 "Dr. House? Dr. House? Exam Room One. STAT" | 2008-10-06 |
| - Reviewed By onejediknight |
| Okay, so there's a ton of medical dramas out there. What could possibly make this one stand above the rest?br /Everything!br /House MD is a series centered at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Dr. Gregory House, the shows titular character played by Hugh Laurie, is a caustic, rude, arrogant, and a million other nasty adjectives diagnostician and head of the diagnostics department. Doctors Cameron, Chase, and Foreman are in his team. Together (well, mostly), they will determine what no one else has determined, discover what is ailing patients, mostly by uncovering the careful lies patients create around their lives.br /The first thing you have to love about House is House. Hugh Laurie plays Dr. House to perfection. You hate to love this guy and love to hate this guy. One minute, you feel sorry for him, the next, you want to strangle his insensitivity for patients and their families.br /Next, comes supporting cast. Lisa Edelstein, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Omar Epps, and Robert Sean Leonard are convincing, intriguing characters. Their reactions to House, to the patients, and to the cases.br /Then the cases. While I don't understand a lot of the medical jargon, it definitely shows the powers that be put time and effort to make the diagnosises sound good and the cases challenging.br /The first season focuses a lot on the characters. We learn that House has had an infarction on his right leg, causing him great pain and leading him to an addiction to Vicodin--one that is almost encouraged because the drug enables him to work. Dr. Cameron was married at one time; Dr. Chase doesn't have a good relationship with his father, and Dr. Foreman had unusual jobs in the past.br /Aside from numerous sexual remarks and some really icky medical scenes that are sure to make the squeamish green (and not with envy), there is nothing to bash about this series. Put it on your shelf and in your DVD player and enjoy!! You won't regret it. |
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| "Excellent!" | 2008-09-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2FVBUT47DX99Z |
| This has to be one of my all time favorite shows. I love House! He's a not so nice guy but the comedy that goes along with the sarcasm is great! The one thing I don't like about the DVD discs is that they are double sided, but not much you can do about that. |
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| "Ostensabily for my brother, " | 2008-09-24 |
| - Reviewed By loewroad |
Ostensabily for my brother, I purchased Season One of House. I had never seen anything more than a handful of episodes from season four, and now... Well, let's just say I'm about as addicted as House is to the show. Each episode is medically realistic, morally intriguing, and hillarious beyond measure, not be mention the armchair psych's dream.
Aflicted with a bum leg for the last 5 years, world renown dignostition House, MD, works at Princeton Plainsboro hospital curing the sick - but only those cases he finds interesting. The normal cough or cold will not do for him, no, only those with the inexplicable will do for him. The puzzle is all that matters - leave the human aspect to everyone else.
And as much as the episodes are the tales of House learning to interact with other human beings (on a limited scope), the season is about as much his underlings learning that *House is always right* and that, sometimes, human element really doesn't matter.
Get, if you've never seen more than 1 episode, get anyway. Just purchase this series - you'll thank me for it later. |
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| "Gregory House is exceptional as Sherlock Holmes" | 2008-09-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1YS3I3BIO5M7B |
This is a great series with fine actors given extraordinary scripts so they can show off their talents. House is the perfect antihero. He's certainly not Doctor Kildare, but despite his handicaps, physical and emotional, he never wavers from doing right--at least in his eyes.
Have we seen this character before? Of course. As many have pointed out, Gregory House is based on Sherlock Holmes. He's arrogant, a drug abuser, solves murderous mysteries, plays a musical instrument, has a best friend named Wilson instead of Watson (who, like Holmes, he always calls by his last name), lives at the same street address (221B), gets bored easy, and at a glance he can deduce a person's recent activities
The creators pay homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (a doctor that says Holmes was based partly on Dr. Bell) by giving their characters similar names to Doyle's creation and throwing occasional hints at the audience; like the episode where House says he got another Conan Doyle book for Christmas or giving the man who shot House the name of Moriarty.
If you find the Holmes/House connections interesting, you might try
http://www.housemd-guide.com/holmesian.php, a site dedicated to the House series.
Most people don't realize that Sherlock Holmes is the most depicted character in film--over 200 movies or TV shows. Perhaps they ought to add all the House episodes to this tally.
The Shut Mouth Society
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| "Gift for Family Doctor" | 2008-09-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: AK7ZQN5N12ZO7 |
| I have to say that when my family doctor got this he was very excited. He had never seen House before. This is the perfect gift for a Doctor, especially if you joke about Vicodin during your visit. He may never give me Vicodin but he did enjoy and I will now send him Season two, then three and so on... |
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| "One Word- Dynamic" | 2008-09-01 |
| - Reviewed By becky3086 |
House M.D. - Season One
My girlfriend had been telling me about this series for a long time. I brushed it off because it never seemed that interesting to me. Recently she retrieved this 3-Dual Sided Disk set from some relatives and forced me to watch it. What a serious mistake I have been making by not watching this.
House, played by the genius Hugh Laurie, is an amazing doctor. He works for a walk-in hospital. House has a horrible limp and needs a cane to walk. That aspect will be further explained through later episodes in the season. He is also the best doctor available at the hospital. However, his outrageous behavior often gets him yelled at by patients and the hospital owner, Dr. Cuddy. This outrageous behavior includes forcing patients into treatment, asking patients crazy questions, and only picking up cases that seem interesting to him. Dr. Cuddy decides to fix this problem by giving House many hours of clinical duty to deal with normal patients in between the interesting ones.
The first eight episodes run a normal routine. You are introduced to House and his team of medical experts, each with their own unique characters. Each episode will feature a new patient with a problem. House and his team will go through many different diagnoses before they figure out what is actually wrong with the patient. This always remains interesting with the use of seizures, vomiting, and other disgusting events. House will be providing comedic relief along the way.
Still, once these initial eight episodes are over you will begin to get tired of this same routine. Luckily, episode nine breaks away from the routine. While the first couple of episodes did a good job of establishing characters, the episodes that follow them create dynamic characters. House's history is revealed in a wonderful episode that you have no idea is even about him. House is one the verge of being fired. House goes on a date with his co-worker named Cameron. There is so much evolution of the already beautifully created characters.
The extras are some making of features and two extras talking about the character House. These are all nice extras, but nothing too great. The DVD is set up really well though. Each episode is given a summary before you begin watching. That way even if you do not remember the name of the episode, you can find the episode you are looking for. This is probably the best set-up DVD Set I own.
If you want dynamic character, intense and deep storylines, and comedy that does not take away from the effect, then check out House. The dynamic characters will keep you watching this until the great season finale. Do not thank House though, he will not care. |
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| "Best show on the planet." | 2008-08-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2ZGM2SSLRLKLX |
| To start, I love House, M.D. and it's my favorite show on TV these days. I never got to see the whole season or anything. In fact, I've only watched episodes here and there when they're on, and I just love them. So I purchased the whole 1st season on DVD. I love owning it on DVD, since you can watch a full episode any time, and best of all - no commercials. It's like watching a movie, really. The Season 1 comes with all 22 episodes from the first season (duh) and some special features. I haven't watched any of the bonus material yet, so I can't really review that. I guess I'd say the greatest benefit to owning it on DVD is watching episodes anytime, and not having to endure commercials. Oh - and also DVD quality video is better than TV for me, so that's a big bonus too. |
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 "House, Season One" | 2008-07-26 |
| - Reviewed By User: A31RL3U49EEGYN |
At first viewing on TV several years ago, I didn't care for House, but became interested in it in 2007 and now watch it on a weekly basis. Unfortunately, reruns only cover the previous season, but the early episodes were clearly the most creative. It is obvious in recent episodes that the writers and produces are struggling to top the shock and passion that kept viewers riveted during early episodes.
It has been neat to watch sequential episodes without commercial interruptions; however, I wish the DVD producers would lose the "that is some bad hat Harry" cartoon at the end. It wears thin after a few dozen viewings. I've started zapping it with the fast forward button.
The DVD's are good quality but are not full screen. It is something like watching the episodes through a window.
There are 3 DVD's in the Season One set. After viewing several of the disks, I realized that they are recorded on both sides, giving the equivalent of six disks. Granted, the episode index refers to side A and Side B for those familiar with double sided DVD's.
The price recently increased substantially, but that didn't deter me from purchasing Season Two. There are six single sided disks in the Season two set and documentation is better.
If you like House, you will love the Season Sets on DVD.
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| "CEREBRAL, ENLIGHTENING, AND GOBSMACKINGLY ADDICTIVE -- DR. HOUSE CAN HAVE MY NUMBER!" | 2008-07-25 |
| - Reviewed By shanx |
If you have not heard of the brusque, straight-talking, rat-tatting part doctor part hotshot "too handsome to do paperwork" Dr. House, well get a hold of this brilliant series as soon as you can. It's a bit like The Practice, only from the medical world. A diagnostic thriller of sorts. It is only ever so often that a show comes along with such dazzling wit, riveting themes, fascinating characters, even a superlative soundtrack.
There is "detective" work involved here for sure. Patients in throes of some unusual disease. Lying out of embarrassment. Unfamiliar with what they did wrong. Indisposed. Or exhibiting conflicting symptoms. Somehow, episode after episode, you can't tear your eyes away from the screen. It's a mystery. What did he do wrong? What really happened? How will our eccentric Dr. House and his band of whitecoats figure this one out? It's real-time sleuthing work as we frantically explore the options along with them to beat the clock. Glued to the end.
Naturally, you'd suspect that a formula of diagnosing a key patient would wear off after a bit. But from prudish nuns, to seance-cursed kids, to 80 year olds with raging libido, the patients are delectably left of center. The production quality is top gun. The team behind this seems to have had its squirrels so well-herded that the byproduct is a taut, addictive show, one of the best to hit television in a long time. If anything, at least in Season 1, it only seems to have gotten sharper as we begin to relate to the interplay between characters, feel their own private tensions and idiosyncrasies.
While it is wittier than Scrubs (which shot off the gates with gusto but soon got jaded) and more thrilling than your ER or Green Hill or Chicago Hope, the best part is that the treatment is made accessible with a marvel of writing. All the medical jazz is propped with stunningly choreographed 3D imagery that shows what might have been going on with the patient, a visual vocabulary that is redolent of the top Discovery or Nat Geo programs.
And if all of that has not convinced you yet, it's a funny, funny script. "Ah, the Socratic Method. The best way we have of teaching everything-apart from juggling chainsaws." There is a sardonic look at the pill-toting, allopathy-reliant society of our times where people show up at their doctor's fearing "chronic fatigue syndrome" because they have been "tired all the time" or because their feet are aching after running six miles. Dr. House's treatment of these fillers is a blast. But his passion for curiosity and diagnosis makes you wish your own doctors were like him.
One of the few shows that will hold up to repeat viewings. Worth owning, not just renting. All the seasons thus far. |
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| "House!!!" | 2008-07-14 |
| - Reviewed By User: A11Y2CAQSYZI3X |
| All I have to say is House is very addicting and it's awesome. Great characters, storylines, filled with drama and comedy. It's simply amazing. |
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