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'House': Amy Irving, Post-traumatic Syringomyelia and go-karts
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Amy Irving was the patient of the week on "House," making a great cameo as a depressed writer. And the fun extracurricular activity was the House & Cuddy & Sam & Wilson double-date.POTW
Alice Tanner the famous author is depressed, cranky and seeing a live materialization of her lead character Jack Cannon, Boy Detective (with a scar on his cheek). After trying to shoot herself and getting admitted for a psych evaluation, the doctors catch ALice talking to this imaginary boy and also manage to set her leg on fire when they MRI her after she has lied about the three surgical pins in her leg she says are from a skiing accident.
House then tricks her into an additional 24 hours psych evaluation by offering her a way out that doesn't actually kill her, but lets them keep her there because she tried to kill herself again. Sneaky. That's our House.
After figuring out a way (extremely clever way) to read Alice's novel, House berates her about the way she is ending her book series and she snaps at him, then goes paralyzed. Taub puts it together that her skiing accident (which was actually a car crash) caused Post-traumatic Syringomyelia, which is a cyst caused by the car accident that is now pressing on her spinal cord and causing all her symptoms.
Alice refuses surgery to have the cyst removed and did we all figure out that her real son Jack was killed in the car accident? We don't normally figured things out on this show before House, but that one we saw coming as soon as the skiing accident turned out to be a car crash.
House informs Alice (real name Helen) that the crash didn't kill her son (the imaginary boy she talks to), a brain aneurysm did and that there was nothing she could've done. He would have died that day anyway. But we suspect House just lied to make her stop feeling guilty about letting her son drive that night. And we are right. Aww, House.
Go-Karts
House and Cuddy go go-karting with Sam and Wilson, after House and Sam adorably bond over being fans of Alice Tanner's books. Sam is also just as pumped about go-karts as House. We really like the idea of Sam and House becoming buddies over stuff like this.
The go-karts also bring out Cuddy's competitive side, but she's no match for Sam, who crashes Wilson and Cuddy and can only be taken out by House (who cheats, naturally). House is distressed that he and Cuddy don't have anything in common, but it turns out Cuddy doesn't care because they make each other better and what they have is uncommon. Aww, again.
Thoughts & Tidbits
- We loved this episode. Amy Irving was great, the double-date was hilarious (more Sam and House, please) and the Huddy moment at the end was outstanding.
- But what we really loved was seeing the more human House. We don't want him to completely change (that would be really boring), but seeing him care about Alice and her books was nice.
What did you think about "Unwritten"?
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Totally great episode. This season is going to be a good one. The show feels revitalized in some way.
I really liked this episode and found that I agree with several things you said in your article. Loved the date and the POTW, as well as the part where House didn't end up telling her about her son at the end and the conversation with Cuddy and House near the end-re: 'uncommon.' Great episode. The series feels a bit reinvigorated this season. I'm enjoying it so much more than last season.
Thanks for the great read.
Fantastic episode. I really missed seeing Amy Irving, she was amazing.
Loved the House/Cuddy/Wilson/Sam interactions.
A+
Oddly enough, if the writers had actually wanted to make it true and plausible that Jack had an aneurysm that burst while his mom got post-traumatic syringomyelia from the crash, all they would have had to add was the discovery that this family had underlying Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. That's my family's truth.
Where is the old House, the one who was honest to the point of pain? That one believed honesty is the best, he wouldn't have lied to her patient to make her feel better.
Huddy is killing this show. It's taking over every episode and there's no getting away from it. Now she's even going to houses to investigate with him.
House is right. He and Cuddy have nothing in common, and they make each other worse, not better. I hope Huddy ends before it kills the show, because whatever this is, it's not House M.D.