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It was an interesting way to get hooked on to a TV show. I was curious to know why my family would laugh at certain intervals and I peeked my head out. On TV was a show playing, but it confused me because it seemed to be a drama, not a light hearted sitcom where the mood wasn't as serious. I watched for ten seconds before going back to reading. Fast forward to two weeks later and the show was back on. I decided to watch and spent a whole hour entranced with the show. The situations were funny, but it was injected with urgency since there was a dying patient. The characters were unlike any other I had seen before. The computer generated aspects of the human body and how diseases function was simply amazing. I had discovered the world of House.

House M.D. is a medical drama based around the character, Gregory House. Greg House is a brillaint doctor, but his methods are unacceptable labeling him as a maverick doctor. House and his team (originally 3 members but currently at 4) do their best to treat patients that other docotors have given up on. What sets the show apart from other medical dramas like ER or Grey's Anatomy is the shows setup. The center point of each episode is some unknown affliction that affects every patient. When they enter the fictional hospital of Princeton-Plainsboro, it's because the general medical community has given up on these cases. Most of the cases involve hidden information that comes out only when the team of doctors pressure the immediate relative to reveal it. There are computer generated videos to help the viewers understand how the disease or medicine works. By the fourth season, this effect seems to have disappeared only to be shown sporadically.

Another part of the show that attracts people is the characters. Character development occurs slowly over a series of episodes, so by a couple of seasons, you start to get an idea of how the characters work. For example, the titular character Greg House. It's evident that he has a unorthordox way of treating patients. He refuses to wear proper attire to work and he doesn't have a clean face each time he comes to work. He has a very blunt manner when it comes to delivering devestating news. It's the total opposite of what doctors do. Yet, it is his impressive deductions and methods he uses that really amaze people. The method may not be accepted, but House is a believer in "the ends justifies the means."

Since the show's creation, it has gone on to five fantastic seasons with a sixth

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