Skin Deep

The episode was full of revelations, and other interesting things about each characters. Kiiwi is right, people are too hypersensitive these days, for episodes like these, that could address certain topics, without all the usual fuss. Personally, it's not something I'm used to in my own personal life, so if it pushes some people's buttons so much, maybe they should see a shrink, to understand why it hits so close to home for them... Crazy things can happen, and the show fortunately knew how to take risks with its characters without sounding too tacky. The part where House thinks he can feel his « dead » leg again, looks too much like a decoy, to distract us from this very weird case. Which also showed writers had no idea what to make of him in this episode... It makes it lack momentum, which is a shame, because it was a really bold and unexpected premise for the time. It pushed boundaries and made viewers uneasy, with wild twists and turns. They don't do them like that anymore.

I believe that the only reason this episode has such a high rating is because of the "plot twist" at the end. However, regardless of the typical sudden realization of what is ailing the patient at the end of the episode, the language used against the FIFTEEN YEAR OLD patient is absolutely vile and hinders any positive thoughts I have about this episode.

House is at his most unbearable and disgusting as he, Foreman, and Chase all sexually objectify their FIFTEEN YEAR OLD PATIENT all because she is "beautiful". The episode's one saving grace is, of course, the only woman in the department as she stands up for the patient but is continually shut down by her male coworkers! I feel bad for Sarah Hess as she seems to have been the only woman on the writing staff for this episode. Maybe Cameron was a stand-in for her?

Lastly, the writing of the patient herself is so abysmal and disgusting that I hope none of these writers are near a minor. Without saying too much, she is perpetuated as a manipulator towards those with power over her.

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.

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.