Starring: Hugh Laurie Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Binding: DVD Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Fox Network Number of Discs: 3 Number of Items: 3 Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 30, 2005 Running Time: 972 minutes Theatrical Release Date: November 16, 2004
Product Description: Dr. Gregory House, a disabled, cantankerous, Vicodin addicted infectious disease specialist, solves medical mysteries with his colleagues at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. No Track Information Available Media Type: DVD Artist: HOUSE Title: SEASON 1 Street Release Date: 08/30/2005 Domestic Genre: TELEVISION
Amazon.com: He pops pills, watches soaps, and always, always says what's on his mind. He's Dr. Gregory House (Emmy nominee Hugh Laurie, Blackadder). Producers David Shore, Bryan Singer, Katie Jacobs, and Paul Attanasio haven't rewritten the hospital drama--at heart, it's a cross between St. Elsewhere, ER, and C.S.I.--but they've infused a moribund genre with new life and created one of TV's most compelling characters. More than any previous medical procedural, it resembles Attanasio’s underrated Gideon's Crossing, but House is lighter on its feet. As fascinating as he is, the show wouldn't work as well if it were all House all the time (that would be like Sherlock Holmes without Watson or Moriarty). Fortunately, he's joined by an intriguing cast of characters, portrayed by a combination of experienced vets (Omar Epps, Lisa Edelstein, Tony winner Robert Sean Leonard) and new faces (Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer). Aside from the complicated cases they tackle each week, the sparks really fly when House's brilliant, if naïve charges are put to the test--and as the head of a teaching hospital, it's his job to test them (although his tough love approach is constantly landing him in hot water with Edelstein's administrator). From the first episode, House attracted a talented array of guests, including Robin Tunney ("Pilot"), Joe Morton ("Role Model"), and Patrick Bauchau ("Cursed") as Spencer’s father. In addition, Chi McBride and Sela Ward appear frequently (with Ward returning for the second season). Viewers who first watched these 22 episodes on Fox will be gratified to note that the music has survived the transition to disc, such as the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want," as featured in both the pilot and season finale ("Honeymoon"). The only apparent omission is the credit theme (Massive Attack's "Teardrop") from the pilot. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
House I love the show! I can't wait to see the other seasons!! This is a must have for any House fan!!
Best show on the planet. 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.
House, Season One 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.
CEREBRAL, ENLIGHTENING, AND GOBSMACKINGLY ADDICTIVE -- DR. HOUSE CAN HAVE MY NUMBER! 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.
House!!! 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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