Review - House Season 6 Episode 9 Ignorance Is Bliss

Can someone please tell me what happened to the show? It's gone from cool medicine and degenerated in random quibbling among the team members, and an awkward sideshow of Cuddy and House. I'm starting to see less worth in sticking around for the rest of the series. The writing has been all over the place the past few seasons, and it's feeling more and more like a chore to watch the show.

Cuddy tricking House came out of the blue and was uncharacteristic. I thought it seemed more malicious than was intended by the writers or Cuddy. Leading him on and then shooting him down was a way to get House to back down, but it didn't seem like a Cuddy thing to do.

Lucas has become The Boyfriend. He no longer has any of those qualities that made he so likable in season 5. Now he is just a fixture to Cuddy without personality or purpose other than to keep House away from Cuddy. This all relates to the fact that writers, David Shore, Katie Jacobs have no new ideas.

Are we supposed to feel sorry for Chase? This idiot was given the easiest way out. All he had to do was quit his job along with his wife, and everything would be perfectly fine. Instead he stays, having never shown a certain affinity to diagnostic medicine like House has, forcing his wife to leave.

The writers should probably work on there math a bit. They said the James Sidas's  IQ was 178 while his wife's IQ was 91 points lower which makes her IQ 87. That would make her exceedingly stupid and kind of close to where she is mentally deficient. There is already a huge disparity between James and a normal person, so why did the writers have to make her extra stupid?

I was relieved to see someone acknowledge that Omar Epps (Foreman) looks awfully similar to the Pittsubrgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. Every time I see the Steelers play I think of Omar Epps, so I loved House's reference.

Score: 8.4/10