Starring:
Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Kal Penn, Peter Jacobson, Olivia Wilde, Anne Dudek and Jesse Spencer

Created by:
David Shore

Out to buy on DVD 27/10/08

• Excellent lead performance from Hugh Laurie
• Outstanding supporting cast
• Intriguing medical mysteries
• Successful balance between the cases & character development

• Not everyone will like Gregory House

 

Alone
With his diagnostic team gone, House tries to diagnose a young woman who survived an office building collapse. With the condition getting worse, Cuddy puts pressure on House to hire a new team, but instead attempts a differential diagnosis with help from the janitor.

The Right Stuff
House is secretly trying to treat a fighter pilot who is a candidate for NASA's astronaut training program. Her diagnosis will be the test to choose which ones of the 40 applicants are going to take the empty spots in his team.

97 Seconds
The candidates are now two teams of five women and five men, competing on diagnosing and treating a wheelchair-bound man. Meanwhile House does experiments on himself to test what happens after death, and Foreman, at another hospital, is treating his team in a House-like manner.

Guardian Angels
House finds that some of his own fellowship students will do whatever it takes, when they deal with a woman who believes she can talk to the dead.

Mirror, Mirror
House deals with a patient who mirrors the personality of anyone he meets. Meanwhile, Foreman is put in charge of overseeing the fellowship candidates. Whatever it takes Based on practically no information and no medical history about a mystery patient sent by the CIA, House is using some unorthodox methods to diagnose and treat him. Meanwhile the remaining candidates are questioning Foreman's judgment.

Ugly
A film crew and the candidates are following around House distracting him while he is trying to diagnose a teenager who suffers from a heart attack prior to a serious plastic surgery. You don't want to know House treats a magician but comes to believe he's faking illness to cover up his own incompetence. Meanwhile, House pits the fellows against each other in his version of an immunity challenge.

Games
Under Cuddy's pressure to choose his team, House gives the candidates a case of a former punk rock star, who is a drug user. Whoever diagnoses the patient is going to have a future as a member of House's team.

It's a wonderful life
A mother's sudden paralysis during an indoor rock-climbing incident leaves her daughter injured, and House's new team looking for a cure. Meanwhile, House organizes his new recruits' Secret Santa gift exchange... with a few twists of his own.

Frozen
House and his team have to diagnose a case at a distance when a researcher at a South Pole base is taken ill. Don't ever change House and his team must diagnose a Jewish bride who is taken ill at her wedding. However, House is more interested in analysing Wilson's relationship with his new girlfriend.

No More Mr. Nice Guy
House copes with a patient whose symptoms conceal a greater problem, but spends much of his time dodging Cuddy's orders to give performance reviews, and fighting with Amber over who gets to spend more time with Wilson.

Living the Dream
House treats a famous soap opera star when he believes the patient has a serious condition even though there's no evidence indicating that's the case. Meanwhile, Wilson and Amber have their first fight.

House's Head
A bus accident leaves House with serious head trauma and partial amnesia. He comes to believe that a patient on the bus had a life-threatening disease and struggles to recall who it was, and what they had.

Wilson's Heart
In the aftermath of the bus accident, House struggles with his head injuries and short-term memory loss, and must remember the symptom he saw before one of their own, who was on the bus with House, dies.

Since moving to the US, British comedian Hugh Laurie has become a TV super but can the fourth season of his hit TV 'House' still be as riveting as the first free?

The problem that 'House' faced, as with many 'investigation' series, was it was easy for the cases to become the show and not the characters. While this has been a problem for many shows like this, series creator David Shore and his team took the decision to make Gregory House, his team and some of the staff of the hospital the main emphasis of every B-Story of the series, second only to the case, it gave them the chance make the audience connect with the main characters, much more than any other series of the same ilk. At the end of season three, Cameron, Foreman and Chase were no longer House's team of students. Each of them has gone their own way, escaping from House's influence and, hopefully, him messing with their careers. Unfortunately, House works at a training hospital and his boss Dr. Lisa Cuddy tells him that he has to have a diagnostic team working with him, so House reluctantly has to start interviewing applicants. This been House, these are not your normal interviews. This interview process takes the majority of season four but while fans might have been reluctant to see a change to a working formula, this injects a new lease of life into the cast, brings new characters into the show and most importantly transforms House into someone we haven't seen before.

Since 'House' started four season, British comedic actor Hugh Laurie has become a superstar, and rightly so. The role has earned him critical success, with many awards heading his way but after three series, he had really only just started with the character. For season four, the series pushes the character to look at himself and assess his friendship with Dr. James Wilson, still played brilliantly by Robert Sean Leonard. This season shows how good a dramatic actor Laurie can be and this makes this season one of the best. As well as the returning players in Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison and Jesse Spencer and because House needs a new team, we have a multitude of new characters. Olivia Wilde, Peter Jacobson, Kal Penn and Anne Dudek, join the cast and each of them bring something new to the show and in their interactions with House. It is the triangle between House, Wilson and Amber (Dudek) that would steer the show to its dramatic conclusion. One that would change the show again.

'House: Season Four' is one of the best seasons of the show. Even with the interruption of the Screenwriters Strike, this is a season that fans of show should revel in and proves how good network television can be.