... The patient could not be saved... And TBH, about time.... Sure, we could just say that House the series is a collection of episodes where, despite his insufferable arrogance, he managed to save the day. But this episode showed the other, more pedestrian and perhaps even truthful aspect of being a doctor; sick people die.
The patient was the outstanding performer in this episode. Her performance was outstanding as a bereaved, homeless woman. This was a rather isolated episode. Not much moved forward characterwise... However, House's treatment of the two student nurses was a little bit of light comedic relief in an otherwise rather dark episode.
Mostly though, I just want to crow about the fact that this was the first episode where I managed to call the disease before they did... Those rather ridiculous bats were the biggest give away... but then there was the light sensitivity, both in the initial nightclub and in the hospital... fever (pretty much omnipresent in any illness)... Here it started to narrow down... aggressive interludes followed by lethargy and having lived in Africa and knowing that Tsetse fly fever had already just been covered... it pretty much left rabies... then she kicked away the glass of water... hydrophobia (the old name for the disease.)
The patient was the outstanding performer in this episode. Her performance was outstanding as a bereaved, homeless woman. This was a rather isolated episode. Not much moved forward characterwise... However, House's treatment of the two student nurses was a little bit of light comedic relief in an otherwise rather dark episode.
Mostly though, I just want to crow about the fact that this was the first episode where I managed to call the disease before they did... Those rather ridiculous bats were the biggest give away... but then there was the light sensitivity, both in the initial nightclub and in the hospital... fever (pretty much omnipresent in any illness)... Here it started to narrow down... aggressive interludes followed by lethargy and having lived in Africa and knowing that Tsetse fly fever had already just been covered... it pretty much left rabies... then she kicked away the glass of water... hydrophobia (the old name for the disease.)