# House (2004)

> A brilliant but abrasive diagnostician and his team solve baffling medical cases at a New Jersey teaching hospital.

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## Facts

- Seasons: 8
- Episodes: 176
- Episode runtime: 44 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: David Shore
- Network: FOX
- Cast: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Odette Annable, Peter Jacobson
- TMDB rating: 8.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: acerbic, sardonic, darkly funny, tense, cynical

## What critics say

Viewers broadly acclaim House as a sharp, character-driven medical drama powered by Hugh Laurie's performance and its caustic diagnostic puzzles.

## Synopsis

House (2004-2012) is an American network medical drama created by David Shore for FOX. Hugh Laurie plays Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, misanthropic diagnostician who leads a small team at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. His engine is a stubborn quest to crack the cases nobody else can, while he resists the hospital administrator Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) and clashes with his fellows Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer) and Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison). Each episode opens with a patient whose symptoms seem contradictory, and the team argues through theories until a diagnosis emerges. The show spans eight seasons of 176 episodes, a serialized character drama wrapped around a procedural frame. Its tone is sharp, sardonic and often darkly funny, with a personal undercurrent of pain and addiction. Fans of Scrubs, The Good Doctor and Sherlock will find resonance in its brilliant, difficult protagonist and its puzzle-box cases. Set in a contemporary American hospital, it is a network drama that rewards close attention to both medicine and character.

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