http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/07/HOUSE----Whatever-It-Takes.aspx House (Hugh Laurie) and Dr. Foreman (Omar Epps) have their first full episode together since last season and what do they do? Split up. Not like they broke up but rather Foreman stayed with the prospective team to handle the care of a seizing, fainting dragster driver and House jaunted off to cure a CIA agent. Usually when a TV drama invokes the “CIA” plot line, they are sending up the white flag of “We’ve run out of ideas”-surrender. But this is HOUSE and we give extra leeway. The whole CIA thing just works to get House away from his team and give face time to Foreman so he can establish his hierarchy in the pack. When House leaves he says to Foreman, “You’re in charge.” Foreman replies, “I know.” This specifically male measuring contest will only go on so long. It will work as underlying tension but cannot sustain itself as the continual mode of communication. House brazenly gets diagnosis after diagnosis wrong while he flirts with the “Company” in-house doctor. The patient is wasting away with blood cancer or radiation poisoning or some other nasty thing but House remains able to chew the scenery and brag about his assignment to Cuddy, Wilson and his team, “I’m on a top secret mission for the CIA.” And everyone rolls their eyes. Things are much different with Foreman. He has trouble managing the team. They are too caught up in trying to impress House that they overlook the patient. Rats in a cage is how Foreman sees them. However, Foreman is having his own problems diagnosing the racecar driver and he seems to have slipped when it comes to the bedside manner. He assures the driver and her father that it is one wrong thing after another. This serves the parallel action of the plot but raises the question of how he was able to sell House’s ever changing treatments to patients but not his own. That wasn’t explored at all. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/07/HOUSE----Whatever-It-Takes.aspx 77 60 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/07/HOUSE----Whatever-It-Takes.aspx#2100 i never get sick of house brokun1 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/07/HOUSE----Whatever-It-Takes.aspx#2100 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:21:55 GMT http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/07/HOUSE----Whatever-It-Takes.aspx#2103 same here this one was good to but always is:) tinkluvspan http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/07/HOUSE----Whatever-It-Takes.aspx#2103 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:34:03 GMT http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/07/HOUSE----Whatever-It-Takes.aspx#2131 this is a good show WAVELYN http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/07/HOUSE----Whatever-It-Takes.aspx#2131 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:53:17 GMT http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/07/HOUSE----Whatever-It-Takes.aspx#2132 I REALLY ENJOY HOUSE,HE IS A REAL COOL DOCTOR AND TEACHER dorothy fugate http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/11/07/HOUSE----Whatever-It-Takes.aspx#2132 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:54:09 GMT