The USTV Thread - Closing Down Sale announced

[Cuttooth]

[Hexx]

Hell yeah!

Although he is a male rape victim

[Crimson]

For reference, I've already watched the following:

24
Lost
Dexter
Heroes
Breaking Bad
Alias
Prison Break

What exactly is House about? I've heard of it before but never taken an interest in it.

[Hexx]

For reference, I've already watched the following:

24
Lost
Dexter
Heroes
Breaking Bad
Alias
Prison Break

What exactly is House about? I've heard of it before but never taken an interest in it.

, is a maverick medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Most episodes start with a cold open somewhere outside the hospital, showing the events leading to the onset of symptoms for that episode's main patient. The episode follows the team in their attempts to diagnose and treat the patient's illness.

House's nationally-renowned department typically only sees patients who have failed to receive a correct diagnosis, making the patient cases exceptionally complex and subtle. Furthermore, House resists cases that he does not find interesting. The medical cases featured are often rare but realistic, and described by Andrew Holtz, the author of The Medical Science of House, M.D., as "a conglomeration of all the worst things that can happen to people from all over the world, crammed into one little community."[5]

The team arrives at diagnoses using the Socratic method and differential diagnosis, with House guiding the deliberations. House often discounts the information and opinions from his underlings, pointing out that their contributions have missed various relevant factors. The patient is usually misdiagnosed over the course of the episode and treated with medications appropriate to the misdiagnoses. This usually causes further complications in the patient, but in turn helps lead House and his team to the correct diagnosis by using the new symptoms.

Often the ailment cannot be easily deduced because the patient has lied about symptoms and circumstances. House frequently mutters, "Everybody lies," or proclaims during the team's deliberations: "The patient is lying," or "The symptoms never lie." Even when not stated explicitly, this assumption guides House's decisions and diagnoses.

Because House's theories about a patient's illness tend to be based on subtle or controversial insights, he often has trouble obtaining permission from his boss, hospital administrator Dr. Lisa Cuddy, to perform medical procedures he thinks are necessary, especially when the procedures themselves involve a high degree of risk or are ethically dubious.

Cuddy also requires House to spend time treating patients in the hospital's walk-in clinic; House's grudging fulfillment of this duty is a recurring subplot on the show. During clinic duty, House confounds patients with an eccentric bedside manner and unorthodox treatments, but impresses them with rapid and accurate diagnoses after seemingly not paying attention. Realizations made during some of the simple problems House faces in the clinic often help him solve the main case.

Well worth a watch.

It's easily the best "Non arc based" show on TV.

Now I have to go watch those bits from the season 4 finale again.

[Captain Kinopio]

For reference, I've already watched the following:

24
Lost
Dexter
Heroes
Breaking Bad
Alias
Prison Break

What exactly is House about? I've heard of it before but never taken an interest in it.

Hugh Laurie being awesome

[Memento Mori]

For reference, I've already watched the following:

24
Lost
Dexter
Heroes
Breaking Bad
Alias
Prison Break

What exactly is House about? I've heard of it before but never taken an interest in it.

Hugh Laurie is a junkie who goes round making sexist/racist/homophobic jokes. He gets away with it because he's a good doctor.

[Hexx]

For reference, I've already watched the following:

24
Lost
Dexter
Heroes
Breaking Bad
Alias
Prison Break

What exactly is House about? I've heard of it before but never taken an interest in it.

Hugh Laurie being awesome

Herbs said it better than I did

[Cuttooth]

The episode description for the IASIP season four opener sounds great.

"Mac & Dennis: Manhunters"
The gang gets hooked on human meat, supplied from Frank's friend in Chinatown.

I think I might just do a marathon run of all the other episodes before 18th September.

[Hexx]

The episode description for the IASIP season four opener sounds great.

"Mac & Dennis: Manhunters"
The gang gets hooked on human meat, supplied from Frank's friend in Chinatown.

I think I might just do a marathon run of all the other episodes before 18th September.

I really hope Jimmy Cricket gets a break this season

[Pedro]

For reference, I've already watched the following:

24
Lost
Dexter
Heroes
Breaking Bad
Alias
Prison Break

What exactly is House about? I've heard of it before but never taken an interest in it.

T...h...e.......W...i.....r....e.

[Madness]

For reference, I've already watched the following:

24
Lost
Dexter
Heroes
Breaking Bad
Alias
Prison Break

What exactly is House about? I've heard of it before but never taken an interest in it.

Six Feet Under. You'll laugh, you'll cry, it'll change your life.

[chalkitdown]

^^^


[edit] strawberry floating new page.


Madness speaks the truth, though. Cuttooth would agree.

[Cuttooth]

OK so:

The Wire
Arrested Development
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Six Feet Under
30 Rock
Mad Men
House

That's seven fantastic shows right there.

And everyone needs to watch Sunny in Philadelphia. The first two seasons at least and that's seventeen 22 minute episodes.

[Memento Mori]

After reading those massive spoilers on the other page, I'm never watching Six Feet Under.

[Madness]

After reading those massive spoilers on the other page, I'm never watching Six Feet Under.

Why'd you read the spoilers?

Also, you're lucky I don't have a list.

[Memento Mori]

After reading those massive spoilers on the other page, I'm never watching Six Feet Under.

Why'd you read the spoilers?

Also, you're lucky I don't have a list.

I have no idea. Just read them without thinking.

[Osito]

I'm in the mood for a new show: House or Six Feet Under?

(whoo... I didn't read the spoilers)

[Madness]

Six Feet Under. I can't recommend it enough.

[Cardinal Chunder]

I disapprove of the edited avatar, Hexx.

[chalkitdown]

I'm in the mood for a new show: House or Six Feet Under?

(whoo... I didn't read the spoilers)

Two very different shows, there. SFU is about a million miles better in every possible way , but that's just my opinion.