HOUSE
Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, et al
On Thursday nights The Exhausted Mega Narrative takes a rest stop at a narrativissimo at Princeton Plains Hospital, NJ, USA, where the standard western antinomies duke it out via a plot line strung together over a frame of Latinate polysyllabics mouthed by the stars as they decode their own middle school genitalized fairy tales and locker room wink winks. The bisexual Thirteen, played by the gorgeous Olivia Wilde, exemplifies the Bartheisan antithesis code. The enigma code? House himself, tortured acolyte of oxycontin and ego-gouging barbs. Looming above them all, the most prominent absent presence is The Other himself, Death, wielding his scene-stealing otherness in the forms of: tape worms, lesions, roller coaster rides through the vascular system,(with hints of Nietzsche's myth of the eternal return) wheezles and sneezles, toxins and the AMA's non plus ultra, exploding brains.
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