HOUSE “Dead and Buried” Season 8 Episode 7 – This is it, you guys! This is the House episode to end all House episodes! I saw the promos for the past week, and it promised a huge twist that I wouldn’t see coming! So did “Dead and Buried” deliver on all the hype? Well, read on to find out.
The two patients this week were both younger kids, which is a nice change of pace from the usual thirty-something patients, but there was one big difference: One of them is alive, one is dead. The dead kid becomes the personal case of House, as he leaves the rest of the team behind to deal with the teenage girl. I’m really not a fan of the episodes where House takes on a case all by himself, as I feel that this show is at it’s best when House is with his team the whole time. I especially don’t like these cases when they involve House crashing support groups Marla Singer style and terrorizing people who have recently lost a loved ones. That’s pretty low, even for House.
It also makes it completely impossible to root for House to solve the case if the patient is already dead. Who cares? I guess they were trying to get us to care about the kid’s dad, but he’s just a deadbeat drunk who lost his wife and son and is now being forced to relive the whole thing. I feel bad for him already, you guys, I don’t need to see him wallowing in misery while looking at his dead son’s old paraphernalia.
Meanwhile, the team has their hands full trying to diagnose a teenage girl who seems to be physically and sexually abused by her boyfriend, until finding out that (Drum roll please) she is her boyfriend! While this may not have been worthy of all of the hype FOX has been giving to it, it really was an awesome twist. Not only was the moment played very well by young actress Madison Davenport, but it was great finding out that the accident that Park mentioned at the beginning of the episode where the girl’s dad died ended up actually being medically relevant.
I was glad that the resolution to this case brought some level of satisfaction, as I really didn’t care about the dead kid that House diagnosed. I guess he was able to help this other little kid and catch his disease in the bud, but we didn’t know that kid from before so it didn’t have any payoff for me. The only people who got any level of resolution from this was the jerk mom and loser dad. Who cares?
While I really did love the twist in the episode, the last scene between Foreman and Wilson where they discussed sending House back to jail really threw me for a loop. Is this the twist that we were promised? Is House going back to prison? Are they really going to shake up the formula that much? Turns out: Nope. Everything went back to normal before the credits rolled, and we go into the next episode in the same exact position as before. I’m not saying that every episode needs to reinvent the wheel, and I guess I can’t dock too many points from the episode because of how it was marketed, so all in all this was one of the best installments of the season thus far.
Random Thoughts:
- I LOL’d at House’s “Cryptically” joke.
- Did anybody else see those Ice Age commercials running at the bottom of the screen? How irritating is that?!
- When we found out that the girl had an identity disorder, my wife started singing “She’s her own boyfriend” to the tune of “I’m My Own Grandpa” from The Stupids. This is why I married her.
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