AFTER BEING RATHER "meh" on the whole post-strike TV output, the second part of HOUSE's two part season finale last night actually kept me awake. So upsetting, so pregnant with possibility, so beautifully written and directed; and the possibility of yet another re-invention for this show come fall.As an added bonus, Diane Kristine for one night only returns to her once-must-read episode recaps!
We get inside House's head every week, when his thinking processes are made visible with every case. It's also hard to imagine there's an unexpressed thought in there when the man lets escape socially inappropriate utterances like: “Trust me, I want to do very nasty, demeaning stuff to your girlfriend.”
Wilson's heart is likewise usually on display, right there on his neatly-pressed sleeve within easy reach of House's mockery.
Yet we've never seen either body part quite like this before. House's rationality is confounded by his injuries and his emotions, and Wilson's heart is trampled by House's irrational self-destruction.
The power of these episodes comes from an understated but riveting performance by Hugh Laurie; from searing ones by Robert Sean Leonard and Anne Dudek; from the non-linear narrative mixing hallucination, fantasy, dream, and memory; and from the disquieting sense that, like House, if I only taxed my addled brain I should be able to fit the puzzle pieces together.
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