House M.D. (TV Series) Better Half (2012) User Reviews

9/10

[jasperan · 9/10 · 2 September 2018]

Loved it. Alzheimer's is such an incredibly complex, depressing disease. I liked this episode because personally I have a relative with the disease, and it made me feel things that probably people I know have felt. Made me more empathic.

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[Mehki_Girl · 7/10 · 31 January 2023]

I feel hot... Two relatively interesting cases - early Alzheimer's and asexuality.

Wilson and House have a side bet that the husband isn't really asexual. He's not. As usual House won the bet. But always fun to watching him win.

The Alzheimer's case was very sad and went places I didn't expect. As an older couple, I do wonder if either me or my husband or both will do down that scary road.

Episodes are always better when they focus on House. I really miss Cuddy and their banter.

At this point Forman should know House wrll enough, so their conflict really doesn't ring true.

Taub and his issues weren't really featured (TG for small favors).

And the annoying Park character only had a couple of poorly delivered lines. In real life (yeah I looked her up because why the heck is she on this show...she can't act!) and she was learning sign language at some point. I recognized her really poor effort in trying to sign, uh, sexual activity between a male/female couple. She delivered that as poorly as she delivers her spoken lines.

Here's hoping she catches a fatal disease! Just can't stand her as an "actress"!

I just had to come here and write a review

[jpapanone · 6/10 · 30 November 2020]

Marking how much I dislike Charlyne Yi. I have seen her here and there..and a clip on Conan Obrien. I have no idea who she is...what her name is etc. She is definitely on the short list of annoying people who pop up frequently enough that I am aware of them. This one...Kristan Schaal, Mindy Kaling...uh. Go away already.

Charlyne's voice is absolutely fingers on a chalk board annoying.

This episode was mediocre. Handful of good lines. I'm not a fan of Melanie Lynskey...but she sometimes plays super annoying characters. This one, not so much. I hadn't really come up with a rating...but I guess...I don't know...6/7. Not bad or good. Fine...ish.

insulting and incredibly ignorant

[puddingthecandy · 1/10 · 18 November 2023]

I do like House, I really do. But this episode It's just horrible and problematic in so many ways. I'm specifically talking about the asexual """"representation"""" here. Talking about such a sensitive topic, so unknown to most people especially at the time it was released, it's already hard, but if you're going to turn it into a joke to try to make House seem more intelligent (like the show aways do) while discrediting a sexuality that is already minimally represented and hyper mistakenly understood as an disease or a disorder, then don't talk about it. This might not sound so bad, but this was the first contact that many, many people had with this topic, including my own family, which just made coming out so much harder. The scene where House "proves" that asexuality does not exist hurts so much on me. This "joke" is literally the equivalent to House claiming that he have found a gay cure, but as is a much less know topic who basically anyone really knows about, so it's funny. I understand that some people really do like this episode because of the Alzheimer plot, but this just personally hurts me so badly that when I saw that after almost 10 years no one had ever talked about this I just had to write this review. I just hope people can have a little bit of empathy while watching this episode, and understand what I'm talking about. Please do not take this episode as some sort of base for this subject AT ALL, just do your own research.