{"id":20273,"date":"2026-02-11T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=20273"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:40:34","slug":"dr-house-season-2-david-shore-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/dr-house-season-2-david-shore-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"House &#8211; Season 2 &#8211; David Shore (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House returns for a second season, and I find him even crueler and more heartless than in the first &#8211; which is saying something. He remains a brilliant diagnostician, hopelessly addicted to Vicodin, and continues to push ethical and professional boundaries without hesitation. A central thread of the season is his relationships: his complicated dynamic with Cuddy, his repeatedly strained friendship with Wilson, and his ambiguous feelings for Stacy. At the same time, he keeps bullying his team with unsettling skill and sharp intelligence. The medical cases are often particularly strange and striking: a teenage supermodel revealed to have pseudohermaphroditism and testicular cancer, a case of deliberate gold sodium thiomalate poisoning by a patient\u2019s wife, and Foreman coming terrifyingly close to death in a two-episode arc involving induced legionellosis and primary amoebic meningoencephalitis caused by Naegleria fowleri. The season culminates in House being shot, leading to a powerful episode where the boundary between reality and hallucination becomes increasingly blurred. Disturbing, fascinating &#8211; and always interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Sebastian: Every minute four people die of TB.<br>Dr. House: Wow, how can you sleep at night?<br>Sebastian: There&#8217;s people dying in Africa of a disease that we cured over&#8230;<br>Dr. House: Yeah, I know, I saw the concert. Seriously, let&#8217;s say you sleep six hours, that means every night you kill 1440 people. I guess you gotta get some sleep, but come on, if you&#8217;d stayed up another ten minutes you could have saved forty lives. Do you send notes to the families in the morning? That&#8217;s gonna take at least ten minutes, so that&#8217;s another forty dead, another forty notes&#8230; why don&#8217;t you go wrack yourself with guilt in your own room?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-colibri-color-4-color\">Twenty-four episodes of approximately 45 minutes<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Acceptance<br>Episode 1. Acceptance<br>Episode 2. Autopsy<br>Episode 3. Humpty Dumpty<br>Episode 4. TB ot no TB<br>Episode 5. Daddy&#8217;s Boy<br>Episode 6. Spin<br>Episode 7. Hunting<br>Episode 8. The Mistake<br>Episode 9. Deception<br>Episode 10. Failure to Communicate<br>Episode 11. Need to Know<br>Episode 12. Distractions<br>Episode 13. Skin Deep<br>Episode 14. Sex Kills<br>Episode 15. Clueless<br>Episode 16. Safe<br>Episode 17.  All In<br>Episode 18. Sleeping Dogs Lie<br>Episode 19. House vs. God<br>Episode 20. Euphoria &#8211; Part 1<br>Episode 21. Euphoria &#8211; Part 2<br>Episode 22. Forever<br>Episode 23. Who&#8217;s Your Daddy ?<br>Episode 24. No Reason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House returns for a second season, and I find him even crueler and more heartless than in the first &#8211; which is saying something. He remains a brilliant diagnostician, hopelessly addicted to Vicodin, and continues to push ethical and professional boundaries without hesitation. A central thread of the season is his relationships: his complicated dynamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[253,208,180],"class_list":["post-20273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-series","tag-cruelty","tag-illness","tag-wit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/national-institute-of-allergy-and-infectious-diseases-FtSCLW-TqCE-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20884,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273\/revisions\/20884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}