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johnpalmer ([personal profile] johnpalmer) wrote2008-09-18 05:09 pm

And the winner...

...of "the most accurate, but painful, season opener whose specifics were explicitly spelled out in the previous season" award, goes to House MD.

I do hope the writers like happy endings, because *ouch*.

[identity profile] copperwise.livejournal.com 2008-09-19 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
That was BRUTAL. Also, normally his sexism and misogyny is played fairly amusingly and I can't help but giggle. This time the urge to strangle him was strong.

(Anonymous) 2008-09-19 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Re: urges to strangle, yeah. Normally, he's brutally cynical, but this time it was like, he was brutally cynical about feminist leaders, but not about anti-feminism. And that no longer comes across as just House being brutally cynical about everything.