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Dr. House? Dr. House? Exam Room One. STAT
Okay, so there's a ton of medical dramas out there. What could possibly make this one stand above the rest?
Everything!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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,
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
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.
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Gift for Family Doctor
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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