INDY REVIEWS
Score: 7 / 10 
House
House is solid television. Entertaining and informative. Odin knows it's helped me set my own GP straight on a number of medical conditions I'd carefully self-diagnosed. And I've surely been a fan of Hugh Laurie's American accent since his performance of America on the comedy classique A Bit of Fry And Laurie. (Sample lyrics: "America, America, America, America, America, America. America, America, America, America, America. The States, The States, The States, The States, The States. America, America....")
But as good as Hugh is, I still find myself occasionally wishing Bad Hat Harry Productions had stuck to their original vision of a weekly medical mystery show where critical diagnoses were eventually made by an actual house. Sure, you can argue the greater viewing public might not be ready to accept the notion of a doctor who is a physical dwelling, but it's an argument I reject. After all, we accepted Doogie Howser with a broad 'place that stethoscope here, young man' grin. A medically trained domicile only marginally stretches those boundaries, surely.
And if they'd let the good doctor be an actual house, there would have been no need to waste precious screen time trying to motivate Dr House's renowned crabbiness. He's a freaking house, people! Of course he's going to be irritable. How would you like it, with the termites and the land tax and the having the dogs pee on your lawn?
Exactly.
Begone,
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