House, M.D.: Season One
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Movie Reviews of House, M.D.: Season One
Movie Review: Crankiness you can't help but love...
Summary: 5 Stars
Even those who hate Dr. Gregory House are forced to admit it -- the man is brilliant. Relying on his unconventional methods and the three fellows under his tutelage, House (Hugh Laurie) regularly cracks difficult cases that other doctors would have given up long ago.
Ironically enough, the one patient House couldn't save is himself. Six years ago, he suffered an infarction in his thigh, undergoing a dangerous surgery in an attempt to save his life. While House did survive, he was left with constant pain -- causing him to pop Vicodin like candy, walk with a serious limp, and become filled with even more bitterness than he began with.
Added to that, House is antisocial and always thinks outside the box; as one of his fellows once said, "He doesn't even know where the box is." Introspective and much too frank, House is a loner, except for the friendship of Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), a young oncologist who also works at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, and their boss, dean of medicine Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein).
Despite the verbal abuse and eccentricity that House brings, his three fellows -- Drs. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), Eric Foreman (Omar Epps) and Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) all know that he's one of the best there is, and working with him for a few years will guarantee them their choice of jobs once they're ready to work unsupervised. Who else but House, after all, would think of checking a young nun's uterus for a long-ago hidden birth control device? Or that a mother with schizophrenia might actually have something else that causes her mental problems? Every day with House is an eye-opening experience for a young doctor.
Season 1 also includes a number of extras, including bloopers and interviews, which are sure to please any fan.
Movie Review: Best content ever, worse DVD formatting ever
Summary: 5 Stars
The DVD formatting:
Season 1 won't work intuitively with your widescreen TV, so you will have to zoom, stretch, or otherwise adjust your TV or DVD player to limited avail; you'll likely never get it to show in the nice, intuitive way as the other Seasons' DVDs. Hopefully Universal will re-release a fixed version. There are many other reviewers here whose experience is the same.
That's especially sad because this is, from a content perspective, one of the best TV DVD's ever. And that's why I gave it a 5 star rating regardless of the DVD formatting issues.
The Content:
"House" is play on words for Sherlock "Holmes". Something I learned recently. His sidekick "Wilson" is named after, well you guessed it.
In case you've not seen the show:
Gregory House is super-doctor as detective, who can cure and mentally straighten everyone else out but himself. His imperfect while honest personality is as addictive as his Vicodin pain medication. Crippled with a leg infarction, hobbling about on a cane, he takes the bedside manner challenged physician to a new level. He's brutally honest, and politically incorrect to the point of being any corporate human resource person's worst nightmare.
The setting is not the U.K., or actor Hugh Laurie's native Australia, but contemporary (if there is such a thing) Princeton. And the actor's accent and performance are completely New Jersey.
The Content is Emmy award winning - some of the stories are heart rendering, serving as morality plays, and at other times there are moments that are completely hilarious. Unlike most other medical shows or sitcoms, it has an opposite effect than draining away your humor as well as intelligence.
Movie Review: One of the best series I have seen so far!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
House M.D. is a great series, really the antidote for everybody sick and tired of your usual hospital and doctor routine. Funny, smart, sarcastic, cynical, pretty dark at times and always entertaining. Not one episode of Season 1 is dull or boring. Every episode features one or more patients with mysterious sicknesses that really put the abilities of all members of Dr. Houses team to the test. It is like CSI for doctors. They even do field work which often includes breaking into a patients house or appartement to find important clues for solving the case. Hugh Laurie as Dr. House delivers his lines razor sharp and with amazing feeling for timing and tone. I often had to watch a certain scene four, five times in a row because I could not believe he just said or did that. Sometimes Dr. Houses behaviour borders on anti-social, most of the time it is grumpy and insulting at best. But he is a brilliant doctor and deeply dedicated to his job. He just doesnt like people, which, considering his occupation, is quite a problem. His mottos are: "Everybody lies" and "Patients are idiots" and he treats people accordingly. Normally, this would get pretty boring and annoying to watch pretty soon and on his own, House would just be a grumpy guy with a cane and an addiction to painkillers (the latter being a great twist to the story and always good for some hilarious scenes). But a superb supporting cast keeps everything in balance. Omar Epps et al are doing a great job and a lot of scenes and banter would not work without them. House M.D. would not work without them. The extras on this DVD are worth watching but I would have really enjoyed cast commentaries for some episodes. Maybe on Season 2. Cant wait to see it on DVD! Meantime, everybody go buy House M.D. Season 1. You will get your moneys worth!Movie Review: Aw, come on!
Summary: 5 Stars
The season's over, so I come onto this site expecting a DVD release date, yet there's nothing slated. What a jip! Ah, well. Summer re-runs and all that jazz. Life is good.
I haven't been this involved in a new television show since the Sopranos first premiered. And now that we have to wait until we all start collecting Social Security until season six finally arrives, I decided to find an alternative. I saw the promo for "House" and was interested. After the very first episode, I was hooked. OUTSTANDING show. Great writing, great ensemble.
Great main character.
Greg House is one of the most interesting characters to come along in a while. Sarcastic, mean-spirited, misanthropic, brutally honest and with a heart of gold. Truly worthy of the "complex" handle. And Hugh Laurie... wow. If this man doesn't recieve an Emmy or a Golden Globe (preferably both), it will only reaffirm my belief that the people in charge of running those awards things suck moose balls.
Not a single weak episode; this is one of those shows that progressively gets better and better until finally crashing into the legendary "cliffhanger" finale. Can't wait for season two!
World affairs can wait; this has to be released on DVD as soon as possible.
There's a scene where House is interviewing applicants to replace one of his underlings. A young kid walks in and basically attests that conformity is the enemy and how he admires Dr. House's attitude towards life. House fires back with a comment about conformity and an Asian tattoo the applicant has on his wrist. I mention this because it's the hardest I've laughed at a television show in years. One of many gold moments. Watch the re-runs. Support this show!
Movie Review: A medical Sherlock
Summary: 5 Stars
Dr. Gregory House M.D. is a first-class detective, but not one who is detecting murderers and other criminals. The villains are all medical ailments, but the methodology is much the same. At a New Jersey hospital, he is the chief of diagnostic medicine assigned to the most puzzling cases.
House and Sherlock Holmes have much in common. Sherlock was addicted to cocaine. House is addicted to pain kiillers for a disability that has left him hobbling and using a cane. Neither House nor Holmes is much interested in ingratiating himself to others. In fact, House's bedside manner tends often to be downright insulting. "All patients lie," he says in the pilot episode. But there is no substitute for competence and House is certainly most competent. Would you not rather go to a doctor who was competent than to one who was very pleasant and didn't know Shinola when he saw it? Even the names are similar: House/Holmes. One has to assume that was intentional on the part of the writers.
Grey's Anatomy, ER and most other medical shows border on soap opera and often cross the line. House M.D. doesn't. It focuses on House's battles in getting past the rules and incompetence around him in his attempt to save lives. For the most part he cares far more about winning against the ailment at hand than about the individual patient.
I do wonder, however, if any hospital would tolerate for long Dr. House's insulting of patients, the staff and the administration. He's very good at what he does, certainly, but is he really good enough to overcome his shabby appearance, his breaking of all the rules that don't suit him, and his rudeness? Somehow I doubt it.