Tonight House season 7 begins, so I find it only appropriate to speak about all of the phenomenal medical dramas that are now in circulation. I am an avid viewer of almost all of these shows – House, Grey’s Anatomy, and Mercy. Each one seems to have an extremely twisted love between the main characters. Yet Dr. House has yet to find anything seemingly close to love. This has become a wide genre, it includes very similar plot lines; however this series varies greatly in the attitudes of the people working in the hospital. House is the first doctor to demonstrate severe signs of something that compromises his medical ability. This small factor is really the main difference that separates each episode from all of the other series. If you like one of these medical dramas its extremely easy to like them all, because their structures are so overwhelmingly similar. The fact that this series has been able to be so successful for six consecutive seasons allows me to know that there is something keeping viewers interested. The potential for Cuddy and House to have a relationship is one thing that has kept me interested – because the relationship developed with the viewer is on somewhat of a personal level, “When Cuddy showed up in the nick of time, House (Hugh Laurie) took her hand instead of the drugs. Tonight, the romance begins anew on House” (1). I’ll be interested to see what happens between the main characters, we have been following this long, it will be interesting to see if anyone resolves love problems, or develops a relationship. The reason this is the most interesting aspect to me is because the medical part of these series are usually fairly predictable, but this separates it considerably. This medical genre has remained fairly general, in the fact that the shows follow a very similar format, in every episode. House also separates itself by the way they diagnose, their time here together shows tension and how they relate, an environment we really don't see in any other show.
This show also represents some type of convergence. Many viewers watch and blog online. Here we see that people are involved and interacting with the text online. I think that this also draws a much greater following – the fact that everyone is so interested and remains curious.
Source: Barnert, Deanna. "House Premieres: Love Doctors!" Entertainment | Recipes | Love & Sex | Contests | Beauty | Parenting. Web. 20 Sept. 2010. <http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/818161/House-premieres-Love-Doctors>.
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