Episode List: |
Episode Name | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | Reaction | IMDB | Personal Rating | Diagnosis | Medical Mystery | Solution | Overall Medicine | Soap Opera |
Alone | 1 | 1 | Deran Sarafian | | After a building collapses, House tries to prove he doesn't need a team by diagnosing one of the victems all by himself | An okay season premier. It is odd, though, not seeing the young guns despite their being in the credits. | 8.9 | 8 | Complications from mistaken identity | B+ | B+ | C- | B+ |
The Right Stuff | 1 | 2 | Deran Sarafian | | An airforce pilot wants surreptitious care while House begins whittling down a group of 40 applicants. | The new dynamic of the many applicants works well for the show. | 8.9 | 9 | Von Hipple-Lindau disease and pheochromacytoma | B+ | C | B | A |
97 Seconds | 1 | 3 | David Platt | | A dying man with a dog is dying much faster than he should. | A bit of a step down, but it's still enjoyable to watch the hopefuls duke it out. | 8.7 | 7 | Strongyloides and massive threadworm infection | C | B- | C- | A |
Guardian Angels | 1 | 4 | Deran Sarafian | | A young woman who works in the morgue begins talking with dead people. | An odd episode with some interresting House moments. | 8.6 | 8 | Ergot poisoning | B+ | B- | A- | B+ |
Mirror Mirror | 1 | 5 | David Platt | | A mugging victem begins imitating those around him. | A bit of a stretch on some of the personal interpretations, but this was an interesting episode where people made personal discoveries. | 8.7 | 8 | Eperythrozoon infection (from pig feces) | B | C | B- | B |
Whatever It Takes | 2 | 1 | Juan José Campanella | | House is taken to diagnose a CIA agent while his team works with a drag racer. | This is a fun episode primarily while focusing on the House story line, though the other one works well too. | 8.8 | 9 | Heat stroke / selenium poisoning | B | C | A- | C+ |
Ugly | 2 | 2 | David Straiton | | A young man goes in to remove a deformation on his forehead, but complications show up before the surgery even begins. | Some of House's responses to the documentary team begin to break the fourth wall a bit which is fun, but the rest appears to be pretty straight forward. | 8.2 | 7 | Lyme Disease | C | C | C | B- |
You Don't Want to Know | 2 | 3 | Lesli Linka Glatter | | A near tragedy at a magic show uncovers a mysterious problem with the magician. | Enjoyable. It is sad to see the Mormon go, but I never expected him to be chosen in the end. | 8.7 | 8 | Ta Daaa *** Lupus *** | C+ | B | D- | A |
Games | 2 | 4 | Deran Sarafian | | A rock musician collapses and House finally choses his final team. | An okay episode, but it is nice to see the team finally selected. | 8.6 | 7 | Measles | C | B- | C+ | B+ |
It's a Wonderful Lie | 2 | 5 | Matt Shakman | | A mother loses control of her hand and drops her daughter from an indoor climbing wall. | Fun episode and it's nice to see House constantly frustrated by a mother/daughter pairing who never ever lie, throwing his world view into a tailspin. | 8.5 | 7 | Breast Cancer | B | C- | C | A |
Episode Name | Disc | Disc Order | Directors | Writers | Synopsis | Reaction | IMDB | Personal Rating | Diagnosis | Medical Mystery | Solution | Overall Medicine | Soap Opera |
Frozen | 3 | 1 | David Straiton | | A researcher in the South Pole collapses after bandaging a coworker's leg. | It's nice to see House drawn to someone for more reasons than their mysterious malady. | 9.0 | 9 | Fat emboli from a broken toe | A | C- | B- | A |
Don't Ever Change | 3 | 2 | Deran Sarafian | | A woman, converted to the Hasidic Jewish culture, suddenly collapses durring her wedding ceremony. | This is a quite respectful treatment of the Hasidic Jewish culture, which many see as perochial and old fashioned. | 8.4 | 8 | Nephroptosis (floating kidney) | B | B | A- | A- |
No More Mr. Nice Guy | 3 | 3 | Deran Sarafian | | House takes a case where he assumes a man's polite demeanor is a symptom. | | 8.5 | 7 | Chagas Disease | B+ | C | D | A- |
Living the Dream | 3 | 4 | David Straiton | | House kidnaps an actor who he started diagnosing by watching him on a soap opera. | | 8.5 | 8 | Quinine allergy | B+ | C- | C- | C |
House's Head | 4 | 1 | Greg Yaitanes | | House's amnesia gets in the way of his figuring out who is dying and how. | | 9.7 | 8 | Air embolism / ? | A | C | B- | B |
Wilson's Heart | 4 | 2 | Katie Jacobs | | House risks his life to try to remember what is killing Amber. | | 9.7 | 9 | Amantadine not being filtered due to kidney failure | A- | A- | C | A- |