Skin Deep

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.

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.

Real-life model Cameron Richardson plays a teen model who exhibits aggressive behavior and collapses on a runway during a fashion show. From there, it's all downhill in an episode that allows House to fully acknowledge his lecherous side. Surprise after surprise awaits the team, as the model goes from bad to worse both in body and mind. Richardson is extremely fetching as the sickly waif who may not be all she appears. For the astute viewer, the ultimate revelation will have been guessed halfway through. Still, a good show and no harm done. House's leg pains appear to be increasing, which will lead in coming episodes to a Holmesian solution, if you Sherlock Holmes fans out there get my drift. It is worth nothing this episode gets about as close to nudity as this series is ever likely to, and this gratifying display of flesh is put on by none other than Richardson, in a moment of angry confrontation with House.

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.

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.