Hugh Laurie has won this year the Golden Globe and SAG Award Winner for Best Actor in a television Drama and every week he continues to blow me away. The writing is fantastic and the acting is right there, real and touching. Tonight's episode was all that and more. At the end I was left wiping the tears away.
I wandered over to the Television Without Pity Forum and down into the House part of the forum to see what other folks were saying about this episode and was struck by some of the negative feelings there. I forget that people like some things for different reasons. The ones most upset with this episode could have been those who like the show for the mean, snarky and bitingly acrid humor of House toward everyone and anyone. This episode was like a play where the two characters of House and the rape victim debated the philosophy of life and the meaning of the universe. Perhaps some folks don't like to be made uncomfortable in that way. And of course the one House revelation at the end was uncomfortable as well and perhaps it was that bit which others didn't want to see. Humm.
