2.09 DeceptionFrom
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With Foreman as House's supervisor, the team must figure out if a woman who cried wolf too many times is really ill.
I just wanted to be lonely and post that this is one of my favorite underrated episodes. Cynthia Nixon was great (even if she did torture poor RSL).
This is one of those episodes I watched when my friends were trying to talk me into watching House and I was catching it sporadically during Season 2. I did think Cynthia Nixon was great in it. And, even before I had any feelings about Cameron one way or another, I thought she was pretty incompetent to leave those antibiotics with the patient to prove her point.
Cynthia Nixon was great (even if she did torture poor RSL).
Sorry, I'm confused. Did they have any scenes together except where he was about to zap her bone marrow? Where was the torture?
Sorry, I'm confused. Did they have any scenes together except where he was about to zap her bone marrow? Where was the torture?
Sorry, Taiga, obscure joke! :) RSL did an interview (quite awhile after she filmed her guest spot) where he mentioned that he had a huge crush on Cynthia when they were both kids and co-starred as siblings (in the Off-Broadway play Sally Gone's, She Left Her Home.) He said something about her being so cool and intimidating he never got up the courage to let on at the time. So she tortured poor RSL by being an unattainable love object. ;)
This is one of those episodes I watched when my friends were trying to talk me into watching House and I was catching it sporadically during Season 2. I did think Cynthia Nixon was great in it. And, even before I had any feelings about Cameron one way or another, I thought she was pretty incompetent to leave those antibiotics with the patient to prove her point.
What? I'm no Cameron fan, but that's exactly the kind of stunt House would pull if he suspected Munchausen's was the (one and only) problem.
I really really love this episode. I just watched it on my DVD a couple nights ago. Cynthia played that role really well, and she had great chemistry with Hugh.
I love that House insists she has Munchausen's AND an actual illness. So sad at the end though, when she was scamming another doctor at another hospital.
My favorite exchange:
House: At the end of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," the wolf really does come, and he eats the sheep, and the boy, and his parents.
Chase: The wolf doesn’t eat the parents!
House: It does when I tell it.
Moment that I find interesting and odd:
House singing Ain't She Sweet. (I love when he sings!) Except he used the male pronoun. "See him walking down that street, so I ask you very confidentially, ain’t he sweet?... Just cast an eye in his direction, oh me oh my, ain’t that perfection..."
This is when he's handing over fake blood test results to Foreman to prove that the patient had a physical illness. So maybe he was directing the male pronoun at himself... that he's "perfection" for being so great at what he does.
One thing that struck me as very odd, insensitive, unprofessional... was when Foreman said that Anica should have died from the infection. Did he really mean that a woman who's suffering from a mental conditon deserved to die because of it? That's outright cruel and worse than so many things House has said over the years. And shouldn't Foreman know better, especially as a doctor?
Or did I just misunderstand that whole dialogue in Cuddy's office?
This has bugged me since I saw the episode for the first time, did anyone else catch that?
I don't think so. Foreman only advocates letting criminals and street people die from failure to treat. I think he was making the same argument the inspector made in Living the Dream
Conway: I heard about House’s patient. Bold move. And you backed him.
Cuddy: He was right.
Conway: He wasn’t even in the same neighborhood as right.
Cuddy: The patient’s alive.
Conway: Okay. The rules exist because 95% of the time, for 95% of the people, they’re the right thing to do.
Cuddy: And the other 5%?
Conway: Have to live by the same rules. Because everybody thinks they’re in that 5%.
Yeah, you're right, I just rewatched that scene. Still, not the best phrasing ;). Couldn't he have commented on how she could have just as easily died because of House's obsession ;)?
And now I can't stop laughing about Foreman's upbeat stride and self-satisfied smirk when he enters Cuddy's office, just to be put in his place by Cuddy moments later ;).
Also the following scene with Wilson and House, when House makes Wilson pay for his candy and then keeps the change, classic! lol
