House: Whatever It Takes

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This wasn't one of the classic "House" episodes but it certainly was funny. Is it just me or was House a lot funnier than usual? I love his sarcastic and mocking humor but usually it comes in small doses throughout the episode. It seemed that during this one the writers decided to take it to a whole new level and gave us Uber-House; a hyped up version of House that couldn't stop with the quick mocking lines for 60 minutes (or 40 if you take out the commercials). Not that I'm complaining much, I was laughing my butt off as he totally humiliated the other doctor with him at the CIA.

Anyway, House had a chance to be in the CIA. Well, sort of. He got to go on a black, stealth helicopter and try to save the life of a CIA agent who was the victim of an attempted assassination in South America at a government hospital. House spent his time there putting down the other doctor that was brought along and for a change, he turned out to be completely wrong with his diagnosis. But House ended up with the last laugh because while he was wrong he was also right. In the end his diagnosis wrong was but he was right that it wasn't what the other doctors thought it was. Turns out, he was in Brazil and had eaten hundreds of a native nut which caused the severe reactions he was experiencing.

The best part of his trip to the CIA was that House recruited a new doctor to his team. You may actually recognize her from her days on "ER" as Dr. Cleo Finch. So the beautiful Michael Michele is joining House's team. Here's the important question though: does this mean there will be one less spot for those on his intern squad? I would think so and this means that we have to start saying goodbye to some of these people soon. Foreman already took 15% of each of their salaries when Cuddy hired him and now House hired another doctor. There's no way they could keep all these other doctors around much longer. I think it's pretty clear that Olivia Wilde (Thirteen) is going to stay but I wonder how many others will make it through. Probably only one other if we're trying to make it a team of three. Anyone have any ideas on who the last person could be? My money is on the horribly mean intern or as House has her in his phone, "Cutthroat Bitch."

As for Foreman, he was left to lead the interns in solving the case of a female race car driver who just happened to pass out suddenly. The only problem was that with House gone Foreman felt he needed to prove he was as good as he believed. This is probably due to the fact that he's had such a hard time moving on since he was fired. Either way, he jeopardized the life of his patient while he tried to prove he was right. In the end, he ended up being right from the get go and had it not been for the rogue intern who tried to get money to cure polio by poisoning the patient in order to rig the test results, Foreman would never have jeopardized the patients life. He did learn an important lesson about being in charge and I have a feeling it's going to be an important tool for him down the road. I doubt this is the last time we're going to see Foreman in charge.

I should point out that Foreman was completely right to confront Cameron about interfering with his patient and his interns. She needs to move on or go back to House but she needs to pick one. At least she realized that after Foreman totally screwed with her mind too. I would like to see Cameron and Chase find a way back into the forefront of the show. They're on the fringes and I think it's a waste of great actors and great characters. I'm not sure what they can do since putting them all back under House would be weird at this point and I can't see any of the characters willing to except that torture.

I've been pleasantly surprised at how good this season as been given all the changes. How long this will last I can't say but for now I'm enjoying the new feel to the show and I think you might be too. Until next week, enjoy the review!