House M.D. (TV Series) Bombshells (2011) User Reviews

The most fitting title....

[kimberly-common · 9/10 · 5 August 2015]

"Bombshells" is a perfect title for this episode. A little different than the typical House episode (patient faints, House argues about taking the case, wrong idea, wrong idea, House epiphany, etc), it's full of surprises and several times I found myself with my eyes wide open and my hands over my mouth in shock.

The dream sequences were so unique and interesting, and it was a great way to show how Cuddy was suffering and doubting silently and the final one (fully choreographed) was one of the most incredible performances I've seen on television! Two thumbs up, this could have even been a season finale but I love that it's the middle of the season so we could find out what happened after the biggest bombshell.

8/10

[swiitchpst · 8/10 · 24 January 2023]

This is one of my favorite episodes, I like when shows somewhat break the 4th wall like this, spoofing existing shows like 2 and a Half Men and Butch Cassidy. As long as it's done well, though I felt they did a few too many dream sequences, how often do people dream about TV shows. But I like seeing shows stepping outside their box, using different filming styles such as sitcoms or westerns or horror flicks. On a side note, I dig the ax/shotgun cane, where can I get one?

My next issue is with the people who watch this show who don't seem to get it at all. House and Cuddy were never going to be a lasting thing, House burns everything he touches. The two main taglines of the show: Everyone lies and no one changes. These two lines sum up House's personality, he will never change, not even for Cuddy. He gave it a good shot, but ultimately, people are who they are and pretty much the message David Shore has tried to convey from the start. We see this with how he distances himself from Cuddy the rest of the episode and how he relapses and becomes dependent on pills again. He runs (limps?) toward medical problems but he always runs from and deflects personal problems. The true question about their relationship was what kind of crazy boiling point it would eventually reach, which it definitely does. Though neither character is gay, ultimately it is Wilson who is House's true soul mate and House is the type who can really only handle one relationship, intimate or otherwise.

The "artistic" episode

[LoveIsAStateOfMind · 7/10 · 30 December 2015]

Objective Me: Wow this was a good episode and kudos to the writers for keeping House in-character even though they knew it would annoy the fans by breaking up House/Cuddy.

Subjective Me: Why? Why? Why? Meh. I liked House/Cuddy. I am back to only watching this show for the wonderful Wilson. Everyone else just exists to highlight his awesomeness.

I was nervous when I heard about this whole surreal, different genre thing they had planned. However, after the first ten minutes, I was really enjoying the episode as a normal main-character-in-possible-life/death-situation and less focus on case episode. Then the first dream sequence happened. The sitcom was funny. The zombie one was horrifying - there is a reason I don't watch horror films. The Western was ... okay? Ditto 50s household. The musical one was good and trippy ....... I get the whole surreal dream thing but I don't get why House/Cuddy were dreaming in different genres. It was just to give the writers the chance to do this artistic exploration they wanted to do and I didn't really get it ..... at least that was what I felt last night when I watched this episode. This morning I am resolved just to accept that it happened. It definitely turned out better than I feared.

I loved Cuddy/sister scenes, Wilson/Cuddy scenes (basically all Wilson scenes), Cuddy/Chase and as to the ending? Yes it was very in-character for House but I like to pretend that he could change and had changed for Cuddy and I liked not having to deal with his addiction. *sigh*. Someone wake me up next time Wilson has a starring role.

Dreadful

[Mohammedwagih993 · 1/10 · 4 August 2021]

This is by far one of the worst written, best acted episodes of a great show.. It's a big dumb plot hole..who wakes up from having a possible two cancers to tell a person that since you had a massive breakdown after panicking about my well being I am gonna dump you?

Pretty dumb and illogical What kind of 45 years old person is supposed to hold his grip after one of two people he considers as his only friends,more to say one of thej he has loved for 20+ years is having a metastasized cancer..this ks the type of things that gets people to breakdown and dysfunction,breakups happen,but the way it was written is highly illogical,the last two seasons had a horrible trajectory of "let's keep him inas mich misery as possible regardless of the logic" Pretty much took a game of thrones-like attitude of making everyone suffer regardless of logic..

Cuddy is an idiot

[galgavish · 2/10 · 4 October 2022]

At the end of the first episode of this season House told Cuddy that their relationship wouldn't work because he'll be House and he'll do something that she wouldn't like and it'll end the relationship. She told him that she didn't want him to change. And yet she kept expecting him to change and behave like a normal, well adjusted human being. Realizing that he'll never change (shocker), she broke it off. Cuddy is an idiot. And an annoying one, at that.

The medical story was OK but definitely not the highlight of this episode, although Taub did well this time around.

The dream sequences were silly and bizarre.

Painful Breakdown

[javcif · 3/10 · 9 February 2022]

The way Cuddy interprets dreams couldn't be more wrong, her breakup with House feels so out of place and convenient, I hardly blame her actress for leaving the show for its final season.

It would have been better to see their relationship flourish from this breaking point, and not end up forcing his sister's banker friend and the car crash, many people criticize this season, which I could defend as acceptable at least, if not for this episode and what it triggered, without a doubt one of the most bizarre and worst developed episodes.

So this is where the show jumped the shark?

[m-47826 · 1/10 · 7 June 2022]

Season 7 is ok. Nothing special, just your run of the mill medical cases and relationship drama. With some notable guests like Amy Irving, Candice Bergen and Matthew Lillard. But this episode... What a ridiculous mess. I don't know which part was worse, the sitcom dream sequence, or the musical bit. One good thing came out of it, the end of Cuddy and House's cringeworthy love affair. When they used to bring their toxic workplace relationship at home... Goodbye and good riddance. But to think they let that psycho kid loose...

Absolutely ridiculous

[stsorrell · 2/10 · 23 June 2023]

What in hell was this? All of the dream sequences were stupid and annoying. Easily the worst episode of this show's entire run so far. There are just so many things wrong with this episode, I can't begin to list them. I wish I had skipped this one, but then again, the show has been heading downward, so this episode doesn't surprise me.

At least one good thing came from this episode...an end to the House and Cuddy relationship. There is not a woman on earth that would enter into a relationship with such a egotistical, immature, and inappropriate bastard. In fact, he's wearing on my nerves, but hey, I'm nearing the end, so I might as well stick it out.

Rubbish

[paulgibbs-55606 · 1/10 · 4 July 2022]

It feels like they employed a bunch of schoolkids to write this episode. It is truly awful.

The Cuddy/House relationship turned them both into annoying unrealistic character

I am struggling to continue watching this.

Trying to be what it isn't

[kellielulu · 1/10 · 17 August 2022]

I watch for the medical mysteries. House and Wilson pranking each other and team interacting. They must have been high when they wrote this or they think they are making something else that I just can't see the point too. At their best House and Cuddy had a good banter and could get serious about a case or the occasional confrontation. That's been missing for over two years by the time we get to this disgrace. Fortunately the show regains what made it special in season eight but all but two or three episodes are unwatchable in season seven maybe four episodes . The Dig being the best of season seven.

Dreadful, dreadful, dreadful

[aspectacleofmyself · 5 November 2018]

Not just the worst episode of House, but possibly the worst episode of any at-one-time-great television show. Incomprehensible plotting and editing and a performance by Amber Tamblyn makes one lonesome for the unlamented Olivia Wilde. And to think, we have another season of this balderdash still to come.