House and SVU, December 2

House: Let Them Eat Cake

From TV.com:

The team take on the case of a fitness guru on an all-natural diet who collapsed while filming a video. Meanwhile, Foreman conducts Huntington's Disease drug trials and Thirteen signs on as a subject, Cuddy is forced to move into House's office, and Kutner uses House's name to run an online medical-advice website.

This was a good episode. There were really four stories going on, but each one was solid.

The case-of-the-week was interesting, and I loved the solution. I knew the trainer would refuse the recommended treatment (reversal of gastric bypass, go on high carb diet). Being exposed as a fraud is better than death, but whatever! I wouldn't mind a cure that said I had to eat chocolate cake!

The Foreman/Thirteen story was sad. Thirteen is already showing signs of Huntingdon's, and she is faced with seeing other patients in worse shape than herself.

The Kutner/Taub and the website "patient" subplot was pure gold. House set them up with a fake death and scared the crap out of them when she came back to "life"! That was definitely one of the best scenes of the year!

Finally, the Cuddy/House love/hate continues. After her office was shot up in the last episode, she has to share with House. They annoy each other and flirt. She hides the balls he usually tosses around ("Has anyone seen my balls?" LOL!), he destroys the bathroom of her office. They almost kiss and he grabs her boob instead! ("Can you leave these?")

This was definitely one of the better episodes of the season.

Good quote: "I just had to tell him that I have his balls and he's not getting them back."- Cuddy. She's got them, all right. He just doesn't know it yet. :p

Law and Order: Special Victims Unit: PTSD

Another decent episode. What happened? :p

Description from NBC:

A rape case involving a young female Marine stirs up painful memories from Detective Olivia Benson's past.

Yeah, it's another ripped from the headlines story (pregnant Marine goes missing, turns up dead), but it's well done without any weird twists or bizarre suplots. The Marine who at first appears to be the rapist/killer turns out to be a big brother type who was genuinely concerned about the dead Marine. The actual rapist/killer is no surprise.

Olivia continues to deal with last season's assault. She nearly loses it when trying to arrest the suspect. I liked having her partnered with Fin for a change (no Stabler this episode). They work pretty well together, and I liked how he talked her down when she had her gun to the suspect's head. Cap. Cragen finally tells Olivia to take time off. It should have been done last season! :p