A Kid’s Review

I literally stumbled upon this little gem on the Internet. I’d heard about it before, but never bothered to sit down and watch it. But when I read more about it, it sounded like a type of show I’d like, so I went to the library and all it had was the first disk of this season. So I tried it out. And fell in love.

Hugh Laurie poses as an ingenious but ill-tempered doctor, Greggory House. With each new episode comes a new cold case that House and his band of talented and miraculously good-looking hand-picked doctors must solve in 40 minutes. You’d think that this typical whodunit medical formula would get boring by the fifth time you’ve watched it, but it really doesn’t. It’s a quirky, rare show that has some brilliant writers working in the back-drop and absolutely fantastic actors posing as a medical team in a hospital in New Jersey.

I love Hugh Laurie’s character the most. He’s a scruffy-but-handsome kind of guy who’s charming in a way he doesn’t mean to be. He is incredibly rude, and makes his team member’s lives a misery, and his rudeness doesn’t stop with his patients. But he is brilliant, and his wit almost always surprises his team as well as his patients when he correctly diagnoses and cures a case. And House’s sarcastic, mean humor almost always makes me laugh. Hats off to the writers and Hugh Laurie, who carries it out beautifully.

I don’t think I could get tired of the team, either. Omar Epps plays Dr. Eric Foreman, a very smart and rather sarcastic guy. He can pull some great expressions, and his signature high eye-brows always make me smile. Jennifer Morrison is Dr. Allison Cameron, the strong-willed beauty of the team. Her character is pretty hard to hate, and the only reason I don’t like her is because she gains Chase’s attention. Now we come to Dr. Robert Chase, the adorable Aussie of the team, who is as clever as he is amusing.

Robert Sean Leonard plays Dr. James Wilson, the smart and good-natured department head. He is very respected by the team as well as the patients, and his calm nature makes his close friendship with the eccentric House all the more puzzling. Wilson is adorable, in a kind of older-guy way, and he has a great sense of humor- and not to mention patience, to deal with House and his sometimes strange antics.

And finally, Lisa Edelstein is Dr. Lisa Cuddy, the boss reining over all the aforementioned characters. She’s a no-play-business boss who does her work well and is respected by the team; that is, everyone but House, whose rude antics don’t stop at his boss. She takes it well, though, and there is a sort of adorable affection between the two that even an outsider to the show could recognize. I don’t want to be really mean, but Liza Edelstein has a bit of a horse face. I mean that in the nicest way possible, because she is truly beautiful, but sometimes on the covers of HOUSE, MD, her face looks a little long. Anyways, I just hope she and House hook up in the sixth season.

The show is a gem, I truly love it and all its characters. There hasn’t been a dry episode yet, and having to wait for them in Netflix and being forced to skip around when I find random seasons at the library is tough, and even watching epidodes on TV get confusing. Yet there is no way I’m going to buy all the seasons- it’s WAY to expensive. I reccommend buying these only to die-hard fans who need every single episode to be happy.

The one thing about this show is the blood. I’m not a pansy, but when I see operations and inner body parts and nasty stuff like that, I get a little freaked out. Medical stuff like that scares me, as I am a bit of a hypochondriac, and that is one drawback to this TV show: the blood and guts.

Now, before I let you go, there is one last thing I’ll comment on. Practically every episode goes by a typical formula that is entertaining all the same, but about thirty minutes in, when House realizes what’s wrong and the camera zooms in and he makes a thoughtful face, well… by the 20th time of seeing that, it gets old. I feel bad for Hugh Laurie, who has to act like he’s just made a brilliant discovery and make a serious face time over and over. It’s amusing, in a way, but it gets boring.

Anyways, it is an AWESOME show. As a matter of fact it’s testing The Mentalist, for me, as my favorite show, and that is huge, since I am in love with Simon Baker. So if you’re like me and can’t afford to give stupid Amazon a thousand dollars to buy every season, at least watch it, because this is one TV show EVERYONE ought to watch before they die.