Review for House: Season 6

House is possibly one of the best dramas from the past ten years. The simplicity of it is astounding and the most astounding thing about its simplicity is how unbelievably complex the whole thing is.
Confused?
Well, Dr. House, played wonderfully by Hugh Laurie (How he hasn't won an Emmy for this role is even more astounding) is a genius of a diagnostician who is able to find the cause and cure of even the most obscure diseases. With his team he is able to go through a number of ideas before he hits on the right one. This is the general plot of every episode: Someone comes in with an obscure illness. House comes up with a diagnosis. It's wrong. He comes up with another. It's wrong. He comes up with another. He's correct. End. It sounds so simple; that you think there is no way they could get through six seasons. But they have and are still going strong.

Season Six opens with House in a mental asylum after his spiral into drug addiction in the previous season. The opening episode which is almost like a mini-movie House version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Just like that film, House rejects the help of the Doctors and encounters some people with various problems including one who believes he can fly. House's attempts to help him backfires in shocking form and he must submit himself to the help of the hospital in order to be cured. After that helter skelter of an episode we then follow House's return to work and back doing what he does best.

This Season is wonderful and even if this disk had only included that first feature-length episode it would have been worth it. The extras are limited, focusing mainly on that episode with a commentary and featurette regarding it and also one focusing on the computer generated parts of the episode Epic Fail. The only problem I had with this set was the loading times of this Blu-ray are awful and it would be recommended to just select Play All Episodes rather than having to go through the loading of the menu in order to select another one.

House Season Six is as good as the previous five and in some ways better. You get the feeling that the actors and writers are at home with these characters and we rather than writing a plot to fit around the characters they are simply writing the characters and allowing the plots to emerge naturally. It is jampacked with great performances and episodes that make this a worthwhile addition to your house.