NGL, I’m a fan of this show. I’m hoping that this retro television review of House MD gets legs and people enjoy my reviews. I’m going to start with Friday posts and if people enjoy them, I will post twice a week. If it’s really liked, I’ll do Supernatural as well.
What a difference a director makes! Peter O’Fallon only did four episodes of House M.D., but it’s WAY better than the pilot. The verbal pacing is much quicker and House is much more self-assured and caustic. In the pilot, House was almost mopey and boring; now, he’s much more interesting.
This episode features a patient who is a high school lacrosse player with night terrors and Cameron is the doctor who convinces House to take a patient by accepting the parents request by forging House’s signature because Everybody Lies!!! House takes the case because he is trying to understand why Cameron wanted him to take the case and he sees that the teenager has a spasm, while he was awake. The fact that everybody lies is both honest in life and in the show- people really like to chose themselves and lying can work.
As they are trying to decide the first course of action, the teen’s night terrors occur again and it involves his toes and very large clippers; it was gross and awesome. The team is debating what the cause is that is killing the teen.
Then, the clinic hours feature a hot hippie mom anti-vaxxer who gives House a chance to be sanctimonious about vaccines and get a clue about the case for the later act. We learn from the clinic scene that a mother’s immune system protects the baby for the first six months of life, BUT not after that. In this episode, the teen was adopted, but they kept this from House- naughty naughty! DUN DUN DUN!
Why is this critical? First, House has a bet that the boy is not the biological son of the father. Correct, he was adopted and House get paid. Second, the adoptive teen’s biological mom was like the hippie mom in the clinic and didn’t vaccinate herself, exposing the teen to measles as a baby, which caused this whole mess. They have to confirm the diagnosis by going into his eyeball that is almost certainly an homage to Argento (Eyeball scene below).
The eyeball poke proves that it was a mutated measles virus that can be treated by drilling into his brain. I’m no doctor, but this was cool. If I had a different dad, who knows what I would’ve been?
I love this show for it’s directing, writing, and acting, but I also love this show because it is a form of narcissism – I am also a MENSA type and I am also an alcoholic. Yep, and like House, I just couldn’t be enough of a joiner to get into AA; so, I went the pharmacy route and found an anti-depressant that worked for me and I celebrated my 8 years of sobriety on June 2026.
We will go on this journey of House curing patient’s and Case’s journey of sobriety together. To that end, I will occasionally share some drinking adventures, including one that involved me getting chased by a unjustifiably jealous/murderous husband in Barcelona.
