House: Pops three Percocet let's amputate something
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Cameron: Wouldn't you like to see the case first?
House: Why? You'll just think it's allergies. Also, I'll never fuck you.
Foreman: Hey I did normal doctor things.
House: Fucking idiot
I think it was Vicodin.
Hey that's really reductionist and untrue. First they have to nearly kill him with the wrong diagnosis before landing on the right one.
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.
He does solve cases by normal means, they're just usually quick parts of the episode.
It sounds like it's just not the show you're expecting. It's not trying to be ER or Scrubs. It's Sherlock Holmes. It's like watching Mindhunter and criticizing it for not being more like Cops where they solve the case because they catch the suspect in the act of trying to shove the evidence up their butt.
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.
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house was super entertaining to watch except it became too tiring to see someone have a seizure every. fucking. episode.
I think I quit a couple episodes into season 2 just because of that. I'm someone who feels uncomfortable seeing other people in pain (including most "funny" videos about people falling, getting hit in the crotch, or whatever) so seeing someone get convulsions every time was just sucking all the fun out of it.
FWIW, an actual seizure doesn't look anything like a Hollywood seizure. It's both more subtle and somehow more disturbing.
yeah I don't know I guess it's believable enough. it's funny, I enjoy completely over the top violence, like mortal kombat / doom levels, and most action movies. but seeing someone just trip and fall brings a visceral reaction.
it just doesn't register as entertainment in my brain the way the over the top stuff do. house falls into the realistic category so it's harder for me to watch.
Anyone who wants to watch this kind of crazy in Japanese, there’s a show called Doctor X.
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House MD hasn't aged gracefully. It matched early that period's obsession with edge.
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