In this one, House is treating a psychopath. Not some maniac who kills people, but a real, medical psychopath. Also, family pictures, sex, insubordination and a ruined life. Can this be good, given the spotty track record of this season? Find out in this review of House M.D.’s “Remorse!”
Before we’re getting into this, let’s explain what a medical psychopath is. It’s, according to this show, a person who is able to understand the concept of love, fear and all sorts of emotions, but can’t feel them. This makes for one real, giant bitch. This giant bitch goes onto get some sort of weird ear malfunction and thus she ends up in Princeton Plainsboro, where she gets treated by House and his team. She takes a personal dislike in the overly emotional Thirteen who is overly emotional. The two clash in the not-so-entertaining way. However, you have to hand it to the actresses that they’re doing a good job at being either a psychopath or a completely terrified, emotional woman. In fact, Beau Garret does a really good job at being completely insane. Nice ending to that, too.
In other news, House has apparently reverted to his state pre-psych-ward and to be frank, I like it that way. As fun as his time in the asylum was, his state afterwards was pretty boring. As it turns out during this episode, it is perfectly possible to be an asshole and do good in your personal life. And he’s back to being funny again. In the evil kind of way, of course. Planned assholery, planned mischief and yet so much awesomeness. So all’s good on that end too.
On another good note, nobody quit. Really, that’s a surprise, even though they did talk about it. But nobody quit. There also were threats of Thirteen getting fired. She didn’t get fired. Yay! She also seems cured of her Huntington’s too.
The only negative bit about this episode I have to state is that it dragged a bit in the middle part. Apart from the moments where Beau Garret playing the psychopath was actually being psycho, it was just an endless list of blahblah and some seemingly random garbage.
All in all, this episode is another pretty good one that makes me forget the boring crap that was the early part of this season. Watch it, House is finally fun again.
