House MD : The gem of a show not to be missed
Completed watching one of the most heartwarming realistic series you will ever come across. House MD was a journey for me. I am an avid series watcher due to which I have binge lot of great series in a very short time.
However, it was a different case for House. I took my time with it, I travelled with the characters for the last 3+ months and it has been so great. House MD is a series about a grouchy, grumpy, crazy but the most brilliant doctor who defies the conventional treatment technique to save the patient. House MD is as realistic as you can get with a show. The characters, their actions, their lives, it's all so real with the drama that goes on with each episode, it's as closer to realistic as it can get.
The biggest positive for House is it's lead character Dr. Gregory House played by Hugh Laurie. I have watched a few shows and movies of him but I never knew he's such a great performer. For all the 8 seasons, I just saw a mad doctor House MD alone. I read through some articles post my completion and was surprised to know that Hugh Laurie is actually British. I'm saying this 'cause it's an american show with american english that contains complex medical terms. I never felt one bit odd about Hugh Laurie's accent in the show.
While Hugh Laurie aka House is the USP of the show, I have never had a more love-hate relationship with a character than I had with House. In some episode, I desperately root for House while in some episode I wanted him to be wrong. I wanted him to be wrong 'cause he breaks the norms and cliches set for thousand years and more often than not he's right.
Another important aspect of the show is the philosophy it preaches. Almost every episode is philosophical and being a person who loves to talk philosophy, I couldn't want more of it. The meaning of life, the reason we have relationship, our regrets, our happiness and sadness, it goes and goes on to touch upon several topics. Also, House being an atheist, his anti religious, anti god dialogues, poking at mad fanatics are such fun to see on the show.
Moving on, the show consists of variety of characters but my most favourite after House is Dr. Allison Cameron played by Jennifer Morrison. She's the most humane and the sweetest character you will ever find in the show. Talking about characters, Robert Sean Leonard plays the closest pal of House, Dr. James Wilson. It can be an exaggeration but I literally saw myself in that character. I also learnt that the duo of House and Wilson in the show is an homage to the popular Sherlock and Watson duo from Sherlock Holmes. The show is filled with relatable characters and their own well sketched out character arc makes us root for them and it's like watching a real hospital doctors lives on screen.
The biggest thing about House that made me go "wow" was the medical aspects discussed in the show. House is a diagnostician who treats patients who have rare unfindable disease. Each and every episode goes on with a patient and almost every episode makes you go wow over how simplest of things can prove fatal and how a smallest mistake in the past can prove lethal. I'm no fan of biology or medicine, but the things depicted in the show were insane. I can only imagine the amount of effort that would have gone in the background in writing to correctly incorporate the medical aspect in each and every episode.
The show is great and you would have gotten that idea from this continuous praise. However, the show does have some negatives. The varying tonality from season to season is one. Also, the constant sexual innuendos in the show gets tiring after a point. The House deals with one patient per episode and it tends to get repetitive on how the screenplay is gonna be after a point. With the current shows having a maximum of 5 seasons with 30-40 odd episode, House MD spans for 8 seasons with 177 episode with each episode running for 44 mins long. Length could be considered a downside as it was a big hitch for me before starting the show. However, I'm glad I started the show and was able to complete it.
I'm gonna conclude by quoting what a senior of mine said about the show before I started it "𝗚𝗲𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄".
~𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁!
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