House, MD: Season 3, Episode 9 – “Finding Judas”

I’ve always struggled writing about House.  The show is so multi-layered it is very difficult for me to give the details about what happened and not sound like a text book.  Should I detail the medical mystery?  Or should I concentrate on the character relationships?  Man, it’s a tough thing to do. 

It doesn’t help that Blog Critic Diane Kristine shows me up every week with her excellent House articles.  This week, I’ve decided to give up trying and just let you read her version. 

But first, I’ll add a few comments.  This episode was a difficult one.  House has always been a mean little bugger.  But his meanness has always been funny and for a purpose.  He uses his sarcasm and rough demeanor to make his students think harder or patients do what’s right for them.  Tonight he was just mean because he can be.  We really got to see how deep the drug addiction goes and how much control it has on his life. 

There were also two things that bothered me about the whole Tritter plot.  Why didn’t Chase simply tell everybody what Tritter had done to him in the cafeteria.  A simple ‘hey guys Tritter had lunch with me so that it would look like I was the traitor’ would have done him a lot of good.  

Also, it seems to me that a whole bunch of doctor’s in a freaking hospital would have some good lawyers.  And a few of these lawyers ought to be good enough to knock Tritter down a few notches and keep entire departments from being shut down.   They make a few mentions of lawyers, but it just doesn’t seem realistic to me that none of them can do anything about Tritter.

But anyway, go read Diane’s take, it’s real good.