House

Every season of a show seems to have those classic episodes that the show is judged upon.. Season 1 had Three Stories, and Season 2 has both parts of Euphoria. It's one thing when you have a patient that the doctors are dealing with, but it's another when one of the doctors you've spent a couple years getting used to and growing to know.



All of the storylines built up from the previous couple of episodes paid off, especially the argument between Cameron and Foreman about being colleagues or friends. As Foreman's health decreases, the tension rises and you start to wonder whether or not Foreman might actually die.



The writing is top notch here, and the big reveal about what's causing Foreman's illness doesn't come right away, which gives us time to get more into Foreman's head and figure out the relationship between him and his parents, as well as him and the rest of the team.

We also get to see that House actually might care for his patients, especially when he knows them and has gotten to know them over the last few years. This episode was definitely revealing, well written, acted, directed and was just overall one of the strongest episodes of House to date.

This is one of the best episodes of House, and that is saying something this Season!



For the first time since Histories, DNR and (possibley) the first episode of this Season, we saw more development in Foreman. It was a testiment to the acting skills of the dry Omar Epps that you see the fear in his eyes when he develops the same symptoms as his patient. It was also interesting to see just how much House cared- the look on his face said it all.



Also the audience gets to see the consequences of Foreman and Cameron's little spat two episodes ago, as it built into an extraordinary climax with Foreman trying to infect Cameron to save himself. He was very selfish, but also very scared and I don't necessarily see him as a bad character.



Overall, with the patient dying at the end, the viewer is left in suspense for the next episode. A brilliantly written and dramatic episode; the first House two parter.

In the first half of one of the highpoints of season two, a policeman is admitted to House's care after being hit in the head with multiple bullet fragments with a case of euphoria to boot. What begins as a complex medical "whodunit" case ends up a very personal fight for House and his team as Foreman contracts the policeman's illness and fights for his life as well.



"Euphoria (1)" sees House in a vulnerable state and, in a very un-House manner, worrying immensely about the condition and future of one of his team members. Usually, House does not care about his patients enough to really worry about their condition (but contrast to what he would like to believe, he really does care a little) and often takes risks to cure them. However, here in "Euphoria (1)" (and "Euphoria (2)" for that matter) House plays things uncharacteristically safe and becomes desperate with trying to figure out how to save Foreman. You really feel the tension and fear in the air as House and his team tries to solve the deadly mystery of what is eating the policeman and Foreman's brains - and feel the pain and angst as Foreman tries to solve it himself and deal with ones of life's surest possibilities: death.

This episode was surprisingly amazing, at first I was wondering why this was a Part 2 towards the beginning, but when Foreman got sicker, who knows where they will take this show. I love the morgue scene when he shoots the dead person. "I shot him, he's dead" I also love the part when the corpse is in the MRI, that must of sucked when the bullets got of of his skull, another one of my favorite parts is when Foreman injects Cameron and after all that Cameron still cares about him. Then she gets the things & House surprises her. Anyways the cop dies which was so sad, anyways a great episode. !!!!

One of the best episodes of the series so far. Now that House, Chase, Cameron and now Foreman have had centric storylines, it may be time for Cuddy or Wilson next season. I mean House had the Stacy-arc, Chase was the mole for Volger, Cameron had an AIDS scare and Foreman has a life-threatening illness.



Back to the episode, it was nerve-wracking right the way through and the cliffhanger at the end was answered superbly in Part 2. I have to say the intro was weird IN A GOOD WAY - The police officer got shot and continued laughing hysterically and then Foreman laughed hysterically after visiting the guys apartment was scary! How can anyone live in that pile of crap he calls his house?

The only complain that I have against this show is that it is a bit monotematic.Luckily House's narsisitic humor makes the show much more interesting , but there has been missing an episode that make the audience actually worried not only about the patients but for the doctors as well and this one was definetely it , and that gives and excellent extra touch . It was very original and seems like everything happened in just 40 minutes. Foreman and Cameron's lives are at stake we see an incredible over-protective House who by the way shots a dead man in the morgue wow that was so unexpected!!.Of course a great cliffhanger that left me with my mouth open due to Foreman's inhability to save the cop and his apparently inminent death, of course he is not gonna die because this is a tv show but still the possibility makes me wanna watch second part right now. Anyway I think this episode was a masterpiece and they should do more episodes like this.

The episode starts out like most others. The only thing that seemed out of the ordinary was that House sent Foreman to check the patient's (Joe) apartment right from the start. Usually they don't do that until after commercials. But in this case it was a plot device as it places Foreman in the same situation as Joe.



And that situation is not a fun one to be in. It starts out with euphoria, continues on to blindness and from there it progresses to pain. A lot of pain. The concept is very interesting and the story continues to grow while the tension rises. By placing Foreman, one of the ducklings, in the role of patient several new situations emerge. One being that it's the first time we've seen any of our lead characters as a patient (aside from House in "Three Stories, but he wasn't treated by the show's team), which makes the storyline a lot more interesting. For one it places a character we care about in danger, and for another it makes it easier for the viewer to relate to the storyline. By using one of the lead characters we can more easily identify not only with what it must feel like to be in that situation, but with how it progresses. We know nothing about Joe the cop, but we know Foreman and we know when he's acting odd or something is wrong. It also allows the writers to dig deep into character relations storylines, and for the principal actors to play off each other. It also makes the race against time much more effective.



The other patient of the episode, Joe the cop, is a guy we don't know at all. All we know is how he acts while he's infected with this illness. He does not come off in a positive light at all, and I'm not just talking about the fact that he's got his own drug plantation at home. The way he acts is not very appealing at all. What makes it interesting is that we don't know if this is his personality, or if it's the illness. When Foreman starts to act strangely too we can start to wonder what Joe is really like.



Aside from just character development this episode featured a "shocker". Kind of literally. House's adventure in the morgue and the resulting MRI havock was cheap in a way, but it did work quite well. For me it helped build up the creepy feeling and the tension. Both the gunshot and the incident in the MRI played off as the "faux scare" in a horror movie. And just the fact that they were in the morgue helped set the mood. This whole episode was shot in darker colors and with less light, to help provide the proper atmoshpere.



One of the best things about the episode was that it focused a lot more on the characters than on solving the case. This was partly done by setting it up so that they could hardly perform any tests at all on Joe. But most of all it gave us a chance to explore these character's further.

House is both scared and full of guilt in this episode, something which is not characteristic of him. Normally he would be very well aware of the fact that he couldn't possibly know what would happen when he sent Foreman to Joe's apartment. He does that kind of thing every week and this is the first time it's gotten one of his employees into trouble; logically House knows that it's not his fault. Yet his guilt, as well as his fear, shows that he genuingly cares about Foreman and doesn't want to see him die (especially not in such a way). It shows us that he is in fact more than just a jerk.

Foreman goes through many stages during the course of the episode, and one can only imagine what it must be like to be locked up with Joe and get a sneak preview of the symptoms he will later experience. Even though there are glass walls to the room there's a very claustrophobic feel to it, and having Foreman in a hospital gown with an IV rack makes him seem very vulnerable. What he does to Cameron is a horrible thing to do, but yet he doesn't come off as a jerk. He's fighting for his life and he's starting to lose control, so he uses the only method available to him. He knows that the chances of her being infected are slim, but it will get her to go to Joe's apartment. Frankly I think most people would do anything they had to in that situation. When he talks to Chase later on he stands by his choice to do what he did, but he expresses concern for Cameron at the same time.

When it comes to Cameron, I don't blame her for being very angry with Foreman. But on the other hand, when she thought she might have HIV she was frustrated with Chase for not understanding what she was going through, so she bit him on the lip. She basically did the same thing to Chase as Foreman did to her, only Foreman did it to save his life. However Foreman knows he's infected, while Cameron didn't know if she had HIV or not. Unfortunately Cameron comes off as a little bland in this episode, being the weakest link. I don't know if it's because of Jennifer Morrisson's performance or if it's the fault of the writers or the director. But she seems meek and emotionally detached.

Chase, the last of the ducklings, is left to be what little that binds the quartet together at this point. While Foreman is getting sicker by the minute, House is full of guilt and Cameron is left to try and save Foreman and perhaps herself too, Chase is the one who is the least affected. Jesse Spencer does a good job in this episode, keeping Chase at the right level at all times. It is interesting to note that while Chase is clearly not approving of what Foreman did to Cameron, he also doesn't turn his back on Foreman. You can sense a real friendship between the two of them.



The best acting performance of this episode is by Omar Epps. It is of course always easier to shine in an episode which centers on your character, but I think Epps did a phenomenal job here. From being the normal Foreman at first, to preserving Foreman's character through the euphoria phase, to how he handles with the things that follow. Foreman's fear and growing panic is very nicely portrayed; he underplays it rather than going over the top, and Epps never stops being Foreman. Some actors tend to abandon their character when the character is faced with a difficult situation or powerful feelings in order to just portray the emotions. Epps portrays those emotions through Foreman.

The absolutely best moment by Epps was when Foreman realises what is happening to Joe and the pain center of his brain. You could hear that Foreman was on the verge of tears in that scene. It was a very touching performance.



I do admit I was expecting the bird poop thing to be the correct diagnosis, with the following episode devoted to treating it in time. The build-up with Cameron running down to the isolation room was great, and now they're back to square one for next episode. Only they don't have a lot of time before Foreman dies a painful death. I wonder if Joe's death might not be a blessing in disguise for Foreman. Maybe an autopsy would reveal what the real problem is? I'll be sure to tune in next week.

I enjoyed this episode very much! This was the very first episode of House I ever saw! There is also some funny parts in this episode! My favorite part is when House shoots the dead dude in the head because he wants to do an MRI on him.

It's not my favorite episode. And its not the BEST epsiode. That is why I am not giving it a perfect score. I give it a 9.7/10

This was such an extreme episode. It was an edge of the seat one. Foreman getting sick while working on the case was something that was scary. Foreman cracking jokes was even scarier.



I loved House shooting into the corpse of a cancer patient to see if the MRI would break. Foreman laughing hysterically after he did that proved that he was getting sick. Foreman and the cop locked in isolation together was almost funny, because of what seemed to be Forman's severe hate for him.



Foreman shooting Cameron with the infected needle was terrifying. It was something that you couldn't really see Foreman doing, but you could see him doing it. And you could see with that scene that Cameron and Foreman had some tension still about the stupid article.



Cameron going back to Joe's apartment against House's orders was great. I loved seeing that side of Cameron that you rarely get the chance to see. This was a really good episode and made even greater by Joe's death and Foreman getting sick.

I thought episode focused more on establishing the second part of the episode rather then try and make something out of the time given. What I mean by that is this episode was primarly a filler episode for the second part, which should be more exciting now that its Foremans life on the line and House and Company have to race to save him. There was really only one storyline here - Foreman and the cop each showing signs of the same symptoms. This marks the first time that a patient has bitten the dust before House could save him. Now that Foremans life hangs in the balance the intensity and the drama should pick up next episode.

This episode was really perfect. House was as usual, clever and witty, the case itself was interesting (what causes euphoria? I think we all have at some point laughed hysterically, but usually it is not connected with some disease). My favourite part of the episode was the scene with Wilson and House. We learned that House really does care about his team though he does not always show it. I also loved the end, it added tension and made me wait for the next episode. The storyline between Cameron and Foreman was also developed. Cameron wants to be his friend, no matter what he says or does. The writing was really just perfect and I hope the next episode is as good.

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I'm not usually a House watcher but since it has been airing prior to NCIS I've seen a few. This episode was very dramatic and I just had to sit there and watch it to the end. I had thought that the pigeons would be mentioned sooner or later (I think I saw that on another show). Apart from that it was very well done also in regards to the police officer who died - unlike most of House's cases who he usually manages to cure or solve the underlying problems.



If you've never watched an episode of House this is one to you have to see. I'm hoping that part 2 will be just as good.

Wow! What an episode. A cop who has uncontrollable laughter! Who would of thought. This episode was no joke. Drama was packed in from Foreman getting the "disease" to him infecting Cameron with the same thing! What a bum! He's scared to die so he does it to one of his professional partners! I had no idea that it came from where it did. This episode was one of the best in series. Now all Foreman can do is put it in House's hands and see if they can find a cure before he too dies. (i hope he does! gosh! he's annoying!)But will House do it for Foreman with all the things that he has done to him in the past?

9.5/10

You know what I liked best about the show tonight? It's something we have sort of known but hasn't been articulated. House truly cares for his staff. He even said as much, in his own way, while taking a jab at Wilson. I didn't like that so much, but House jabs out of love. You know what else I didn't like? Watching Joe, the pot-farming cop, slowly die. I wanted a happy ending for Joe, whose life was pretty pathetic. He didn't even get to go quickly. He took the express train from euphoria to abject pain and it wasn't pretty. That train will be making a return trip for Foreman, whose symptoms might have been recognized sooner had he not been acting like such a jerk lately. Despite his recent bad behavior, I feel for the guy.



So does Cameron. What does a guy have to do to make Cameron hate him? A lot. He could steal your article. He could disavow your friendship. He could stab you with a diseased needle. Cameron would still enter a hot zone to save him. That, my friends, is the mark of a special person. Whether it be short-bus special or uniquely gifted special, the jury's still out. Speaking of the short bus — House broke the MRI machine. Frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't broken on its own given the workout it gets from House's team. It's fitting that it was the man himself who overloaded it with a corpse's bullet-filled head. Is shooting a corpse in the name of a differential diagnosis too much? You tell me. All I know is that it was creepy watching John Doe go all "night of the living dead" in the chamber. I look forward to Cuddy's reprimand for this stunt. And where is she by the way? She's certainly not in this half of the sweeps opener. Tune in tomorrow night when we find out if Foreman lives or dies, if Cameron is infected and if House can forgive Wilson his transgressions.

Not only this House episode has a VERY interesting case, but, it has twists like in high concept dramas! Oh and a cliffhanger, too!



No surprise: House and his team cant figure out whats wrong with the patient... but usually, after a few tries they do. Now, they dont..

symptons are weird too. laugh? then get blind? incredible pain?



oh and the twist.. uh oh. pooooor Foreman. I can't say how much I loved this episode. Absolutely excellent acting, brilliant plot, and oh my god, the TWISTS!!! Ah, I think House just reached a point where it simply can not get ANY better!

I really liked this episode as the story line was very good and we got shown a darker side to Foreman, it was very unexpected but made for great entertainment. I love watching House and the only problem i had with the episode was that in the UK (where i live) this and the second part were shown one week after the other and that was really very anoying as i didnt want to wait a week i wanted to see them together as i think the people in the USA did, you are very lucky. Anyway i thought that this was a very good episode and i can't wait to see the next part.

Me and my dad saw this episode and I have to say I was amazed.

I think that the funniest part of the episode was when House was at the Mourge. That crack about his mom not answering really got me laughing. Also, I don't know what House was thinking when he did that test on the corpse to see how magnetic the bullets were, he of all people should know that the MRI is a super magnet, even if it was the least magnetic piece of metal ever it was obvioulsy going to break the MRI machine. Basically I think that this was an episode worthy of my viewing.

Admittedly, I seem to be a bit late jumping on the House bandwagon. After watching the first part of this two-part episode, I was just floored and could hardly wait for the conclusion on the final night. The plot-line was riveting; the twists and turns were nail-biting; the acting was simply stellar. Now I realize what all the fuss has been about all this time. This is one show I will certainly be taping in the future. For now, though, I'm going to immediately go out and buy season one. I want to know all the great things I've missed from the very beginning!

The episode starts off with a run of the mill police chase. The police officer tracks the criminal into a dumpster and lures him out. The officer begins to laugh and continues laughing even after he is shot...above the eye...and bleeding pretty profusely.



Ahh, but the action doesn't stop there. House and the team need an MRI because the diagnosis probably has to do with the brain. But they can't do one because the officer still has bullet fragments in his head. So what does House do? Shoots a cadaver in the same place and puts him in the MRI machine! Then it cuts to the bullet fragments being pulled out of the cadaver's head (an MRI machine is a big magnet). Yea, picture that agin.



Then foreman seems to have contacted whatever the police officer (Joe) has. Foreman is put in an isolated room with the patient. Towards the end of the episode, he is getting desperate to find out what exactly is going on. So he sticks Cameron with an infected needle when she is in the isolation room monitoring his vitals. He does this so she would go back to the officer's house and take more samples- against House's wishes. He guessed (coreectly) that Cameron would only go if her life was at stake as well. Later Foreman asks how she is doing...hypocrite...lol. People will do anything to survive. Although, I do feel bad for Foreman being stuck in the room with the officer, facing his own mortality, trying to save Joe....

I am loving this season of House. Each episode tends to be better than the one before and this episode is no exception. This season has been filled with its share of insane moments, from House giving himself a migrane to prove a point, to Cameron getting AIDS blood splattered on her, to Chase accidentally killing a patient, and now Foreman becoming the patient.



But I think my favorite moment in the season thus far was Hous shooting the dead guy in the head AND THEN having the MRI machine to rip the bullets out of the guy's forehead. Just wonderfully gruesome stuff. If there's ever an R-rated X-Men movie, Magneto's got to do something like that (it will probably be him ripping the adamantium out of Wolverine, a la X-Men #25).



Also, props to the director for using bulletime for a reason (to show the bullet fragments entering the cop's skull), not just because it looks cool.



While this episode did a good job of setting up the premise, it was part two that delivered the goods and I will talk about those goods in my review of that episode.

This episode was worth watching and the suspense is killing me. I don't think that they will let anything happen to Forman but then I was very suprised to see the cop die. And I can't believe that Forman stabbed Dr. Cameron in the leg with that needle just to get her to go back to the apartment. Of all people he should know that House and the team do everything in their power to find out what is happening to the patient and him being part of the team well I just didn't picture him doing anything like that it was really messed up!!!

House was a show that my wife had told me to watch, because she thought that I would like the characters, especially House. I tried it out, and now I am hooked. This newest one is great. I love how they are showing a sensitive side to House, and that he really does care about his staff. What doesn\'t shock me anymore with FOX and their shows, is they have no problems killing off stars. So it will be interesting to see if Forman makes it out alive tonight and House fails with a cure. It could happen. I can\'t really say much more until after I tune in tonight.

Yet again I am left wondering what is going to happen to another one of House’s team, now Foreman is dying. But this time in the diagnosis, both House and foreman are wrong, and foreman thinks that stabbing Cameron with a tainted needle is going to infect her with the same thing. Foreman is wrong as house concurs foreman’s theory as he confronts Cameron as she is doing the break-in this time. This episode has also revealed to me Foreman’s hate for the police and some of his true attitude. But this episode has left me wondering if Foreman is going to die or if House and the rest of his team will be able to save him after the loss of Joe.

Just when you think you have everyone pigeon-holed (no pun intended), you turn around and they hit you where you least expect it. Excellent writing, brilliant performances and edge of your seat gripping. Everyone looks real scared, and you feel it too. This is one ride that you have to hang on to!

Mixed with suspence, shock and nevre shaking words and actions, this episode has all the ingredients for a perfect tikka masala House. With a strating off plain white rice, you get the intro of the episode where you see the situation that the patiant is in before they become severly ill, after taking a couple bits of it, you find that there is sauce, like all curry's, its spice and good to get into. The sauce is now the lining of the rice, which is nearly forgotten by now because you are so caught up in the hot sauce that is now developing in new ways to your taste buds, you see Foreman changing too, becoming different, yet exciting, the plot thickens, as does the tikka.



I compare this episode to tikka masala for two reason, the main being, i had it for dinner tonight and i love it, much like this episode of House, it is new, exciting and you can't get enough of it. The second being that Tikka is a mixture of many different things, much like this episode of House aswell, giving equal amount of screen time to all the main character, yet still making each one develop and have their own show and break throughs and downs and making the audience love them even more, even if they do go phyco on each other.



Like tikka, there are many suprises, i found a massive bit of chicken in mine and House did many outragous things, but some of them were overshot by Foreman and his out of character actions. There is a perfect amount of rice, sauce, chicken and spice that keeps me coming back to tikka, and i can say the same for House, only i would then have to be speaking metaphoricaly.



All in all, i love Chicken Tikka Masala, and This is one of the best episodes of House yet, and i cannot wait until i can see the next colourful and textured episode which i\'m sure will keep me bitting my pillow and screaming for more, whist taking in every thing i possible can.

I didn\'t realise til the end that this is a two part episode to be continued tomorrow which has left me all the more in suspense. I thought it was a good House episode. Not the best but there were a couple of House moments like the MRI machine incident and the morgue incident (don\'t want to give too much away). Then there was the \"Foreman, the police are our friends.. if one of us gets seperated..\". :D



There was also a moment when we really see how House feels about his pupils when Wilson makes his brief appearance.



All in all definately one to watch even if you aren\'t an avid watcher.



Can\'t wait to watch the follow up tomorrow!

This episode was not bad, but for some reason I feel the show is getting a bit less realistic lately. It used to be about medical team with a great doctor dealing with real life situations, now there is a bit too much unrealistic events... and almost repetitve... find diagnosis, search home, in the 20 minute mark, you mis-diagnose, then eventually House gets it. Dont get me wrong, the show still has me at the edge of my seat, but the last few weeks seem to be a bit predictable. Also are they writing Foreman off the show? Will he die tomorrow?

An absolutely stunning episode, with brilliant acting from almost everyone. Cuddy and Wilson have small roles, while Chase doesn't do anything special.



But House is even more spectacular than usual, showing a vulnerable side we've never seen before. (Strangely like Dr Cox from Scrubs on last weeks episode.) Foreman is a standout, and it's painful to watch him see what is about to happen to him. Cameron is also brilliant after what happens to her.



Being stuck in the same room as a man with the same disease as you, watching him go through unbearable pain, knowing you are about experience the same thing. Emmy winning writing and acting. It's just that good.

This episode was incredible. We of course had House's humor in the beginning. How bad can a guy be who's name is baby shoes? This episode kept me on the edge of my seat, and I can't wait until tomorrow to see the second half. Foreman as usual was being a jerk throughout the show. I certainly hope he'll have to face the consequences for his actions. I know he's sick, but to infect someone else, that's low. He's supposed to be a doctor a healer. He's not a sympathetic character at all, and I find myself really not caring if he gets well or not. He went too far, but that's part of what makes this episode so good, and will make you keep watching to see him get his. The fact that towards the end of the show he still had no remorse for what he did to Cameron makes me really hate him.