House Md - Season 4 -

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The central engine of the season is its famous "reality show" arc. After firing his original fellows, House is forced by Dean Cuddy to hire a new team, but with a sadistic twist: he will bring in forty applicants, then whittle them down through a series of cruel, Darwinian challenges. This premise is a stroke of genius for two reasons. First, it injects an electrifying new energy into the procedural format. Each episode becomes a double helix of medical mystery and elimination contest, where a patient’s life hangs in the balance while House arbitrarily fires a contestant for bringing him the wrong coffee. Second, it allows the writers to audition a vibrant roster of new characters—the cynical ambulance-chaser “Big Love,” the brilliant but twitchy Henry Dobson, the aggressive “Thirteen” (Olivia Wilde), the slimy “Australian” (Jesse Spencer’s real-life countryman, but as a new character)—before settling on the final quartet of Kutner, Taub, Thirteen, and the returning Chase and Cameron. This process mirrors House’s own search for meaning: he doesn’t want competence; he wants distraction, entertainment, and perhaps, a reflection of his own damaged brilliance. House MD - Season 4

Somewhere in the hallway, Thirteen hesitated. Then she followed Kutner to the differential board. (Related search suggestions generated