I don't like Hugh Laurie, but that's not his fault. He just works with what he's given. Even the TERRIBLE scripts he was given on a Saturday Night Live episode were done as well as he could manage. I respect him; I just don't like him.
I thought "House" was an absolutely unrealistic and frightening show. Were MY Doctor stoned all of the time and getting away with it, I would be terrified. It made me want to carefully observe the pupils of every Doctor I meet in ERs (and I still do).
Thought that this show would be different, since Hugh is, after all, merely an actor. But this show DRAGGED. It was BORING.
I made it through the entire first season, somehow managing to stay awake, because I am home-bound and have nothing better to do.
Again, it's unrealistic with it's fantasy quack psychology-base, there's not enough action to keep me interested, and I had to speed past so much irrelevant sex that the episodes were much shorter than purported (which was actually a relief, once I thought about it).
The ONLY difference between this show and House was that he was a VERY poor shrink with no real ethics, rather than a drug-addled sarcastic and hateful doctor in a hospital. Oh and a lot of cursing all round. Just pointing out the differences; it was obviously a cable series rather than a network series.
I'm not going to bother with the second season. My advice is that you don't bother with the FIRST.
I thought "House" was an absolutely unrealistic and frightening show. Were MY Doctor stoned all of the time and getting away with it, I would be terrified. It made me want to carefully observe the pupils of every Doctor I meet in ERs (and I still do).
Thought that this show would be different, since Hugh is, after all, merely an actor. But this show DRAGGED. It was BORING.
I made it through the entire first season, somehow managing to stay awake, because I am home-bound and have nothing better to do.
Again, it's unrealistic with it's fantasy quack psychology-base, there's not enough action to keep me interested, and I had to speed past so much irrelevant sex that the episodes were much shorter than purported (which was actually a relief, once I thought about it).
The ONLY difference between this show and House was that he was a VERY poor shrink with no real ethics, rather than a drug-addled sarcastic and hateful doctor in a hospital. Oh and a lot of cursing all round. Just pointing out the differences; it was obviously a cable series rather than a network series.
I'm not going to bother with the second season. My advice is that you don't bother with the FIRST.
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