Locked In

Well Done Script, similar to an episode of M*A*S*H, griping and entertaining . The Camera View keeps the action centered by taking audience into the mind of the patient/victim. I like it because most other House M.D. episodes do not give such insight into the life of a really believable sick person. This makes you feel real empathy for the person on the table . GREAT PERFORMANCES by ALL

True, it is really a good episode. But why do I not lose the feeling the writer and the director watched "Le Scaphandre et le papillon" ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" --> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401383/)?? Okay, it is not quite the same, as some aspects of communication differ from the mentioned film. Nevertheless it is interesting to watch an episode of "House, M.D." from a point of view, as if you have never seen any other episode before (a few minutes in: "These guys are friends?"). You can observe how the main characters appear to outsiders and get to know them from another angle. And there is reason to believe, that this episode might be the start of some changes to come. I'm curious. :)

I'm an avid rewatcher of House, I love all aspects and all seasons, few episodes have me bored and the writing style is wonderful. This episode is one of my few favourites, due to it being entertaining, a different approach to the usual style of structure, and introducing a very strong secondary male lead to work well with Hugh. It is true it bares similarities to another film, but sometimes great writers use their great ideas along side that of a pre-existing structure in an ode to the film/song/series. All round entertaining, wonderfully acted and structure is wonderful. A perfect epsiode.

Almost entirely from the point of the view of the patient that is the excellent Mos Def! Such a peaceful well written episode and intriguing constantly. Great how locked in syndrome is mentioned quite an interesting thing, things start from a bike crash and he was experiencing symptoms that need to be solved as always except better than most!

Mos Def guest stars as a man who falls ill and can't speak or move. He ends up in a New York state hospital room with House as a fellow patient -- House apparently has taken a tumble off his motorcycle and scraped himself up pretty good. Meanwhile, a doctor is waiting for the paralyzed Mr. Def to die so he can transplant his heart, but House quickly establishes that the poor is alive and conscious by slight movements of his eyes. House eventually gets him transferred to Princeton and proceeds to figure out what's ailing the guy. Half the episode is told from the patient's POV and mind, with some great voice-over narration, and the other half is standard House and crew working on the guy. At times, the episode verges on the surreal as the patient imagines himself in various places, playing with his children or talking to his wife and House. The computer-aided effects are seamless, and stand second only to the moment when House walked by himself in an episode from the first or second season. Mr. Def, a rapper who costarred with Bruce Willis in the movie 16 BLOCKS, is funny and said and very convincing as the helpless patient. The kids are cute, too.