House, M.D.: Season Two
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Movie Reviews of House, M.D.: Season Two
Movie Review: Fantastically written, acted, plotted
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're on Season 2, then you already know what makes House shine. While other hospital dramas often have sappy-sweet doctors and soap-opera interrelationships, House is amazing because of its smart, strong characters and the interactions between them. You rarely have the "stupid administrator" who gets in the way of everything going on for inane reasons. It usually is smart person 1 with good reasons, talking with smart person 2 with equally good reasons, trying to sort out what the best solution is. The game doesn't play down to its audience - it expects its audience to pay attention and to catch all the small details.
That's why these stories are so great to re-watch multiple times, and to see in order. You see the characters growing, subtly, and relating previous experiences to current situations. These aren't the silly person-goes-from-sour-to-super-happy sitcom style changes. They are realistic, quiet, small changes, like most real humans go through. You get the sense that these characters are organic, that they learn and grow and mature.
The dialogue is just great. I could quote hundreds of lines from House that I love, and every time I rewatch the show, they still have that power. It's the interaction of bright, well educated minds, with numerous sly allusions to Moby Dick, Shakespeare, and much more.
Like with most series, it's really great to go into this without knowing ANY of the plotlines so you can experience them fresh. At least, unlike Season 1, the DVD doesn't give plots away! That's really great. It means if you haven't seen Season 2 yet, you can use the DVD without fear of getting hints before you start each episode. Be very careful when reading other reviews, a lot of them give away key plot points. I think it's fair enough to say that episodes feature patients in danger of losing their lives, and that a few of the cast members end up at risk too.
Highly recommended, whether you've never seen this season before or whether you saw it on TV and want to re-watch the episodes. Just make sure you've seen Season 1 first, so you get all the background and basis that leads up to what is happening here.
Movie Review: Of MRIs and strawberry jelly
Summary: 5 Stars
appointment television:
1. a program that someone schedules time to view every week
2. House
This has become the only show I must watch each week and viewing the second season episodes end-to-end reminds me why. It's just plain fun to watch. From the hilarious Hugh Laurie to the addictive heartbeat of its theme song, it is both surprising and repetitive all at once. If you ever think they've solved the puzzle in the first 30 minutes, you haven't seen any other episodes.
The writing can be maddeningly frustrating while delivering huge entertainment. The character development of the whitecoat trio (Foreman, Cameron, and Chase) is often "don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it" brief but they are still well-differentiated and engagingly acted. An out-of-the-blue personal crisis for Cuddy seems arbitrary but makes for great banter between Lisa Edelstein and Laurie. And the will-they-won't-they drama between the scruffy, drug-addled House and the blindingly gorgeous, immaculate ex (Sela Ward) who saved his life by crippling him seems anomalous with its surroundings and unlikely on its face but gives us a peek into House's heart of hearts.
Improvements on Season 1's set include single-sided discs, true widescreen transfer instead of terrible letterboxing, the addition of more bonus features (especially Edelstein's and Jennifer Morrison's "Valley Girl" versions of selected scenes - I hope this becomes a tradition), and the spreading of those bonuses among the discs rather than lumping them all in one place. One nit: The discs are stacked in groups of two, so those with three hands are at an advantage when trying to pull an even-numbered disc out of the fold-out packaging.
My candidate for gag of the year is from the strawberry jelly scene:
House: Okay, I'm gonna give you some antibiotics. And you probably shouldn't have sex for awhile.
Woman: How long?
House: On an evolutionary basis, I'd recommend forever.
Movie Review: Dr. House and Crew are back for more!
Summary: 5 Stars
While some shows experience a "sophomore slump" of sorts, this was certainly not the case with "House" which picked up right where it left off with more great stories and more interesting cases. Once again, Hugh Laurie stars as the mysterious and brilliant Dr. House. Also back are his crack team of assistants Drs. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), and Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), his loyal friend Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), and his regularly exasperated boss Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein).
In season 2, the show broke the mold a little bit and focused a little more on the backgrounds of the characters to give us a better idea of who they are and how they came to be working at the hospital. Especially interesting was the relationship between Dr. House and his former girlfriend Stacy Warner (Sela Ward). This storyline gave viewers a better idea of who House is and how he came to be the way that he is.
Standout episodes from this season include "Acceptance" (about a death row inmate), "Skin Deep" (about a beauty queen with a bizarre ailment), "Failure to Communicate" (about a journalist who can't talk), "Euporia" (about a sick cop), and "No Reason" (abot what happens after House gets shot).
And of course, House is back with some more zingers:
Jack: "I don't want to hear semantics."
House: "You anti-semantic bastard."
- No Reason
"Why do you wanna sleep on a couch anyway? You got money. At least until the divorce is finalized."
- Clueless
Cameron - "Could pain medication cause an orgasm?"
House - "I wish."
- Distractions
Wilson - "Did you know your phone is dead? Do you ever recharge the batteries?"
House - "They recharge? I just keep buying new phones."
- Failure to Communicate
"Is it still illegal to perform an autopsy on a living person?"
- Autopsy
Movie Review: Hot House!
Summary: 5 Stars
Mea culpa. I'll admit it. I happened upon House mid-second season. Little did I know within a year I'd be hooked, desperate for my weekly fix of the wickedly attractive yet insanely abrupt!
Who needs mind-altering drugs when the creative symbiosis of David Shore/Bryan Singer/Katie Jacobs and the rest of their mojo-magic crew sets lovably perverse genius Hugh Laurie loose opposite affably earnest Robert Sean Leonard to do what only they can do?
Um, taut innuendos, anyone? Unlike some TV actors who can't even eat a sandwich sans cue cards, the talented duo's bickering camaraderie scarfs up the subtext of both female and male dreams. House/Wilson is Greek theater being played out by the American Medical Association's Monty Python Repertory company atop a world stage while perched precariously upon a high wire. With no net, yet. Bravo.
Even though Fox reruns their reruns and USA, too, it's looking like a long, hot, steamy summer until The Boys & Co. are back in town.
Whewwwww.
Until then, I am happy to write The House Blogs! AND House-sit Seasons 1 and 2, for there is a there that is destination worthy until the arrival of the medical narrative's Season 3 on DVD, due out in late August. For in a spectacle to savor when last we saw the low GQ-high IQ Dr. Gregory House, he was running his long lithe fingertips oh-so-gently about the sleek glossy curves of his new musically acoustic lover, virtually about to pluck her into ecstasy, and therein lies my other "problem" with this unquestionably brilliant show:
Gulp. I like this man far, far too much.
Flip this House? No way!
Movie Review: This is BETTER than season one
Summary: 5 Stars
I like the show HOUSE (if you dont know that yet, review my review of season one). When I received my copy of season two, i raced through watching this box set. I am ready for season three
One of the problems I had with this season was the unusing during this season of the talented actress Sela Ward. She held her own against Hugh Lurie's House in the episodes she was in. When she vanished and her arc was finished, it was a let down.
Last year there was a sub plot about a spy in House's close knit group of doctors. This year's sub plot was focused on actor Omar Epps's character Foreman who became House's boss for a few episodes and his serious illness in the two part episode Euphoria,(one of the season's best). The problem Foreman seemed almost healed by the next episode Forever.
This series second season was stronger than the first. If you like the show, this is something akin to Godfather II to be better than the original...and if that is true season three (the new season ) must be a killer! The second season opener "Acceptance" (with LL Cool J), the two parter "Euphoria" and final episode "No Reason" is worth the price of DVD box set alone..and you get 20 more episodes as a bonus!
For fans of audio commentary, there are two by the producers David Shore (who also wrote and directed the season two final episode "No Reason").Also for EXTRA fans, there are outtakes, deleted seasons and a small version of the cast of House at the Broadcasting Museum discussion
So what are you waiting for? Christmas? Get this House NOW!
Bennet Pomerantz, AUDIOWORLD