House - Season Three (DVD, 2007, 5-Disc Set)

House season Three is another masterpiece of unflinching dialogue and medical situations. English actor Hugh Laurie play Dr. Gregory House is a maverick medical genius (winner of Golden Globe award 2006 & 2007) again make the same old crazy doctor came to life with his quick and a bit annoying conversation with his patients & fellow peers.

Another great work from film director Bryan Singer.

Below is the episode guide for Season Three.

1. Meaning
2. Cain and Able
3. Informed Consent
4. Lines in the sand
5. Fools for Love
6. Que Sera Sera
7. Son of Coma Guy
8. Whac-A-Mole
9. Finding Judas
10. Merry Little Christmas
11. Words and Deeds
12. One Day, One Room
13. Needle in a Haystack
14. Insensitive
15. Half-Whit
16. Top Secret
17. Fetal Position
18. Airborne
19. Act Your Age
20. House Training
21. Family
22. Resignation
23. The Jerk
24. Human Error

The producers were reportedly dissatisfied with early auditions for the role of House. When Hugh Laurie auditioned, he apologized for his appearance as he was filming Flight of the Phoenix at the time. Laurie's audition tape compelled director Bryan Singer to get up out of his chair to get as close to the television screen as he could.Laurie's American accent was reportedly so flawless that Bryan Singer singled him out as an example of a real American actor, being unaware of Laurie's background. Laurie later stated that his original impression was that the show was about Dr. James Wilson, as the script referred to him as a doctor with "boyish" looks, assumed this to be the star and that Dr. House was the "sidekick" (the show was not yet titled House at that point). It was not until he received the full teleplay of the pilot that he realized that House was the protagonist.[16] Laurie, whose father was a doctor himself, said he felt guilty for "being paid more to become a fake version of my own father" after being cast as House.

Buying this DVD came naturally to me as I find this is a gem in any drama collection. And for those of you who have never watch House, MD. this is the right time for you to pick it up. Like my mom always says, it is never too late to buy something that make you feel good.

The New York Magazine has stated:

"With House, we are in the hands of professionals: accomplished actors playing doctors who come to care about their patients, whose afflictions range from tapeworms to brain tumors."

USA Today commented:

"Any series that matches a great actor with a great character is halfway home."

According to the Washington Post:

"House introduces us to the most electrifying new main character to hit television in years. No, the show is not about a house or even life as a house; it's about life as Dr. Gregory House, who, as played perilously close to perfection by Hugh Laurie, catapults this FOX series into a select group: the finest shows of the season."

You have to give the "House" production team credit. Your show has the "American Idol" lead-in and is often the highest-rated scripted drama on TV. However, instead of playing it safe with disease-of-the week plots, "House" swung for the fences several times: putting its main character in jail and threatening him with prison; ramping up the conflicts between all six of the main characters; and ending the year with a big cliffhanger that threatened to cut the main cast in half. Even when a given episode wasn't advancing the progressive storyline, the writers attempted to push the envelope with several politically themed episodes.

Early in Season 3, the big storyline revolved around recurring guest star David Morse, a detective out to get House and his questionable supply of Vicodin. In previous years, lengthy story arcs were given to Chi McBride and Sela Ward: would House lose his job? would House get married? This year, the theme was: would House go to prison? Morse dominated his episodes by playing the rare character that wouldn't back down to House. Although some media critics grew tired of the plot, which perhaps went on 2-3 episodes too long, the resolution was clever and allowed House to keep his dignity (and his job) without having to sacrifice... anything.

Several subplots emerged throughout the season, such as the romance between Drs. Chase and Cameron (first shown in season 2), and Dr. Foreman's growing dissatisfaction with having House as his mentor. House's fascination (or, some might say, obsession) with his boss, Dr. Cuddy, reached new levels. By the end of the season, House faced near mutiny from his underlings... and still didn't seem all that bothered. Perhaps House was too busy counseling a patient to end his life, or faking cancer in order to get a supply of pain medications. Perhaps he was dodging the romantic advances of a teenager, or trading in his case for a wheelchair in order to recover his handicapped parking spot. The more outrageous the behavior, the better Hugh Laurie was in the role. He even upgraded his cane to a model decorated with stars.

Standout guest stars this season included John Larroquette as a man waking up from a decade-long coma, Joel Grey as an ailing doctor, Dave Matthews as a stunted piano prodigy, and the return of Charles S. Dutton as Foreman's dad.

While the "House" season DVDs are never what you'd call packed with extras, the tightly knotted plots and the rapid-fire dialogue makes this a great show to watch more than once. Also try and track down plot-lines that never quite went anywhere, like Cuddy's rumored pregnancy or her not-quite romance with Wilson.

"House" season 3 drew top ratings while continuing with the show's unflinching dialogue and medical situations. This may not have been a great year for "Grey's Anatomy" or "E.R.", so cruise on over to Princeton Plainsborough for a few hours of intense hospital drama.

House is a brilliant show medically speaking but so much more than that at the same time. The show is a kind of "24" meets medicine extravaganza. The main character, Dr. Gregory House, is played beautifully by Hugh Laurie. Dr. House is a bitter but brilliant doctor who is crippled in one leg due to the inability of doctors to properly diagnose his problem in time. This makes him a decidedly bitter person when dealing with others yet he is one of the best doctors in his field of diagnostic medicine. He is being forced to serve his clinic hours that he had avoided for a number of years, and this is where the show takes place; in a walk in clinic. Each show is a mysterious new case that puts the patient's life on the line as time runs out. I am disheartened by all of the bad comments people are making about this show, but everyone I have seen this show with and everyone I have shown the show to love it and find it enormously entertaining, funny, and brilliant.

I bought house Season Three on DVD for my wife for Christmas. She is a big fan of the T.V. show and had mentioned that she would like to be able to go back and watch her favorite episodes at her convenience, so I purchased all three seasons for her and I am glad I did. The quality of the video is at least as good as it is on T.V. and it is so nice to not have to sit through commercials or pause the show whenever we need to. On top of all this, the bonus features make an interesting addition to the shows themselves.

From seson one to season two and now onto season 3 HOUSE M.D. has been my favorite show on television. I remember the first day that it aired, November 16th 2002(it was my daughter's first birthday) and we we unsure what to expect but knew that it was going to be a hit and it was/is. Gregory House played by Hugh Laurie plays this guy who you love to hate and hate to love, he is an arrigant jerk but he does it so well(not to mention, he's a hell of a doctor)! The show is like a mystery that takes place in the hospital, most episodes start out with someone getting injured or sick and you don't know what to expect from it. House and his team of 3 doctors work around the clock to find out what or why the patient has the problem. Most if the time the patient is hiding something which is where the "mystery" comes in, they need to rush to find out what the answer is that they are looking for(or make the patient confess what they need to know, sometimes it takes a little manipulation!). Gregory House is great, he just reads people by looking at them and noticing something is a bit off or out of place and every now and then he runs into someone that does the same thing back to him(this doesn't go over with him very well). It is really a great show...did I say that already?!?!?

You have to give this show a try, I recommend buying Season 1 and starting there rather than watching the newest episodes that are on now and not knowing the background of the show. Enjoy!