You know what? Ill admit it: it's not a good show. The episodes are basically always the same and it's not realistic. But I have fun watching it
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It's great, I'm already at season 7
That’s what makes the show awesome. I want it even more ludicrous.
A lot of the cases are... loosely... based on real medical discoveries and treatments. You just pack them all under the arm of one guy to make him some kind of Doctor Genius God.
I'm glad they didn't go full on X-Files with it or inject a bunch of quackery. The show was at its strongest when it was incredible without being unbelievable.
It's a medical version of sherlock holmes, why do you think he's called house.
cuz he breaks into people's houses
They applied a cop show routine (which is heavily subsidised propaganda) and applied it to a doctor drama.
Basically iconic ~~superheroes~~ reckless vigilantes 99% of the time with a success rate in compete fantasy numbers and sponsored one-liners.
And breaking the rules is pretty much always justified.
Well, for cops shows and in the format.
Spoilers for House. The later seasons actually came out during the time when shoes were moving from episodic to serialised. And as the show had always recognises House as being very reckless, it was easy to write an overarching plot to the later seasons where he actually faces consequences for his behaviour and personal problems.
So unlike in cop shows, House actually does face the issue of his drug abuse and his abusive behaviour. Even going to prison at one point, albeit not for any medical shit he pulled.
The show definitely has a strong anti-authoritarian taste compared to cop shows. House is a philosopher and always improving and questioning morals whereas cops just "follow orders" and break the law to achieve "justice" (which they have a perverted view which they got through shitty propaganda and don't question.)
It's literally sherlock holmes but as a doctor. They even included the opiate addiction
I only realized this a couple years ago. I was a huge fan of the show 🤦♂️
And he lives at 221B Baker St, which blew my mind when I realised!
Holmes & Watson, House & Wilson.
The name "House" is a play on "Holmes" (with English pronunciation, a homophone for "homes")
There's a ton:
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Gregory_House_and_Sherlock_Holmes_connections
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House is Sherlock Holmes in doctor form with Dr. Wilson being his Watson
I mean, that was literally the elevator pitch for the show - Sherlock Holmes as an American doctor. They even made a point in casting of not wanting a British actor which makes it even funnier that Hugh Laurie got the part.
Holmes = House Watson = Wilson 7% solution of cocaine = Vicodin
The biggest difference is that he's essentially his own Moriarty, and his Reichenbach Falls involved a burning house, heroin and hallucinations of dead former team members.
House even lives in apartment 221 and loves drugs. They didn't even try to hide their inspiration.
i dont think they were trying to hide it? his name is house, like a home (holme)
And they’ve got an entire diagnostics team working on a single patient multiple days in a row, breaking into their house, running lab tests, and doing basically every single task a hospital has an entire staff for.
Would love to see the hospital bill
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Almost kill the patient. Almost kill the patient again. Save the patient in the last 10 minutes.
Don't forget, all of this while popping Vicodin from the moment he wakes up.
Dudes doing this while on a constant hydro wave.
Then drives into a living room.
Its Dr Sherlock, they just switched the coke for pills, Wilson is Watson, etc
It's moments like this that remind me that I have no ability to put things together.
It's not even subtle, House literally lives at 221B Baker Street.
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Scrubs is just the better show about doctors. I will die on this hill.
Ba ba ba dada ba ba bum, ba ba dada ba ba baaa...
Scrubs is widely considered the most realistic depiction of the medical field.
https://www.soliant.com/blog/the-least-and-most-accurate-medical-shows/
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I just watched one where House extracted fluid from a leg growth, then from across the room he 360 no scope squirted it into patient's daughter's mouth.
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