In case you didn't notice, Lawrence Kutner died. There is no reason to be broken up about it. Kutner didn't really exist in the first place. He was a member of the fictional medical team on House. On Monday's show Kutner didn't show up for work, so Doctors Foreman and Thirteen went to his apartment. They found him dead, apparently by his own hand. It was a great episode, even by the standards the show has set. It is easily one the best written shows on TV. I greatly admired how the writers gave no hint of what was coming, to illustrate the shock that sometimes comes with suicide.
It turns out that the writers didn't know what was coming. Kal Penn, who played Kutner and, more famously, Kumar in Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, has been tapped by Barack Obama to be "Hollywood Liaison." Thus his abrupt departure.
Hollywood Liaison? I would like to say that this is more 0bama amateur hour stuff, but the office seems to have existed under the Bush Department of Homeland Security. The Liaison works with scriptwriters when they deal with security related issues. Okay, that sounds reasonable. But I am not so sure that hiring someone most famous for a movie celebrating the joys of marijuana was the shrewdest possible move. I say hire the guy who played the chief terrorist in True Lies.
So Penn leaves House top work for the Obama administration and Fox writers have his character commit suicide. Is this indicative of something?
Posted by: A.I. | Thursday, April 09, 2009 at 12:03 PM
Good question. I'm stumped.
Posted by: KB | Thursday, April 09, 2009 at 01:34 PM