House's team gets the usual "interesting case": a man, mentally crippled by an accident since when he was 10 years old, but a musical genius nonetheless, is suddenly devastated by seizures and other assorted clinical problems. His music can be the key to save him.
But meanwhile something else is afoot: House is in contact with another hospital. At the beginning it looks that a rival clinic is trying to hire House away, but some clues lead to a different truth: House is seeking some sort of treatment for a serious personal condition - something unrelated to his leg problems. Bit by bit, and using House very own methods behind his back (including an illegal visit to House's apartment), the staff puts together what is happening to their "we love to hate" doctor. And, when the enormity of the situation is revealed, Cameron, Foreman, Chase and Cuddy almost forget about the poor piano-playing dimwit while scrambling to help House...
There is a lot to like and a lot of dislike in this episode. First, and mainly, the average "House" fan will get *what* is happening within the first twenty minutes: it is the *why* that keeps the viewer alert until the end. Also, I feel that how House friends can still be talking to him after this episode borders on the continuity error. I still do not understand how, at the end, at least one of the four didn't ripped his eyeballs out. On the good side, of course the *why* is sheer House.
About the clinical case "du jour" I didn't recognized David Matthews himself (of the David Matthews Band) as the patient; I think that he was really good in this part, as was Kurtwood Smith as his father. Which leads, however, to another problem: their story and the moral implications were interesting, and the actors good, so I think that they would have deserved a more focused episode. Here, House's fans are too distracted by what is happening to the main character to really bother about "the other story", and also the time devoted to it is, by necessity, shorter.
(Also, even if I know it is cheesy, I think that every "Dead Poet Society" fan would have welcomed a scene with Robert Sean Leonard and Kurtwood Smith together. So, what Neal Perry did become? An actor or a MD? :o) )
According to Wikipedia, both Laurie and Matthews got to show their musical skills here, but, unless I missed it, the episode lacks a shot where one or both of them are actually seen playing: you see either the faces or the hands, so you cannot be sure when/if someone else is standing for them.
All in all, a good even if flawed episode, and a must see if only to understand to what extremes House can go.
But meanwhile something else is afoot: House is in contact with another hospital. At the beginning it looks that a rival clinic is trying to hire House away, but some clues lead to a different truth: House is seeking some sort of treatment for a serious personal condition - something unrelated to his leg problems. Bit by bit, and using House very own methods behind his back (including an illegal visit to House's apartment), the staff puts together what is happening to their "we love to hate" doctor. And, when the enormity of the situation is revealed, Cameron, Foreman, Chase and Cuddy almost forget about the poor piano-playing dimwit while scrambling to help House...
There is a lot to like and a lot of dislike in this episode. First, and mainly, the average "House" fan will get *what* is happening within the first twenty minutes: it is the *why* that keeps the viewer alert until the end. Also, I feel that how House friends can still be talking to him after this episode borders on the continuity error. I still do not understand how, at the end, at least one of the four didn't ripped his eyeballs out. On the good side, of course the *why* is sheer House.
About the clinical case "du jour" I didn't recognized David Matthews himself (of the David Matthews Band) as the patient; I think that he was really good in this part, as was Kurtwood Smith as his father. Which leads, however, to another problem: their story and the moral implications were interesting, and the actors good, so I think that they would have deserved a more focused episode. Here, House's fans are too distracted by what is happening to the main character to really bother about "the other story", and also the time devoted to it is, by necessity, shorter.
(Also, even if I know it is cheesy, I think that every "Dead Poet Society" fan would have welcomed a scene with Robert Sean Leonard and Kurtwood Smith together. So, what Neal Perry did become? An actor or a MD? :o) )
According to Wikipedia, both Laurie and Matthews got to show their musical skills here, but, unless I missed it, the episode lacks a shot where one or both of them are actually seen playing: you see either the faces or the hands, so you cannot be sure when/if someone else is standing for them.
All in all, a good even if flawed episode, and a must see if only to understand to what extremes House can go.