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House is such a great show (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

Not gonna lie, I hate the show House. I've watched the entire series multiple times but there's a lot do like about it, but the reason I have to hate it because the show creators said that they never wanted House to solve a case by the normal means. They wanted him to like run into their ex-gfs dog's brother that ate something through a story while he was berating her cheating because they stepped on his cane the wrong way. For me, it would be nice to solve a case through competency ... it always rubbed me the wrong way.

To be clear, this is subjective. Many people watched the shows and it made them wanna be nurses and doctors and it was their inspiration. So I'm definitely an outlier but it just gets me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I agree with you on that, as a whole the plot structure gets awful formulaic after a while. I’ve watched it a few times now and it’s become a comfort show for me- watched it the first time for the character arcs, the second time for the philosophical themes, and subsequent times for filthy House zingers

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve watched the entire series multiple times

Why?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

I have absolutely no idea. I think it was one of the few shows on Amazon Prime. I think I enjoyed some of the interplay between the characters? The medicine stuff just made me hate it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Wasn't his whole job to solve a case that the other doctors couldn't solve? When the average doctor's competency couldn't solve the case they'd turn it to House to use unconventional methods.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

Agreed but the way it's solved isn't through a way that seems to make sense. It always feels contrived to me.

I've seen doctors react on YouTube and they were like, "why would you run this test, this other test would have shown that"

Let me be clear, I know my opinion isn't popular and it's all make-believe. I'm not saying my dislike for the show is rational.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

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Watch an old movie [or read the novel, I'm easy] called "The 7% Solution"

Drug addict Sherlock Holmes is cured by Sigmund Freud.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Anyone who wants to watch this kind of crazy in Japanese, there’s a show called Doctor X.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

There's also Ameku MD which is currently airing

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 16 hours ago

Hey that's really reductionist and untrue. First they have to nearly kill him with the wrong diagnosis before landing on the right one.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 17 hours ago

It’s never lupus, except for that time it was lupus.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

House: Pops three Percocet let's amputate something

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

I think it was Vicodin.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Cameron: Wouldn't you like to see the case first?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

House: Why? You'll just think it's allergies. Also, I'll never fuck you.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

This vexes me

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago

I’ve only seen a couple episodes. Including the one where he discovered a patient has HIV because he couldn’t get rid of the hiccups. Thanks for the new fear!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

expect when he was pretty transphobic, that wasn't cool...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago

He was generally an asshole to everyone, I think this actually makes him inclusive

[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago

I think the point of him is that he's in pain and also a giant asshole to almost everyone.

That episode would never fly today though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Are you talking about the super model episode?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

House says the perfect woman is a man. He's a chaser.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

She wasn't trans, she was intersex.

There's another episode where a young boy is also intersex.

House treats both really shitty

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

He treats everyone really shitty. He's an equal opportunity asshole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Sure, but misgendering someone because they have testicles is a whole other level of shitty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

The mists of time grow e'er near

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