2004 - HOUSE-season one

The first season of House on DVD,  watched 8 episodes in a row. The show has been on for a few seasons now, so this was a chance to catch the early episodes when it was fresh. Dr. Gregory House is a brilliant diagnostic doctor, with a team of hot young professionals. He's basically the Sherlock Holmes character, with his team being the Dr. Watson character. Each episode they confront a strange disease killing some guest star of the week. They have to figure out before the top of the hour how to stop this mysterious disease.


 The show goes something like this: 8:00 pm-Dr. House walks around the hospital pissing people off. Meanwhile some person falls over in a coma or something like that. They rush him/her to House's hospital. Dr. House makes a bunch of smart ass wise cracks we're off and running.

8:15 pm-The sickie has been admitted to the hospital. Dr. House takes a 15 second glance at his chart and pronounces the diagnosis. 6 minutes later after treatment, something goes wrong. Dr House has no bedside manner at all but he's so smart it's excusable, just like real life.

I'm ashamed I added this picture but this post is dull.

 8:30 pm-The team and Dr. House realize that the initial diagnosis is wrong and figure out an entirely different diagnosis, they start a new treatment. 6 minutes later that treatment starts to go terribly wrong. Now the patient is even worse, this is not very cool.

8:45 pm- Well it's getting close to the top of the hour, they gotta wrap it up for this episode. Dr. House has a moment of insight based on information he missed at the 8:00 pm mark. Finally the team has the right treatment and saves the patient's life.

One of the cast of doctors on House, gratuitous picture.

All is well, after almost killing the patient a couple of times in the last 40 minutes or so. Dr. House and his team kind of suck as doctors.

 But to be fair nobody is watching this for the brilliant plotting of the shows, you tune in to see how much of a dick Dr. House is.