In House's head
| Episode of the series Dr. House | |||
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| title | In House's head | ||
| Original title | House's Head | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| length | 42 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
| classification | Season 4, episode 15, 85th episode overall ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | May 12, 2008 on FOX | ||
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November 24, 2008 on SRF two | ||
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| Director | Greg Yaitanes | ||
| script | Doris Egan | ||
| music |
Jason Derlatka Jon Ehrlich |
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| camera | Gale Tattersall | ||
| cut |
Amy Fleming Kimberly Ray |
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In the head of House (in English Original House's Head ) is an Emmy- winning episode of the American television series Dr. House . It is the first part of the two-part season finale of the fourth season and is continued in "In the Heart of Wilson". In Germany, the episode ran on December 2, 2008 on RTL . In addition to the regular cast, the actress Ivana Miličević and the musician Fred Durst ( cameo as bartender) will be guest . Various producers on the series contributed to the script and Greg Yaitanes directed.
action
Dr. House wakes up in a strip club and doesn't know how he got there. He has no recollection of what happened in the past four hours. He diagnoses himself with a concussion and a stripper discovers a head wound. As he leaves the restaurant, he sees the scene of an accident in which a garbage truck rammed a bus. House realizes that he was on the bus and noticed a symptom in someone just before the accident happened, but he doesn't know who or what he saw. He drives to the hospital to come to terms with the forgotten time and to find out what he saw shortly before the accident. His subconscious repeatedly sends signals; House has to hallucinate the scraps of memory together. House shows an obsession with the strange case, uncharacteristically even for him. The riddle initially seems to have been solved when he diagnoses and heals an air embolism in the bus driver, but as the visions return, he realizes that the driver was just a chance hit and that he has to penetrate deeper into his subconscious. For this purpose, Dr. Chase is hypnotized, later he swallows Alzheimer's medication to force a hallucination, which puts his life in danger, so that he has to be reanimated after the dissolving vision. "In his mind," it helps an unknown woman ( Ivana Milicevic ) with a necklace pendants Amber (Engl. Amber ) to solve the puzzle. House got drunk in a pub and wanted Wilson to pick him up. Since this was on duty, his girlfriend, Amber Volakis , had come to get House instead and then got on the bus with him because she was carrying his walking stick after him. House realizes that she was critically injured in the accident, is in a different hospital and had a symptom shortly before the accident that House still cannot remember exactly.
production
In House's head was the fourth episode of Dr. House, directed by Greg Yaitanes . The script was written by Peter Blake, David Foster, Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner and Doris Egan. Executive producer Katie Jacobs said the episode was "a little different" from the following. The episode should be broadcast after Super Bowl XLII , which is probably the best slot of the year for a series. Because of the strike by the Writers Guild of America , the plans for it were thwarted and the episode "Cate from the Ice" was shown. House's t-shirt with a coffee-drinking skeleton print was designed by Taavo .
When Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Cuddy) found out that she had to strip in one scene, she called Sheila Kelley . She is the wife of Richard Schiff , with which gem already played in The West Wing - In the Center of Power . Kelley was already working on a film about strippers and Edelstein asked her for advice on choreography. After showing Hugh Laurie the pre-filming scene, she said after filming that it was “a really nice experience”.
The scene of the bus accident was filmed inside by stunt coordinator Jim Vickers. The rear of the bus was clamped in a machine that could rotate 360 ° in order to preserve the authenticity of the scene. For the record the rest of the bus were green screen screens using mounted outside the bus. The shot with Anne Dudek (Dr. Amber Volakis) was shot separately with lighting effects and actors simulating the accident.
reception
Audience ratings
The episode was first shown on May 12, 2008 on US broadcaster FOX . Head of House was followed by 14.84 million viewers during the five-hour broadcast in the various US time zones . After Dancing with the Stars (the US version of Strictly Come Dancing ) it was one of the most watched programs of the evening and number nine of the most popular shows of the week. In addition, 180,000 viewers watched the episode with a delay via DVD or hard disk recorder.
SRF Zwei showed the episode on November 24, 2008 in a German-language premiere. ORF Eins followed three days later on November 27, 2008. In Germany, RTL showed the episode on December 2, 2008. On average, the episode reached 3.79 million 14- to 49-year-old viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 29.3 percent and ensured the clear win of the day. With a total of 4.93 million viewers, Dr. House, however, for the first time since early September 2008, fewer than five million people.
criticism
Overall, the episode received very good reviews. For example, Sara Morrison ( Television Without Pity ) described the scene in which House registers his memories as "perhaps the best 10 minutes of television you've ever seen". Michelle Romero wrote in Entertainment Weekly that she could "watch the episode twice and it was as good as the first time". Gina Dinunno from TV Guide said the episode was "brilliant, snappy, confusing and even wicked".
James Chamberlin of IGN Entertainment compared scenes with The Matrix and scored 9.5 out of 10. Mary McNarma of the Los Angeles Times claimed that Lisa Cuddy's three-minute striptease scene was " worth the money for a TiVo [hard drive recorder]."
Awards
Greg Yaitanes was honored for In the Head of House at the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards in the Drama Series Direction category. Also was Hugh Laurie nominated as "Lead Actor in a Drama Series", but the award went to Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad . The episode was also submitted in three other categories, but not nominated.
Web links
- House's head in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Medical treatise of the episode
Individual evidence
- ↑ See How House's Bus Accident Was Created
- ↑ Interview: Lisa Edelstein Does a 'House' Call ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lisa Edelstein Plays House, Huddy and Lap Dances
- ^ American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and CSI Lead Weekly Nielsen Ratings
- ↑ "CSI", "House" & "Psych" weaken slightly
- ^ House's Head
- ^ House: "House's Head" Review
