I definitely want to do a series of posts on my favorite TVseries and how not to start with House M.D.?! Since a few days ago I finished reviewing the first season, I thought I would do here a list of my favorite episodes and I would really like to know what the others guys think.
I loved this serie since the first random episode that I happened to watch on television; not only for the medical diagnostic part of the serie - which in itself is a good reason to watch it and love it - but also for the characters of the show, first of all of course Dr. Gregory House, the right doctor for "diagnosis almost impossible."
In fact, the protagonist is a character so cynical and brutally honest to be disarming and an asshole, no half measures. Perhaps is for his manner of doing so questionable that many love the character, whose characterization and evolution are phenomenal and worthy of the great success that the series has had.
The series, set in a hospital, is built around diagnostic cases of diseases quite rare if not unique, and in each episode we see the unfolding of the various differential diagnoses for the case. In fact, each of them focuses exclusively on a patient and their differential diagnosis, which is elaborated by House with his medical team, to be able to understand what is the real problem and be able to treat it (when possible). In addition there are also some interesting patients in the clinic of the hospital in which House must, like other doctors, do tot hours per week, albeit mostly he have to deal with "common boring diagnosis".
The first season consists of 22 episodes.
My favorites:
-not in liking order-
# 2 "Paternity" is a very interesting episode, with a final diagnosis of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, disease caused by the measles virus mutated in the brain tissue of the patient.
# 4 "Maternity" this is another episode really nice, both from the diagnostic point of view and the clinical cases, and from a more human one. The characters are outlined more and is introduced a possible background of Dr. Cameron, one of the three doctor of the House's team. The Diagnosis: Echovirus 11, there was an epidemic in the maternity ward of the hospital.
# 5 "Damned if you do" perhaps more to the case report this episode is great for the history of the patient and how faith influences and make the characters react. The diagnosis: allergy to copper unleashed by years of exposure.
# 6 "The Socratic Method" is a clinical case really interesting, I really liked this episode for the differential diagnosis, as the team come to the diagnosis of the patient, her story and that of his son. Diagnosis: Wilson's disease, deficiency of vitamin K and cancer in the liver.
# 10 "Histories" in this episode, the patient is a homeless whose diagnosis is rabies. But the best part is his story is how she became a homeless, what she lost, who is James who always tries to found. Foreman takes to heart her situation and tries to help her track down James.
# 13 "Cursed" the patient is a boy who has an infection caused by Bacillus anthracis, Anthrax, wich is caused by an immune deficiency due to Leprosy, previously contracted by the father. It 'an interesting episode because Chase's father comes to town to see Dr. Wilson since he has Lung Cancer and he just have a few months more to live; but he chooses not to make this known to his son since the two have never had a simple relationship. House knows about it and would like to tell Chase, but after talking to him about his relationship with his father, prefers not to tell him anything.
# 18 "Babies & Bathwater" is a very touching episode of a mother ready to die to let survive her little baby in her belly. Unfortunately eventually she will die because of a Small-cell Lung Carcinoma.
# 19 "Kids" is a very impressing episode, which left me with a bitter taste in the mouth; sometimes confront certain realities is not easy, it leaves an impression, precisely: a feeling. The diagnosis is Moschcowitz syndrome (thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura TTP).
# 21 "Three Stories" definitely goes to the first place among my favorite episodes! Because the narrative is fantastic, the expedient of a lecture taken by House to young specializing doctors is just an amazing idea to tell the story in a different way. House presents to the class three different clinical cases (with a leg problem in common) of patients treated, the third of which is House himself. But it is discovered only later, in fact we see initially the third patient being represented by an act of House's imagination, which gives a fictitious identity to himself. It's a fun episode, but also very heavy in some senses. We understand how House got there where he is, why he has become so miserable in a certain way. Why is unhappy. It 's definitely an episode carrier for the plot of the main character. In addition, the way we live the episode is special and makes it rewarding. The favorite of the favorite episodes of the first season! The diagnosis of the three patients: patient 1 Necrotizing fasciitis; patient 2 Adenoma; patient 3 (House) Necrosis of part of the muscular tissue of the leg.
What do you think guys?
Which are your favorite episodes?
Write you soon,
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