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House, M.D. - Season Four | 
 enlarge | Actor: House
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
List Price: $59.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Format: Ac-3, Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 660
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.8
UPC: 025195017084
EAN: 0025195017084
Theatrical Release Date: November 16, 2004
Release Date: August 19, 2008 (New: This Week)
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Description
Prepare for even more baffling, complex and shocking medical mysteries than ever before as every season four episode of House arrives on DVD! Reunite with the perplexing and prickly Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie in his two-time Golden Globe-winning role) as he tackles impossible cases while putting a new staff of potential team members - including Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle), Peter Jacobson (The Starter Wife), and Olivia Wilde (The Black Donnellys) - through the medical wringer with his trademark sarcasm and irreverent bedside manner. Get ready for another dose of one of TV's most original dramas and what Entertainment Weekly calls “One of the most compelling characters in TV history.”
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 House, M.D. - Season Four June 3, 2008
58 out of 70 found this review helpful
The fourth season of "House, M.D." was one of its best seasons yet. This very entertaining (and popular) drama series has already three strong seasons behind it, and season four does not disappoint. I was kind of weary going into season four because of what happened at the end of season three, when everyone's favorite crabby TV doc lost his team. I wasn't sure if this show would still be as good as it was, but I'm glad I stuck it out for season four. Give the writers credit, because this time they decided to have some fun going into the season, and great fun it was. The show at times is very dramatic, and at other times it's very funny.
The season starts off in the first episode with Dr. House still without a team and trying to diagnose a patient on his own, while Drs. Cuddy and Wilson (House's boss and good friend, respectively) try to persuade him to put together a new team by hiring some new doctors. The humor in episode one is still very much intact, especially in the scene where House tries to get ideas from the hospital janitor ("You were bouncing ideas off a janitor", Wilson tells him hilariously). When House finally decides to give in, there are 40 candidates vying for 3 positions on House's staff. And that's where the real fun of season four begins. The next several episodes turn into a "Survivor" type game where House eliminates the candidates one-by-one until he finally makes his final decision in the ninth episode. These episodes worked very well and it was a lot of fun to watch House play off these potential candidates. In the middle of all this, House's three former team members (Drs. Foreman, Cameron, and Chase) all return to Princeton-Plainsboro, but now working in new positions. The latter episodes deal with the three new doctors trying to deal with House as well as the patients they're diagnosing. And in an interesting subplot, Dr. Wilson finds a new love interest who just happens to be one of the same doctors who was trying to get onto House's staff and lost out. The final episode ends with a heartbreaker as House and company try to save the life of a person who was the victim of a bus crash, and House's inability to find out what really happened since he was also a victim of that same bus crash and has come down with temporary amnesia which makes the other doctors' jobs a whole lot harder.
Hugh Laurie once again dominates this show as he has from day one. Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Cuddy) and Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. Wilson) provide great support as usual. Omar Epps (Dr. Foreman) is back and is given a pretty good amount of screen time since his character is now overseeing and watching the new team. Former real-life couple Jennifer Morrison (Dr. Cameron) and Jesse Spencer (Dr. Chase) are also back, but weren't given much to do this time around. This is due to the three new cast members whose characters were the ones that House picked to make up his new team. Peter Jacobson (Dr. Taub), Kal Penn (Dr. Kutner), and Olivia Wilde (Thirteen) were the best ones for the job, and if I were a doctor and I had to chose some new team members, I would have picked these same characters. However I would have picked an additional fourth member to be on the staff: and that would have been Amber. Anne Dudek was a major standout in season four as Amber, who has a personality that's just like House. This character ended up being the last to go when House made his final decision on who he wanted for his team, but she was back (surprisingly) in the later episodes as Wilson's new girlfriend.
Because of the writers strike that shut down television production on all TV shows, the fourth season of "House" is shorter. Only 16 episodes this time around, but they're some of the best episodes that this terrific show has to offer. I hope it gets multiple Emmy nominations this year because it deserves them, and maybe this time out it'll win some Emmy Awards. My fingers are crossed.
Clever and Entertaining August 16, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've said it so many times before, and played it for proof to so many of my friends- that now all that remains is to carve it out here for posterity: "House" is the most clever and witty medical tv series ever presented before the American viewing public!
Hugh Laurie, who's British, plays the title character. (He played an amusingly droll Mr. Palmer in 1994's SENSE & SENSIBILITY, alongside Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet)- I therefore knew, even before I saw the first episode of Season 1, that this was going to be an entertaining show...
Season 4 differs from the previous seasons because House's whole staff must be replaced due to circumstances laid out by, essentially, his own idiosyncrasies.
This, surprisingly, hampers things very little. The sharp intensity of the storylines that has characterized this series- the conflict, heartbreak, angst and humor- does not let up for even a little while.
Again, let me just say that the availability of Unbox has made it possible to enjoy the past season of this excellent program most engagingly!
If for no other reason, the season finale is devastating. June 22, 2008
21 out of 34 found this review helpful
I've loved HOUSE since its inception for the most obvious reason: Hugh Laurie. This season decided to sidestep a little and really take some time to highlight the supporting characters. The moments of the series that give me the most consistent pleasure are the moments with Laurie interacting with Robert Sean Leonard and Lisa Edelstein. Those scenes are attacked with gusto and a great deal of humor. The "medical mysteries" are slightly more edgy than your usual doctor drama, but don't really add to what makes the show great as often as they could. I will close this review by saying that the season finale is one of the most tragic episodes of television ever. I was sobbing like a little girl who skins her knee while finding out her puppy just ran away from home at the same time she found out that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny don't exist. I found it very difficult to stop crying for several minutes AFTER the show was over!
Superb season...again! June 2, 2008
14 out of 20 found this review helpful
I say this every year: how can "House" top its previous stellar season?
And yet the divinely inspired creative combination of David Shore and Hugh Laurie have collaborated once again to deliver an outstanding outing in this fourth season. The bold decision to scuttle the previous team of Chase, Foreman, and Cameron at the end of season three was feared by some viewers, but the results were breathtaking in their creativity and panache. Shore's brave instincts paid off in glorious fashion.
The irrepressible and difficult House sets up an elimination competition among highly qualified candidates to determine who would be left standing and ready to form his new team of diagnosticians. This season House was light-hearted, except when he was endangering his own life; fantastically flirtatious except when he was reeling from an unexpected death of a patient; hilarious and deeply serious in breath-takingly swift succesion in every episode.
The two-part finale in which House questions his own mental abilities and the nature of his friendship with Wilson was one of the strongest episodes of television ever. The brilliant and magnetic Hugh Laurie shines throughout this quirky season with stunning supporting performances from Lisa Edelstein, Robert Sean Leonard, and the surprising Anne Dudek.
This is definitely worth every cent to add to your collection.
Writer's Strike = increased price ?!?!?!? June 1, 2008
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
Good Season. Will buy it.
I wonder if the price has to do with the writer's strike and wanting a larger cut of the DVD and Internet profits.
I guess we'll have to wait and see if the price hike affects other series as well. Just my $0.02.
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