After Wilson’s episode, we’re getting an episode all about Cuddy. After all, she’s been hardly in any episodes lately. So an episode just for her was overdue. But was it good or bad? Find out in this review of House MD’s “5 to 9!”
Cuddy gets up at the ungodly hour of 5am. This is awful. No job, other than shift-work and emergency responses and journalism, should make you get up before six in the morning. Her daughter has a fever. Egads! Her boyfriend wants pre-breakfast sex. The horror! She’s got meetings and stuff. How awful! And then she has House. Now there’s a problem. You see, House pulls all sorts of crap all day long. Guess who has to clean it up? Cuddy. Guess who has to deal with doctors scorned by that one doctor from hell? Cuddy. You see where this is going? Yeah, Cuddy’s got a pretty shitty job. Guess who has to deal with a grown man who wants breast milk to cure his cancer who should actually have been treated by House? Cuddy. Or with the lawyer that sues the hospital because Chase re-attached someone’s thumb? Cuddy.
Her day is completely nuts. Let’s just hope that’s one of her bad days. I can tell you who’s had a good day: Lisa Edelstein. She does a really good job at being stressed out and surrounded by utter insanity. Most of that insanity is called House, though. We do know he messes up things for everyone apart from himself, but this time around we get to see what he’s really causing. But seriously, Lisa Edelstein is really good in this one. She portrays a range of emotions, from sadness to job to having sex to making out to being a cut-throat bitch. She’s equally convincing in each and every one of them and that’s something that deserves respect. It’s a real shame that her character is so underplayed lately, because if she’s doing such an awesome job, she definitely deserves more screentime.
This is also the first episode with really solid writing in quite a while. The jokes – few as they are – are funny, House is up to doing his insanity by doing really, really insane things and the story unfolds nicely, even with a couple of twists and turns. Granted, the ending can be seen coming a mile away, but in general, it’s a very enjoyable episode.
All in all, thanks to Lisa Edelstein, this episode is a real treat. They should make more character-spotlight-episodes. So far, all of them have been good.
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