House M.D. is a medical/detective drama with a genius protagonist, Dr. Gregory House, who happens to be a drug addict and very unpleasant person to talk to. House is famous for his disregard for rules, lives of patients and human relationships as everything he cares about is getting the diagnosis right. His biting remarks are known as houseisms. House runs a diagnostic department consisting of several young doctors whom he ruthlessly mocks and humiliates in order to get that one single impulse that would allow him to solve another medical puzzle.

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House M.D. s5e07: now, where exactly do you have ‘The Itch’? 13 November

House writers, are you sh*tting me? In a show about irksome genius you give me an agoraphobic men who never leaves his house and writes manuals. Not only that, he also had a girlfriend or wife who coped with his quirks and was murdered. Where have I seen it? Oh, right, it’s Monk. Obsessive, compulsive, highly irritating genius detective. Two Monks, actually, Ambrose (locked in his house and writing manuals) and Adrian (whose wife was killed) merged into one patient. This is just lame. And the show is still on air, BTW.

And yet I loved the final sequence when the patient overcame his fears and walked out of the building and House couldn’t.

House M.D. s5: House, where art thou? 30 October

House M.D. s5

Well, I might go to a special hell for saying this but my love affair with Dr. Gregory House is finally over. How could he stoop so low? I forgave him (and writers) for parting ways with Cameron and sweet Dr. Chase. I turned a blind eye to his new crew of losers and even to 13. I put up with two cases of leprosy on one show. And I actually liked Amber because Amber was the only person with guts in several seasons. And they killed her off.

I twisted my mind so that I wouldn’t look at the progress bar of video player window because the succession of events is always the same:

  1. Some person(s): perfectly normal.
  2. Some person(s): almost dying.
  3. Opening credits.
  4. House: trying to avoid the case.
  5. House: hearing smth interesting and picking up the case.
  6. Wrong diagnosis. Patient(s) go(es) worse.
  7. Wrong diagnosis: apply/rinse/repeat. Patient(s) go(es) worse.
  8. The last wrong diagnosis before the final revelation. Patient(s): dying.
  9. The ‘lastest’ wrong diagnosis before the final revelation. Patient(s): dying.
  10. Patient(s): being treated to death for the ‘lastest’ diagnosis because the diagnosis is, well, wrong.
  11. House: talking to somebody devoid of any charisma and significance (everybody is that way on the show these days).
  12. House: finally having a revelation. Patient(s): dead almost dead.
  13. House: saving the day.