Product Description Hugh Laurie returns to his Golden Globe®-winning and Primetime Emmy® Award-nominated role as Dr. Gregory House in House: Season Five! House pushes new boundaries in medicine while dealing with emotional chaos as personal and professional boundaries blur in all 24 episodes from the compelling fifth season. Featuring guest appearances by Primetime Emmy® Award winner Željko Ivanek (Damages), Mos Def (The Italian Job) and Carl Reiner (Ocean's Thirteen), House is the Primetime Emmy® Award-winning series that critics rave is “…a terrific show with an A-list cast and first-rate writing…” (Michael Starr, New York Post). .com House begins its fifth season on a somber note. With his girlfriend, Amber, dead, Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) finds his friendship with the cantankerous Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) to be more strained than ever and temporarily leaves the hospital where they work. He eventually returns, which is a good thing, because Wilson is the closest thing House has to a moral compass. The writers of this drama do an admirable job of inserting elements of well-placed comedy into the often-intense vignettes. Otherwise, House wouldn't be such a likable character. In fact, without the humor, he can often be downright despicable, especially to those he supposedly likes the most. Viewers learn that his lack of bedside manner (in and out of the hospital) probably was passed down from his father (R. Lee Ermey, who makes a brief appearance). All 24 episodes--which originally aired during the 2008-2009 television season--are included in this five-disc boxed set. A few of the episodes are tainted by a soap opera vibe, particularly the ones concentrating on the romance between Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps) and Dr. Remy ""Thirteen"" Hadley (Olivia Wilde). Based on the first four seasons, Foreman's behavior seems way off. While love can change a man, it doesn't seem likely that Foreman would change this much--not even for someone as compelling as Thirteen. But House's boss, Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), has a juicy story line involving her quest to have a family. The struggles she goes through to adopt a baby depict how challenging it can be for women--even those who excel at everything else--to have it all. But her story line also shows that she is more resilient than she gives herself credit for. For all its medical jargon and scenes set in the operating room, House really is about relationships more than anything else. That's why when another character tragically dies this season, viewers take the loss to heart. --Jae-Ha Kim
A**R
DVDs
What can I say. They are DVDs. They play a tv show and work fine. Received them in a reasonable amount of time.
L**N
A True Original - This Will Change Who You Are
Without a doubt, the best medical drama ever on television, or even on film. It skillfully combines precision and unusual diagnostic medicine with the Human Equation. Other medical “shows” typically neglect the medical aspect, and focus on the soap opera love interests of the hospital staff; but House delivers Medical School level academics, along with the drama seen in only the best of literature - the unexpected, realistic, and non-linear events we all have in our lives, rather than the mundane writing of hacks who are pandering to what the TV executives think will sell the products of their advertisers. House is tantamount to The Sopranos, in its approach and methodology, and the true swings from the gritty to anguish and from transient humor back to despair, rarely - if ever - seen in the media, yet ever present in the daily reality of life. House makes the so-called “Reality Shows” look stupider and more contrived than they actually are. House hinges somewhere between a documentary and a true masterpiece of the art of film. This is not a “must see,’ or a “summer blockbuster,” but a treasure that will reside in the archives of the consciousness of all who embrace it.
D**P
Great season in a great show
It would be almost impossible to go over all of the shows but here are some of my favorites...Last Resort: Was an intense show where House and Thirteen are taken hostage because a man is ill and hasn't been diagnosed by all of the doctors that he has seen. Thirteens life is in danger because the gunman makes her take some of the shots that they send for him...The Social Contract is about a man that has a condition makes it impossible for him to lie at all...In,.Here Kitty, House proves that a cat can't predict death. and a frustrated Kutner gets some extreme revenge on House for his Pranks...Best of all in, Birthmarks Wilson becomes House's friend again after his girlfriends death during a long stressful trip to House's Fathers funeral. Which still ends up being a lot of insane fun for Wilson, including a short arrest of House and Wilson. In the end House discovers that the man that claimed to be his Father who was cruel to him over the years,. wasn't his biological Father,. just as he suspected.It was a great season with a lot of very different types of episodes. And towards the end of the season House checks himself into rehap because of delusions brought on by Vicodine addiction.
L**S
I keep wanting to give it 6 Stars!
A one-of-a-kind series, House, M.D.: Season 5 brings to the screen more everyday encounters of a team of doctors at the Diagnostics department of the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey under the supervision of Dr. Gregory House.Hugh Laurie, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Omar Epps, Lisa Edelstein, Robert Sean Leonard, and the rest of this EXTRAORDINARY cast, have truly outdone themselves with their performances, which are outstanding to say the least. All the actors, without exceptions, give it their 100% and it really shows (the chemistry is AMAZING)! Very well written and very well presented, the series is without a doubt guaranteed to provide more than just a few thrills, not to mention a few laughs and tears. House, M.D. does a great job of describing people's different personalities, fears, and the problems they face. It is all about life, death, human relations, hope, pain, and inner strength.The acting, the setting, the plot (and subplots), the dialogues, and the music (!) are just wonderful! It is indeed a rarity when an amazing series such as this comes by.In short, House, M.D. is a series definitely worth watching and one to seriously consider adding to your movie collection (if you haven't done so already)! KEEP'EM COMING!!!
W**L
Great series
If you have not watch I highly recommend
F**O
Greg just keeps going !
I'm about halfway through the season, but I feel like telling anyone hesitating to go for "yet another season of House" that the quality of season 5 matches, if not tops, the best you've seen of it in the past.Which is quite stunning to me, after Season 4's two-episode finale that left one wondering what they could possibly come up with after such a "TV doesn't get better than that" achievement.(Let me insist: even though Season 4 has "only" 16 episodes, you can safely go for it - they are worth a 24-episode season by and large.)Gregory House gets a little darker and a little more permeable to life and people around him as he meets new challenges to his unconditionally self-centered world.Virtually every episode has a *great* idea to start with.I really think the writers are putting themselves out there, as I'm sure fans will scream at some of the options and new paths explored - and I think that's bold and that's what a show like House NEEDS.Still House M.D., the one and only!
C**A
Bon film
Bon film
C**S
House series 5
For as cheap as it was I was sceptical as wasn’t sure if it wouldn’t work properly, but was wrong. Wanted it quickly as house has been removed on prime and I kind of want to binge watch it and you have to pay for it now per series or episode. It is in perfect condition, only gripe I have is the ads etc before you get to the main menu but it isn’t really an issue
ベ**ベ
新品とかわりません。
封も切られておらず 新品同様です。
S**Y
Great Series
Overall,I'm very happy with it. Very pleased with the product. Received product in timely fashion. Product is just as described in details. Works great, showed up on time. All around good experience with product and seller. I couldn't find another product that with a better quality. Also, I like its price, cheap. quality and efficiency are very good appearance.
パ**官
シリーズで最もダークなシーズン
今までのシーズンと大きく異る点は、ハウスとウィルソンの関係によりスポットが当たっているところだ。この作品ではハウスの抱えている闇を掘り下げることで、魅力的なストーリーラインを構築してきたが、シーズン５ではウィルソンの抱えている問題や、彼の性格に起因する彼の惨めさというものが見えてくる。そうしたとき親友であるハウスはどういう行動を取るのか。ハウスと周りの人間関係によってドラマが進行していくのは相変わらずだが、このシーズンではハウスとより近しい人間との人間関係が大きく変化していくため、先が気になって仕方ない。一方でこのシーズンでは話の展開が非常に重いものとなっている。もちろん今までのシーズンでも決して明るく希望に溢れてばかりの作品というわけではなかったが、ストーリーのダークさという点においては過去４シーズンとは一風変わっている。そのためある意味、新鮮にこの５つ目のシーズンを見ることができるはずだ。
