T.V. Series: House
By: David Cheza
The t.v. series House had its first debut November 16, 2004 on Fox. Created by David Shore, this series boomed with success earning numerous awards such as: the Peabody Award in 2005, three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards from 2006-2008, two Golden Globe awards in 2006 and 2007, and the list doesn’t stop there. It won the Humanist Award and the Edgar Allen Poe Award
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/awards). Needless to say, House was an instant success and the series has a season five coming up soon.
Diagnostician, Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), is a disease specialist who loves taking on bazaar medical mystery cases. House comes of as an annoyed and depressed individual because of the stupidity he has to put up with around him. At times, Dr. House is to medicine as scrooge is to Christmas. Nonetheless, he uses questionable procedures and unconventional thinking to solve these mysterious cases, leaving other doctors dumbfounded.
Although he usually is the one solving these cases, he uses a team of doctors and their input during his quest. His team is made up of highly intelligent doctors who are specialized in many different areas of medicine. Houses neurologist is Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), whose main fear is becoming just like House; immunologist Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), who evidently cares too much for her patients and sometimes has conflicting feelings about House; and intensive care unit specialist Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), who seems to have lived a life of lavish. There is also a good friend of House, Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), who isn’t actually on his team, but has Houses back and often tells him the harsh reality of things.
Even though House is the boss of his team, he has a boss over him and his team. She goes be the name of Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), and hates putting up with Houses unprofessional methods, but knows she can always count on him to save the lives at hand. She has to deal with the legal aspects of medicine, which is an overwhelming task for her because House will do anything when someone’s life hangs in balance and is always being reviewed or sued for it. Despite his controversial methods, his results keep him his job.
There are many inconstancies with his team, which forces him to hire and fire new doctors all the time. House has been known to hire people who don’t have medical degrees, or just because he wants to hook up with that certain someone. However, the old team from above still remains at his side to throw in their two cents every now and again, even though they don’t take direct orders from him anymore. When they work together, they are able to solve and diagnose cases most doctors cannot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/awards
http://www.tv.com/house/show/22374/cast.html
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