House paved the way for procedural dramas with unlikable savant main characters, including Sherlock , Elementary , Psych and The Mentalist. Left with a limp and in constant pain due to a misdiagnosis earlier in life, House only cares about two things: getting the diagnosis right, and where his next fix of pain-numbing drugs will come from.
He cares not for the human beyond the mystery. Mental illness is played here for uncomfortable laughs, and the season ends with House being taken to a mental institution. Would House give up medicine for cookery?
It is one of the most touching episodes on television lately. I even teared a little. The fact that this show is set in New Jersey is a welcome change for us. Rather than depicting us as fun loving mobsters or crooked politicians, the show provides an interesting location.
I will be watching it more. I love Hugh Laurie and hope that his die-hard fans would nominate him for a British honor. He is long overdue for it in my opinion. The casting, writing, and acting is superb. HE is so good that you wonder if it is actually Hugh Laurie himself.
Great show overall. I find the characters a little too type-casted and a little to stereotyped. Those negative aspects of the show are far outweighed by the positive. House is a brilliant character, who's brilliance makes House a loner for he is 2 steps ahead of everyone else, and is annoyed by others.
Do other doctors fight and have personality conflicts with each other in such tense situations while having to rely on each other. The producers could be creating more drama than reality. The story stimulates the reader with interesting plot twists and medical problems. My wife wishes her doctor was just as thorough as House. He is a gem even though he is rough. He expects the best from his staff. Gregory House - root, axis, shadow, maker of precise solutions for almost fictional diseases.
House trap. DKosty 8 May He plays Dr. House with an enthusiasm that is biting with sarcasm. In fact, he has some very good support in the series, but he carries the show on his back. It doesn't matter how absurd the situation is - how House reacts is why you watch the show. The viewer is always wondering just what House will do next.
House is the most annoying person on television since Peter Faulk's Lt. In fact, Dr House wins my vote as being the most annoying man on television. He annoys everyone including sometimes, himself. This is great character development. One hallmark of great TV shows this follows- it moves the main characters plot lines for more than one episode. This is the hallmark of a great TV show. It keeps the viewers interested in how House's character evolves as this is the main way this show hooks viewers.
House is usually observant in deducing what is wrong with many cases quickly as a diagnostician. Because of the pain in his gimpy leg, he is always in a pain-killing drug induced picture of reality. The drugs contribute to a warped view of reality he is seeing. House has a team of doctors to help him with severe cases. In many episodes, they are brain storming about what is going on in a difficult case.
House battles everybody in every episode. House always looks for cases when he feels something strange is going on. What brings this off every week is the acting. In the extras from the first season, they mention script development.
Doctors are very often with their patient when a dramatic things happen. House is a show you watch to be entertained. In this way, it is a tremendous success. I am always waiting for him to find another creative thing to do with his cane. OllieSuave 25 March I've caught this show from time to time and watched a good handful of episodes. I remembered it for the lead doctor character's sarcastic personality, but with an exciting knack in trying to solve puzzling cases.
His crack team of doctors were also a worthy addition to the cast and gave the show some added entertainment. Not the most suspenseful or intriguing show I've seen, but definitely worth a look. Grade B-. FeastMode 17 August Watched 13 episodes before i quit. What if Sherlock becomes a doctor? It was a very good series, I was watching it with curiosity, I was thinking what it would be like if I was a doctor. UniqueParticle 21 July Hugh Laurie master of being head doctor, jerk, sophisticated, and quirky!
This show is so enjoyable it gives me goosebumps often. House M. Filled with complex circumstances that are bumpy with many accurate or mishaps but more wins than not throughout. The characters go through a lot which is intriguing and always entertaining! Even the simple patients are always worth seeing. I love the show and all interesting facts around it!
John6Daniels 28 September It seems only a jerk can make "good" television. House was a total jerk, A-Hole and villain of this show. He treats people like garbage and people love it. I finally have a case of lupus. The two actors even got engaged in December Around the same time, their characters Dr. Robert Chase and Dr. Allison Cameron also started dating. The real-life couple called off their engagement eight months later in August , and shortly after, their characters also called it quits.
The actress who portrayed Dr. Lisa Cuddy left the show after the season 7 finale in Fox wanted all three actors to take a pay cut , and while Epps and Leonard accepted the terms of their negotiations, Edelstein did not.
Bob Kelso utters those famous words. Turk," the wise old doctor tells a young surgeon. When Michael Weston joined the show as private detective Lucas Douglas in , producers wanted to build a spin-off around his character. It is still syndicated in dozens of countries around the world and continues gaining new audiences through streaming. Now go forth and binge. Shop Elle. United States. Type keyword s to search. The medicine should be as accurate as possible - even when the disease of the week is something rare or outlandish.
That doesn't stop the show - and by extension, House himself - from getting it wrong sometimes. In the episode "Out of the Chute," a bull rider at a rodeo gets trampled. House deduces that the man has had an aortic aneurysm, and then proves it incorrectly by cracking the patient's chest and increasing his blood pressure - but, this is treated as the right thing to do. It's not the only instance where House made a medical error, which could have made the patient much worse in reality or even cost him his life.
This is the big one. It's one of the biggest criticisms to be levied against the show, and it is even a point that is brought up in-universe just because it has been mentioned so many times. For a medical doctor, House uses his cane on the wrong side of his body. Injured on his right, House continues to lean the cane on the same side as the bad leg. However, to actually ease the pressure from that side, the cane should be on the left. This goes unmentioned for several seasons until it is brought to House's attention - and yet, he still chooses to keep the cane on the wrong side.
If he cares so much about alleviating his pain, why would he continue to make things worse for himself? To say that House lives his life in a moral grey area would be the understatement of the century. So, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to mention that House also frequently breaks into the homes of his patients in order to gather evidence and clues - and makes his team do so too. The real question is, how does he keep getting away with this? They're never caught and House never gets anything more than a slap on the wrist or a stern eyebrow-raise when he commands this.
Even if it's ultimately for the greater good, it seems ridiculous that he can't simply ask for entrance from the people he's treating.
For a show based on mysteries and finding clues, most of the cases that we are presented with get wrapped up by the end of a single episode. The team of fellows discovers what rare disease the person had, House says something witty, Cuddy rolls her eyes, and everyone is happy.
But, there was one ongoing mystery in the show that never got resolved - the case of House's paternity. We are presented with two candidates for House's father. First, John House, the man whom Greg's mother is actually married to and who raised him. However, for most of his life, House suspects that this man is not his father, and is ultimately proven correct. Unfortunately, his next candidate also proves not to be his true father - and this thread is left unresolved by the end of the show.
While House is a medical doctor, he is also a man in near constant pain from the muscle that was removed in his leg. To take some of the pressure off of this leg, he walks with a cane. That's what makes it so strange when you realize that the canes he uses over the course of the show are mostly not suitable to give him the support he needs. It makes some sense for House's character to care about style, even when it comes to his canes, but as a man who lives in pain and often goes to incredibly extreme lengths to relieve his pain, why wouldn't he bite the bullet and get a medical-grade cane that's more comfortable to use?
Throughout the show, House's only real friend is the loyal James Wilson.
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