House Review

House MD is a must watch show if you are a fan of #sarcasm. Character of Dr. Gregory House is the master of sarcasm, even in emotional situations. Some of the dialogues in the show are very well written and tells you the truth even when you don't want to hear them.Dr. Gregory House is a genius. He is a brilliant diagnostician. He can see subtle patterns and connections that everyone else misses. He is also an asshole.

House suffers from constant pain. Years ago he experienced an infarction in his right thigh. The infarction caused nerve damage and muscle death. As a result of this injury he has become addicted to vicodin. The combination of chronic pain and having a brain that thinks faster than everyone around him has made him self-destructive and angry. He's tolerated because he saves lives.

House uses a team of doctors as both a sounding board and as a distraction from his pain. It appears that by letting his conscious mind focus on analyzing his team and targeting their hypocrisies his subconscious mind can search for the connections between the points of data they've gained from the patient, and make the leaps to a diagnosis.

Superficially, the show is formulaic. Each episode begins with a patient experiencing some form of debilitation and being brought in to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, after every other doctor has failed to determine the problem. House and his team come up with a theory and start the tests. As the episode proceeds they learn something about the patient, as a person, and debate it. The patient usually continues to decline. Eventually House, while engaged in a completely unrelated discussion will get that distant stare and realize what the problem is. They treat the patient, and the patient usually recovers. Some have pejoratively referred to it as a "disease of the week" show. But none of that is what the series is really about.

House M.D. is about what we really mean when we say or do something. It is about our own hypocrisy, our motivations, and our character. The patients that come into the hospital force the doctors to examine their own choices and views. And if they try to avoid that self-examination, Gregory House is there to call them on it.

The show is clearly inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story. House is a synonym for homes and homes is a homonym for Holmes. House has one close friend, Dr. James Wilson. So, House and Wilson is a substitute for Holmes and Watson. House's apartment number is 221B, just like Holmes. Wilson has been married three times, just like Watson. In the first episode there is a female patient named Adler. In a later episode House is attacked by a man named Moriarty. The inspiration is a fitting circle, as Doyle's inspiration for Holmes was a real-life doctor named Joseph Bell. And like Holmes, House has a drug problem.

Shows that last eight seasons don't last that long because of their concept.They last that long because of the body of characters and the interrelationships between them. House M.D. provided a series of fascinating characters that interrelated in fascinating ways.

In one word I would label this series