It's great, I'm already at season 7
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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.
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.
It's literally sherlock holmes but as a doctor. They even included the opiate addiction
And he lives at 221B Baker St, which blew my mind when I realised!
I only realized this a couple years ago. I was a huge fan of the show 🤦♂️
Big Lupus at it again
It was only lupus the one time.
Now thats what I call effective advertising!
My wife and I have been watching NYPD Blue recently. Fucking incredible show.
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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
Wait a second...which department breaks into your house?
Extra-external Medicine.
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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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house was super entertaining to watch except it became too tiring to see someone have a seizure every. fucking. episode.
I think I quit a couple episodes into season 2 just because of that. I'm someone who feels uncomfortable seeing other people in pain (including most "funny" videos about people falling, getting hit in the crotch, or whatever) so seeing someone get convulsions every time was just sucking all the fun out of it.
FWIW, an actual seizure doesn't look anything like a Hollywood seizure. It's both more subtle and somehow more disturbing.
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.
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