House – Right brains, left hands and hallucinations

What the heck’s wrong with House? We thought we took a trip to hallucination land when he was hanging out with Amber, but he really lost his marbles this week. I’m not sure if this finale blew me away, left me confused or just made me love Carl Reiner more than ever (huge Dick Van Dyke fan here….).

What was successful for me was the way they juxtaposed the patient with the alien hand syndrome with House’s malady. It was all about the right brain, the side that controls our reality, who we are for real. After this episode, we are left with the question, “Who is House really?”

Those aren’t the only questions I’m left with. How about:

• How much of tonight’s episode was hallucinated by House? They aren’t going to pull a Dallas on us, are they?
• What’s really wrong with House? Is this all because of Vicodin, Kutner or some latent medical problem?
• Did he really detox from the Vicodin?

I get that he didn’t really have sex with Cuddy, and I wonder if Kutner’s suicide made House want to rewrite his life, hence the psychiatric problems. This is really affecting House if he’s admitted that he needs help and checked himself into a facility. It will be interesting to watch this one unfold next season … will House jump the shark or blow the hatch?

My favorite quotes:

• “Isn’t that like locking the barn door after the horse has put his face between your breasts for an hour and a half?” — House to Cuddy on her high-necked blouse
• “It’s always a sad thing when sperm comes between people.” — Thirteen, on Cameron’s dead husband’s frozen sperm
• “I’m sorry but I’m about to lose you because I’m about to drive into a tunnel in a canyon in an airplane while hanging up the phone.” — House to Eugene Schwartz (Carl Reiner) to get him off his cell phone

Clacked by Debbie McDuffee
on May 11, 2009 @ 22:09 EST5EDT