House M.D.
Overview
House M.D. is a 2004 medical drama television series created by David Shore for Fox. The series stars Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant, misanthropic, and unconventional diagnostician who leads a team of doctors at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. House is a genius, but he is also a drug addict, a misanthrope, and a deeply unhappy man. He is based on Sherlock Holmes: he uses deductive reasoning to solve medical mysteries, he plays a musical instrument (the piano), and he has a close friend, Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), who is his only confidant. House is a jerk to his patients, to his colleagues, and to his boss, Dean of Medicine Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein). He is also a brilliant doctor who saves lives. His team of diagnosticians changes over the years, but includes Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (Olivia Wilde), and Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson). The series is a medical procedural, but it is also a character study of a brilliant, broken man. The series is famous for its "differential diagnosis" scenes, where the team discusses possible diagnoses. House M.D. was a critical and commercial success, winning two Golden Globes and a Peabody Award. Hugh Laurie won two Golden Globes for Best Actor. The series finale, "Everybody Dies," is a fitting end to the series, with House faking his own death and riding off into the sunset with Wilson.
