Review of House M.D

Hugh Laurie is back this September to play the misanthropic Dr

. Gregory House - a cavalier medical mastermind with a bad attitude, an intriguing drug problem and a gammy leg. At least, that's what the fans of the show should be looking forward to, but instead it looks worryingly likely that we'll get a watered-down, drug-free "JUST SAY NO" version of the once cutting Dr. House. Cool vicodin abuse plots with hallucinations and downward spirals look to be in danger of being replaced by puppy dogs, fluffy clouds and a soppy love story.

Whilst the old adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" applies to the show's protagonist, my own wise saying "if the show's format has become stale and predictable, do fix it" applies to the show's writing. Every episode opens with a seemingly innocuous situation - we watch in anticipation, waiting for the antagonistic disease to strike - it does, and the patient promptly goes into respiratory arrest with no explanation given about how he/she made it to Dr. House alive. House quickly diagnoses the root cause and gets back to making instant, pinpoint accurate conclusions about his staff personality based on insignificant actions (he's supposed to be a genius, not a fucking mind-reader).

UH-OH - the observant viewer will have noticed that the show still has thirty minutes of run-time left. Cue the treatment not working and the patient taking a nasty turn for the worse. The doctors, House included, have all but given up hope until, in the last few minutes of the show, House reaches an epiphany during an unrelated discussion with Wilson, and rushes out of the room to save the day. Change it up a bit, guys.

Oh, and one final criticism which applies only to the last couple of seasons: Lucas. Lucas Douglas (played by the simply awful Michael Weston) is a private investigator originally hired by House to spy on Wilson. The character was supposedly planted in the show to build a following for a spin-off show due to air, umm, sometime (I can't be expected to do research for these reviews). The writers shove his character down your throat at every turn, presenting him as smarter and more devious than House. All they've done is devalue House's character by putting him in the same queue as this little jizz-stain. I almost stopped watching the show after the episode "Moving the Chains", when Lucas plays a series of costly and dangerous pranks on House, and then trips him in a cafe - no retribution, no payback, no respect left for House. I can only assume the viewership weren't all that interested in seeing "House Lite" appear in a spin-off because it has never, to my knowledge, aired.

With all that said, the show is for the most part very well acted, and although the medicine is becoming less and less believable (with phrases like "but there have only been 10 cases in the U.S. ever!" bandied around almost every episode - it's one of the most addictive shows on TV today. Catch the new season September 20th.

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Review of House M.D

By: Super Al

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