House

After a season that didn't have that many great storylines, this one was absolute perfection and made the rest of the season look better to me.

At the beginning of the episode you have no idea what is actually going on. Then we learn that House ws in a bus crash and remembers that someone on that bus needs his help, but he can't remember who it was. He tries to find out in a lot of different ways and nearly dies during the process. And when we learn at the end who the sick one is, I felt really sad. This episode combines genius writing and great acting. Perfect!

This episode was the best episode since Three Stories way back in Season 1. Despite being the weakest of the Seasons, this one was brilliant from start to finish.



House has lost his memory after being involved in a bus crash, convinced he saw a sympton beforehand. The resulting diagnosing process is unusual and interesting, with House going through hypnosis and drugs to help him remember and diagnose.



I loved the hypnosis scenes and how he hallucinates Cuddy in a sexual way, perhaps revealing some deeper feelings for her. I also loved the mystery woman who House kept halluncinating, and was so shocked when the woman turned out to be Amber! I probably should have seen it coming, but the first time I watched it I most certainly didn't!



Overall, the episode was witty, brilliantly acted, shocking- basically one of the best 40 mins of television every shot, setting up the finale perfectly.

It seems as if each season, there's at least one benchmark episode that can be used to prove that House truly is and has been one of the best television shows. In this two parter, it's difficult to say one is better than the other because they both are necessary to get the full effect. House's Head/Wilson's Heart allow us to not only get to the heart of how House operates but allows us to get a true introspective moment near the end of the two hours, when he's sitting with Amber on the bus and telling her drug-addicted drunk people don't deserve to live while young people in love like her die. House is quite tame in this episode, allowing us to see a side of him we rarely see. Not only is this episode the best of Season 4 but perhaps one of the best in the show.



Everybody gets a chance for some screen-time in this episode, including Cameron and Chase, who seemed to take a major backseat to the new supporting characters for the entire season. It was really disappointing, but at least we got to see them in action this time.



However, regardless of all of this, the true gold of the episode lays in the relationship strain between House and Wilson. These two characters have been thick as thieves for four years, and suddenly, this turn of events threatens to tear them apart. If that doesn't make for good drama, I don't know what does. Grey's Anatomy can keep their melodrama; House wrings the drama out of every moment in this episode without it feeling forced or contrived.



With the show now entering Season 6, you'll be hard-pressed to find an episode that will rival this one. This is House at it's absolute best and it'll have to work pretty hard to get back to this point again.

I've been a hardcore House fan back when they were airing season 2 for the first time. I've watched all the episodes and if I had to come up with a favorite season it would be season 4. Mainly because it surprised me so much. Right after the old team left (Cameron, Chase, Foreman) in season 3, my expectations for season 4 were damn low. Yet they pulled it off so good, it now is easily my favorite season and definatly the funniest one for that matter! A big reason why it's my favorite also has to do with the outstanding finale (mainly House's Head). Man, do I love this episode!

They changed their routine in this one. The first scene isn't about the patient and what his or her first symptoms are. This one is all about House and figuring out what happened to him and the bus. He (and therefor we) take a good look inside his brilliant but dazzled head and piece by piece a picture is formed that leads into the next episode 'Wilson's Heart'. The whole concept change was brilliant and shocking (the revelation that is)! After I watched this episode I had to see the last scene more than once, just to fully appreciate its amazingness.

Where do I start in reliving such a surreal and interesting episode of House? Can I just start by saying off I commend the producers for trying to pull off something like this. Though I must say I was not a fan of what they tried to do, I still liked the originality and the shock value it brought.



The episode was just House trying to figure out who was sick. I know right? So instead of 38 minutes of finding out what's wrong with a patient, we get 42 minutes of House looking for the patient himself/ herself.



The episode was certainly thrilling and had me questioning it from the start, but the whole supernatural dream thing was a bit too much for me.

Since House's Head aired no other episode of House has matched. Some have come close. Some have never even gotten in the ballpark the last half of Season six, for example. I wish House this Season was as cerebral and intelligent as the first 5 seasons but the writers have been working on bringing "character development" to House. He is no longer as 'rude' as he once was, and he is no longer popping Vicodin tabs by the handful. No explanation or discussion of his pain has been made in recent episodes. It is a big mistake. Pain doesn't just go away, it is a miserable entity that must always be fought. Showing his mangled leg in the episode with Cutty was a nice touch b ut it doesn't begin to explain why no mention of his pain is discussed anymore. I think

the show is off in strange uncharted waters right now. It will be interesting to see where they take the show but I wish they would not neglect House's real enemy-PAIN.

This episode proves three things: One is that House has a brilliant mind, Two that the writers themselves are all fantastically talented and a gifted set of people and the fact it took so many people to make only shows how much care and time they spent making sure this was a gripping episode that broke the formulaic trend of patient of the week and finally Three that House still has the magic that made it special in the first place. I'm so pleased this won an Emmy and the end was totally worth the red herrings scattered through the episode.

Wow.. This was an amazing episode. Really there are not many words I can use to describe this episode. It's pretty different from the others House's case, because it has something we cannot quite get. You always have the feeling, while watching this episode, that something is missing; you kind of feel what House is feeling. You are, just like him, not able to put together the puzzle. I have always liked the episode where one of the main cast member is involved (Like they did for Foreman back in season two); then again the end of the episode was revealing an totally unexpected! Poor Amber, I was starting to like her.

What I liked the most was the ability of the whole cast (writers included): they paid a lot of attention in every little thing; they made you find out one little thing at a time throughout House's eyes. Well done!

The episode opens with House in a strip club. House seems to have forgotten about 4 hours of his life. As he leaves the club, he sees there has been a massive accident. Chase puts him in a hypno state to try and remember his missing hour. House traces down who he believes he was following, that is dying. Unfortunately he is wrong. We then discover that the patient he is after is in fact the bus driver, who caused the crash.

House starts to hallucinate and so Wilson orders him to have a MRI. House later collapses and his sent home with his own nurse (very old). House re-creates the bus crash with people from the hospital. House then realises that the Jane Doe in the other hospital is actually Amber. Amber has a pole going through her thigh. We then see House in the present and that he has collapses, and his heart had stopped. Luckily he was brought back round. When he comes round he tells Wilson about Amber. Wilson looks deep in shock even more so when house tells him, she's the one that is drying.

I loved this episode because it was all one big mystery. You don't know who the victim is until the end, I also love how House uses hypnosis & puts every bit & piece together. As he goes along. The bus crash was amazing. Whoever made that happen was good at it, I just don't get how it could get flipped over that many times. I also like the end when everyone dressed up as House remembers. "What is my necklace made of?" It's Amber! That was very shocking! Amazing great cliffhanger as well. Cuddy stripped. This was the show's high point. Really good part one to a season finale.

House is on a bus full of people when suddenly it crashes.



After the crash he remembers that someone on the bus had an unknow illness,But the only thing wrong is that House has lost his short term memory.



House has a skull fracture which is why he needs to rest.He keeps ignoring everyone elses advice to rest,But he is determined to figure out who has the illness.



For awhile house thinks it the bus driver but after many tests the bus driver wasn't the one who has the illness.



To get houses memory started he tryes deep brain stimulation, which works for awhile.

This episode begins after the bus that House was on got into a crash. He wakes up with amnesia and knows that someone is dying but can't remember who it is. House find ways to recall his memories, of course with a touch of his sarcastic humor. There's also a little of House's mental fantasy.



There is also a sense of mystery and adventure in House's mind and his dreams are like a big puzzle of symbolic imagery which he pieces together to finally get the answer he was looking for. This episode is a really enjoyable mind trip.



I really liked the special effects and how it looks like House is having "psychic" visions of himself. I've always been fascinated with the human mind and this episode has really entertained my taste for psychology and dreams.

This episode was a mystery from the very beginning. House has a head injury and has lost his memory. Someone is dying and he must remember who it is to save his/her life.



I want the director to win the Emmy this year for House's Head. I understand why it was chosen for the nomination. There were so many different settings. Through the dream sequences, the viewer is taken in and out of reality, from one place to another. It was such an emotional roller coaster ride and I was on the edge of my seat.



My best hopes for Greg Yaitanes! Season Four is when House needs to break through with wins at the Emmys.

i think it's safe in saying a lot of the reason people watch this show is because dr. house is such a funny character and this episode is everthing this show is about, and in every episode u get to see a little bit of who house is but getting inside his mind where he is the main character and controls everyone else was just really awesome, and as hott as cuddy was stripping i love that scene because it shows how much house loves being a doctor, it's everthing to him and even thought that's what makes him a good doctor it also is what makes him so unhappy because it's hard to have a relationship with a doctor because the work always has to come first

That was different. I mean different in a good way a really good way but different. The beginning threw me a tiny bit I was like whoa what's happening, what is this but my guess is that was intention. I had a feeling while watching House try and figure out who the patient was, then trying to cure him (the bus driver that is) that there was something he was missing. It's the only that made sense considering it was basically following him around dresses as a hottie in a power suit. I read from spoilers that Amber was on the bus, in the crash but I never expected her to be the one that was dying from something! Good twist! Then again it makes so much sense now. They dropped hints that Amber was on the bus. She popped in the beginning hypnosis sequence, House wasn't "objectifying" her as he does all other women, Wilson and House's conversation when he was having the MRI, the power suit chickies necklace (Amber, that was impossible to miss), the fact that this whole thing seemed to matter to House without him really knowing or having any reason for it to matter. All pointers that she was in the crash but I still didn't think it was her that was sick until the last moments when House's heart stopped and remembered that Amber had been in the crash with him. Poor Wilson, he looked utterly shocked. I feel so bad for him and Amber actually, which is so weird because just a few months ago she was CTB to me and nothing more I was surprised that they were keeping her around. I ended up liking the idea of she and Wilson but it was really only because I knew it was be quite a shocker to House and hilarity would ensue. But now...now, I actually like them together and I actually like her. Last weeks episodes where she told Wilson to pick the bed he wanted, and the end scene when they were laying on the floor. It was really, really cute. The one thing I didn't like was Cuddy's little dance thing which was a little to yuck for my tastes, sorry I'm not a guy and I so don't get the whole stripper thing. But anyway I took it as a little throw back to the fact that House quite obviously appreciates certain aspects of Cuddy's being as I like to say but doesn't really have any...I guess you could say feelings that come from anywhere but his pants for her. I mean come on he'd rather be diagnosing then watching her do a strip tease!

This is probably one of the BEST episodes of House ever,but it's also probably one of the best episodes on TV. Everything was terrific about this episode. The story line was great and the acting was marvelous. But what really made me love it and yet be mad at the same time was that it was a two parter. The bad thing was I could not wait until next week, I needed to watch more House. The good thing about the two parter was that it made you love House so much more, because it was a cliffhanger you realized how much you love House and can't wait for it to come back on. This episode rocked! I love House

"House's Head" was an incredible episode to watch! Without a doubt, it was one of the better (if not the best) episodes throughout season 4.



In the beginning of the episode, House finds himself in a strip joint and can't remember how he got there or what happened to him for the last four hours for that matter. After discovering that he was bleeding from his head, he leaves to find a bus turned over on its side just minutes away from the strip joint. Back at the hospital, it's confirmed that House was a victim of the crash. But that's not the only thing, House is positive that while he was on the bus he saw someone who needed medical attention or else they would die. Against his friends wishes, he pushes his already damaged brain to remember what he saw on the bus through things such as medical hypnosis, smell, etc.



Overall, this episode was fantastic! The only thing that i would have to say was ridiculous was the strip joint and Cuddy stripping in his mind. They could have left that out, that's for sure.



Anyone who missed this episode should try to find a way to watch it fast!

One of the greatest House episodes... I didn't like when the old gang was falling apart, but now I have to say that those ones are more interesting... Of course, I miss Cameron and Chase... Forman is still here, but not in the same way... My favorite new tim member is Canter... He is crazy and funny... This episode was really wierd, untill the end you could not what would happen and who is the one who is dying...



Bus accident was exelent done... Those car chrashes are very deficult to do right but this... Pure 10... House's fantasies are great too...

Wow, what a fantastic episode, best of the this season and probably in my top 5 of house episodes ever. Why i think this is episode is great is because firstly its not house's formula nothing is straight forward. Instead of paitent comes in, house and team try to save paitent it because house and house's head try to find paitent then save them. Even though the whole thinking back to the bus accident and walking around in his own memory was a bit implausible it was great viewing and made every unpredictable (lisa edelstein in schoolgirl uniform pole dancing is possible the best example but damn shes looked hot)

Mixed in with a fantastic shock ending which sets up the season finale to be something special this episode deserved a 10

Oh my god, the opening scene was crazy. It's kinda cool though. Don't you think it's cool that a doctor can figure out he/she's suffering from amnesia him/herself?



The camera angles throughout this episode by the way were kinda ER-esque. Close ups on House's face and the quick, fast scenes in the emergency room wasn't just any regular camera work.



Wilson's idea for therapy was definitely a great way to make the rest of the episode intriguing. What an amusing and interesting scene with him in the bar. Really funny momentary focus on Wilson and Amber. House imagining the bus and figuring out the goth kid's symptoms was awesome.



Cuddy's use of the word "boo boo" caught me off guard for most of the scene where they find out House has a longitudinal fracture of the head. "Boo boo"? Seriously? The Imaginary Cuddy definitely sounded a lot more intelligent. I wonder if Lisa Edelstein had fun being a pole-dancing-while-diagnosing stripper. But soon afterwards, Hugh Laurie gave a really convincing performance puking and fainting, totally freaking me out.



It's a great moment when Thirteen decided to listen to House and not Cuddy. House is not always right, but he certainly is one of the best. I admire Cuddy's professionalism as she took House's heart rate WHILE having a conversation. That's skill right there, man.



Here, House decides to stage a reenactment of the bus with everyone posing as a particular passenger. By this point, I kinda wanted everyone else to just shut up while House was in a trance. But that didn't prepare me for what was about to come.



At first, the whole "What's my necklace made of?" thing was cheesy, but surprisingly enough, the more she said it, the more I thought that it wasn't lame. It was more effective in fact, which is cool. The scene where Amber gets hit effectively by the other vehicle, where the bus crashes into the wall, where House and Amber reach for each other's hand was absolutely astonishing. Such a wonderful scene.



The metal thing that was going through Amber's leg was so frightening and painful to watch, but it was one of those really great scenes that we'll remember from this episode. The connections made with the red scarf and the cry of "I'm cold" were awesome too.



I can't believe the ambulance staff didn't take House under their care more. Unrealistic, but then there would be no story since House just had to be at the strip club.



The final moments when Cuddy and Wilson bring her back after House's heart stopped, and when Wilson finds out Amber is the one dying from House, were great.

I have been wating for an episode like this. Instead of meeningless cases that we already know that House is magicly going to solve, we now have a longer episode with some mystery where we don't know whats going to happend.

There are now questions rushing throu my mind at the moment, "What happend to amber? Is she going to be okey?".



But some things never change, house is ofcourse going to be ok, i mean how would it look with a braindamaged main character. He is probebly going to wake up in the hospital and the team is going to tell him that he was really lucky that he diden't sustained permanet damage. Cuddy and Willson is going to insult him, and the team is going to continue kiss his ass.

I was watching the ep and thinking I've seen it already somewhere...not the ep per ce ...and not on "House"...in some movie.Now I got it - "Final Destination".OK, there wasn't any premonitions,just "hidden memories",but other then that - very ,very close.It wasn't such a bad movie..well, in all the technical stuff - crashes in slow motion with all the horror on the passengers' faces ,vehicles spinning uncontrollably...there's something captivating for the audience to watch other people in such circumstances,but the movie was about nothing ,but fate,impending doom, if you will - if you destined to die ,the "grim riper "will find you anyway.Nothing deep,very superstitious and kind of cool to watch for teens...but ,wait it's "House" I'm writing about, or isn't it?Oh, my...



It was my biggest problem with the ep, but I decided to watch again - maybe it's not that important, maybe I'm missing something (I'm still hoping. I am..because being a "House" addict I have my own "doom" - to watch the series until the very end, so...) I still couldn't find it...Really, aside from the coll crashes and "6th sense"-like "I try to find what's real" theme - nothing is there.The main "epiphany" moment and the ep question - it was Amber "who's dieing" and why was she on that bus, feels like...cheating.Wilson would be notified already and even ,if not what's the medical mystery? And that injury of hers - the severe damage of her right thigh - come on! What was that for? To make her to be "exactly" like House in season 5 -limping,in pain and pooping Vicodins? Or to "kill" her in the next ep ? I really don't care about Wamber all that much...



I also don't think Cuddy stripping as a "school girl" would be House's ultimate fantasy (OK, LE has a very nice stomach,but is it reason enough to have this scene?) -such a cliche and once again ,like so many other times this season - "oh, so subtle"...



There were many inexplicable things in the ep - Chase all of a sadden can hypnotize? And Cuddy (as bad of a doctor as she may be) sending the "best doctor in this hospital" to sleep off his concussion at home? Why? And why is it so important to control House's opiates intake exactly now? So many questions I don't seems to be able to answer..but that's the beauty of being on the board.I haven't seen any of the posts about the ep yet - maybe I'll find out there? Would be nice.Hope dies the last...

This is the tipe of episode House never fails to deliver in season finales, House's mind is a great canvas for the show's writers to work with wich makes this episode (like No Reason and Three stories) very fun to watch.



The Cudy school girl/strip fantasy is priceles and we realy get a sense of how House's mind works (him chosing diagnostics over striping and all)



House thinks he has solved the case when he saves the bus driver but the mystery woman in his head makes him think someone else is in danger.



By the end of the episode we understand why he was willing to risk his life to save who he saw diyng in the bus.



Great cliffhanger episode ending and overall great episode 10/10

What an incredible episode! the writers have really pulled all the strings they can to produce the best house episode ever, Period. The episode starts with house at a strip club (goo ol' House) but he seems to have ahd a bout of amnesia as he can't remember what happened in the last 4 hours. He remembers flashes of someone being sick on a bus he was on. He was able to classify their symptoms. House realizes that the bus he was on had crashed and that is why he had amnesia. The whole episode is basically house trying to induce visions of what happened before. He hallucinations are intelligent and sometimes quite hilarious. But i warn you, nothing can prepare you for the genius of this episode.

certainly one of the best House episode. Even though this was one episode where they kind of swayed away from the amazingly entertaing rudeness of house's diagnostic skills. it was a great episode because it was not "THE END", this is only the beginning of the end of another yet amazing house season. and wow, Amber, i never would have thought the writers would do that to her! ill say it again, WOW!!! and an added bonus to this episode is we finally have a little bit of information about 13, doctor hadley. (or something that sounded like Hadley) I gotta watch it again to make sure. i look forward for the next season!

I am a huge House fan, great actors / writing / directing / productions consistently delivered.



This episode was a bit of a change of pace, I really liked the story line and character development. I also liked Gregory House being a bit off, it seems that they are possibly starting a story arc with this.



I really, really hope that they don't remove his leg pain, addiction(s) or personality.



House loses his memory in an accident and struggles to save someone who he cannot remember, on the way he saves one other person as well.



There is a funny / sexy scene in the bus with Cutty as well.



All in all, a great episode.

Wowww what an episode!! Amazing!!

House's head is the craziest place on earth and they did one episode exactly there!! Just loved it.

I love sequence episodes. Euphoria 1 and 2 were amazing too! And the title Wilson's heart really atracted me! I have great expectations, please don't let me down writers!

The biacth was really annoying during the game and in the beginning of her relationship with Wilson...in short, I didn't like her until this episode! Okay, she barely showed up, but there is something happening between she and House...maybe they're having an affair! Why the hell would both of them be in that bus and what about that nice look of Amber before the accident? And what about Wilson's comment during the MRI? I don't know, something very misterious in there!

The name of 13 was finally revealed! But I still prefer 13, honestly I dont even remember what's her real name...I thing its Hadley but...ahhahaah

This episode saved my TV week so far. How I Met Your Mother was totally lame, I'm disappointed! I'm still waiting for Lost, and I expect it beat House, but I think that's hard to happen!!

;D

Yes it could have been a great movie, but what does this episode have to do with House the show, I wonder?



I needed to watch this episode a few times - to make sure I wasn't the one hallucinating. But it turns out that, once again, it's House who is hallucinating.



Once again we need to dig into House's subconscious - why, really? Where and why did his prominent conscious and intelligence become so much less important in the plot?

Unlike in No Reason, where the hallucination was about House's quest for meaning, or in Three Stories, where the different plots going back and forth were an example for some very fine meaningful writing - here it seems that (like so many episodes in this season) - it's all about the spectacle.



Yes, it's fairly well written, yes, Hugh Laurie gave an amazing performance, yes, it was very well directed - but on the whole, once again, this is an empty shell.



Hooray, we have the means to have all the stunts we need, we know how to show a real bus accident now - brag the writers, directors, producers and whoever else in charge of House these days.

How great, say the audience: it's so utterly cool- it didn't even feel like a House episode but like a great movie! No more nonsense about meaning, morals, philosophy, cultural references, clinic patients and all the other annoying stuff the show was known for. Now we can see House's subconscious and what do we find out that the genius doctor's mind focuses on? Cuddy as a stripper. How very cool.



And what's the puzzle now? - why was Amber on the bus with House. How very interesting indeed. Mind blowing, literally...

When and how did Amber become this prominent character on the show? Why on earth waste time about her in the first place? What's with "House has or doesn't have feelings for her?" When did this show turn out to be so soapy?



I accept it's TV land rules - I accept it that a show needs drama and has to change, actors need to be replaced (note - replaced!) - I'm all for it. But this? - this is taking the show to a complete different place: according to this, the next episode should probably be a musical, or a telenovella, in honor of Wilson's El Fuego Del Amore... Why not really? House can miraculously walk fairly well now - I think he'd be capable of dancing pretty soon. And we already know he speaks Spanish, so we're all set.



As for all the rest - Chase hypnotizing... Cuddy sending a person with a skull fracture to sleep at home, and deciding this is the right time to monitor his painkillers intake, then bringing him back so that he can make a diagnosis... a whole group of people goes on a bus to help House remember - instead of just making a phone call to the other hospital where the rest of the patients were taken to... House getting a heart attack (how is he still alive with all these injuries the writers force upon him is a mystery worthy of the great Sherlock Holmes' expertise) while Cameron sobs in her pink uniform... Amber getting injured exactly on same the place as House's... Seriously... I understand that on TV land things can't always make sense all the time - but this volume of illogical and unreasonable details it way too overwhelming. House used to be a show about one genius doctor solving a puzzle with nothing but his logic and knowledge- now it feels logic has nothing to do with it at all.



It's true that it's not totally fair to pass judgment on part one of a two-part episode. As pessimistic as I may be in view of the previews, I still hope the next episode will put all this in perspective and make me regret so many of the things I was bitter about here. I still hope this shaky season finale will not end up as a tellenovella despite all the hard evidence... After all, House addicts are known for their resilience.

This is by far THE best House episode I've seen. And I've seen some good House episodes to date. I mean, it was funny, it was interesting, it leaves you hanging, it creates suspense and hope, well written, well acted.. i can't think of anything negative to say about it. Usually the episodes are really good, but they went the route this week to create a great story-line mystery that is unlike anything I've seen them do before. The point where the lady kept saying "what is it made of, who am I?" and it clicked with House that it was Amber and it all started coming together. It was so well done because you didn't see it coming, but it made some things make sense (like why he saw her in the bar, and why he wasn't treating her like he normally would women).. I cannot wait until next week to see the continuance, but by the previews it is going to be amazing. Well done.

not giving anything away, but wow- 4 years under the belt and the writers still know how to bring it hard. amazing story telling! eerie dream sequences (something i just love). shocking ending! i can't wait to see what they have up their sleeves for "Wilson's Heart (2)".



unlike this review, definitely not f i l l e r f i l l e r f i l l e r f i l l e r f i l l e r f i l l e r f i l l e r f i l l e r