House Season 2

Right now you can watch House Season 2 on and — and it holds up to as much attention as you give it. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. 7,696 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Hugh Laurie anchors it with a performance that rewards close attention. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, House Season 2 earns its spot. House Season 2 takes its time building the world its characters inhabit, and the patience pays off. House will do whatever it takes to solve a case before it's too late, from sending one of his team to break into a patient's home in search of clues, to attempting a controversial, trial-and-error form of treatment to see how a patient responds. House's methods may be suspect, but his results are not — he saves lives no one else can. Always in House's way is Dr. Hugh Laurie and Lisa Edelstein lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2005. The performances in House Season 2 do a lot of work in the silences between the dialogue. It sustains a level of quality that very few manage to hold onto all the way through.

House Season 2 is what you recommend to people who say they do not really watch much. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Hugh Laurie is the centre of it, and it is one of their strongest performances on record. The patience it asks of you early on is paid back with interest.