My favorite show is House M.D. I have all 8 seasons on DVD. Since I don't have cable, I just watch one DVD after another in order. I often work at home or fall asleep to the dulcet tones of Greg House saying that "Everyone lies!" and "It's never Lupus."
I think that the main reason I like the show is that I was born without the Jerk Gene. So it's very important to me to study and attempt to emulate confident and capable jerks. It keeps me from being a constant doormat to the whims of the rest of the world. Also see Seven Lessons Women Can Learn From House.
I admit that it also fascinates me that House is a high functioning addict. In some seasons he is popping Vicodin constantly. In other seasons he is having hallucinations from the overuse of the pills or is detoxing or is clean. The addiction cycle interests me.
The medical side of the show draws me to it as well. I like to know the names of medical conditions and medications and their uses. Most of it isn't good ethical medicine, but it's neat to see someone push the limits to find cures.
My favorite episode, One Day, One Room (Season 3, Episode 12) is about a girl who was raped and comes into the clinic to get checked for an STD. She only trusts House, though neither of them know why, and they go through some deep talking about a side of House that we don't usually see. At one very deep point we find out about the name of the episode when the girl tells House that life is a series of rooms and the time we spend with the people in those rooms are the only things that matter.
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