House M.D. Season 1 created by David Shore (2004-2005)
16 January 2008My father got me into this show on one of my trips back to Maryland. He showed me Three Stories, at almost the end of the first Season, which has House (The one who makes this show so good the amazing Hugh Laurie, the British actor who makes this show) teaching a class and explaining 3 diagnostics, and one of them turns out to be him, and explains his pain in his leg and why he is no longer with the love of his life. This is the episode that made me get into the show, but after watching the first 2 seasons on DVD and the start of the 3rd season, I realized that I didn’t start watching until part way through the 3rd season, and then saw the start on repeats. This first season is an introduction to Dr. Gregory House, who is basically the Sherlock Holmes of medicine. A nasty man, who hates his patients, but loves to solve cases, he always has to figure out the riddle, and he is crippled in his right leg, with intense pain that makes him pop vikaden all the time. He has a team of 3 doctors who work for him, and constantly fight against him (which is what he needs to solve the cases), and who deal with the patients so he doesn’t need to. This is an amazing show and well worth checking out if you haven’t seen it yet, the only complaint on this season is this disc is unfortunately not Anamporphicaly enhanced, so it is letter-boxed widescreen on a 4×3 disc, which really sucks, especially because the disc does not say that.
Dr, Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) is the best diagnostic doctor to ever exist, but he is in pain, surly and hates people. He will do anything to stay away from patients, and especially his clinic duty assigned by his boss Doctor Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), and there is something between them, but it never really goes anywhere. House’s best friend is Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) an Oncologist, who tries to act as House’s conscience, but doesn’t always do too well. House has 3 employees, his surly Nuerologist Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps) his yes man Doctor Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), and the woman who wants to save everyone Doctor Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison). House uses his three doctors to deal with patients and run diagnostic tests, and as a sounding board for his ideas so he can figure out what is wrong with his patients, which he has to work on one each episode.
REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS…
REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS…
This Season sets up the characters and House’s amazing abilities to figure out any problem, no matter the situation, and no matter what the risk. He sends his employees off to break into his patients houses and apartments to find clues, and eventually House figures out the clues and pieces it all together.
The strangest thing is that the Pilot is not as good as the rest of the show, it just didn’t seem to be done as well, but the show sure picked up after that.
The big drama this season is when the Hospital gets a new head of the board named Edward Volger (Chi McBride who I first remember from the Frighteners and who is now on Pushing Daisies) who gives the hospital 100 Million dollars, but hates house, and wants to run the hospital as a business. And House does not make money, even if he saves lives and went to the same college as Cuddy. Things get to the point when Volger fires Wilson who is on House’s side on the board, and almost fires Cuddy until they give up his money to save House. Volger also was going to fire at least one of House’s staff, but Cameron quits because she can’t get attention from House.
When Volger goes Cuddy wants House to get Cameron back and he goes to her house, but she will only agree to come back if he goes on a date with her, so he does. It doesn’t go so well as he tells her how he thinks she sees him just as her first terminal husband, as someone she can take care of.
The Season ends with the return of the love of House’s life Stacy Warner (Sela Ward) who comes in because her husband Mark (Currie Graham) is sick and dyeing and only House can save him, though he doesn’t want to. Of course House figures out what is going on, but Mark will have a long recovery so Cuddy hires her back as the Hospital attorney.
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A great show, if only this disc was anamorphic to compliment how good this show looks.