful process that we are honored to witness. One thing bothered me: the "toss salad," and similar hip-&-nasty talk felt off not so much because of him telling kids or the time the show was shown but because it demeaned the Huddy relationship. I am a progressive/liberal male of House & Cuddy's age group and was really grossed out when I learnt about the "urban dictionary" meaning of those phrases. I know this was all through House's eyes, in other words may not even have been said that way in reality anyway, but still... To me it felt like a (younger) writer's inside "joke" gone overboard.
Chase & Masters = Chasters: he chases women and she is the chaste one? Faub was funny too. I loved, really loved the beginning of the ep when a preoccupied Cuddy walks by House without seeing him but sniffs, recognizes his unique smell and turns around to the elevator she just left. House was hiding from her but it was just a game, some amusement: "foreplay" he called it ;-) It was a nice evolution from the good old Huddy & elevators schtick. The ending was gripping and ... wow! In his uniquely Housian way, our eponymous hero dead-seriously committed himself to his relationship with Cuddy. She makes him a worse doctor, i.e., one who isn't a no-error miracle-curing robot anymore, but she's totally worth it, he says. Greater praise isn't possible from a person so caught up in his own talent as a contrast to his otherwise self-avowed abysmal personality that normally nothing else matters. House is magnificent. Magnificently talented as well as flawed. Cuddy is his salvation, bringing out the better in him while providing him with the love and genuine affirmation he needs more than he realized.
Finally, a cautionary note on TV journalists: they follow the Greg Yaitanes commandment, the one to be followed at the penalty of no more access at all: "Thou shalt bring up the end of Huddy at any time possible!" ;-) Don't forget Yaitanes' motto is Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipior!