House Season 6 Episode 9 Ignorance is Bliss – Recap
I’m torn over the best way to tackle this review of “Ignorance is Bliss.” I have far more bad things to say about the episode than I do good things, yet I loved it. The outcome I (and presumably most other
fans) want to see (House and Cuddy together) is hopefully going to be achieved. This just isn’t my ideal path to get there.
When Lucas was brought back a few weeks ago, I argued that I was happy to have him back as long as there was a good reason for it. Lucas dating Cuddy isn’t a good reason. The character we knew Lucas as (quirky detective) has been completely erased and save for that one brief scene last week when he did some digging into Chase’s medical notes, there’s been no indication that side of Lucas even exists anymore. He’s a different character this time around and it’s destroying everything I liked about him now. I’m not saying House doesn’t need a foil in his quest to win Cuddy’s heart, but with Lucas’ history with House, he could be a much better foil right now.
Having said all that, it seems pretty obvious at this point that Lucas is just a bump in the road and if that’s all he’s going to be in this scenario, I’ll be happy to see him go as quickly as he reappeared. Cuddy may have been enjoying Thanksgiving dinner with Lucas and his family but she felt guilty she sent House to her sister’s place when they were in Hawaii. She knows House is changing and the defeated look on her face at the end of the hour when House offered those free carnival tickets said it all. She won’t let him be nice because she knows what’ll it do to her and how she feels about Greg. So again, I like where it’s going but I’m just not the biggest fan of how we’re getting there.
As for the rest of the episode, most of it was tedious to sit through, not because it wasn’t enjoyable but because it was a lot of re-treading old ground with characters that have already been established. Then again, it has been some time now since Thirteen and Taub were on the team, so maybe re-introducing the tensions between Thirteen and Foreman or Taub’s rocky marriage were necessary evils. As an avid watcher of this show though, any of those scenes just felt recycled from old episodes.
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