Warning: This article mentions suicide.
House Ended 12 years ago on May 21, 2012, and there are a lot of things I miss about the Hugh Laurie-led show. A seminal medical drama, House remains popular around the world to this day thanks to reruns and streaming. With shorter seasons and short-lived shows becoming more common in the age of prestige television, revisiting older shows that ran for several seasons is always interesting. House Has a lot of things better than some of its contemporary shows And stands out even when compared to some of the newest, most popular TV dramas.
A lot of House Episodes, storylines and jokes have not aged. However, between great performances and strong character development, HouseHis legacy is quite positive. This explains why the show continues to find new viewers over a decade after it ended. Having watched House When it originally aired, I never found another show that hit the same notes as the Fox medical drama. Rewatching House A few years later made me realize how much I miss certain aspects of the show. This ranges from Hugh Laurie’s portrayal of Greg House to the tone of the show.
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Hugh Laurie’s performance as Gregory House
Laurie has made House into one of television’s greatest characters
It is difficult to discuss the best things about House Not to mention Hugh Laurie’s performance. One of the greatest TV characters of all time, I feel confident in saying that Gregory House would not have worked if played by a different actor. Laurie embodied the role of the pilot and continued to grow with the character, always showing different sides of the house as the show went on. With an extensive background in comedy but an incredible talent for dramatic roles, Hugh Laurie turned Gregory House into a fascinating character that we always wanted to see more of.
No matter what the case of the week was, there’s one thing I can always count on when watching House – having fun with the titular character. True, most of House’s jokes were used as a defense mechanism, but that didn’t make the character any less funny. House humor was one of the best things about the show, but so was its more sensitive side. Greg House was a tragic characterAnd Laurie’s picture of him made that clear.
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House and Wilson’s friendship
Wilson was the heart of the house
House Had many relationships, most of which did not end well. In hindsight, all of the key romantic relationships on the show had somewhat tragic endings. From Gregory and Stacey to Foreman and Thirteen, you can tell that relationships are always doomed in the house. The only exception was House and Wilson’s friendship. Although it also had a tragic end – Wilson had a few months left at the end of the show – House and Wilson’s friendship lasted throughout the entire series. finally, House left everything behind to be by Wilson’s side during his final months.
Wilson and House’s interactions are always a delight, from the comedic bits to the dramatic. James Wilson was the only one House Character who truly understood who Gregory was and how he thought, which made their friendship fascinating to watch. While the students of the house are often confused about the motives and true feelings of their boss, Wilson can always tell what house planning. It’s one of TV’s best friendships, if not the best.
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House’s mandatory clinic hours
The funniest moments on the show
As an employee of a teaching hospital, House has to fulfill a certain amount of clinical hours. In the pilot, we learn that House was way behind schedule and owns Cuddy’s clinic duties for months. This set up one of House‘s best recurring gags – House treating patients in the clinic every week. Whereas the main medical case of each episode is usually the one with the most drama and twists, The clinic appointments are when House Could briefly become a sitcom.
From objects in strange places to partners lying to each other, we never knew what House was going to find every time he went to the clinic. The fact that dealing with simple cases that barely needed a diagnosis was the exact opposite of what House liked to do as a doctor made the sequences even better. No matter how dark a House episode would get, I can always count on the clinic scenes to lighten the mood.
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House’s relationship with his students
House has a lot of big letters
House Would not have been nearly as good as it was without Gregory mentoring a team. While Laurie’s character was fascinating on his own, House‘s supporting cast made it all even better. House was smart enough to know that he couldn’t solve certain cases by himself And that other opinions is essential for a quick and effective differential diagnosis. For three seasons, Cameron, Foreman and Chase learned from the best, and the relationship between them evolved in many different ways.
In a lesser show, House’s team could have been a set of supporting characters that viewers weren’t interested in and only served to highlight the qualities of the protagonist. However, in some House episodes, I was more invested in the stories of certain supporting characters than in whatever Gregory was going through. House Took a huge risk with the introduction of a new team in season 4But it worked. House Season 4 was one of my favorites and brought in a lot of great new players.
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House’s engaging if not always accurate medical cases
The next case was always more shocking than the last
Houses medical cases are often loosely based on real cases or at least have sufficient scientific basis, which does not mean that they are always medically accurate. One of the biggest problems with Houses cases is how fast they progress. Within days, sometimes hours, we would see several stages of a condition that, in the real world, could take months to develop. House was self-aware of this, with the show even joking sometimes that Gregory House has a “One life to save per week” Quota to hit. House normally only accepts one patient per week.
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Regardless, a medical drama like House Not meant to be accurate but rather entertaining. Although some house episodes are much better than others, the cases are always interesting to watch. From shocking twists to common conditions to diseases that general audiences have never heard of, House Constantly found different ways to surprise its characters and the viewers with the most unique cases.
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House’s character development (not just for Gregory)
Each character has gone through a lot in 8 seasons
A question what House Raised a few times was whether people can change. Regardless of whatever clever answer House and the others have for this, the fact is that Houses characters have changed a lot throughout the show. Some have doubled down on the trends that have shown since the beginning, while others chose very different paths from what we thought they would follow. for Houses original team, the biggest changes happened after season 3 when they finally began to work outside of House’s guidance.
Cameron and Chase’s relationship, which went from a one-time thing to a marriage to a divorce, is an example of how things are always changing in House. The title character has also gone through a lot. House’s pain and addiction got worse as the show went onThat affected his relationship with Wilson, Cady and everyone else. Between a mental hospital and prison, House Took his protagonist in a lot of different directors over eight seasons.
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The humor in the house
No other medical drama is as funny
There are many things that do not age HouseIncluding many of the jokes. That said, House Was a funny show over, even when it was dealing with the most complex and tragic topics. The fact that humor was usually a defensive mechanism for Greg House contributed to this. No matter what or who he was dealing with, House Would always have a snarky comment or an insult ready to be used to defend himself. House also used humor to get under the patient’s skin and find out if they were lying.
while some House Scenes were fairly uncomfortable, others were hilarious. Almost every scene in the clinic delivered a couple of funny moments, not to mention the dialogues between House and Wilson. For all its flaws and moments that haven’t aged well or were never really funny to begin with, House Was pretty consistent when it came to humor. This is something that is not easy to find in medical dramas, as seen with other major shows such as Gray’s Anatomy, Chicago MedAnd The good doctor.
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House’s ethical dilemmas and no-win situations
House did not always have a happy ending
One of my favorite things about House was the no-win situations—episodes where, no matter if they found the right diagnosis, things wouldn’t have a happy ending. House Episodes where the patient died were the exception and not the ruleWhich is why they are usually some of the best shows. Even episodes where the patient did survive tended to include moral dilemmas and challenges that House and his team had to overcome, such as whether or not to tell the patient’s family something.
House worked under the premise that “everyone lies.” However, even his cynical approach to things does not make certain decisions easy. For example, in “Son of Coma Guy,” House and Wilson can do nothing but watch as a father who is about to return to a coma decides to take his own life so that his son can receive a heart. The types of episodes where there were no easy way out of a problem House More like a medical procedure with a fun mystery to be solved every week.