Watching House

House and the team take on the case of Nick (Jay Karnes), a book editor who loses his inhibition and starts insulting coworkers at a dinner party one night before falling ill. The team realizes Nick has frontal lobe inhibition, which has caused him to lose his filter and vocalize all of his innermost thoughts, resulting in extremely insulting outbursts. As Nick’s free speech lends to some amusing and insightful comments regarding the team, he must deal with the consequences of being unable to lie to his wife and everyone else important in his life. Meanwhile, House suspects Wilson and Taub are keeping something from him when he catches them both in a lie. House is determined to get to the bottom of it.

Isn’t that going to be interesting?! Coming up against someone who has no inhibitions in their speech. Actually, I found it really hilarious that I read a book by Catherine Coulter just the other day where one of the secondary characters had this same problem - his biggest problem with the condition is that he was a therapist who had treated some very influential Washington DC politicians and because of his condition, he found himself blurting out their deepest secrets to almost anyone.

While I’m sure this patient isn’t an influential therapist (although you never know) it’ll be interesting to watch! It looks like Kutner gets the lions share of this episode, and I’m pretty happy about that - I love Kutner!

Yes, I’m a closet Kutner lover.

I think he’s fairly smart and I love his sense of humor and optimism (in most cases).

So what did you guys think about last night’s live blogging? I had a few people who joined me on the commentary and we had a good deal of fun (at least I thought). I’d love to try it again in two weeks when House airs a new episode - what do you guys think? We could try another test run during a rerun next week? Let me know!

Okay, here’s the live blogging post! The live blogging will start about 10 minutes before the episode. Anyone who wants to comment directly only has to leave a comment and I’ll see it and allow them to become commenters/panelists.

I can’t wait! I hope you’ll join me live blogging The Softer Side tonight!!

Update: we’re live - if you want to join in on the conversation, just click “watch now” below!

Okay guys, I’m getting kind of frustrated with my recaps. I’m not really enjoying watching the show, and it seems like you guys don’t really care for the recaps (no offense, though, right? ) Anyway, I’m going to be trying something new tonight - I’m going to be live-blogging House.

Here’s the deal - I’m going to set the program up to run for a few minutes here so that I can test it, then I’ll shut it down. then, a few minutes before House, I’m going to have it up and running on a new post. Then we can all watch and talk about the episode while it’s on! You guys can leave comments, and I can make it so that a number of commenters are able to put live comments so that they can live-blog too. (I’m still working on figuring out the program, but it should be easy). Then we can all watch and comment on the episode at the same time! What do you think?

Commencing test below for a few minutes…

A number of you have already commented, some by emailing to me and others by commenting on the post, about how last night’s episode went.

I’m going to come out right now and say: I agree.

I agree that it seems odd that House removed a symptom. House NEVER removes a symptom.

I agree that it was messed up to have Thirteen and Foreman fighting when they were at home in their apartment, and then to act like it was all a fake-out for House.

I agree that the show is slowly, but surely, going down the toilet.

What happened?! What changed House from an amazing show to one that is almost sad to watch now? I used to look forward to watching the show once a week, and now I approach the television with trepidation - worried that I’m going to dislike the show that I used to love.

Don’t get me wrong - I still love House. At least the character. I still love the idea of a medical mystery, but I don’t like the direction the show is going in.

Polite Dissent has got a recap of the medical part of the episode last night - he tends to agree with me, that it wasn’t the best episode, either medically or dramatically. What did you think of last nights episode? How can the writers fix the show?!

A guy is cleaning up after what looks like was an AA meeting. A knock sounds on the door – it’s a man who looks to be homeless and is looking for food or a coat. The guy finds the man a coat and tells him good night (apparently it was a soup kitchen, not an AA meeting). He goes to his little apartment in the back of the hall and smokes and drinks. He takes off his shirt and we see that he’s a priest (priest, reverend, something with a clerical collar). There is another knock on the door and he answers it again. Everything goes black…dang tv station…it came back after a few seconds and it looks like a crucified man dressed as Jesus was hanging there…hmmm…

House rolls into work and Cuddy asks if he’s doing anything on Friday.

House: Taking a lovely young lady to the philharmonic.
Cuddy: Is that your way of saying you’re having sex with a hooker?
House: Two. Can’t create a harmonic with just one.

Cuddy’s asking because she wants House to go to Rachel’s Jewish baby-naming ceremony. House doesn’t say yes and doesn’t say no. Instead, he goes to the ER and starts browsing charts, where Cameron is working. He pulls a file and says that he’s his next patient.

Cameron: He’s a drunk priest who hallucinated Jesus.

House takes the case. The ducklings start diagnosing and believe that House either wants to screw with the team or with the hallucinating priest. He sends some ducklings to do tests and some to search the home.

He holds Foreman and Thirteen back and tells them that he’s not going to take a real case unless they separate.

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We didn’t get an episode this Tuesday, but we will be getting one on Tuesday! This episode is called Unfaithful -

When a priest who runs a homeless shelter sees a bleeding Jesus hovering at his doorstep, he is admitted to the ER. House takes on the case as a distraction for the team while he confronts Foreman and Thirteen about their relationship. The team soon learns the priest had been involved in a molestation scandal that caused him to lose his faith. However, just as they are about to dismiss his case, the patient’s condition takes a drastic turn for the worse, and House grapples with his past and his belief in the “Unfaithful”.

Sorry for the delay in posting, guys - the website’s been down all day. I discovered early this morning that there’s no House tonight! House is being preempted for the President’s address to the nation about the depression that is occurring. While it’s no House, I’m hoping that it will give us some much needed answers and hope.

Since we won’t have a House recap to look forward to, how about a recap of my recent trip to Chicago! What did I travel from Vermont to Chicago for? To be House-ized!

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We start with a bunch of people at a cooking lesson (or school – hard to tell which). The assistant suddenly has a hard time breathing and start coughing – her lips are turning blue and she’s diagnosing herself as she’s turning blue. She says that she’s a doctor and needs a doctor before she passes out.

Thirteen and Foreman are in bed together, just waking up. He tells her she drools. We then see Wilson (yay Wilson!) in a kitchen and a green mug that he looks at but doesn’t touch. House walks into the hospital and sees that the elevators are out of service for maintenance, so he takes the stairs, one slow step at a time. The ducklings are showing him the POtW and tell House that she’s got a penumothorax. Thirteen tells House that the elevator was fine when she came up from admitting. Kutner comes in a few minutes late and says that he took the elevators too. He sends Kutner and Thirteen to do an MRI on the patient.

She tells the two that she quit being a doctor (apparently she was trying to cure retinoblastoma) because she realized that she wasn’t truly happy and had never been, so she quit being a doctor to learn how to run a kitchen.

House goes into Cuddy’s office and finds Cuddy watching Rachel on her computer (apparently she’s got a video camera on Rachel). She admits that she’s the one who put the sign on the elevator because she’s not happy at having to be at work just to keep an eye on House.

Cuddy: Congratulations. You have officially dragged me down to your level.

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