"Three Stories" (S1E21) – No contest. Essential television.
Season 1 introduces the core cast that would define the show's early years: house md season 1
We aren’t dealing with the super-viruses or exotic toxins of later seasons. Season 1 gives us: "Three Stories" (S1E21) – No contest
For me, that case was a kindergarten teacher who collapsed in her classroom. The culprit? A tapeworm living in her brain. The doctor? A limping, Vicodin-popping, misanthropic genius who told the patient’s husband to “either talk to the wall or wait in the hall.” Season 1 gives us: For me, that case
You get the muted, blue-tinted hallways of Princeton-Plainsboro. You get Lisa Edelstein as ... sorry, Cuddy , actually being a formidable Dean of Medicine rather than just a love interest. You get Hugh Laurie hiding his British accent so well you forget he isn't from Michigan.