House M.D. (TV Series) After Hours (2011) User Reviews

Best House episode in a long time

[vincent_ireland · 10/10 · 11 June 2011]

Simply one of the best in quite a while. Really gripping and hard hitting stuff. It's hard to believe so much was packed into the 45 minute format. Just goes to show what can be done when the bar is high. Take the House story arc alone. He finds out that he's risked his life with experimental rat medicine. He opts to perform life threatening surgery on himself. This is filmed so viscerally, it's genuinely hard to watch. You know he's stoned himself to handle the pain, but he can't be so stoned that he passes out or cuts an artery. It doesn't get much more messed up than this, even for House. You feel like you're there with him, in the bath tub, alone, rat poison in the veins, a set of tumors in a withered leg, a scalpel and a bunch of drugs. When it starts to go wrong and he starts calling all his "friends", you sense his aloneness. It makes you reflect on who you could call in such a situation. And that it would wind up to be Cuddy who answers his calls, coming with child in toe, was quite poetic. The family united! So dysfunctional and yet so very poignant... The story arcs for Taub, 13, Foreman and Chase are equally strong, and only space forbids me to comment on their dramas. This probably should have been extended into a double episode and been the season finale... On a side note, this one reminded me of a great Stephen King short story, entitled "Survivor Type", about another junkie doctor who also performs major surgery on himself. Brief, gripping and well worth a read, a good accompaniment to this episode. Some things just stay with you.

Best (though most gorey) Episode Ever.

[lnoft97 · 10/10 · 9 July 2021]

Just watched this one again, and it is truly cringe-y and gorey as I don't think I've ever seen on a tv drama. House operates on himself, removing tumors from his leg, in his bathtub. Starts out well, but of course he can't continue. (there's a side story with 13 and Chase treating an injured friend of hers in her apartment, and another side story with ridiculous Taub). The main storyline features amazing effects and great acting.

Best house episode I've ever seen

[richenstony · 10/10 · 17 May 2011]

This episode is without a doubt the best episode I've ever seen its full of witty one liners and great stories , finally house is back to the way it was before intelligent gory and heartfelt , you can see each character change in this episode into a completely new person you see sides to the characters you never actually thought was there , examples:

House: I new he was ignorant and a egoistic manic but i never thought he was so egotistical he would give himself 6 anesthetics and remove tumors from his own leg in the bath tub.

13: Shes very stubborn and until now I've never seen her not back down from something , when chase and her got into a brawl over her friend i really thought she would carry on fighting but she remained down and they took her friend to the hospital.

Cuddy: I really thought she wouldn't answer her phone , i'd assumed even if house explained to her over the phone what he had done , she would of thought he was up to his old games again , shes become extremely trusting in other people

Taub: I've finally gained some respect for his character hes finally pushed the normal boundaries of the show and gotten a girl pregnant and touched a lap dancer at a strip club , finally the man is becoming interesting.

Foreman: Rather than just walk off and leave his friend walking into a oncoming calamity , he asked him 3 times to get in the car hes starting to care a lot more about his colleges , but hes still a power control freak.

So this one episode has resuscitated the characters to a point where the show has become even more interesting i can only hope this show goes on for 10 seasons , just like every other decent show out there.

10/10

[jasperan · 10/10 · 30 August 2018]

This episode was so emotional, made me feel so many things. On one side, the anxiety caused by the phone not being picked up by anybody when House really needed help; the scene where Cuddy arrives to House's bathroom is truly terrifying.

I strongly like the bond being formed by 13 and Chase. I hope I would be able to form a bond so close to this one day with somebody.

Perhaps the Best Quote of the Series (~10:45)

[atomicis · 10/10 · 18 January 2022]

Taub says (as the stripper gyrates above him) _"But without crappy dads..."_,,, and just leaves it at that. Don't know if the Foreman character is supposed to get it, but just brilliant!

Thank God for House MD.

Like watching paint dry...

[m-47826 · 1/10 · 10 June 2022]

Give me a break, this episode was excruciating. And not in the way it was meant to be. The biggest problem with this show, is that it's a procedural that happens to be a medical drama, not the other way around. Take that away, and you get episodes that are hard to sit through. The characters don't have especially interesting private lives. And getting more into their personal drama, make them look whiny and boring. For not being that very likeable and complex, in the first place. You can add character development, between purely medical scenes. But in a show like House MD, building episodes around characterizations. Make it lose relevance. And the irony about this one in particular is, it gets back to its original format near the end, as writers clearly know it's not working. Thirteen's storyline was the one I preferred the most. But only because I prefer her character more. And think Olivia Wilde, is the only one whose acting, did not become typical of the character she portrayed on the show.