House (2004)
House is a 2004 drama series created by David Shore and Jason Derlatka. It stars Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard and Omar Epps.
Gregory House solves the cases no one else can and makes everyone miserable doing it. He runs a diagnostics team at Princeton-Plainsboro, chasing rare illnesses through symptoms that keep lying to him, while a Vicodin habit and a ruined leg keep him snarling. Hugh Laurie plays him brilliant, cruel and secretly wounded, sparring with his boss Lisa Cuddy and leaning on his one real friend, oncologist James Wilson. Each episode runs like a detective story where the culprit is a disease. The medicine is a frame; the real subject is a man who would rather be right than liked.
Quick answers
What is House about?
Gregory House solves the cases no one else can and makes everyone miserable doing it. He runs a diagnostics team at Princeton-Plainsboro, chasing rare illnesses through symptoms that keep lying to him, while a Vicodin habit and a ruined leg keep him snarling. Hugh Laurie plays him brilliant, cruel and secretly wounded, sparring with his boss Lisa Cuddy and leaning on his one real friend, oncologist James Wilson. Each episode runs like a detective story where the culprit is a disease. The medicine is a frame; the real subject is a man who would rather be right than liked.
When was House released?
House was released on 16 November 2004.
How many episodes does House have?
House has 176 episodes across 8 seasons.
Who made House?
House was created by David Shore, Jason Derlatka and Jon Ehrlich.
Where can I watch House?
House is available on Hulu, Prime Video, Google Play, Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch House
Stream: Hulu, Prime Video
Rent: Google Play
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- Hugh Laurie as Gregory House
- Robert Sean Leonard as James Wilson
- Omar Epps as Eric Foreman
- Jesse Spencer as Robert Chase
- Lisa Edelstein as Lisa Cuddy
- Bobbin Bergstrom as Nurse
- Jennifer Morrison as Allison Cameron
- Peter Jacobson as Chris Taub
- Olivia Wilde as Thirteen
- Kal Penn as Lawrence Kutner
- Amber Tamblyn as Martha M. Masters
- Odette Annable as Jessica Adams
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A few thoughts on House
House is openly built on Sherlock Holmes, from the drug habit to the loyal Watson in Wilson to a flat number that nods at 221B. Fans should go to the source, Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes stories, for that cold deduction. The game Return of the Obra Dinn feeds the same puzzle hunger, reconstructing whole deaths from tiny clues.
Ensemble hospital dramas where every doctor is drowning in cases
House turns Princeton-Plainsboro into its own ecosystem of doctors chasing symptoms that keep lying to them, and these shows run the same overlapping-cases machine. Grey's Anatomy and ER built the template House inherited, St. Elsewhere did the ensemble-hospital format decades earlier, The Pitt compresses a single brutal shift into the same pressure cooker, and Marcus Welby, M.D. shows the small-scale version of one doctor against a stubborn illness.
Brilliant doctors whose addiction is the real diagnosis
House runs on Vicodin and won't admit it's a problem, and this angle follows that same wound in other brilliant, self-destructive doctors. The Knick's Dr. Thackery burns through cocaine chasing the next surgical breakthrough, Dr. Death shows what happens when confidence outruns competence, Dopesick traces the opioid crisis from the prescription pad outward, and Chance follows a neuropsychiatrist whose own instability starts to match his patients.
Mysteries where the culprit isn't a person, it's something hidden
House treats every illness like a mystery where the culprit is a disease, not a person, and that forensic patience drives this angle. Return of the Obra Dinn hands you fragments of a death to reconstruct by observation alone, Forever's immortal medical examiner solves cases through the body itself, Scarpetta brings the same rigor to a coroner's table, and Crooked House rewards noticing the one detail that explains everything.