Last night was the House season finale, and it’ll be my last season recap. At least until In Plain Sight is done for the season.

Anyway, I saw an article that said Lisa Edelstein, who plays Cuddy, isn’t going to come back. Sorta sad, since the article said next season might be the last season. But then again, I’ve liked Cuddy less and less, and the female characters tend to be annoying- they’re all pretty much the same type of character.

Here’s the actual episode recap:

So, we open with Cuddy in front of a house (hers, I’m presuming) telling the police that if House ever gets near her, she wants him in jail. 

We then go to a street performer who gets set on fire, which House and his team watch while he’s recovering from his attempt to perform surgery on himself.  House is getting more ridiculous- while I accept he’s slightly ridiculous (it is part of his charm), it’s getting to be way over the top. 

It turns out the street performer is sick, but set herself up so that House would be her doctor.  Not a big surprise, since it’s happened a few times throughout the series.  I felt like solving the case was secondary to everything else going on.  Turns out she had a diagnosis from a different doctor. 

We went back to Cuddy’s house, with Wilson telling the police that House is probably at a bar, one that suits how he feels inside.  `Then we have Wilson talking to House about how House is being really self-destructive, and deal with his problems instead of self-medicating. 

And then the last 5 minutes happened.  House speeds off, and then comes back, driving into Cuddy’s house, giving her the hairbrush she left at his house back.  The episode ends with House at a beach. 

As for what I thought:

I was curious as to how Cuddy would exit.  It kinda seems like she might make a guest appearance or two.  It’s almost as though this episode was filmed and then Edelstein decided she didn’t want to renew her contract for the next season.  Unfortunately, it didn’t end how I thought it would. 

It’s not my favorite episode, and it felt really disjointed.  I want to know what’s going to happen next season- how is Edelstein leaving going to affect the show?  Is there going to be someone new for the dean of medicine or is it going to be someone we know?  Or is that role going to be conspicuously absent?  That leaves Olivia Wilde as the sole female, but now that’s she’s starting to focus on a movie career, will she be around as much next season?  If not, will someone be added to the team, like they did with Amber Tamblyn?  

And what’s going to happen with Talb’s wife being pregnant, as well, as the other woman he’s been sleeping with?  That’ll be an interesting story arc.

Overall, things felt so unresolved, like we didn’t really get anywhere or learn anything important.