Skin Deep

This is a one of a kind episode. First of all, it features a teenage supermodel. House is at his lowest as he lusts for her. He has no filter at all and his drooling is ridiculous. Put aside the male portrayal and focus on this model and we get into some really interesting territory. The conclusion aside, which I won't ruin, the father's abuse and all that is enough to have the cops crashing the doors. I realize there are protections for good reason, but this guy continues to sit at the daughter's bedside after what is revealed about him. Then we have her explanation.

I won't comment on the secondary plot of the guy who has a sympathetic pregnancy. That is also ludicrous.

I mean I love house but this show wouldn't have survived in 2021. There was no way for this many problematical comments to be just ignored.

One of the episodes on the show that reminds you that they still didn't really consider women proper people 20 years ago. Also why is cameron the only one concerned about the nonce behaviour from both house and the dad. Not only are houses comments disgusting, they are brushed off as just goofy behaviour and not weird, and something that should be discipline (not that this fictional hospital seems to care much for ethics, they commit malpractice more than they actually cure patients). The whole episode was tedious and made my skin crawl. I hope the "only good nonce is a dead one" attitude begins to permeate whichever bubble they've got the writers locked in sooner rather than later.

There is an interesting twist at least it was back then. It's probably one that would never make it today . Gender identity is viewed differently now although in a way it's not the specific approach they would use now.

I am also not sure why men were so attracted to the patient of the week.

Easily the dumbest and most disturbing episode I've seen so far. I'm surprised to see the show dip so early on.

There should be at least some minimum level of medical believability to make it to air. Here there is none -though it attempts to pander to goofy fringe agendas apparently.

If House can't pull itself out of the gutter and attempt to create reasonable and realistic crises the show, we're going have to plug on it. People with the slightest medical backgrounds are groaning over this type of trash.

It takes so very little these days to make it on a scripted show. TV is becoming a mindless format if this episode is any indication.