House M.D. Season 1
Overview
House M.D. Season 1 is the first season of Fox's medical drama. 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. The first season introduces the character of House. He 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 in Season 1 includes: Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), a former neurologist who is ambitious and often clashes with House; Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), an immunologist who is the team's moral compass and who develops feelings for House; and Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), an intensivist who is the son of a famous doctor and who is initially dismissive of House but grows to respect him. The first season follows House and his team as they solve a series of complex medical cases, each episode a puzzle to be solved. The season also explores House's leg pain, which is a constant source of his misery, and his addiction to Vicodin. The season finale ends with House being shot by a patient's father, a cliffhanger that sets up the second season.
