Howard Hesseman of WKRP IN CINCINNATI fame plays an aging man suffering from a series of scary symptoms that may be something as simple as a stroke, or something far worse. Pretty soon, it is determined he needs a new heart but no heart is available. House figures out a way to get his dying patient a new heart, but it will come with a heavy toll. The one to watch in this episode is the very appealing young actress Keri Lynn Pratt as Hesseman's doting daughter. Pratt gets off a great line at the very end, so make sure you put on your TV's closed captioning so you won't miss it. By the way, the outlandish manner in which House procures Hesseman's new heart makes for great TV, if totally improbable reality. Be prepared to shed some tears as we follow House in his search for that heart. Meanwhile, Wilson has more or less settled into House's apartment. Or has he? Frat humor abounds as he and House go back and forth about living conditions.
4 Reviews
Shaking up the formula
errepinna15 March 2023
I love episodes that in one way or another challenge the established formula.
This episode does exactly that, and I loved the twist. Normally, when House finds a solution 15 minutes into the episode, you know he's wrong.
But this time, he's right. The episode then changes, and House is faced with a different challenge: diagnose and cure a dead person so that he can use its organs to save his first patient.
The recurring theme of this episode is sex, and I like the take this episode has on the matter. It's the most un-sexualized sex-centric piece of media I've ever seen. I enjoyed it enough to write a review about it.
This episode does exactly that, and I loved the twist. Normally, when House finds a solution 15 minutes into the episode, you know he's wrong.
But this time, he's right. The episode then changes, and House is faced with a different challenge: diagnose and cure a dead person so that he can use its organs to save his first patient.
The recurring theme of this episode is sex, and I like the take this episode has on the matter. It's the most un-sexualized sex-centric piece of media I've ever seen. I enjoyed it enough to write a review about it.
THE HYPACRITIC OATH?
kj_tenneson4 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I liked the synergy of this episode a lot, but I wouldn't call it the most compelling case by far...
An older man has an odd seizure during his bridge club, and then it's discovered that he needs a new heart or he'll be dead in a week. Meanwhile, a woman who was in a car crash dies in the emergency room, but due to her weight her organs are considered not viable, to spite being an organ donor. House's patient is denied a request to be put on the transplant list because of his being 65. So House, naturally, sees an opportunity and seizes it. However, it is then revealed that the woman had gonorrhea (which would transfer to the recipient), but House is certain he can cure the man of the STD, if they get the heart in him in time.
House give Cameron the unenviable job of informing the dead woman's husband that she had gonorrhea, so he could be tested when he blurts out his own confession of infidelity and that he believes he gave the STD to his wife. Cameron lets him believe this, thus avoiding having to tell the man that intimate pictures of some of his wife's male students were found in her belongings.
And as House continues to pressure Wilson about cheating on his wife, the parameters of their friendship is questioned; But it's House who is surprised when Wilson arrives on his doorstep after his wife admits to her own affair.
It's sex, lies and differentials in this installment of House, as we watch people use the guise of 'protecting others' to justify deception.
An older man has an odd seizure during his bridge club, and then it's discovered that he needs a new heart or he'll be dead in a week. Meanwhile, a woman who was in a car crash dies in the emergency room, but due to her weight her organs are considered not viable, to spite being an organ donor. House's patient is denied a request to be put on the transplant list because of his being 65. So House, naturally, sees an opportunity and seizes it. However, it is then revealed that the woman had gonorrhea (which would transfer to the recipient), but House is certain he can cure the man of the STD, if they get the heart in him in time.
House give Cameron the unenviable job of informing the dead woman's husband that she had gonorrhea, so he could be tested when he blurts out his own confession of infidelity and that he believes he gave the STD to his wife. Cameron lets him believe this, thus avoiding having to tell the man that intimate pictures of some of his wife's male students were found in her belongings.
And as House continues to pressure Wilson about cheating on his wife, the parameters of their friendship is questioned; But it's House who is surprised when Wilson arrives on his doorstep after his wife admits to her own affair.
It's sex, lies and differentials in this installment of House, as we watch people use the guise of 'protecting others' to justify deception.
how did this show last more than a year
sandcrab2771 October 2018
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