['House' - 'You Must Remember This']

It's hard to get over how familiar the episodes are starting to feel.

The episodic formula seems set: Patient has a problem that no one can solve, House's team think they have the solution, then they don't, then they think they don't only to find out they don't, lather, rinse, repeat if necessary.

That doesn't mean episodes have been sucked dry of any entertainment marrow or become a barren salt flat of mindless moral melodrama. They still bear fruit every now and again, but lately, my stomach has been growling for something more substanial. .