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House MD - Season 6 Thread - 11/17/2009 8:37:05 PM

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Episode 8 - Teamwork

A porn star actor is the patient, but his case is far less critical to House than in trying to re-assemble his team from among those who have left (13, Cameron, Chase, and Taub.) We also get to see Cuddy's relationship with the PI (Lucas Douglas) and its dynamic for the first time.

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This episode certainly tears up the dynamic of everything. House, Cuddy, and Foreman are actually happy for a change, but at the expense of everyone else around them. Foreman will feel like Thirteen came back to him, but really she's just going for the work that is more interesting. Taub has, similarly annoyed his wife for the sake of intellectual stimulation (and I note that her face has been revealed, meaning that its likely they intend to use her as a character in the show.) And of course, Cameron has just lost his wife over working with House. The cost of getting back all of his minions may have been counterproductive for House. We shall see.

Whether House will actually be able to steal Cuddy back from Lucas is a bit of a question. He's actually very much like House, but minus all the worst parts of him. This makes him a very serious rival because he can make her happy in all the ways that House could, but also keep it as a lasting relationship. If House realizes this, it will be a question of whether he feels secure in ruining it for them like he did with his ex-wife.

And I didn't quite buy Cameron's hostility towards porn. She seemed shoe-horned into that slot for the sake of moralistic viewers. The writers seem to have forgotten that she's been quite the party girl herself and while a nice person compared to most of the others, as a doctor, I can't see her as being all that enamored of the mysticism of the human body.

Her reason for dumping Chase and House, on the other hand, fit her personality very well. Personally, though, I don't think that an argument that House has made Chase have a healthy view of reality really puts her on the right side of the moral fence.