House
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Episodes
Pilot
Dr. Gregory House, a brilliant diagnostician but devoid of bedside manner, and his elite team of young medical experts rush…
Paternity
Dr. House goes with his gut and performs an unethical act to prove what he suspects to be the link…
Occam's Razor
Dr. House and his team race to save a young man who may have not one, but two illnesses killing…
Maternity
A maternity ward epidemic forces House to decide whether to save the life of one child over another.
Damned If You Do
Dr. House's approach is questioned when he treats a nun for what he believes to be an allergy, not realizing…
The Socratic Method
The case of a schizophrenic mom with a deadly disease and her teenage son who have traded caretaking roles holds…
Fidelity
Dr. House's diagnosis of a married woman with a rare sleep disorder forces her and her husband to examine their…
Poison
House and his team have to act fast when a high school student is admitted with a mysterious and lethal…
DNR
House has to defend himself when he treats a patient who has legally chosen to refuse treatment.
Histories
Dr. House and the team treat a homeless woman whose worsening symptoms and unknown identity prove to be a complex…
Detox
Dr. House takes Cuddy's challenge to go off his painkillers for a week, but the effects of his withdrawal symptoms…
Sports Medicine
A baseball player's comeback is cut short when he breaks his arm and House and his team have to act…
Cursed
Dr. House's young patient believes his illness is the result of a curse while House uncovers important information about Chase's…
Control
The hospital's new Chairman of the Board has it out for Dr. House, questioning his importance to the hospital and…
Mob Rules
Dr. House and his team race to diagnose a member of the mob and get him well enough to testify…
Heavy
Dr. House and his team try to uncover the reason a 10-year-old has a heart attack while House suspects one…
Role Model
House and his team battle to save a presidential hopeful, and House refuses to give in to Vogler's ultimatum when…
Babies & Bathwater
House and his team battle to diagnose a pregnant patient's life-threatening illness, prompting her to make the most emotional decision…
Kids
House and his team race to diagnose a 12-year-old's illness - an illness with a shocking origin - and House…
Love Hurts
House and his team tackle the case of a young man with a penchant for odd behavior, and House prepares…
Three Stories
House must decide whether to take the case of his ex-love's husband and he gives medical students a lecture they'll…
Honeymoon
House is faced with a problem he may not be able to solve and Stacy returns.
Acceptance
When a Death Row inmate mysteriously and suddenly collapses after hallucinating, House jumps at the chance to take the case…
Autopsy
A girl's unimaginable bravery toward her terminal illness makes House suspicious as he puts a life-or-death decision about her case…
Humpty Dumpty
Cuddy struggles with a case of guilt when her handyman is injured while at her place, and House and his…
TB or Not TB
House's patient is willing to die in order to further his social cause.
Daddy's Boy
Lies between a father and son may prevent House and his team from saving their patient.
Spin
House's wheels start turning when a pro-cyclist admits to taking performance-enhancing drugs.
Hunting
A patient with AIDS stalks House to get him to take his case; House and Stacy stalk a mouse in…
The Mistake
A patient's death prompts an investigation into whether Chase or House may have been responsible for her death.
Deception
With Foreman as House's supervisor, the team must figure out if a woman who cried wolf too many times is…
Failure to Communicate
A journalist's head injury results in unintelligible speech, leaving House and his team at a loss; and the heat is…
Need to Know
While House's staff tries to diagnose a woman whose uncontrollable muscle flailing caused her to crash her car, House and…
Distractions
While a severely burned teenager is admitted and his blood tests come back with strange results, House makes himself the…
Skin Deep
House uncovers a startling secret when he treats a teenage supermodel for heroin addiction. Meanwhile, Wilson hopes the increased leg…
Sex Kills
House takes the case of a man who experienced a seizure but wasn't aware it happened. When the man suffers…
Clueless
House believes a woman is trying to kill her husband and tries to find the proof to confirm his suspicions.…
Safe
A teenage heart transplant patient is rushed to the hospital when she has an allergic reaction while living in a…
All In
When a six-year-old boy is brought in with the same symptoms as another patient who died years ago under House's…
Sleeping Dogs Lie
House has to work fast when a woman comes in with a life-threatening case of insomnia. Meanwhile Cameron is angry…
House vs. God
House treats a 15 year old faith healer, while Wilson feels left out when he finds out House has a…
Euphoria (1)
When a police officer with a gunshot wound to the head and uncontrollable laughter is admitted, House and the team…
Euphoria (2)
Foreman continues to experience the same progression of symptoms as the police officer. When he realizes he may be facing…
Forever
A young mother has a seizure while bathing her newborn son and nearly drowns him. House and the team have…
Who's Your Daddy?
A 16-year-old Hurricane Katrina victim suffering from hallucinations as a result of the tragedy is brought to House by his…
No Reason
House is shot by a former patient and must share a recovery room with the gunman.
Meaning
After recovering from his gunshot wounds, House works feverishly on two cases at the same time: a paralyzed man who…
Cane & Able
House and the team treat a young boy who claims there is a tracking device in his neck and believes…
Informed Consent
House puts a well-known medical researcher through a battery of tests to determine why he collapsed in his lab. When…
Lines in the Sand
When doctors are unable to diagnose why a severely autistic boy screams loudly for no apparent reason, House takes the…
Fools for Love
House takes the case of a young woman who has been rushed to the hospital with problems breathing and severe…
Que Será Será
The team encounters logistical problems while trying to run tests on a 600-pound man due to his extremely large size.…
Son of Coma Guy
House decides to awaken a comatose patient so he can question the man regarding the family history of his son,…
Whac-A-Mole
An 18-year-old teenager is brought to the hospital after having a heart attack. House reviews the boy's file and believes…
Finding Judas
House takes the case of a young girl who has been diagnosed with pancreatitis. When he takes her divorced parents…
Merry Little Christmas
Wilson arranges for House to make a deal with Tritter, but House refuses. Meanwhile, Cuddy cuts House off Vicodin and…
Words and Deeds
House splits his time between treating a firefighter for uncontrollable shivering, giving Tritter a piece of his mind, and handling…
One Day, One Room
While House is forced to work full-time in the clinic and deal with a rape victim who insists on confiding…
Needle in a Haystack
House and his staff must deal with a teenage Gypsy boy suffering from inexplicable respiratory distress. However, House has bigger…
Insensitive
It's Valentine's Day, and Cuddy has a blind date. Meanwhile, House leaves ER duty to take the case of a…
Half-Wit
House encounters a brain-damaged musical prodigy with inexplicable abilities while the team faces serious concerns about House's own health.
Top Secret
The ex-marine that saved House's life, in a dream he had the day before, is admitted in the hospital with…
Fetal Position
A famous celebrity photographer suffers from a stroke while being pregnant at her early forties. House and his team have…
Airborne
On House and Cuddy's flight from Singapore a passenger gets ill and Cuddy suspects an epidemic. At the hospital, Wilson…
Act Your Age
A 6-year-old girl suffers ailments expected in patients much older. Tensions between Chase and Cameron lead House to intentionally assign…
House Training
The doctors try to find what's wrong with a scam artist who collapses after her brain "freezes," but the case…
Family
Wilson prepares to transplant bone marrow from Matty to his brother Nick. But when Matty gets sick, the team must…
Resignation
The team deals with a 19-year-old college student, while Foreman suddenly and without a reason hands in his resignation. House…
The Jerk
House treats a 16-year-old chess prodigy who gets everyone on the team annoyed with his behavior. Foreman is upset with…
Human Error
A Cuban couple attempt to get to America by raft... to see House about the wife's heart condition. But when…
Alone
With his diagnostic team gone, House tries to diagnose a young woman who survived an office building collapse. With the…
The Right Stuff
House is secretly trying to treat a fighter pilot who is a candidate for NASA's astronaut training program. Her diagnosis…
97 Seconds
The candidates are now two teams of five women and five men, competing on diagnosing and treating a wheelchair-bound man.…
Guardian Angels
House finds that some of his own fellowship students will do whatever it takes, when they deal with a woman…
Mirror Mirror
House deals with a patient who mirrors the personality of anyone he meets. Meanwhile, Foreman is put in charge of…
Whatever It Takes
Based on practically no information and no medical history about a mystery patient sent by the CIA, House is using…
Ugly
A film crew and the candidates are following around House distracting him while he is trying to diagnose a teenager…
You Don't Want to Know
House treats a magician but comes to believe he's faking illness to cover up his own incompetence. Meanwhile, House pits…
Games
Under Cuddy’s pressure to choose his team, House gives the candidates a case of a former punk rock star who…
It's a Wonderful Lie
A mother's sudden paralysis during a indoor rock-climbing incident leaves her daughter injured, and House's new team looking for a…
Frozen
House and his team have to diagnose a case at a distance when a researcher at a South Pole base…
Don't Ever Change
House and his team must diagnose a Jewish bride who is taken ill at her wedding. However, House is more…
No More Mr. Nice Guy
House copes with a patient whose symptoms conceal a greater problem, but spends much of his time dodging Cuddy's orders…
Living the Dream
House is convinced one of the actors on his favorite soap opera “Prescription Passion” has a serious medical condition after…
House's Head (1)
A bus accident leaves House with serious head trauma and partial amnesia. He comes to believe that a patient on…
Wilson's Heart (2)
In the aftermath of the bus accident, House struggles with his head injuries and short-term memory loss, and must deal…
Dying Changes Everything
In the aftermath of personal tragedy, Wilson resigns from the hospital... and from his friendship with House. Meanwhile, Thirteen struggles…
Not Cancer
The team deals with an organ donor whose organs prove fatal, and the two surviving patients. Meanwhile, House hires a…
Adverse Events
A painter's undiagnosed illness affects his work, and House and his team must look at the man's paintings to determine…
Birthmarks
While en route to his father's funeral, House must help the team with a differential diagnosis on a young Chinese…
Lucky Thirteen
Thirteen brings her one-night stand to the hospital after the woman has a seizure. However, the woman admits she slept…
Joy
An ailing man suffers from blackouts and sleepwalks, leading the team to wonder if his sleepwalking is a symptom, or…
The Itch
The team must treat an agoraphobic who refuses to leave his house, and have to work around Cuddy, who is…
Emancipation
While Foreman takes on a pediatric case on his own, the rest of the team deals with a 16-year-old factory…
Last Resort
A gun-wielding man from the waiting room at the Princeton-Plainsboro clinic takes House, Thirteen and several patients from the waiting…
Let Them Eat Cake
The team takes on the case of a fitness guru on an all-natural diet who collapsed while filming a video.…
Joy to the World
House and his team deal with a bullied girl who collapses during her school's Christmas program. Meanwhile, Foreman and Thirteen…
Painless
House and the team try to diagnose a man living with severe, chronic pain; Thirteen and Foreman explore their complicated…
Big Baby
Cuddy decides to spend more time at home to take care of her newly adopted baby and passes some of…
The Greater Good
House and the team take on the case of a woman who collapsed in the middle of a cooking class,…
Unfaithful
When a priest who runs a homeless shelter sees a bleeding Jesus hovering at his doorstep, he is admitted to…
The Softer Side
A patient with both male and female DNA has the team stumped. Meanwhile, House starts acting nicely, raising Cuddy's and…
The Social Contract
House and the team take on the case of Nick, a book editor who loses his inhibitions. The team realizes…
Here Kitty
Morgan works in a nursing home with a pet cat who only sleeps next to people if they are about…
Locked In
A man awakens in New York after a bicycle accident unable to move or communicate in any way. House, himself…
Simple Explanation
Charlotte, an older woman who has spent the last six months taking care of her dying husband Eddie, is rushed…
Saviors
Cameron postpones her vacation with Chase in order to ask House to accept the case of an environmental radical who…
Under My Skin
House and the team take on the case of a ballerina whose lungs collapse in the middle of a performance.…
House Divided
The team takes on the case of a deaf 14-year-old named Seth who collapsed after he started “hearing” explosions while…
Both Sides Now
House and the team are intrigued by Scott, a man whose left brain and right brain operate independently, leaving him…
Broken
House is detoxing at a mental hospital and being held against his will by his attending physician, so he concocts…
Epic Fail
House returns home to Princeton where he continues to focus on his recovery, but surprises Cuddy with the news that…
The Tyrant
When a controversial African politician falls ill, he is brought to Princeton Plainsboro for treatment. The team struggles with whether…
Instant Karma
A wealthy businessman brings his teenage son, who is suffering from inexplicable stomach pains, to Princeton Plainsboro and insists on…
Brave Heart
A dying patient insists that he has the same disease affecting his heart that killed his father and grandfather at…
Known Unknowns
After a wild night out, a teenage girl is brought to Princeton Plainsborough with severely swollen appendages. The team must…
Teamwork
After House’s medical license is reinstated, he reclaims his role as Head of Diagnostics in time to treat Hank Hardwick,…
Ignorance Is Bliss
On the eve of Thanksgiving, House and the team take on the case of James Sidas, an exceptionally brilliant physicist…
Wilson
When an old friend and former patient of Wilson’s exhibits paralysis in his right arm, Wilson puts himself on the…
The Down Low
When drug dealer Mickey mysteriously collapses while negotiating a sale, his partner-in-crime, Eddie, accompanies him to Princeton Plainsboro for treatment.…
Remorse
The team takes on the case of Valerie, an attractive female executive experiencing random episodes of excruciating pain. House agrees…
Moving the Chains
House and the team rush to treat an ailing college football star in time for the patient to compete in…
5 to 9
During a day in the life of Princeton Plainsboro's Dean of Medicine, Dr. Lisa Cuddy, the inner workings of the…
Private Lives
House and the team take on the case of an avid blogger admitted with sudden bruising and bleeding. From her…
Black Hole
The team takes on the case of a high school senior who inexplicably blacks out during a class field trip.…
Lockdown
This episode has five storylines: When the hospital is sent into lock-down mode due to a missing infant, all of…
Knight Fall
House and the team take on the case of Sir William, a "knight" in a closed-off community of men and…
Open and Shut
House and the team take on the case of a woman Julia, who is in an open marriage and becomes…
The Choice
The team takes on the case of an ailing groom-to-be who harbors undisclosed secrets from a previous relationship. As his…
Baggage
During a session with Dr. Nolan, House recounts the case of a woman who arrives at the Princeton Plainsboro emergency…
Help Me
Cuddy, House and members of the team join forces with a search-and-rescue team to provide much-needed medical attention at the…
Now What?
House and Cuddy are exploring the ramifications of those feelings and attempting to make a real relationship work. Meanwhile, due…
Selfish
A seemingly healthy 14-year-old girl collapses during a skateboarding exhibition; House and Cuddy face the challenge of handling their romantic…
Unwritten
A children's novelist tries to kill herself, but is thwarted when she has a seizure. House, a fan of the…
Massage Therapy
House and his team make unexpected discoveries about a female patient admitted to the hospital after severe and uncontrollable vomiting;…
Unplanned Parenthood
When an infant suffers breathing trouble and liver failure, House and the team must look at the medical history of…
Office Politics
It’s election season, and in the midst of a tight campaign, an incumbent New Jersey senator’s campaign manager falls ill…
A Pox on Our House
After a 200-year-old medicine jar found on an off-shore shipwreck shatters in a teenage girl's palm, she is admitted to…
Small Sacrifices
Science and faith are called into question when a patient is admitted to the hospital following his reenactment of the…
Larger Than Life
After saving a stranger who fell onto subway tracks, a man suddenly collapses despite appearing to be unscathed; House tries…
Carrot or Stick
House and the team try to link symptoms of a teenage military recruit and his drill sergeant, while House secretly…
Family Practice
Cuddy’s mother, Arlene, is admitted to Princeton Plansboro after complaining about unusual symptoms, but stubborn Arlene insists that House be…
You Must Remember This
When a waitress with a perfect memory suffers temporary paralysis, her older sister visits her in the hospital, which triggers…
Two Stories
House participates in a school’s Career Day and breaks a few rules by sharing explicit medical stories. Waiting outside the…
Recession Proof
A patient is admitted after breaking out in a severe rash triggered by caustic chemical exposure at his blue-collar job.…
Bombshells
Tension reaches new heights when Cuddy faces sobering news that propels her to reevaluate her priorities. While House is distracted…
Out of the Chute
The team treats a professional bull rider who is attacked by a bull. The team must determine the causes behind…
Fall from Grace
A homeless man with a history of drug abuse is admitted to Princeton Plainsboro with burns and scars on his…
The Dig
Thirteen has been in prison for the past year, but the real mystery for House is what she did to…
Last Temptation
Masters faces a career crossroads on her last day as a medical student and struggles with the choice to continue…
Changes
The team takes on the case of a lottery winner (Donal Logue) suffering from paralysis and multiple types of cancer,…
The Fix
After losing a bet with Wilson over a boxing match, House is convinced that his fighter has an underlying medical…
After Hours
When House discovers that the experimental drug he's been using causes fatal tumors, he decides to attempt to excise them…
Moving On
The team treats a performance artist (Shohreh Aghdashloo) who deliberately made herself ill with the aim of turning the diagnostics…
Twenty Vicodin
House is serving out a lengthy prison sentence for his various misdeeds, including his trip outside the country in an…
Transplant
A surprising visitor makes House an offer he can't refuse by giving him the opportunity to help the Princeton Plainsboro…
Charity Case
House and Park treat a patient, Benjamin, who collapsed after making a surprisingly large charity donation, and come to suspect…
Risky Business
A CEO falls mysteriously ill just days before he signs a contract that would relocate his company's entire labor force…
The Confession
A man well-respected in his community suddenly collapses, and in the process of diagnosing his symptoms, the team discovers that…
Parents
A teenage boy attempting to follow in his late father’s footsteps as an entertainer is admitted to Princeton Plainsboro with…
Dead & Buried
The team learns that their 14-year-old patient is suffering from more than teen angst when her physical symptoms worsen. Despite…
Perils of Paranoia
A prosecutor suffers from what he believes to be cardiac arrest during an interrogation at the witness stand. The team's…
Better Half
House and his team treat an Alzheimer's patient who vomits blood and flies into violent rages. Meanwhile, when Wilson tells…
Runaways
When a runaway teen requires hospitalization, Adams butts heads with House when she insists they contact Social Services. Meanwhile, Taub…
Nobody's Fault
House and his team are placed under review after a staff member gets hurt.
Chase
Chase's religious faith bubbles to the surface when he treats a young nun. In addition, he and House reach a…
Man of the House
House's green-card wife, Dominika, will return in order to prove to the proper authorities that she and House are actually…
Love Is Blind
A successful, independent blind man is struck down with a mysterious illness, just prior to him asking for his girlfriend's…
Blowing the Whistle
The team treats an Army veteran charged with treason after he leaked classified information. But the patient's life is put…
Gut Check
House and the team take on the case of a 22-year-old minor league hockey player who collapsed while coughing up…
We Need the Eggs
House and the team take on the case of a man who starts tearing blood. Meanwhile, House is interviewing for…
Body and Soul
House and the team take on the case of a young boy who has violent dreams of being choked, and…
The C-Word
When House and Wilson disappear off the grid for several days, without explanation, the team is left to deal with…
Post Mortem
Over the years, during the course of performing autopsies at Princeton-Plainsboro, Dr. Peter Treiber has often identified mistakes made by…
Holding On
The team takes on the case of Derrick, a 19-year-old college student who had a mysterious nose bleed during cheerleading…
Everybody Dies
Facing a 6-month jail term, and the realization that he won't be there for Wilson at the end, House finds…
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Drama Serie Review
Gregory House is the ultimate anti-hero of the procedural era, a character who redefined the medical drama by treating the human body as a crime scene and the patient as a liar. At its peak, *House* succeeded because it didn't just focus on the mystery of the week; it focused on the psychological decay of a man who used his intellect as both a shield and a weapon.
The series’ greatest strength lies in Hugh Laurie’s transformative performance. He manages to make a misanthropic, vicodin-addicted genius sympathetic without ever asking for the audience's pity. The dynamic between House and Robert Sean Leonard’s Dr. Wilson provides a necessary emotional anchor, grounding the show’s high-concept medical puzzles in a poignant exploration of friendship and codependency. Narratively, the show excels when it leans into the "Sherlock Holmes" framework, utilizing the team—featuring Omar Epps and Jesse Spencer—as a sounding board for House’s destructive flashes of brilliance. The direction often mirrors this internal chaos, using surrealist medical imagery to visualize the invisible threats lurking within the bloodstream.
However, the show’s longevity is also its primary weakness. Over 176 episodes, the formulaic structure of "wrong diagnosis, epiphany, cure" becomes increasingly predictable. While later additions like Peter Jacobson and Odette Annable brought fresh energy, the narrative occasionally spiraled into melodrama that felt disconnected from the gritty realism of the early seasons. The repetitive nature of House’s self-sabotage can, at times, feel like a treadmill of misery rather than a genuine character arc, occasionally testing the viewer's patience with his refusal to evolve.
Ultimately, *House* remains a landmark of television drama because it refuses to provide easy answers. It posits that while "everybody lies," the truth of the human condition is found in our flaws. Despite its later-season bloat, the series is a masterclass in character study and remains essential viewing for anyone who prefers their heroes with a heavy dose of cynicism.
