House, M.D.: Season One
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Movie Reviews of House, M.D.: Season One
Movie Review: Just when you thought TV had nothing new to offer...
Summary: 5 Stars
Along limps Dr. Gregory House(played flawlessly by Hugh Laurie), whose cutting wit, bitterness and brilliance create one of the most fascinating TV characters in quite a while. He is supported by a cast of well played characters including his team of doctors, other hospital figures and his nemesis in the form of billionaire CEO Edward Vogeler(Chi McBride).
The plot is fairly simple: Each week House and his team of doctors solve tantalizing medical mysteries. From Rabies to Leprosy, the topic is usually fascinating. The format of most shows is as follows:
1. Main case: The main medical mystery, House and his team unravel complex serious medical problems.
2. Sub Plot: Interaction between House/team and those close to the patient
3. Sub Case: A minor, often amusing medical case. I particularly remember the one about the old lady who was getting it on too much.
You may be thinking that House is at least a bit formulaic. Well, it is. But every episode has something to offer(my favorite is Three Stories where House teaches a diagnostics class). In addition, House relies not necessarily on variety but on intruiging medical stories and the interactions between the cast. One of the recurrent strengths of the show is that House never runs out of something witty to say. Attempts at such humor can fail terribly but here it works to great effect.
For examples, Amazon.com has a wealth collection of quotes from Dr. House under Product Details-From IMDB-Quotes and Trivia.
In short, House MD is a highly enjoyable breath of fresh air amidst mindless reality shows and cookie cutter comedies. This DVD is worth your time and money. Catch House next season.
Movie Review: hooked halfway through the first season
Summary: 5 Stars
I've just finished watching the 12th episode of the 22 contained in this first season collection. And I must say that this is flat out one of the best shows on TV. Each episode offers the following: a unique medical mystery that's solved in the way a detective solves a murder, biting sacrasm and humor and most important deep moral themes and character development that ground the show from episode to episode. Each episodes medical mystery acts as the spine by which a whole bunch of other good stuff happens. so the show works on lots of different levels, with both an explicit plot and intertwined themes. I've found special significance in the method by which House and his team of doctors actually diagnose and treat the diseases they encounter. The doctors in this series are not portrayed as infallible geniuses,but medical experts reasoning out a case and making tough decisions on what they know, if its incomplete knowledge at the time. Throughout the series we see doctors make mistakes and correct them via the process of using reason. The show really demonstrates the contextual nature and fallibility of human reason along with the necessary need to make strong decisions. so much for the philosophical aspect of this review! The only criticism I would have is that the medical dialogue moves rather quick and is sometimes hard to follow, but keep up with it and you'll see that its really the deeper themes that are of most significance in each episode. The first couple episodes are not as good as what follows...so stick with it and by episode 4 you will be hooked. and bye the way Jennifer Morrison (Cameron) is really hot to look at! Just a small reason why I cherish this DVD set and why you should too.Movie Review: Vicodin And Vitriol
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been a fan of Hugh Laurie since his days on "Blackadder," which, incidentally, I also strongly recommend. Here Laurie plays Dr. Gregory House, a caustic but brilliant doctor who diagnoses the most impossibly difficult cases, frequently using ethically questionable means. House, himself addicted to Vicodin, is amazingly well defined, yet elusive as a character. On the surface, he seems easily predictable, especially when confronted with situations requiring conformity to convention, but when confronted with conflicting information (either medical or interpersonal) he becomes extremely volatile. These conflicts lead to some of the best drama in television history.
The show is extremely well written, and is good at explaining obscure medical conditions to the audience in an unobtrusive manner, much like Ron Howard was able to explain the complexities of lunar spaceflight in "Apollo 13." The show is never condescending to the audience (though House frequently is onscreen), and allows all the characters to define themselves as independently strong people. I am especially pleased with the portrayal of a sensitive, yet funny, oncologist by Robert Sean Leonard. Leonard is Laurie's closest friend in the series, and watching their interaction is frequently funny but often heartfelt.
The DVD has several worthwhile extras, including medical cases from the episodes, a set tour, and a casting session with Hugh Laurie, in which his true British accent is revealed for those who haven't seen his previous work.
I wish all television could be this good. I recommend this season of "House" without equivocation.
Movie Review: Finally an excellent mediical Drama that delivers Quality!
Summary: 5 Stars
I dont watch a lot of network television and even fewer medical dramas but I recently started watching House M.D. and cant get enough of it. If you are like me this season one DVD is for you. House has something that all other medical dramas miss: great writing with outstanding actors. Gregory House played by hugh Laurie is the genious head of a teching hospital who's skill and intellect is put to the test in each episode as his team treats patients with the most complicated of problems. But he is certainly not like other doctors. House looks like he just woke up after a three day bender and has bizarre habits that teeter on boarder of madness. With his quirky wry, sarcastic and just plain wierd personality he is butressed by a great supporting cast including Omar epps among others. This show has a truly great cast. But for me the true stars of this show are the writers who combine brilliant sarcasm and high stress situations and deep personal issues into their hospital setting. While the patients they treat definitely have atypical medical needs thats the reason they are assigned to the most atypical of doctors.
The DVDs have great behing the seens footage and interviews with the cast. Often I find these ruin the show once I can see beyond the camera shot but I truly found the cast to be endearing and I could easily tell how much Laurie enjoyed playing House MD. So if you are new to the show or just cant get enough this set is for you. With the entire first season you'll be able to immerse yourself in the ongoing stories and find that there is finally a truly great medical drama.
Ted Murena
Movie Review: In The Beginning...
Summary: 5 Stars
"House, M.D." is now in its sixth season on television, an astonishigly long life for an edgy medical drama featuring a sarcastic, manipulative doctor addicted to pain medication. "Season One" captures the first 22 episodes of the show, plus some nice extras providing background on the series.
Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) is a brillant diagnostician working at Plainfield Teaching Hospital, where he typically get the very toughest cases to solve. Assisting him are three young doctors (Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, and Jesse Spencer), with whom House works his socratic method of identifying a obscure medical condition and fashioning a cure. Invariably, the team is racing the clock to save the patient. House spars endlessly with his boss, medical administrator Dr. Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) over his lack of manners, his rules-breaking, and his failure to perform clinic hours. House also imposes endlessly on Dr. Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), his one friend on staff, who is often Watson to House's Sherlock Holmes.
The show succeeds as a medical drama, but the real draw is watching Hugh Laurie walk a knife-edged line as an actor, playing a hughly unlikeable person whom the audience ends up rooting for anyway. The character succeeds in part because the show keeps up the humor, but especially because Laurie allows us to see the inherent good in House, buried beneath all the bad behavior. "House, M.D.: Season One" is very highly recommended to fans of the show and to those viewers who came along later and want to find out how it was, in the beginning.