lee-thorneycroft I absolutely despise medical dramas. Most of them are dull, depressing and tonally grim. House, by way of miracle, is like the remedy for prescription drugs; with your average episode of Casualty being like your regularly dispensed antibiotic and your average episode of house being like your naturally home-brewed probiotic. The latter is great at helping you feel better without poking holes in your immune system and making you cry. And, for me, this is what it all comes down to. House is a show that's upbeat and clever. It's also educating and fun. The patients suffer from unusual diseases every episode and, consequently, the audience is left to piece together a mystery every week. This is what makes the show so fun. Most people watching are not going to be doctors or surgeons so the writers are depending on the uninformed viewer to be oblivious and sometimes even misguided. Not to mention of course the beating heart of the show: Dr House. The character of House is such fun to watch. He's quirky, somewhat arrogant and, for the most part, ahead of everyone else. So he's not your average doctor. And he's not your average man. BUT he's not simply a clever man and a clever doctor either. He's an intelligent man with complex emotionally issues buried beneath a hard outer shell. And this is the reason why I feel so attached to the show emotionally. Your weekly medical drama (i.e. Casualty) is going to be emotional as well, of course, but what House does so well is educate you while also investing you in a complex character. It will make you cry from time to time as well but, with a show like House, that's hardly a bad thing.

dukejohn It's my first time ever writing a review on a movie. I just had to write this because of how amazing this show is. Especially season 4, I couldn't stop watching the show. the competitive nature and infinitely complicated and creative diagnoses and all the drama between House and his subordinates, House and Cuddy, and job applicants were all amazing. Before watching this show, I tried watching Grey's Anatomy but I couldn't watch more than a few episodes because of the overall low quality of the show. House, however, actually made me pay good money for each episode(I almost never pay to watch shows/movies) because Netflix stopped showing House. After watching every episode of this show, I will probably collect all the DVDs of this show. That's how much I love this show.

merelyaninnuendo House M.D.portraying the real idea behind the character sherlock holmes, hugh laurie steals the show and won't let you leave it. other characters besides gregory seems a bit under-cooked but it is a minor flaw in this whole beautiful and long journey of house. it seems a bit stretched after the fifth season but gives you a satisfactory end.

mikey-242-435767 House, M.D. is similar to Diagnosis Murder in some ways and very different in other ways. Both have a genius lead doctor who has to think and act "out of the box", thereby incurring the wrath of more mainstream doctors.The only problem is that they occasionally do things that are not really right, medically. But, then, it is a TV show, not a medical documentary and they have to take some license to make the plot come out right.It is well written. As I call it "tight". Every word in every scene moves toward the resolution of the conflict.I like it a lot.