HOUSE, M.D.
SEASON 2

Starring:
Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer

Series Created by:
David Shore

Out now to buy on DVD (US Region 1)

 

"I'm in Pain!"

Whenever a patient that no one can diagnose comes into the Princeton University Hospital, Dr. Gregory House and his team are assigned the case. While he might be the most anti-social physician who actually hates interacting with patients, Dr House loves a good mystery.

Acceptance
A death row inmate is felled by an unknown disease and House decides to take on the case, over Cuddy and Foreman's objections. House also has to deal with Stacy who is working closely with him, while Cameron has to cope with a dying patient.

Autopsy
Dr. Wilson convinces House to take the case of one of his patients, a young girl with terminal cancer who starts suffering from hallucinations. Humpty Dumpty An asthmatic man suddenly becomes unconscious and falls off of Dr. Cuddy's roof while working on her house.

TB or Not TB
While in Africa, a famous doctor becomes inexplicably ill and is sent to Dr. House for treatment. Daddy's Boy A Princeton student who is graduating suffers a seizure while partying at a frat house. House's parents also drop by to see their son.

Spin
A professional bicyclist is brought in after collapsing during a race, but House doesn't want to treat him because he thinks the athlete is taking performance-enhancing drugs. House only becomes interested when the patient admits to taking the drugs.

Hunting
A gay man with full-blown AIDS collapses in front of House's home and goes into shock. When House discovers the man's father is suffering from symptoms of his own, he must determine if they might be connected and save both their lives. Meanwhile, Cameron faces a potentially life-threatening disease of her own.

The Mistake
House and Chase find themselves in a serious situation after a young mother with stomach pains dies. Months later, Stacy counsels Chase prior to his disciplinary hearing, and must determine whether Chase made a mistake that ultimately led to the patient's death. She soon realizes he is holding something back.

Deception
With Foreman as House's supervisor, the team must figure out if a woman who cried wolf too many times is really ill.

Failure to Communicate
While attending his editor's retirement party, a journalist collapses and hits his head on a desk. When he regains consciousness, his sentences are garbled and incoherent, so he is rushed to Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. With House and Stacy stranded at an airport due to bad weather, the team is forced to solve the case with House helping out over the phone.

Need to Know
While House's staff tries to diagnose a woman whose uncontrollable muscle flailing caused her to crash her car, House and Stacy try to resolve their relationship issues once and for all. Cameron refuses to take her HIV test, wary of the results.

Distractions
While a severely burned teenager is admitted and his blood tests come back with strange results, House makes himself the guinea pig in his own unofficial tests of a new drug designed to treat migraines to prove a former medical school colleague is wrong about the drug.

Skin Deep
House uncovers a startling secret when he treats a teenage supermodel for heroin addiction. Meanwhile, Wilson hopes the increased leg pain in House's leg is an indication his leg nerves are regenerating.

Sex Kills
House takes the case of a man who experienced a seizure but wasn't aware it happened. When the man suffers a heart attack and needs a heart transplant, the team races to diagnose a dead woman's illness so they can harvest her heart to save their living patient.

Clueless
House believes a woman is trying to kill her husband and tries to find the proof to confirm his suspicions. When Wilson moves in with House after separating from his wife, he learns Wilson is a great cook.

Safe
Melinda, a troubled teenage girl who is immuno-compromised as a result of the medications she must take after a heart transplant, has a severe allergic reaction and goes into shock when her boyfriend visits her. Meanwhile, House and Wilson continue to work out the problems in their new living arrangement.

All In
When a six-year-old boy is brought in with the same symptoms as another patient who died years ago under House's care, House believes the cases are identical and he can predict the course of the boy's illness. Meanwhile, the clinic hosts a poker night to benefit the oncology department.

Sleeping Dogs Lie
House has to work fast when a woman comes in with a life-threatening case of insomnia. Meanwhile Cameron is angry at Foreman for stealing an article she worked on. House vs. God House treats a 15-year-old faith healer, while Wilson feels left out when he finds out House has a weekly poker game.

Euphoria (1)
When a police officer with a gunshot wound to the head and uncontrollable laughter is admitted, House and the team are baffled. When Foreman begins showing the same symptoms, they race to determine the cause of the illness before Foreman's condition takes the same path.

Euphoria (2)
Foreman continues to experience the same progression of symptoms as the police officer. When he realizes he may be facing imminent death, he calls his father who comes to his son's side. As it comes down to a race against time, House believes the solution to the illness is in the police officer's apartment.

Forever
A young mother has a seizure while bathing her newborn son and nearly drowns him. House and the team have two cases at one time as they try to save the infant and determine the cause of the mother's seizures.

Who's Your Daddy?
A 16-year-old Hurricane Katrina victim suffering from hallucinations as a result of the tragedy is brought to House by his former band mate who recently found out the girl is his daughter. Although House fears his friend is being scammed, he takes the case. As he works his way through the girl's lies so he can diagnose and treat her, he's forced to tell a few lies of his own.

No Reason
As House and his team are working on the diagnosis of a man with a giant, swollen tongue, the husband of a former patient walks into House's office and shoots him. House continues to treat his patient from his ICU hospital bed with the shooter, who has been shot by hospital security and handcuffed to his bed, as his roommate. When the after-effects of the shooting begin to impact House, he starts to question his own ability to diagnose properly. As his patient's body deteriorates, House struggles through his self-doubt and must trust his team to find a way to solve the case.

Hugh Laurie returns for another set of medical diagnoses but can House and his team keep curing people and keep you interested?

The first season of House M.D. was a critical and commercial smash around the world. The cranky, painkiller addicted doctor who loves the challenge of an almost impossible patient to diagnose. With a different mystery illness every week it could have been so easy for the series just to be another CSI investigation type show variant but with Hugh Laurie onboard you get so much more.

After establishing the character in the brilliant first season, we get to know more about the character of Gregory House. The second season allows Laurie and the writers to reveal more of House's inner demons. The series explores the power of his addiction to painkillers and how it affects his life and character. We also follow on with the plotline with the love of his life Stacy, who is now working in the Hospital thanks to Cuddy. It is Laurie's combination of comedic one-liners and put downs for all of his staff and patients that makes him a character that will become a firm television favourite.

The show isn't all about the performance of Hugh Laurie however. Each of the supporting characters has their own storyline and development, some more than others. Season two sees Wilson's marriage come under the spotlight. Chase's family and personal problems return with dangerous consequences. Foreman's push for career advancement leads him into conflict with House and the rest of the team and even puts his life in danger. Cuddy makes a monumental decision about her future with might affect Wilson. Cameron has a major disagreement with Foreman and she has a change in her approach, but is it for the better? The performances of Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer as Dr. Lisa Cuddy, Dr. Eric Foreman, Dr. James Wilson, Dr. Allison Cameron and Dr. Robert Chase makes all of these characters just as memorable as Dr. Gregory House.

The cases in season two are even more inventive than the first. Told in riveting fashion, the medical jargon never really takes over or leads to confusion for the viewer. You don't need a medical doctorate to understand what is going on, as they show you what is going wrong inside the person's body via internal shots of the patient's symptoms using computer graphic effects. This means that the patient's family and story are just as important as the alignment illness or injury House and his team are trying to diagnose. With prisoners, models, children and even some very familiar people entering the hospital, this season sees the illnesses and injures become even more intriguing.

'House: Season 2' is even better than the groundbreaking first. With each of the characters growing and developing and the cases getting more inventive, this is a series that is becoming more and more compulsive viewing. The Doctor is definitely in!

PICTURE & SOUND

Presented in 16x9 Widescreen with a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, 'House, M.D.' has never looked or sounded so good.

BONUS FEATURES

'Autopsy' and 'No Reason' commentary with executive producers David Shore and Katie Jacobs
The series creator and his executive producing partner provide chatty commentaries for two excellent episodes. The pair really has fun, explaining the idea behind each of the episodes and the development of the characters. The track for 'No Reason' is particularly interesting, especially when you discover what the episode is about and its meaning to House.

Blooper Reel (5.28 mins)
What the Hugh Laurie and the rest of the team make a real hash of their lines and swearing a lot when get them wrong.

Alternative take from 'Daddy's Boy': The Valley Girl Version (0.52 mins)
Lisa Edelstein and Jennifer Morrison have fun with their scene from 'Daddy's Boy' by like totally sounding like the girls from 'Clueless' or 'Mean Girls'.

It could be Lupus… (1.21 mins)
Watch a montage of clips from the show were House and the team think Lupus could be the patient's illness.

Alternative take from 'Sleeping Dogs Lie': The Valley Girl Version (1.04 mins)
Lisa Edelstein and Jennifer Morrison have even more fun with their scene from 'Sleeping Dogs Lie', like totally.

An Evening with House (18.19 mins)
Series creator David Shore, executive producers Paul Attonasio, Katie Jacobs and Bryan Singer and stars Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer talk to Elvis Mitchell at the Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences. The group talk about pitching the show and creating its concept. They wanted to show what doctors actually think of patients and they also reveal how they created the House character after meeting Hugh Laurie. Each of the cast members talk about their characters and provide some behind the scenes secrets that fans will love.

OVERALL

The inclusion of commentary tracks on the second season adds to the value this good DVD package. The interviews are very good and Lisa Edelstein and Jennifer Morrison's Valley Girls are hilarious. Fans of the show will love this box set.

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