Patient (after near-death experience): “Is this heaven?” — House: “No, it’s New Jersey.”
Many have observed that House, M.D. is a version of Sherlock Holmes, but this episode shows how well it is conceived. At some point of the show the patient gets very mad about what the staff is doing. It seems to be an insignificant detail which has nothing to do with the illness, but it is, indeed, a side effect of the underlying problem (no spoiler here!). So it is a small piece of evidence (although unused in the plot). It shows how well informed the authors are and that a lot of clues are laid out for the spectators to guess what is going on.
I gave up after the first part. The story is very confusing due to the mix of episodes from different times. There is some good acting, but I just couldn’t figure out how one episode is linked to another. And I couldn’t see how some characters fit into the overall plot. Perhaps, one has to read the book in order to understand the story. I got the impression that the film editing messed the story up, because some scenes with crucial information seem to be missing.
