Product Description
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Golden Globe® winner Hugh Laurie is on call as sardonic Dr.
Gregory House in Season Two of the smash-hit House, television's
most intelligent and provocative drama. This 6-disc collection
features all 24 innovative episodes, exclusive bonus materials
and some of today's brightest guest stars, including Sela Ward
(The Fugitive), Ron Livingston (Office Space), LL Cool J (NCIS:
Los Angeles) and Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City). Be a part of
this medical mystery-solving team as House and his staff take on
baffling cases in the gripping show critics are calling "both
hilarious and heartbreaking; this could be network TV's best
current series." - David Kronke, Los Angeles Daily News
Bonus Content:
Disc 1 - House Season Two:
* "Autopsy" Commentary with Executive Producers David Shore and
Katie Jacobs
Disc 2 - House Season Two:* Blooper Reel
* Alternate Take from "Daddy's Boy": The Valley Girl Version
* It Could Be Lupus...
Disc 5 - House Season Two:* Alternate Take from "ing Dogs
Lie": The Valley Girl Version
Disc 6 - House Season Two:* An Evening with House
* "No Reason" Commentary with Executive Producers David Shore and
Katie Jacobs
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The overall strength of the second season of House, M.D. proves
that its first-year success wasn't a fluke. This season starts
with Dr. House (Golden Globe winner Hugh Laurie) pursuing his
ex-wife Stacy (Sela Ward) and ending with a tragedy that could
potentially be deadly for himself and two colleagues. The premise
of each show follows a set routine--a patient is brought in with
unusual symptoms; House challenges his trio of underlings to
diagnose the problem; they treat the patient, usually incorrectly
the first few tries; and then at the very last minute--through a
revelation that often has little to do with the patient--House
figures out what's wrong and saves the day. It would be easy for
this set up to grow old fast. But because of the smart writing,
nuanced acting, and believability of the characters (who're often
dealing with unbelievable scenarios), the formula works on each
of the 24 episodes that aired on Fox during the 2005-2006 season.
Viewers have been conditioned by the Marcus Welbys of the TV
world to think of doctors as saviors. Even on ER, the most
narcissistic physician was selfless at heart. But House is a
different breed. When he's at an off-track betting parlor and a
woman collapses, he doesn't miss a beat. Still eying his race on
television, he asks, "Is anybody here a doctor?" He'll mock a
patient's complaints with a sarcastic, "Boo hoo!" And, if
there happens to be a dead body around, he has no qualms about
shooting it if he believes that could help diagnose another
- victim.
Not that he's any more reasonable or compassionate to his boss
Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), his oncologist best friend Wilson (Tony
winner Robert Sean Leonard), or his young charges Foreman (Omar
Epps), Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), and Chase (Jesse Spencer). He
instructs his doctors to break into patients' homes as if they're
cat burglars. He does not know the meaning of the phrase
"politically correct." But because he spits out insults (as if he
has a mild case of Tourette's) equally to both his patients and
colleagues, the latter never flinch at his constant stream of
inappropriateness. When his three young doctors storm into his
office to report the declining condition of a patient by blurting
out, "We have rectal bleeding," House says, "What? All three of
you?" To sensitive Wilson, who is trying to get some work done
without being interrupted, House says, "I know you're in there. I
can hear you caring." And when Foreman's her says, "My son
says you're a manipulative bastard," House replies, "It's a pet
name. I call him Dr. Bling." Of course House actually does care
about his patients, but he views a good bedside manner as the
luxury of a doctor who has a y patient. But dying patients
with seemingly incurable diseases need something more. They need
House. --Jae-Ha Kim