Is House even worth actually watching properly, or is watching random youtube clips of specific patients the best way to enjoy it?
>177 episodes
>'patient of the week' formula
>mostly no continuity or previous knowledge required episode to episode
Is House even worth actually watching properly, or is watching random youtube clips of specific patients the best way to enjoy it?
House is kino but you sound like a gay so I don't recommend you watch it
I made the post fully understanding it comes across like a zoomer question, I just don't think I'm wrong
>talking shit about zoomerGODS
It's our website now oldhomosexual
Yeah I can see that
Zoomers can't create only destroy
you're only halfway in denial
People don't watch 200 episode procedurals because they think it'll give them extra credits in diagnostic medicine 101 or some other long term "value"
They watch 200 episodes procedurals to occasionally chuckle at the bants while most likely doing something else entirely, you know, like how housewives were designed to watch them
This, it's like star trek or any other kind of tv show. You watch it to kill an hour or so every day til you run out. People are spoiled by HBO dramas and bingewatch formulaic shit too much
Disgusting zoomer mindset
Zoomers didn't exist in 2004
Actualy, they did. Boomers have been calling themsevles Zoomers (Boomers with Zip) for a long time. They even have, yep they still do, their own tv channel and magazines about the Zoomer lifestyle.
ackshually they did, as they were around four or five years old at the time
Born 1999, and I'm a Zoomer.
your dad probably read the news while watching monk
>watching monk
I didn't grow up in a church. Lmao.
Different kind of Monk
Monk is not comparable to House though. Monk is not as kino plus the plots are far too obvious
I like watching Monk with my mom
the upside of having everything filmed upclose with ugly digital cameras is that older stuff look incredibly soulful
Monk is not comparable to House though. Monk is far more kino plus the plots are a league above House.
This is how I watched ncis and csi (in several iterations), but House was good enough to actually watch for me.
This. House is one of the best procedurals, but it doesn't hold up in the streaming world/ binge watch model. It was meant to be turned on once or week (or with the occassional rerun), and you sort of half pay attention to it until something good happens.
>guy/woman collapses during daily activity
>turns out they're full of tumors or whatever
>House immediately figures out what's wrong
>the medicine works
>"let's do an MRI"
>patient has a heart attack/whatever on the MRI table
>House turns out to be wrong
>House is sitting at a fountain watching a pigeon
>suddenly realizes what the real disease is
>"you can't do that House, that'll kill him"
>turns out patient lied about something critical
>given proper treatment and cured
Add in patient duty or some drama with Cuddy and wa la that's every episode of House
And it was a good formula for what it was. It just doesn't hold up to binge watching.
>And it was a good formula for what it was. It just doesn't hold up to binge watching.
Agree to disagree, marathoning two maybe even three episodes a day.
It isn't too bad, House episodes tend to have quite a bit going on beyond what's happening with the patients. Compared to shows like CSI where you can skip 4+ episodes and not miss out on any character development.
Used to love watching these shows back when I was playing mmos, can't imagine actually sitting down for the sole purpose of watching an episode though.
Speak for yourself. I diagnosed a friend's cancer based on overlapping diagnostic criteria from multiple House episodes. He's dead now, but I solved the puzzle.
>Speak for yourself. I diagnosed a friend's cancer based on overlapping diagnostic criteria from multiple House episodes.
Didn't he go to a doctor with his problems?
I don't know if you've spent much time around general practitioners aside from sports physicals or yearly checkups, but about 95% of them are just phoning it in and have no diagnostic abilities beyond recognizing 5-10 common ailments that they're presented with on a weekly basis.
My friend had a small tumor on his spine that was putting pressure on a few nerves and causing referred pain in his hip. He worked a physical job, so the doctor diagnosed "overuse injury" with an outside chance of nerve impingement/sciatica. Sent him home with ibuprofen. When he made future appointments due to worsening pain, he was given the runaround and basically just told to rest more.
By the time he told me about it and I suggested he push for an MRI to look for masses, the cancer had spread significantly.
>I don't know if you've spent much time around general practitioners
Luckily got referred to specialists when needed without issue. Horrible story anon.
>Horrible story anon.
As in horrible that it happened, not to doubt the truth/validity.
> He's dead now, but I solved the puzzle.
based and housepilled
Also procedurals served as platforms to comment on the sociopolitical or even geopolitical hot button issues of its time. So there's that.
There is usually an overarching plotline intermingled among the case of the week
>Is House even worth actually watching properly
It works with house, apart from some episodes. Maybe you miss out some relationship drama, but it hardly matters. You decided yourself if it's worth for you. I started during season 4 and then started from the start because I liked it.
I watched it all the way through.
TL;DR: Binge watching shorts gives you like 95% of the enjoyment of the show and I'm not some ADD riddled zoomer.
House is firmly entertaining but not for the over arching plot or the characters, these things make the show worse in fact. Only for the medical mystery and the comedy from house. A 1 minute smash cut of the question then the answer will give you most of this in a timely manner even if it is diminished.
I don't regret wasting time finish house but there isn't any satisfaction from completing the plot and I honestly feel I could have stopped at any time without missing out.
If you REALLY want to make time pass, go ahead a watch it, it's not the worst thing out there.
>it's not the worst thing out there.
What is?
I can only assume. I haven't gone out of my way to watch anything I suspect of being bad, so I've never watched may shows so bad it stuck with me.
For me it would be Alice in Borderland. If you like that show, our tastes are completely misaligned. That show was so shit it blew my mind.
You're right, that does look terrible.
>For me it would be Alice in Borderland. If you like that show, our tastes are completely misaligned.
I liked the idea of it but then they just hang out at a beach resort for several episodes. Why can't I get a show where people do puzzles with life or death stakes without it turning into bullshit?
The 2017 movie The Rider.
Is there some cool cgi scenes in it?
Currently remarathoning, lots of great episodes, I'd say worth rewatching if you like the format/characters.
>Is there some cool cgi scenes in it?
There actually are some cgi shots visualizing the medical issues of patients but they appear pretty dated.
fricking zoomers
House isn't a good procedural show. The formula is too visible so each episode feels the same unlike most procedural shows that can make the formula less in your face. It's worth it for the main actor/character and some of the side characters, but there is nothing memorable about the cases. Probably one of the reasons why the formula is so visible in the first place.
And after a few season the House character becomes more cartoony/unbelievable and the other characters look like idiots for putting with his shit.
The pilot is Kino though. You should watch it in full. It's a lot better than the rest of the show.
I'm on my rewatch currently I honestly think the plot is bad, but idk what you would even do with it from a writing perspective. The character of house is by far the best thing about the show. Moments of him being funny each episode are great but serious house moments are kino, like between him and wilson or when he gets a puzzle so moronic even he gets stumped the entire episode, then eventually cracks it to everyones awe
>there is nothing memorable about the cases
Maybe specifically the medical conditions or diagnostic process, to most normal people that's just white noise
But the patients themselves are the defining characteristic of each episode and there are a lot of memorable ones
Its garbage
It’s not just about House solving cases in increasingly more unlikely fashions. It’s about how everyone around him (except Wilson) actually buys into it. Not only that, but Chase, Cameron and Foreman all start to become better doctors but worse people because House is an amazing doctor but a horrible co-worker.
And then they reboot the supporting cast, and it happens again. And it keeps happening when they reboot it again. But, all of the supporting cast (except that dumb chunk med student) is competent enough to actually play off of it. It’s literally one of the only shows where I can put two main characters together in any combination and not be bored.
And then Wilson, the one person who literally never deserved it, gets cancer, and House can’t cure it, so he goes off the deep end and runs away with Wilson in an homage to Sherlock Holmes.
It’s definitely monster of the week schlock in some ways, but the quality of the cast raises it above, and it ended right when it was jumping the shark, so that’s why it’s great.
Some people can actually binge shows like that without losing their mind but if you're not a post-menopause housewie addled out on box wine with nothing better to do but sit on your couch I suggest you watch a few episodes a week at most. No reason to devour shows like this in one go.
I love this gif because it’s completely true but the show is still different enough every episode that it’s still entertaining. They do JUST enough each episode to make the actual content different, and the rest is carried by the characters being actually interesting characters.
I love how this gif gets slower every year. Zoomers can't read lmao.
It's just known file degradation.
No, its Lupus.
excusable on a rewatch, but still frowned upon
DEFINITELY unacceptable for your first time
wtf is it with normies being put off by long episode orders? isn't this all about burning time leisurely anyway? swap a season out with another show if you need a break... stop marathoning everything
Remember when Chase got conned into kissing a 9 year old kid? Or when the dad of a 15 year old supermodel fricked her but then it turned out she was a secret hermaphrodite? Or that 12 year old diver that got pregnant?
You’d never get away with it today, but hey, it was interesting.
>You're welcome
Hey, it actually realistically showed certain crappy things that happen in real life in a relatively decent way. I’ll take it over the crap we have today. The whole Chase kissing the kid subplot is an exception, I’m still confused by that one.
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Chase you perverted monster you gave a small kiss to a dying girl, how could you do that you disgusting pedophile? Guards! Skin him alive and put his head on a pike.
An adult touching a child is pedophilia, no I don't care it's your own child no I don't care your a doctor it's PEDOPHILIA
>t. actual closeted pedo
I got a kiss on the lips from a famous europoor actress in a room ful of people including my parents when I was about 10 and not only nobody batted and eye, it was one of my nicest memories from my late childhood
anyone screaming murder about innocent stuff needs to have their hard drive checked
pedophilia only counts when its perpetrated by males, cuz females can't rape
I remember House like that:
>be 20, my gf of terrible taste says it's good
>watch 3 episodes - the only one I remember is an episode about a super smart guy drinking himself to death because he can't stand normies
>tfw it's not good
>its a house cures his leg problem but reverses it through plot contrivance episode
This happens at least once a season
>patient's MRI shows nothing
>hey, let me ask an extremely personal question
>patient's X stat is normal
>let me go deeper with a worse version in a condescending tone
>i will give you a short, backwards moronic answer
>let me put another question, this time in an even more condescending tone or a caring tone
>i will start giving you a normal answer but PATIENT'S SEIZING WE NEED TO GET HIM OUT OF THERE
cut to dipshit #1, #2 or house going
>we were wrong about the diagnosis, we're back to square one
and if house is saying this, add an extra few seconds of him turning his head quickly and staring into random directions with weird mouthbreathing movements before the fade to black. optionally, have house stare at the camera but slightly above it just before the fade to black
it's one of those shows i was happy to watch as it aired weekly, but if today someone recommended and told me it was 8 seasons i probably would skip it
The season overarching plot is mostly why I watched it, plus the meta of the writers getting bored and trying to come up with more ridiculous (and fun) episodes in the later seasons. Like the Lin Manuel Miranda/psychiatric hospital arc, the prison ep, and the Cuddy POV ep.
completely forgot the Cuddy POV episode
No, the patients are fun, but the best part is the characters relationships developing while House shits on whatever is important to them.
Well, best part is Cameron getting groped by a little boy, Cuddy in a stripper outfit and 13 being 13, but the other stuff is up there.
YOU CANT
ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT
So what was the explanation for the orange filter in the pilot episode?
They all were coping with Liver failure and we, the audience, were seeing the world through House's Vicodin pov
no continuity or previous knowledge required episode to episode
Not true.
I decided to watch the whole show while working about a week ago and I'm in season 8 now. Its pretty good, but its kind of weird how all the dudes stick around through the whole show, but the female doctors get replaced constantly. I guess it makes sense with how chicks quit medicine almost immediately after taking up space in med school
House is good i guess...
but what could make it better????
SPACE
HOUSE IN SPACE
I wanted to like it so bad. Armando Iannucci's worst show.
>poop lol
Currently watching this start to finish for the first time, on Season 8 now. Some episodes are definitely much better than others, but the House character is consistently good. Overall pretty kino, way better than the slop they churn out these days.
no continuity or previous knowledge required episode to episode
Honestly there's too much continuity.
There are enough overarching story beats and character development that you could watch through the show once, but you really don't need to be paying attention for 70% of the show unless you're REALLY interested in the medical mysteries aspect.
House is a show that could benefit a lot from one of those meme watch guides because there are a lot of episodes that are pure procedural filler. For those episodes, if you've seen 3 of them with each team you've seen them all.
>it’s obviously this disease
>no idiot it’s too simple
>we don’t know what this is
>patient gets new symptom
>treat for thi disease now
>patient recovers completely
>hah we did it
>patient almost dies and in critical condition
>wtf we don’t know what’s going on, sorry you’re gonna die
>hey house you shoulda seen me playing halo last night I got a triple kill with the energy sword after camping the elevator an-
>shut up Wilson
>stare into nothing
>rush to treat patient with a new thing
>don’t you idiots fricking stupid idiots realise? It’s xolemthosixzoejtbfdosis. It was camping in his appendix waiting for the opportunity bla bla
>btw im depression because im so smart and in pain
I've been rewatching House. Here are the objective rating of each season:
Season 1 is 5/5.
Season 2 is 4/5.
Season 3 is 2/5.
Season 4 is 3.5/5 (gave it a little slack because it was fricked over by the writer's strike but had a fantastic finale)
Still watching season 5.
Wait until you get to season 7
Because the writing and long plots are good, most patients are somewhat interesting.
The characters except Taub and the fat fugly chink b***h are all great and they can all play off of each other
Frick out of here, Taub was a great character. One of the best supporting doctors on the show and arguably the only one who didn't let House deeply affect their personality.
Taub is great. Most realistic character on the show.
>Most realistic character
You can't convince me doctors pull that many chicks just because they're doctors
He's a balding manlet with a huge schnoze and not even impressive salary
Taub was a partner at a plastic surgery practice. When he says his salary isn't impressive, it's relative to where he was at before where he was making bank. And it also takes into account that he is paying probably absurd alimony.
He doesn't pull that many women during the show and even then, he has a very high status job and is charismatic. You're being ridiculous.
>and is charismatic
he is?
Plastic surgeons make like 1 million a year if they are employed and a lot more than that if they are partners and own a surgery center. He went from driving lambo money to working as an infectious disease fellow which made at the time like 50k
Lol
LMAO even
women go to nursing school to get doctors
>see this thread
>remember that Cuddy had a great pair of bazingas
>wonder what she's up to
>google 'cuddy actress'
>Lisa Edelstein
>oy gevalt
>"On March 18, 2024, Edelstein signed an open letter disapproving of Jonathan Glazer's acceptance speech at the 96th Academy Awards, during which he called for the end of Israel's bombardment of Gaza."
Hollywood israelites are a special breed.
>Is House even worth actually watching properly
Yes. There are only a couple genuinely bad episodes.
>mostly no continuity
But there is some, and House’s evolution as a character is fascinating imo
Best of house is listed below, I consider the season 5 finale to be the true ending, there is no additional enjoyment from going any further and the sharpest writing can be found in the first 3 or 4 seasons anyway.
Condenses house into 53 episodes
S1 E9, 11, 17, 21
S2 E1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 24
S3 E1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 24
All of season 4 (16 episodes)
S5 E1, 4, 9, 16, 18 to 24
I don't believe you can have a best of house without the wilson plot at the end
Sounds pretty gay to me
>I consider the season 5 finale to be the true ending
The season 5 finale is good but it doesn't fit as an ending to the entire series, even if you include the first two episodes of season 6 as an epilogue.
>Is House even worth actually watching
Yes, it was.
>You will never have a friend like Wilson
I remember House being kino, but I completely forget everything what happened in tv show and noway I'm rewatching all of that, it's way too fricking long
I don't like House that much but the tapeworm episode is burned in my memory
is it because wilson wants to talk about trannies in that episode
>tapeworm episode
there are multiple.
I used to watch it as a teenager when it was brand new but I'd mostly say it was a thing of it's time and you just had to be there. I don't know why most people would care now.
Back then it was good though, so just do whatever you want.
I made it 13 episodes before dropping it. You'd have to really love the House character to continue on.
I wont be able to watch the show again for months. I am on episode 5 of season 8. I only can watch a few more episodes before I leave. What are necessary season 8 episodes to watch? Is the Finale mandatory?
The finale is okay but the 3 episodes before the finale are the real kino of the season, the rest of season 8 is pure filler and the new doctors are not very good
The one doctor is distractingly hot, the rich girl
That's why they contrast her with the goblin
I have seen around 20 random episodes of it
the dialogue is written like how stupid people think smart people talk
I frankly don't understand why people like it
>remember disliking the S4 Survivor arc my first watch
>rewatched it and it’s literally the most kino thing ever put on television
What was I thinking?
I think it's a pretty severe change in tone but it has some fun moments and the ending is one of the best season endings
What’s the biggest relationship fumble on the show?
>House fumbling Cuddy
>House fumbling Dominika
>Chase fumbling Cameron
>Taub fumbling his wife
>Foreman fumbling 13
Cuddy fricked over House so bad it's not even funny
Foreman fumbling 13 was the lowest IQ moment in the show though
A haggard if slightly hot woman in her forties looking to settle down, rejecting house because he can't change, even though she earlier admitted she didn't expect him to was moronic. Writers trying to create conflict to keep the show interesting.
It didn't feel in character, as a doctor and someone so close to House she should've been keenly aware relapse is frequent in recovery
And the reason for the relapse was on some level only reinforcing how much House loved her
I think at that point in the show the writers found out the actress wasn't sticking around for season 8 and just decided to initiate the sabotage
I concur. We STILL have yet to see edelstein breasts
It was massively out of character and basically a character assassination to end her story on the show because of a contract dispute.
And what he did at end of season was so out of character that it only matches the moronation of season 8 finale.
Out of the chute if it ended with the jump would probably be the best way for that show to end with all the bad writing in last half of season 7 onward.
The only things I liked about 8 was chase's arc. Him finally coming into his own is only reason to watch 8 to a larger extent the original team coming into their own really with where they end up.
Wilson arc was based
House arc tier list
>S tier
Survivor
Wilson has cancer
Chase murders an African warlord
House’s Vicodin schizo arc feat. dead Amber (S4-5)
Dominika arc
>A tier
Tritter arc
House/Stacy arc
House temporarily gets clean arc (S3)
Chase gets stabbed arc
Kutner an hero arc
Taub can’t stop fricking b***hes arc
House/Lucas quasi-friendship arc
Park/Chase arc
>B tier
Vogler arc
House/Cuddy arc
House temporarily gets clean arc (S6), feat. the Hamilton spic
>shit tier
Cameron/House arc
Any 13 arc, overrated as frick character
The literal one-episode methadone arc
Cuddy/Lucas arc
Cuddy having a kid arc
imagine how happy House would have been if he realized how his Ukrainian onahole was genuinely interested in being his wife and he let go of Cuddy.
House had a severe case of oneitis
>House ketamine treatment arc
>13 and cameron arcs are shit tier
you sound gay
I found Cuddy getting together with House a bit OOC considering she knew full well it wasn't a great idea and that their relationship was likely to crash & burn. But their break up ended up being stupid too.
I wonder how the rest of the show would have played out if she stayed. It's too bad what happened cause you really feel her absence in season 8.
>Foreman fumbling 13 was the lowest IQ moment in the show though
this vexes me
Foreman fumbling 13 was easily the worst
>I simply need to fire my gf
What a fricking moron.
House fumbling Dominika fricking destroys me every rewatch. They are literally soulmates
I don’t feel any traditionally American format tv shows are worth watching in the grand scheme of things
How can you not get exhausted and feel you’ve wasted your time when it’s like 25 one hour episodes a season?
The Brits have it right in keeping it short and sweet and not milking it endlessly
>How can you not get exhausted and feel you’ve wasted your time
You sound miserable
No no, he's right here. That is a shitload of time to sink into something, it's like those long anime like DBZ and One Piece as well, with 1000+ episodes.
No one but Housewives/NEETs got time for that shit. If I've got a fulltime job, family and hobbies, a TV show better respect my damn time if I'm gonna watch it.
No I think you sound miserable because your objective isn't to enjoy something but to enjoy as many different things as you can as quickly as possible
>mostly no continuity or previous knowledge required episode to episode
wrong. its lightly serialized. past events are brought up often. if you dont have the patience for 40 minute episodes and just want to see house shit on random patients just watch the clips. if you want an actual drama series but dont want a heavy story watch the show.
I enjoyed binging it and I enjoyed a rewatch binge as well. The "patient-of-the-week" format never really bothered me, it's what the show is about and there is enough overarching plot to give you something to follow. Just watch it it's good.
Watch the first season maybe 2. It gets really repetitive afterwards and goes off the rails with stupid bullshit near the end.
>clips of patients
>of patients
the show is all about the character development the patients are rarely relevant past whatever concept they bring for the main cast to interact and develop around
house is a battle shonen about doctors
It's not just patient of the week shit; each season has a main storyline and you have a TON of running storylines that carry over multiple seasons.
First of all, the series are divided into two parts: medical utopia aka the first 3 seasons, and plot drama shit after. Medical stuff isn't going anywhere much, it's just that it becomes an essential part of the show that can't be put down.
I highly recommend watching the whole thing as it should be watched: from pilot, to the last episode. No YouTube, no short screencaps, actual show instead.
I stopped shortly during the season where they get that moronic asian chipmunk doctor. She can't act for shit, and every scene with her obviously reading lines from a prompter are painful.
It's funny, I just started watching House. There's a lot of doctor talk that just feels like it's there to make the characters & the audience feel smart, but it also harkens back to another time in the life of TV where shows were serialized. Will keep watching.
The medicine is white noise, nobody actually cares
That's why it's constantly interspliced with banter and sophist philosophy, to make it easier to digest
Just recently re-watched it. Season 6 doesn't get enough praise, Great start and great finale. Season 7 is great until the obvious and then every character becomes way more wacky for no reason, I'm guessing to offset the drama and having no idea where to go next. season 8 starts off really rough but really hit the emotional payoffs with Wilson's cancer, Him and House in the car in the second to last episode made me tear up. Great show, mostly.
It's one of the only shows that radically changed the cast and it actually worked. I fricking love the episodes where House fricks with Taub. I also liked the Foreman/Taub roommate arc.
RIP Kutner
>this made millennials coom
yes.
>this made me coom
I can fix her
nobody can fix cameron she is unhinged
She's so hot in the episode where she smokes meth.
Yeah she was really pretty, should've been chubby and hairy though.
Far and away the craziest b***h on a show that has Cuddy, Amber and 13. Her psychosis is truly impressive
House is an enjoyable show
>fat patient is admitted
>frick fat people they dont deserve our medicine, he will probably be dead in 3 years anyway
>leaves for the rest of the episode
It was always hilarious in the episodes where Foreman or Chase took a HARD moral stance and just refused to practice medicine.
Chase was such a Chad.
It's one of the best shows around IMO, highly entertaining and definitely worth a watch
watch this now you've seen every episode
Already posted
The "patient of the week" episodes were usually better than them trying to do some "arc".
you only have to watch seasons 4-6 in chronological order. they are the most interesting and the most about House
I watched all but the last two seasons I believe.
It was fun, but went on for too long and I didn't care much for the overarching seasonal plots.
As far as procedural go, I liked The Mentalist more.
First five seasons are comfy in the extreme. If you loved those the rest is fine too just not as good.
Its worth watching for more than just House quips.
Watching Chase turn into house over the course of show is kino
>patient presents with GPU turboing during idle. Differential Diagnosis: Go.
We could run an MRI on his ISP, see if he has any chronic torrenting history and crosscheck it with compromised trackers?
Has the patient been working with wood screws recently? Anyone check his fridge for pork shoulders?
did you try the medicine drug?
boring as frick and aged badly
>foreman's black
>how long have you been sitting on this information?