Ive kind of stopped watching this show since the beginning of season 6 so it would be cool to know what happens afterwards and how it all ends. Thanks in advance.
"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man..."
Well, since you're on IMDB you could check out their episode list for House; the synopsis are reasonably detailed.
shareThat cost you exactly the same amount of time as saying something like -- "Cuddy dies and House ends up marrying Wilson" -- only what you actually said doesn't help me one iota.
"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man..."
It would have helped you if you had bothered to go and look; I gave you a very reasonable suggestion; at the time I didn't have time to do more. And your reaction was to be rude. That being said, why should I (or anyone else) waste time giving you a long explanation when you accused the person who actually took time out of their day to do it of doing a "cut and paste" job. So what if she did (which she didn't), she gave you the info you asked for; why did you have to be snarky about it?
And oh yeah, Cuddy didn't die and House didn't marry Wilson.
The information you want is all over the net; go and look for it. Hey, we all have busy lives.
And again you choose to invest time to answer to a topic without adding anything. I bet when a friend asks you to borrow a couple of bucks, you say "No, but here's the adresses of 5 banks nearby."
"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man..."
If all you can do is be rude, I don't have time for you. Go watch the show.
shareSeason 6
Opens with House at Mayfield psychiatric hospital. He needs to detox and also to address his underlying issues. This arc spans two episodes and could be a stand alone movie. Wilson has a cameo, but otherwise no other series regulars are in this. House meets and has a brief affair with a woman who he later tells someone changed him.
House eventually is discharged and returns to PPTH. He has to complete some recertification before Cuddy will let him have his job back. When he decides not to stay at PPTH, Cuddy assumes it's because of her. Meanwhile House and Wilson are now living together and frankly this is the highlight of the season and the only thing that makes it worth watching.
As time goes on, House becomes more obsessed with sleeping with cuddy. We find out later that it's because his therapist from Mayfield is encouraging this. We also find out that all this time in spite of cuddy contstantly teasing House, she is sleeping with Lucas, House's P.I. from early season 5, and they eventually move in together and get engaged.
For the season finale there is some accident and building collapse. Cuddy goes to the crash site to help with patient triage and leaves Wilson to run the ER and hospital. House finds a woman trapped in the rubble, who coincidentally needs to have her leg amputated to free her. She finally agrees after talking with House but dies in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. House has a major breakdown over it and goes home to take drugs. Cuddy magically appears to stop him and tells him that she went home to break up with Lucas, that she loves House, and they end the episode/season with the two of them holding hands.
Season 7
Opens with House and Cuddy having sex and then both seemingly regretting it. Cuddy again tells him she loves him and doesn't want to change him. The next several episodes continue with the relationship, Cuddy trying to change House, and House resisting it. This is basically the season of huddy sex because the episodes deal with the sexual relationship and the two trying to turn this into a supportive relationship. Cuddy tries to control House by withholding sex and House loses more of himself by giving in so he can have sex.
At some point Cuddy has a serious health scare. House can't deal with it and goes back to taking drugs. Because Cuddy is so intuitive, she realizes this through a series of dreams. At the end of this episode, she goes to House's apartment and breaks up with him because she doesn't want to be with a drug addict or have one around her daughter.
This season could also be renamed The Cuddy Show, because many of the episodes and plots revolve around her and her extended family. House just happens to be in her circle now. We also find out that Cuddy's mother never liked her because she didn't have a husband and kids like her sister did, so that explains her obsession with getting a kid and then having little interest in raising her.
House sleeps with a series of hookers and goes into a further downward spiral. He ends up marrying a woman who may or may not be a hooker, but needs a green card. But after marrying her he won't sleep with her. Meanwhile House comes up with another crazy scheme to fix his leg, which backfires and causes him to have to perform surgery on himself at home. Of course this doesn't go well and the only person around who can save him once again is Cuddy. For some unknown reason she is also the only one he trusts not to cut off his leg.
As he's recovering in the hospital, Cuddy won't leave him alone, constantly nagging at him to get over her. She asks for her stuff back. He has his wife bring a box of her stuff to the hospital. But her very special heirloom hairbrush is missing.
Meanwhile Cuddy meets this strange man in a coffee shop who may or may not be a stalker. He knows all about her because her sister told him all about her and showed him her picture which he instantly recognizes her from.
When House gets discharged from the hospital he's shown home alone and possibly quite high. Wilson stops by and convinces him to go out drinking. House agrees but only if they can swing by Cuddy's so he can drop off her very special heirloom hairbrush. For some unknown reason Wilson lets the obviously high and depressed House drive.
House walks up to Cuddy's door and inside he can see Cuddy with this possible stalker guy (she apparently has no problem inviting this weird stranger into her house and her life). Previously she had lied to House and said she wasn't seeing anyone else. House totally loses it and drives his car through Cuddy's living room. The episode is told in flashback and opens with cops at Cuddy's house. Now we know why. She says she wants House arrested and a restraining order against him. The episode closes with House walking on some tropical beach.
The only way this season can be explained is that it's a 24-episode long hallucination that House is having and he's still in Mayfield.... or that the writers took a year off and had some part-time intern downloading really bad huddy fanfiction.
Season 8
Opens with House in prison. We find out later that he felt so much guilt over what happened that he felt he deserved whatever punishment he got, so he never got a lawyer and just turned himself in and went to prison. This is just a plot device to introduce a pretty young female prison doctor who will later join House's team to replace Cameron and 13.
There's some convoluted reason why only House is the only one who can save a certain patient and why this person is so important. I can't remember why. He gets a visit in prison from the DoM from PPTH, he thinks it's cuddy and refuses to see "her" but they say "no, it's a guy!" and it turns out to be Foreman. Cuddy has left town to start a new life with her daughter and presumably her possible-stalker boyfriend. House gets limited release from prison and has to wear an ankle bracelet. Also his office is now some outpatient clinic. His team is gone and he's assigned one young awkward asian female doctor who nobody else will work with.
They really tried to recapture the magic of the early series by going back (somewhat) to the original formula. But they never could quite make it with the exception of a few really stand out episodes amid all the filler. It actually started out quite good with interesting medical mysteries but then devolved back into sappy relationship drama.
In the series finale arc we find out that Wilson has been diagnosed with an early stage of cancer which for some reason is not curable. Wilson does not want to go through cancer treatment and have people pity him so he decides to just live his last months to the fullest. Meanwhile some ridiculous incident happens at the hospital with burst water pipes that will send House back to prison. House nearly dies at the end, but everyone thinks he has. Instead he has taken the opportunity to fake his own death so that he and Wilson can (literally) ride off into the sunset together.
Fraaaank. FRANK! Get my jean bin. Susie wants my jeans.
No she doesnt.
Thank you VERY much. Season 6 was during a very busy time at work and I somehow had to quit watching tv altogether and for some reason never continued watching House since.
BTW -- this was just a simple cut n paste job, right?
Also, it sounds like quitting after season 5 was the right thing to do anyway, all this Huddy stuff sounds like incredibly forced screenwriting if you ask me.
"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man..."
Cut and paste? No way. I just wrote it as I remembered. I don't usually watch the second half of the series.
Cuddy and huddy ruined so many episodes for me. It's a shame how the show went downhill when it focused on sappy relationship drama. Even when I watch episodes from early seasons i have to mute or ff thru cuddys incessant whining and nagging.
Fraaaank. FRANK! Get my jean bin. Susie wants my jeans.
No she doesnt.
Thanks for writing all that out - I, too, missed most of season 6 - 8 (work and family issues) and could only watch sporadically. Now it all fits.
Again, thank you and the other posters who carried on the discussion!
"You're so analytical! Sometimes you just have to let art... flow... over you." The Big Chill
The last 2 seasons were hard to watch because writing took a serious dive. The inclusion of Park (a geeky Asian doctor girl), Adams (the I-don't-have-much-clue-just-here-cuz-I'm-hot chick) and Masters (a stupid-looking thick chick who's programmed to tell the truth) was pretty much the final nail in the coffin after the whole Cuddy fiasco.
Terrible characters the 3 of them. We're supposed to feel sorry for Adams because she has major trust issues after being cheated on, and Park because she's stuck with her overbearing parents or something (I always skip her scenes). And that other chick was just a last-minute replacement for Cameron after she dumps Chase and quits again. One of the most useless characters I've ever seen in any show.
13 disappeared for a season because she secretly euthanized her brother and went to prison, then she came back for a few episodes until the end of season 7 when House fires her for the last time, evidently doing her a favor because she's dying of Huntington's - so she can spend whatever time she has doing whatever she works as opposed to working 😒
A tiny edit for the finale, House leaves his hospital ID in a rather conspicuous place. Foreman finds it and realizes House pulled one over on everyone and is not really dead. But of course nothing comes of it.
Chase becomes Head of Diagnostics and takes over the team, Cameron is revealed to be married and has a baby (while having an old screensaver of House, Foreman, Chase and herself on her work laptop, and Taub carries on sharing custody of the twins.
For House's "funeral" everyone returned except for Cuddy. Cameron, 13, Masters, Stacy (House's ex girlfriend) and Dominica (House's fake-real wife).
Actually, here's the last 10 minutes of the series finale. The opening scene is where they pull out the burned body who everyone assumes it's House. Goes on to the funeral and House's exit. The funeral is a bit amusing actually, especially Wilson's speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLlV1i7N6Aw
Thanks -- the ending is fitting and House's final line is actually kind of funny. But why is Cuddy not there?
"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man..."
The actress quit the show at the end of season 7 and didn't want to have anything to do with it after she left.
According to the show's producers they asked her to come back for the finale and she declined. They also had a special episode "Swan Song" that was a behind the scenes look at the show and included interviews with the cast and scenes from the wrap party.
She was noticeably absent from the party and also would not agree to an interview for the episode. So they had to use clips from her old interviews to make it look like she actually participated... which she didn't.
Considering how she abruptly quit and then snubbed them at the end, i'm surprised they bothered to even include her. But i guess they tried not to be vindictive.
Fraaaank. FRANK! Get my jean bin. Susie wants my jeans.
No she doesnt.
Edelstein threw a hissy fit over some reason or another. Still not entirely sure what it was about. Many people claim she refused to take a pay cut and chose to instead leave the show completely. Still doesn't explain why she was so salty about it to the point of refusing to return for the series finale or even do interviews.
I hate behind-the-scenes politics like that that potentially ruin shows. Like that crap between Shannen Doherty and Alyssa Milano on Charmed resulting in the former getting fired and refusing to return even as a ghost in the series finale, when everybody who died always showed back up one way or another.
The House/Cuddy stuff was tough to get through, and I gave up watching during Season 7, then came back for the final season. I do think the overall writing declined in the last few seasons, and certain characters were annoying. But there were some good episodes in Seasons 6 and 8. And while the final arc had its flaws, I was glad the series ended with a focus on House and Wilson -- which was always, to me, the most important personal relationship in the show.
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Also, it sounds like quitting after season 5 was the right thing to do anyway,
I think you were a bit too harsh on your Season 7 description. It's undoubtedly the series worst season, and I liked it how you described Cuddy's relationship with her own daughter as a way of satisfying her mother. However, the finale is not as random as you made it out to be.
When Cuddy told House she was seeing no one, it was the truth at the time. Between that moment and the car crash, she started going out with Mr. Stalker (who's not really a stalker, just somebody who happened to be friends with Cuddy's sister and knew her from a distance). So it's not like she invited a complete stranger to her house, it was a friend of her sister which she had just started dating. Of course, when House sees them together, he jumps to the conclusion that Cuddy had lied to him before about being alone and completely flips out.
As for "Bombshells", I don't think it was about the drug addiction per se that Cuddy left House, but rather his inability to be there for her, emotionally (and phisically) during her times of trouble. He's so incompetent at that he has to resort to pain medication in order to be supportive, which Cuddy sees as a sign of immaturity.
Like I said, I found Season 7 disappointing as well, and there was a lot of focus on the sexual part of House's relationship with Cuddy, but it's not as shallow as if it was all about sex the entire 23 episodes. I also liked the rat poison arc, a good combination of House mixing his emotional turmoil with his leg problems.
I thought i was being kind.
I don't think that guy was friends with the sister. The way i remember it (and i've only suffered through it once) was that one of them worked in a bank (or somewhere) and the other one was a customer. They got to talking and the sister showed him a picture of cuddy. Then he happens to run into her at some random coffee shop. It wasn't the hospital cafeteria where he could put 2 and 2 together. He just instantly recognizes her after seeing her photo once. It's not like she and her sister looked anything alike at all.
I honestly thought he was going to turn into some weirdo stalker by the end of the episode considering the way he just happened to run into her and knew who she was. Honestly it would've made more sense if they wrote it that he was a friend of the sister and she had met him before and they just happened to run into each other on the street, in a cafe, or at the hospital. But the whole randomness was i guess supposed to be a little romantic maybe... or just really poor/lazy writing.
I thought the one great thing that Bombshells proved was that House really didn't care enough about cuddy to be there for her. My interpretation was that he found an identity as "the boyfriend" and if he lost her, he wasn't losing the love of his life, but another piece of himself and that's why he couldn't deal with it. Compare that to CWord when not only was he very there for Wilson, but instead of taking drugs to not deal with losing Wilson, he sacrificed his vicodin so that Wilson could have it.
As for cuddy, she went into that relationship with her eyes open knowing exactly the person she was going to be with. But instead of accepting him as he was with all his flaws, she fell in love with idealized version of him and then tried to make him live up to that imaginary image. When he couldn't or wouldn't, she gave up and dumped him.
Fraaaank. FRANK! Get my jean bin. Susie wants my jeans.
No she doesnt.
If I recall correctly, the guy wasn't Cuddy' sister's friend, per se but he was at least a bit close to her, as he points out she kept showing him family photos, in which he saw Lisa Cuddy. When he approaches her, it's a bit awkward because he realizes "I know you from the photos you sister showed me several times" sounds a bit like stalker-talk. Lisa feels uncomfortable with his approach at the beginning precisely for that reason. I don't feel it was lazy scriptwriting, though it was a bit shoe-horned to have Lisa meeting this guy at the final episode and having House's overblown reaction to it at the end.
I agree that Cuddy had an abstract expectation of House as a boyfriend that didn't match the real-world House. On the other hand, House kept repeating that he could change and that he could do better every time they had a problem in their relationship, so in a way he supported Cuddy's idea that he could be different than what he was.
Jerry described himself as being friends with Cuddy's sister. He said that he works at a bank and Julia is his client.
If House had to change in order to be considered as suitable boyfriend then Cuddy should never have started a relationship with him in the first place.
I once read an article about a couples therapist. In this article he said that the best way to find out if somebody fits to you and the relationship with this person has good chances to become long lasting is to ask yourself if you trust him/her enough to want to raise a child with him/her. Even if you don't plan to get and raise children. In my opinion the fact that Cuddy didn't ask House to be a sperm donor for her future child at the start of season 3 should have been a red flag for him that says "Stay away from this woman!".
House to Wilson about Cuddy: She is not some floozy in a bar. She is the floozy I work for.
I think it would have been a red flag if she had asked House. I thought the fact that she was considering asking Wilson -- one of her employees -- was inappropriate.
shareIf you've stuck with it through 6 seasons, just finish the damn series.
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"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man..."
I enjoyed season eight and the new characters.
Season six and seven had a few episodes that I rate among my favorites of the series but overall six and seven are hard to get through .
House tried to address what issues he and Cuddy might have but she brushed it aside . I do think House made most of the effort in the relationship Cuddy had to have everything on her terms. I would have been okay if they had handled the the relationship better but they never handled romance well on a House.