For those of you who enjoyed the TV version of HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS, you will be in for a pleasant surprise in this episode, as Hillary Tuck guest-stars as a young mother suddenly developing seizures and endangering her newborn. Tuck is a terrific young actress, and gives as good a performance as the distraught mom as any actress who has ever appeared on this show. And that's saying something. Meanwhile, Cuddy has asked Wilson to dinner. Is it a date? Wilson kind of thinks so, but House isn't convinced. Foreman is back, thank God, but he's not all there. He is suffering from an aphasia. He's also gotten way too nice and sweet and nonargumentative and at peace with himself and the world, something House makes plain he will not tolerate. Chase has had enough for the time being, and ends up on the baby ward for a few weeks. This move also has House alarmed. Hell, at this point everything is alarming House. And his leg keeps getting worse.
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Medical goof
marybevilacqua25 January 2020
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Untreated celiac in women often leads to infertility and very high rates of miscarriage - if her case was severe enough to lead to psychosis, it's highly unlikely that she would have been able to carry a baby to term in the first place.
House MD "Forever"
DrGregoryHouse4 May 2006
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When young mother Kara has a seizure while bathing her child, it causes the near drowning of her newborn son. Unable to determine the cause of Kara's seizures, House and the team race to find what's wrong with her while simultaneously trying to bring her infant back to life. When both mother and son develop complications, Kara's husband must make some very difficult decisions. Kara's husband learns some shocking information about his wife and struggles to deal with his newfound emotions towards her. Meanwhile, Foreman has returned to work and is struggling to regain normalcy in his life after his brain biopsy, Chase admits he needs a break and House investigates why Cuddy has asked Wilson on a date.
What a strange, sad episode...
wmjgas5911 May 2006
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IMHO, the overall quality of this series is among the best on television. But this thing creep-ed me out. I've never seen them loose patients, and then ultimately loose BOTH patients.
I really found the way the patients were treated to be awful. Sure, it was pretty obvious that they were dealing with an animatronic doll most of the time with the baby, but it was still horrifying to see an infant with all that medical equipment hooked up to him.
That his mother was alcoholic and hearing voices that told her to kill her child was so sad I literally couldn't stop crying. Then to have House be unable to manipulate her into wanting to put this past her. The parents were just emotional babies (and I don't mean that in a abusive way, but they seemed to be far more screwed up than anybody I've ever seen on the series -- outside the pedophiles).
Everyone's emotions are boiling in this one. Foreman, still recovering from his recent near-death experience, seems downright upbeat. Which angers House. Chase is hiding from lying patients (he says) by working in the pediatric emergency ward. Which angers House. Cuddy is apparently trying to become pregnant, and House lets her think he's betrayed her, even though he's hiding her secret.
I know House is a lovable curmudgeon. But some of his actions ring false. Doesn't he hide from patients because they lie? Does he really think he can manipulate EVERYTHING and EVERYONE (like Foreman) and yet he gives up on the young mother who killed her child while she was delusional? Poor Kip Pardue, he's given some of the worst dialogue this series has ever come up with. And his stoic face looks disengaged rather than with-held.
All and all, a very poor effort. It takes the premise of the show: House saves EVERYONE, even if he has to manipulate and break rules right and left, and here he fails to save either. In fact, it appears the young father is suicidal.
Cuddy, often a foil, here is very vulnerable. And House tortures her when it seems as though he is unable to actually reveal her weakness. He just makes her feel like she's being revealed. Thus making House seem perversely cruel, rather than an adorable curmudgeon.
Come on writers! Follow the script guidelines!
I really found the way the patients were treated to be awful. Sure, it was pretty obvious that they were dealing with an animatronic doll most of the time with the baby, but it was still horrifying to see an infant with all that medical equipment hooked up to him.
That his mother was alcoholic and hearing voices that told her to kill her child was so sad I literally couldn't stop crying. Then to have House be unable to manipulate her into wanting to put this past her. The parents were just emotional babies (and I don't mean that in a abusive way, but they seemed to be far more screwed up than anybody I've ever seen on the series -- outside the pedophiles).
Everyone's emotions are boiling in this one. Foreman, still recovering from his recent near-death experience, seems downright upbeat. Which angers House. Chase is hiding from lying patients (he says) by working in the pediatric emergency ward. Which angers House. Cuddy is apparently trying to become pregnant, and House lets her think he's betrayed her, even though he's hiding her secret.
I know House is a lovable curmudgeon. But some of his actions ring false. Doesn't he hide from patients because they lie? Does he really think he can manipulate EVERYTHING and EVERYONE (like Foreman) and yet he gives up on the young mother who killed her child while she was delusional? Poor Kip Pardue, he's given some of the worst dialogue this series has ever come up with. And his stoic face looks disengaged rather than with-held.
All and all, a very poor effort. It takes the premise of the show: House saves EVERYONE, even if he has to manipulate and break rules right and left, and here he fails to save either. In fact, it appears the young father is suicidal.
Cuddy, often a foil, here is very vulnerable. And House tortures her when it seems as though he is unable to actually reveal her weakness. He just makes her feel like she's being revealed. Thus making House seem perversely cruel, rather than an adorable curmudgeon.
Come on writers! Follow the script guidelines!
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