Simple Packaging and Just the Episodes
If you are just looking for every episode of House, and not looking for any special collectors only edition, this will work for you. The thought process behind this product was probably "Lets take the 8 seasons of House, make each season fit into one DVD case, and then design a box for them to fit in."
House Series done just right!
Let's face it, most of us, when buying an entire series, want it to be of high quality, reasonably priced, complete with all episodes and a minimum amount of extraneous "additional" features, i.e. pamphlets, photos and other stuff that may raise the cost of the purchase and which most of us don't want and won't read anyway. I mean, after all is said and done we just want to watch the programs.
I have throughly enjoyed this set. The discs were all there when I opened the set (you'd be surprized how often a disc is missing or duplicated leaving the set incomplete) and there was a very brief synopsis of each episode within the DVD case.
The subtitles were in English and Spanish and were "almost" verbatim to the dialog unlike some subtitles that I have experienced where the subtitle replaces whole phrases and words and really has nothing to do with what the actor had just said.
Disc one of each Season also included "Special...
A great series
Fair warning, this will contain spoilers from throughout the series. If you have not seen it yet, read at your own risk...
House was witty, acerbic, arrogant, and could get away with saying or doing anything (at least in the early seasons) because he was the best at what he did. It is how we all wish we could be at work from one time to another. Hugh Laurie played him perfectly. The balance between the gruff Vicodin addicted doctor who did not care, balanced with the friend and co-worker who really did care deep down. The diagnosis of the week aspect of the show did get repetitive, even in the first season. It was basically trying to diagnose a mystery disease, being wrong most of the show, and then House dramatically diagnosing the case at the end of the show. The real meat of what kept the show on the air for 8 years however, was the character interactions. The patient cases were, for the most part, just a backdrop.
The show kind of fell into the trap of...
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