House - It's lonely being an intelligent, white male in America
Right. So the theme on House this week is how lonely it is to be an intelligent, white male in America. Right. Riiiigghht. Well, we suppose if we're feeling like we'd like to punch somebody on this show we're not the only ones. No, we're not talking about all the intelligent women in America who got the message that a genius would rather artificially lower his IQ than find an intelligent woman to share his life with. No, we're not talking about Chase - who decided to punch House rather than deal with another person being kind to him about his troubled marriage - and Taub - who used a photo of the injured House to "prove" to his wife that he can stand up for himself.
Fine upstanding examples of manhood, the both of them. Grrr. Sorry, House. We're baffled this week.
And no, we're not going to claim that any of the women on House were shining examples of morality and intelligence this week. Cuddy lied to House in a really, really mean way. It's one thing when he was trying to deviously figure out where her sister lived. It's another when she comes out and invites him to Thanksgiving Day dinner at a house she knows won't be occupied at the time. That's just mean. And did it require above-average intelligence to figure out that House was bribing his clinic patients to act like he was being nice to them as they walked out the door? We think not.
House can definitely do better than Cuddy. And just take a look at our thoughts on the last few episodes to see that we're not big fans of Cameron this year. Thirteen is still young and impressionable. She broke up with Mr. Cheats-On-Scientific-Studies Foreman, so we don't have high hopes.
If you asked them, we're pretty sure the House creators intended to include all smart people in this week's assertion that ignorance is bliss. We just think they're dead wrong. Perhaps we've seen too many people not well-endowed with brains trying to deal with the hand life has dealt them. Neither brains nor the lack thereof are a get-out-of-troubles free card.
On the other hand, drug abuse might leave you thinking you're both happy and less-troubled. But you end up living in an apartment with mouse droppings on the kitchen counter as our patient of the week did this week. Or halucinating about dead coworkers. Just ask House.
Perhaps the writers are trying to hint to us that House's rehab experience was temporary? Who knows. We agree there can be a fine line between being addicted to drugs and needing them to get by due to a chronic health problem. We just didn't see it this week.
Maybe we're just not smart enough. Did you get it?
House can definitely do better than Cuddy. And just take a look at our thoughts on the last few episodes to see that we're not big fans of Cameron this year. Thirteen is still young and impressionable. She broke up with Mr. Cheats-On-Scientific-Studies Foreman, so we don't have high hopes.
If you asked them, we're pretty sure the House creators intended to include all smart people in this week's assertion that ignorance is bliss. We just think they're dead wrong. Perhaps we've seen too many people not well-endowed with brains trying to deal with the hand life has dealt them. Neither brains nor the lack thereof are a get-out-of-troubles free card.
On the other hand, drug abuse might leave you thinking you're both happy and less-troubled. But you end up living in an apartment with mouse droppings on the kitchen counter as our patient of the week did this week. Or halucinating about dead coworkers. Just ask House.
Perhaps the writers are trying to hint to us that House's rehab experience was temporary? Who knows. We agree there can be a fine line between being addicted to drugs and needing them to get by due to a chronic health problem. We just didn't see it this week.
Maybe we're just not smart enough. Did you get it?