House, M.D. - Season One | Hugh Laurie | Better than Grey's Anatomy!

House, M.D. - Season One | Hugh Laurie | Great TV Show!

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	House, M.D. - Season One Hugh Laurie Fox Network, 2005 average customer review:based on 454 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Better than Grey's Anatomy!

Before I watched this show, Hugh Laurie used to creep me out when previews would come on TV. But after randomly watching one episode, I was instantly hooked! This really shows that medicine isn't always perfect, but the kind of mysteries are well done.

I love the entire cast! Chase is hot, Foreman is a jerk, Wilson is the dork, Cuddy is the drill sargeant, Cameron is the sensible one and of course... House is our lovely pill popper, limping, cynical doctor. Laurie really steals the show with his mean comebacks and dark personality. This season was good to learn about the characters' past and attitude, though it was a bit short. Highly recommended for anyone who likes Grey's Anatomy and BONES.

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Great TV Show!

I have never watched this show on Fox and never even watch Fox, but I had heard this was a great TV show and wanted to watch it. Amazon.com had a great offer where I purchased the first 3 seasons for about 69 bucks. The first episodes were good but made me nervous. I am not a mystery or detective fan and this show is basically a medical detective show. There is character development though and after awhile the show grew on me more and more. I began to really like House and the doctor who has a crush on him. At the end of the season there is another female character who sparks House's interest too.

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Amazing

House is one of those shows that you miss when it has run its first season and you missed it, yet you constantly hear your friends talk about it. You think that because it's so popular, it must be terrible, as that's simply the way it goes sometimes as TV shows that have such a massive mainstream popularity tend to be shallow and generally not very good. House is different, so different in fact that they have a great British comic actor play a genius M.D. by the name of Gregory House.

Medical shows through the history of television tend to be quite cliché and something that aren't too gripping. House is different. It brings the American medical drama into a completely new direction and revives the whole genre. House specialises is mystery cases and most of the time the simplest answer isn't always the right one. For an American show the intelligence of it is inspiring. It doesn't take you for an idiot and uses the medical terms in the way they would be used in life. Tt doesn't patronise the viewer, and it manages to teach you about the rare condition in a way that doesn't treat you like a moron.

Hugh Laurie is truly amazing and I think a star that nobody expected to work in the role. The character of House is amazing, he's a genius doctor who, in the sub-plots when he's placed in the walk in clinic the character really shines. We are given someone who seems to not care, he seems simply un-interested in his walk in patients. That's not the case at all as when he engages in the patients, he gives them a diagnostic within seconds and sends them on their way. He's a true modern eccentric that, when dealing with a serious case he is willing to do whatever necessary to help cure the patient. Needless to say that with shows like this you can be given an excellent main character and a less than mediocre supporting cast. This separates House from the crowd once again, as the supporting cast are equally brilliant in their roles. Omar Epps, Lisa Edelstein and Jesse Spencer are just three of the overly amazing supporting cast of the show.

I only caught this show for season 4 after a friend of mine convinced me to give it a go. I was skeptical at first but now feel like punching myself for overlooking such a remarkable show. Although Laurie has won golden globes for the show, I have no doubt that if they took the risk and made a movie Laurie would win an Oscar. Which in my book would be well deserved.

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One Word.... GREAT!

I am playing catch up on this series. I just purchased the first season of House. I was well aware of the show but I never watched a single episode on TV because I was propably too busy watching whatever was on ABC. I figured "it's a medical show and it obviously can't be nearly as good as Grey's Anatomy.. so why watch it?" Eventually I was convinced to watch it buy the same person that introduced me to "The Office" (The original BBC version). House is great from start to finish. I cant wait to purchase the other seasons.

The beginnings of a beautiful love-hate relationship

This review is primarily for season one, but will mention seasons two and three a couple of times.

House begins promisingly. The show has many guises - mystery, comedy, drama, tragedy - and wears them all pretty well. Great characters deliver laugh-out-loud lines. But right at the midpoint of the first season, things go downhill in a hurry. Let me elaborate.

Dr. Greg House a brilliant doctor obsessed with saving his patients by diagnosing and treating rare illnesses. The only trouble is, he rarely likes his patients. That's the central premise of the show: he wants to save lives but doesn't suffer fools, and most of his patients are fools. But House isn't mean-spirited (at first) or an outright jerk. He's saracastic, biting, and insensitive. But he's usually right, rarely cruel, and often speaks his mind in order to cut through the bullshit. For the most part, it's a joy to watch him in action. He's a bit of a wounded spirit, too, living in chronic pain, and driven to prevent the kinds of mistakes made in his own medical history.

House is great fun as long as the show sticks to its original strengths: it's a cut-the-crap show that skewers the American Health Care system without siding with the system or with patients. As much as you want to cheer for House, sometimes he's out of line or makes a bad call, which is all the more believable. The characters are developed in the context of each new medical mystery, which always takes center stage and is always a nail biter.

For the first 12 episodes, this is a must-see show. But then, something happens. Maybe ratings were down, or a producer was unhappy, or there was dissension among the writers - who knows. It is a Fox show, after all. Whatever happened, the show becomes wildly inconsistent and a whole lot less fun.

Suddenly, a "villain" character is introduced. He's one-dimensional and evil. He walks all over House's boss (which you don't believe for a second, given her actions in the early episodes) and suddenly stubborn House becomes the Hero of the day. *yawn*. The medical mysteries become irrelevant. Four clumsy episodes are devoted to House standing up to a bully, and suddenly, the bully vanishes as quickly as he arrived and is never mentioned again. Clearly, the writers knew they had made a mistake. But the show never recovers. The supporting cast, with the exception of Wilson, is yanked in all directions. First Chase is bemused, mellow, a bit of a peace-maker, with views stemming from a wealthy background. Then he is a sulky, scheming backstabber who hates his job, his boss, and his coworkers. Cuddy goes from being House's formidable conversation partner to a mere prop, protesting every now and then and basically powerless to reign him in. Cameron initially befriends House, but then she's in love, and then she's not, etc. House becomes a parody of himself. And on, and on.

The botton line is this. House, as a show, experiments so inexpertly that you simply start filtering out actions that don't match your conceptions of the characters. Some episodes are so-so, some are a return to form, some are awful. It's extremely hit or miss. I give the first season four stars only because I absolutely love the first half. After that, the series is entirely optional. It's also much less funny. Things that define the early episodes go by the wayside (no more jokes about General Hospital, much less clinic time, etc). The series almost becomes the kind of medical soap opera it set out to usurp.

You stay with it hoping that they'll learn their lesson, but they never do: in season three, a new villian appears cut from the same mold as the first-season bully, only this time it takes eight episodes before he disappears in a puff of irrelevance. These DVDs are worth it for the early episodes, but be ready to call it quits.

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