TV-14
Starring Hugh Laurie, Omar Epps, Lisa Edelstein, Jesse Spencer, Jennifer Morrison, Robert Sean Leonard
The Story:
Dr. Gregory House (Laurie) is a brilliant diagnostician. He loves the mystery ailments of his patients. The only problem...he really doesn't like his patients. :) Using his team (Spencer, Epps, Morrison) to run down all the ailments that it could be, but never is, they work tirelessly to cure their patients.
I used to love this show.
The first 3 seasons were some of the best on television.
Great writing, stellar cast, interesting storylines.
Sure, on occasion some of the cases seemed redundant, but we were here to see House, and the show delivered.
He was a cranky, pill-popping near-cripple with an acid-tongue and heart of stone.
He lives for the mystery, a modern-day Sherlock Holmes (Holmes=House) and his best friend Wilson(Leonard) (Wilson=Watson) and the dynamic of the show was stellar.
Then in Season 4, the team was broken up, new blood was brought in (Olivia Wilde, Peter Jacobson, etc) and it was the beginning of the end.
It was the beginning of the end.
While still good, the episodes were rarely great.
By season 7, we were in full shark-jumping mode.
I didn't even bother watching an episode of season 8. I wanted to have pleasant memories of this show.
House is now streaming on Netflix as of this writing.
We'll see if I venture into the later seasons to see how things ended.
As it is, it's nice to revisit some great shows from a decade ago!
Final Grade: A- (and dropping after 3...)
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: One of the few shows I do own. No regrets.
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