"House M.D." Damned If You Do (2004)

User Rating:

8.2/10   

Director:

Greg Yaitanes

Writers:

David Shore (creator)
Sara B. Cooper (written by)

TV Series:

"House M.D." (2004)

Original Air Date:

14 December 2004 (Season 1, Episode 5)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery

Plot:

A nun arrives at the clinic with what appears to be a skin rash caused by an allergy, and starts to...

Plot Keywords:

Nun | Christmas | Title Spoken By Character | Doctor | Medical Doctor

Cast

Hugh Laurie	...	Dr. Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein	...	Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Omar Epps	...	Dr. Eric Foreman
Robert Sean Leonard	...	Dr. James Wilson
Jennifer Morrison	...	Dr. Allison Cameron
Jesse Spencer	...	Dr. Robert Chase
Elizabeth Mitchell	...	Sister Mary Augustine
Lucinda Jenney	...	Sister Mary Eucharist
Dakin Matthews	...	Marvin - Santa Claus
Lori Rom	...	Sister Mary Pius
Ann Dowd	...	Mother Superior
Taji Coleman	...	Tech
Peter James	...	Priest (as James Symington)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 | Japan:Unrated

Company:

Bad Hat Harry Productions

Trivia:

The chocolate bar House is eating in the hospital chapel is Cadburys Dairy Milk, an English chocolate company that Hugh Laurie did voiceovers for.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Dr. Foreman refers to a patient's "eophinosil" count. The word he's after is "eosinophil" (a type of white blood cell).

Quotes:

Dr. James Wilson: Want to come over for Christmas dinner?
Dr. Gregory House: You're Jewish.
Dr. James Wilson: Yeah, Hanukkah dinner. What do you care? It's food, it's people.

Movie Connections:

Features "North Shore" (2004)

Soundtrack:

Silent Night

Hard to watch Part Deux

Another unpleasant and extremely serious episode, as House works on a nun who exhibits a scary bunch of symptoms. She has a secret House must wrest from her in order to save her. But she would rather fly into the arms of her loving God than help House. This is one of those episodes that is so intense, I am amazed the show has any audience. But the truth is, it represents drama of the highest order, as House and the nun go at each other. The acres playing the nun is first-rate and quite believable. This is the kind of episode that makes me flashback to my days as a hospital orderly and nurse's aide, something I would rather not dwell on.