House M.D. - First Season
2004
Golden Globe winner Hugh Laurie, wonderfully cast against type, stars as the brilliant but caustic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. While his behaviour can border on the antisocial, Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles that other doctors give up on. Together with .. Read more
| Starring | Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard |
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| Director | Bryan Singer, Peter O'Fallon, Greg Yaitanes |
| Genres | Drama, Television |
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Most helpful members' reviews (3)
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51 out of 68 people found this review helpful
House Formula Stales Quickly
Gnarly House MD faces the same trials, and solves them the same way, week in week out in this formulaic American series.
House will show us that he won't be pushed around by the hospital bosses, who seem insistent on making him do something he really doesn't want to do, namely help patients. He will belittle his three (three!) sidekicks, yet they will still adore and respect him.
Someone will come in with a seemingly untreatable disease, then someone else - usually a child - will come in to be treated by him during which he will realise the answer to the episode's main raison d'etre illness, and a lightbulb moment will occur.
All the time you keep expecting Hugh Laurie to burst into the costume of the Prince Regent in Blackadder 3 as his acting just isn't good enough to convince us. It's better than that of his dubious sidekicks, especially the English/Australian guy who is hopeless.
Pretty poor. Get Scrubs instead if you insist on indulging the never-ending fascination with hospital drama/comedy. -
23 out of 25 people found this review helpful
medical mysteries
An excellent series. Hugh laurie pulls off an american accent without embarrssment. This is a well written, well acted drama about uncovering the root of strange medical sysmptoms. fans of Oliver Sacks and ER will enjoy it. The only flaw is the predictable pace- you always know their first guess at the illness will be wrong in some way. But the mysteries are good enough to make up for it.
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23 out of 33 people found this review helpful
Same again.
Although I am enjoying this series, I can't help but notice how formulaic it is.
Patient comes in, nobody knows what's wrong, they try every possibilty, House is rude, House solves the case.
It would be nice if every so often we lose a patient to show how human the doctors at this hospital are. Or maybe House gets it wrong while one of his long-suffering team wins the day.
Having said all this, House is well acted and directed and Hugh Laurie is superb as the eponymous anti-hero. There is some killer dialogue too.
Worth a look at, but whether you last the full 6 discs is another matter.
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- TheMovieman from Ramsbottom
- Posted 13 Mar 2006 11:49
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Most recent members' reviews (2)
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
House
I loved this show when it was on T.V and was surprised that I could watch the episodes I'd already seen and still find them interesting. I think I would classify this as more of a comedy than a drama.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
True British Gent turns into crazy Yank quack...
After completing the 3rd disc in this six disc series, I started to realise that I didnt give it justice and that my rating should have been given four stars.
Should this series not been put on the graveyard that is Channel 5, then im sure that this series would have been the smash that it has been stateside.
Hugh Laurie is so convincing as the drug dependent, yet genial diagnostic MD heading a department curing patients when no-one else can. The support cast are superb, even managing to feature an ex Neighbours star (Jesse Spencer) and it can mix laughter, drama and tragedy in the space of a couple of episodes.
I wouldnt watch it all in one sitting, as the plot is mostly the same, patient gets sick, they try to cure him, he gets worse, then better (usually), but as a weekly series I can see why it was a hit.
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51 out of 68 people found this review helpful
House Formula Stales Quickly
Gnarly House MD faces the same trials, and solves them the same way, week in week out in this formulaic American series.
House will show us that he won't be pushed around by the hospital bosses, who seem insistent on making him do something he really doesn't want to do, namely help patients. He will belittle his three (three!) sidekicks, yet they will still adore and respect him.
Someone will come in with a seemingly untreatable disease, then someone else - usually a child - will come in to be treated by him during which he will realise the answer to the episode's main raison d'etre illness, and a lightbulb moment will occur.
All the time you keep expecting Hugh Laurie to burst into the costume of the Prince Regent in Blackadder 3 as his acting just isn't good enough to convince us. It's better than that of his dubious sidekicks, especially the English/Australian guy who is hopeless.
Pretty poor. Get Scrubs instead if you insist on indulging the never-ending fascination with hospital drama/comedy. -
23 out of 25 people found this review helpful
medical mysteries
An excellent series. Hugh laurie pulls off an american accent without embarrssment. This is a well written, well acted drama about uncovering the root of strange medical sysmptoms. fans of Oliver Sacks and ER will enjoy it. The only flaw is the predictable pace- you always know their first guess at the illness will be wrong in some way. But the mysteries are good enough to make up for it.
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23 out of 33 people found this review helpful
Same again.
Although I am enjoying this series, I can't help but notice how formulaic it is.
Patient comes in, nobody knows what's wrong, they try every possibilty, House is rude, House solves the case.
It would be nice if every so often we lose a patient to show how human the doctors at this hospital are. Or maybe House gets it wrong while one of his long-suffering team wins the day.
Having said all this, House is well acted and directed and Hugh Laurie is superb as the eponymous anti-hero. There is some killer dialogue too.
Worth a look at, but whether you last the full 6 discs is another matter.-
- TheMovieman from Ramsbottom
- Posted 13 Mar 2006 11:49
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22 out of 35 people found this review helpful
Why isn't it widescreen
Fantastic series, but the UK release is fullscreen 4:3. Why are they still releasing stuff in this format.
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16 out of 16 people found this review helpful
Absorbing and thrilling medical drama/comedy
Dr. Gregory House is the Doctor we all wish we had access to when we are ill. He has an infuriatingly arrogant attitude, a terrible bedside manner but the consumate genius to back up his inflated ego with cutting edge diagnosis that leaves you stunned at his brilliance. Whatever ails you, however obscure, complex or downright weird, Dr. House will diagnose it, treat it and all in 42 minute episodes! Hugh Laurie is absolutely in his element. His performance is funny, engaging, fascinating and touching by turns. He plays a deeply flawed character but one that everybody needs and it is this clever combination that sets up some great drama and comedy, with a supporting cast who are all excellent too. The pace is fast, the dialogue sharp and witty, the drama truly thought provoking and the whole is just superbly conceived, acted, directed and executed. It owes much to CSI and its imitators; at its simplest, 'House' is CSI with medical puzzles except the 'victims' in 'House', the patients and their families, are real people with good and bad points that force you to consider them and their predicament. However, because of the clever writing and the inspired casting, 'House' is so much more than CSI:Medical. You will be hooked from episode one and the only reason for the four stars and not five is that I have to admit the shows rely on a basic formula that will almost certainly, in time, become repetitive. Each episode presents a medical conundrum, offering an early solution that turns out to make things worse more often than not, followed by a clever and complex resolution, complete with red herrings and heartstopping twists, that eventually explains everything beautifully. If only the NHS was like this!
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14 out of 17 people found this review helpful
Great show...one of the best!
I was a relative latecomer to the world of House, M.D, mainly because I still remember Hugh Laurie as the bumbling Prince Regent in Blackadder (not to mention the guy who played Billy Kennedy in Neighbours being old enough to be a doctor....he is still about 14, surely?) and thought I would have a hard time accepting him as an American.
But after seeing a few episodes of Season 3 on the telly, I thought I woud start from the beginning and was really surprised at how much I enjoyed this show. Laurie really does give a great performance as the grouchy, emotionally-stunted (not to mention crippled, drug-addicted, rude, arrogant) Dr Gregory House. Even the American accent is convincing, something that a lot of Brits have difficulty with, naming no names, Clive Owen!
There are some great comedy moments in this show, mainly the fact that he only ever refers to his 'Best Friend' by his surname (the best line being delivered through said friends locked door - 'I know you're in there, Wilson, I can hear you CARING!'). Ok.. that may not be YOUR finest comedy moment, each to their own!
The basic premise of every episode is the exactly the same - a patient comes in having been mis-diagnosed by every other doctor who treated them and is now getting sicker. House and his team must deduce what is killing these patients before time runs out!
Diagnoses of lupus, cancer and neurofibromatosis (!) are usually quickly discarded, leaving nothing for it but to break into the patients house and go from there! (In fact, there is actually a short film on the extras called 'Could It Be Lupus?'). Don't worry about being bewildered by medical jargon at every turn....I am a fully fledged nursing sister and have no idea what most of the things they are on about are! It doesn't really matter....just sit back and enjoy House's fabulous tirade of insults and political incorrectness.
There are happy endings and sad endings (the one with the homeless woman had me in floods.....is that a spoiler??) and some truly bloody miraculous endings! Just suspend your disbelief for a while and enjoy this hugely entertaining show as soon as you can! -
9 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Faulty DVD
The DVD does not play correctly upon inserting this into the DVD player.
The player attempts to read it, and after about 2 minutes, it will jump to the last episode on the DVD.
When attempting to play this on the computer, the introduction and menu is displayed, along with the episode listings.
When playing an episode, the picture jumps and the audio is also played at an excellerated rate. Only parts of the DVD image are displayed. -
8 out of 9 people found this review helpful
EXCELLENT - PURE GENIUS!!!
Fantastic show - love it! House is quirky, sharp and always right! I reccomend this to everyone - medical background or not!
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Highly enjoyable medical mysteries drama.
Hugh Laurie is wonderful as the brilliant, but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who does not have an ounce of the bedside manner about him. On top of Laurie's outstanding performanace you have a show full of interesting characters, and twisting plotlines. In each episode House is faced with a person exhibiting a number of unusual symptoms, and along with his team of dedicated doctors and nurses, must discover what strange illness is afflicting the patient before it's too late! Great stuff
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Wicked
I've only just started to watch season 2 on TV so wanted to catch up on the first season.
All i can say is its as funny as gripping and house is still as horrid but in a good way! Well worth watching.
Buy from the LOVEFiLM shop
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