House M.D.
Overview
Every patient is a puzzle, and Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) is the only one in the building who seems to enjoy solving them — even if he enjoys being kind to almost no one while he does it. At Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey, the brilliant, misanthropic diagnostician leads a team through differential-diagnosis sessions, ruling out one theory after another until the truth shows itself. House is a genius and a drug addict, a deeply unhappy man modelled on Sherlock Holmes, right down to the piano playing and his one real confidant, Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard). He spars with his boss, Dean of Medicine Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), and puts his team — 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) — through the wringer. Rude to patients, colleagues and bosses alike, he still saves lives, and the show keeps asking what that brilliance costs the man himself.
