House is such an epic TV show. Can I actually say goodbye to it? It was hard to bring myself to watch the final season, let alone the final episode. I mean its not a plot-driven TV show where its hinge on a strong narrative season after a season. Its more character driven at its best and the laurels rest on Hugh Laurie who clearly embodies every bit of the unconventional medical sleuth called House.
House is a diagnostician wunderkind who couldn't care less about a patient unless he's afflicted with something very life-threatening and challenging for him to figure out which could range from something mundane as copper poisoning to something ghastly viral or bacterial. House is indifferent to his patients as to his co-workers, lovers and bestfriends. And like any good anti-hero, he has his struggles with painkillers caused by his limp. For med school dropouts like me, the medical jargon is just the icing, the real meat is when House gets by figuring out the most obscure delibitating illnesses the patients are made to suffer at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. House could bring back patients from the dead, but couldn't save most of his personal relationships if his life depended on it. But he's happy that way which makes this cruel and smug figure appealing to viewers.
House is more like comfort food. Easy to digest week after week, its like the same old soup, but there's always something new after every taste. So you don't get tired of it, you look forward to it. You make sure TiVo gets the sour doctor on your playlist. I'm sure even for the cast of actors the end is quite bittersweet.
Just like any good TV Show, M*A*S*H and X-Files just to name a few, I would just love to let my fave TV shows like House M.D. go on forever.
House is a diagnostician wunderkind who couldn't care less about a patient unless he's afflicted with something very life-threatening and challenging for him to figure out which could range from something mundane as copper poisoning to something ghastly viral or bacterial. House is indifferent to his patients as to his co-workers, lovers and bestfriends. And like any good anti-hero, he has his struggles with painkillers caused by his limp. For med school dropouts like me, the medical jargon is just the icing, the real meat is when House gets by figuring out the most obscure delibitating illnesses the patients are made to suffer at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. House could bring back patients from the dead, but couldn't save most of his personal relationships if his life depended on it. But he's happy that way which makes this cruel and smug figure appealing to viewers.
House is more like comfort food. Easy to digest week after week, its like the same old soup, but there's always something new after every taste. So you don't get tired of it, you look forward to it. You make sure TiVo gets the sour doctor on your playlist. I'm sure even for the cast of actors the end is quite bittersweet.
Just like any good TV Show, M*A*S*H and X-Files just to name a few, I would just love to let my fave TV shows like House M.D. go on forever.
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