HOUSE, M.D.
SEASON 5

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

Dying Changes
Everything In the aftermath of personal tragedy, Wilson resigns from the hospital... and from his friendship with House. Meanwhile, Thirteen struggles with her personal medical problems while helping treat an executive assistant with a similar personality to her own.

Not Cancer
An organ donor's organs are responsible for the deaths of several patients, and the team work to save the last two recipients. Meanwhile, House hires a private detective to keep tabs on Wilson.

Adverse Events
A painter's undiagnosed illness affects his work, and House and his team must look at the man's paintings to determine what's wrong with him.

Birthmarks
While en route to his father's funeral, House must help the team with a differential diagnosis on a young Chinese girl who has collapsed under mysterious circumstances

Lucky Thirteen
Thirteen brings her one-night stand to the hospital after the woman has a seizure. However, the woman admits she slept with Thirteen so she could get to House and have him diagnose her condition. Meanwhile, House continues to pay Lucas to spy on Wilson.

Joy
An ailing man suffers from blackouts and sleepwalks, leading the team to wonder if his sleepwalking is a symptom, or how the man is becoming exposed to something else. When the man's daughter grows ill as well, the team must provide a diagnosis before both die. Meanwhile, Cuddy adopts a newborn but when the birth mother displays a rash, she has to make a decision between putting the mother or daughter at risk.

The Itch
The team must treat an agoraphobic who refuses to leave his house, and have to work around Cuddy, who is less than thrilled at having hospital equipment relocated. Meanwhile, House is plagued by an itch, and Cameron and Chase have relationship issues.

Emancipation
While Foreman takes on a pediatric case on his own, the rest of the team deals with a 16-year-old factory manager and emancipated minor who collapses at work. When Foreman's patient takes a turn for the worse, he's forced to question whether he can deal with the situation on his own, or if he needs House's help.

Last Resort
A man takes over Cuddy's office and holds House, Thirteen, and several patients hostage. His demand? A diagnosis. The man forces Thirteen to act as a guinea pig for his treatments and House has to end the standoff before a SWAT team opens fire.

Let them eat cake
The team takes on the case of a fitness guru on an all-natural diet who collapsed while filming a video. Meanwhile, Foreman conducts Huntington's Disease drug trials and Thirteen signs on as a subject, Cuddy is forced to move into House's office, and Kutner uses House's name to run an online medical-advice website.

Joy to the world
House and his team deal with a bullied girl who collapses during her school's Christmas program. Meanwhile, Foreman and Thirteen grow closer during the Huntington's disease drug trials, House gives a patient a gift, the staff wonder who gave House a special gift, and Cuddy gets an unexpected gift.

Painless
House and his team deal with a man living in constant pain. Meanwhile, Thirteen receives treatment by Foreman while taking part in his clinical trial on Huntington's Disease, and Cuddy tries to balance her hospital duties with her new baby.

Big Baby
The team take on the case of a Special Education teacher who spits up blood and collapses in the middle of class. Meanwhile, Cameron finds herself taking on some of Cuddy's duties, including dealing with House, and Foreman has to make a decision concerning Thirteen's participation in the clinical trials.

The Greater Good
A former cancer researcher collapses in the middle of a cooking class, and the team is forced to reevaluate their own lives when they learn she gave up a promising career to seek personal happiness. Meanwhile, Thirteen suffers adverse reactions from the clinical trials, and Cuddy gives House a dose of his own medicine.

Unfaithful
House struggles with his own beliefs as he takes on a case of priest with a disturbing past who runs a shelter for homeless people and sees a vision of Jesus.

The Softer Side
A patient with both male and female DNA has the team stumped. Meanwhile, House starts acting nicely, raising Cuddy's and Wilson's suspicions that something is terribly wrong.

The Social Contract
House and the team take on the case of Nick, a book editor who loses his inhibitions. The team realizes Nick has frontal lobe disinhibition, which causes him to speak his mind having no control over what he says and making him just like House. Meanwhile, House suspects Wilson and Taub are keeping something from him.

Here Kitty
A nursing home worker, Morgan, fakes an illness to get House to examine a cat which can predict the death of elderly patients. House doesn't believe it... until Morgan becomes ill for real.

Locked In
House is injured in a motorcycle accident in New York and finds himself in bed next to a patient suffering from complete paralysis. As House transfers the patient to Princeton to determine what's wrong with him, Wilson tries to find out why House was in New York.

Simple Explanation
The team deals with an older woman who has been tending to her dying husband but is stricken down with an unknown disease that threatens to kill her before her husband. However, they must overcome their own emotions when a tragedy strikes one of their members.

Saviours
Cameron postpones her vacation with Chase to take on the case of an environmentalist who collapsed in the middle of a protest. Meanwhile, House wonders why Wilson is starting a new healthy diet.

House Divided
A deaf 14-year old wrestler suffers from hearing problems during a match, but his mother refuses to okay cochlear implants. Meanwhile, House's insomnia proves a curse... and a blessing.

Under My Skin
While House tries to cope with his insomnia, he takes on the case of a ballerina whose skin begins to fall off after treatment following the collapse of her lungs during a rehearsal.

Both Sides
Now House takes on a case of a patient with two different personalities as a result of having the left and right part of the brain operating independently. Meanwhile, he deals with the aftermath of his night of sex with Cuddy.

When it comes time to look back on the defining medical TV series that have shaped how medicine is portrayed on the small screen, one series from the 00s is going to be on everyone’s prescription, ‘House M.D.’

Over the decades, the medical drama has become a stable part of the TV schedules and produced some of the most powerful and emotional moments on television. Programmes like ‘Quincy M.E.’, ‘ Doctor Kildare’, ‘St. Elsewhere’, ‘M*A*S*H’, ‘ER’, ‘Chicago Hope’, ‘Casualty’, ‘Holby City’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ have taken you into hospitals and made heroes of doctors and nurses who save lives everyday. When Hugh Laurie was cast as Dr. Gregory House by producer Bryan Singer, this was going to be a very different kind of doctor. While we had seen doctors with a god-like complex before, House was different. Yes he is brilliant, solving the cases that no one else could but he was riddled with pain from an accident that had left him needing a cane and constant medication, which leads him to constantly battling his own demons. This makes him a not very likeable person, an anti-hero but there is something that draws you to character and makes the show so watchable.

After shaking up the show in its fourth season and introducing House’s new team of Kutner (Kal Penn), Taub (Jacobson) and Thirteen (Olivia Wilde), the fifth season picks up after the death of Amber. Here we see Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) wanting to give up medicine, the team struggling to cope with the loss and Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) trying to hold everything together. Surprisingly, House is also struggling to cope but not with the death of Amber but with the changes that have been enforced on his day to day routine. The fifth season is a real journey for the character and one that Hugh Laurie raises to with great aplomb.

Over the twenty-three episodes of season five, we see House change completely but this is not due to him been a changed man or dealing with his pain, addiction to pain killers, his career and most importantly his outlook on life as he tries to let people in. What makes this season such a success and a change from what has happened before is the show’s willingness to take a chance with a successful format. The audience are used to the grumpy, abusive and downright unlikeable house but this season we see more and it takes him down a road that you won’t expect to conclude in a way that will shock you and make you love the show even more.

Season Five of ‘House M.D.’ is a pivotal and defining season for the show. With Hugh Laurie and the rest of the excellent cast throwing you many a shock as well as the weekly diagnosis of some mystery disease, ailment or lupus (in joke), this is one of the best, if not the best medical dramas to hit television and season five is the best yet.


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