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House

Everybody lies.

8.6IMDb8K votesOutstanding
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2004 – 20128 seasons · 176 episodes~44 min per episodeTV-14Ended
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TV DNA

How House actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.

Signature profile

House reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.

Character DepthDefining9.1

How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.

Emotional WeightVery strong7.2

How much the series is designed to affect you.

BingeabilityStrong6.1

How hard it is to stop after one episode.

TensionPresent4.0

The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.

SerializedLight3.5

How much each hour depends on the one before it.

SpectacleLight3.5

Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.

World BuildingLight3.5

The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.

Cliffhanger IntensityLight3.0

How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.

HumourLight2.5

How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.

The story

What it's about

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.

The run

Seasons

8 seasons · 176 episodes.

  • Official poster for Specials

    Season 0 · Complete

    Specials

    201146 episodes

    Best episode · S00E05 Swan Song

  • Official poster for Season 1

    Season 1 · Complete

    Season 1

    200422 episodes

    7.8IMDb

    Dr. Gregory House is devoid of bedside manner and wouldn't even talk to his patients if he could get away with it. Dealing with his own constant physical pain, he uses a cane that seems to punctuate his acerbic, brutally honest demeanor. While his behavior can border on antisocial, House is a maverick physician whose unconventional thinking and flawless instincts have afforded him a great deal of respect. House's roster of medical cases are the inexplicable ones other doctors can't solve, and he has assembled an elite team of young medical experts to help him in his effort to solve these diagnostic mysteries.

    Best episode · S01E21 Three Stories

  • Official poster for Season 2

    Season 2 · Complete

    Season 2

    200524 episodes

    7.8IMDb

    House will do whatever it takes to solve a case before it's too late, from sending one of his team to break into a patient's home in search of clues, to attempting a controversial, trial-and-error form of treatment to see how a patient responds. House's methods may be suspect, but his results are not — he saves lives no one else can. Always in House's way is Dr. Lisa Cuddy, the Dean of Medicine and hospital administrator — and ethical gatekeeper of the hospital who is in constant conflict with House over his extreme treatments and unconventional behavior. House's former love Stacy Warner recently accepted a job as General Counsel to the hospital, and her presence there has reignited feelings House thought were safely buried.

    Best episode · S02E24 No Reason

  • Official poster for Season 3

    Season 3 · Complete

    Season 3

    200624 episodes

    7.8IMDb

    In the Season 2 finale, House suffered multiple gunshot wounds inflicted by a former patient's husband determined to carry out retribution for House's treatment of his wife's case. In a shocking surprise to his co-workers, House comes through the ordeal with a slightly new perspective on his treatment of patients — but will it affect how he makes medical decisions? And will it last?

    Best episode · S03E12 One Day, One Room

  • Official poster for Season 4

    Season 4 · Complete

    Season 4

    200716 episodes

    8.1IMDb

    In the Season 3 finale, the set-in-his-ways House was confronted with a series of major changes to his team — but any effects of this “house-cleaning," or the changes it may bring to House professionally or personally, remain to be seen...

    Best episode · S04E16 Wilson's Heart (2)

  • Official poster for Season 5

    Season 5 · Complete

    Season 5

    200824 episodes

    8.0IMDb

    In the Season 4 finale, after a massive bus accident left House without recollection of the accident, he and the team put the pieces of his memory together and discover Wilson’s girlfriend Amber was on the bus with him and was fatally injured. Wilson has to face the shocking realization that House was involved in Amber’s death. As Season 5 opens, with his friendship with Wilson shattered, House must determine if he’s responsible for Amber’s death and Wilson must decide if House is a destructive force in his life while Cuddy attempts to advance a reconciliation between the two of them.

    Best episode · S05E24 Both Sides Now

  • Official poster for Season 6

    Season 6 · Complete

    Season 6

    200921 episodes

    8.0IMDb

    When the previous season concluded, House was forced to admit that he had lost his grip on reality and could no longer practice medicine. Out of options, he checked himself into a psychiatric hospital. Season 6 will explore House’s long and twisted road to recovery: Can he find some version of sanity and normalcy? Can he stay away from the workplace that arguably drove him to mental instability but is also the only stable foundation in his life? Can Princeton-Plainsboro continue its celebrated Department of Diagnostics without him? How will Cuddy’s relationship with House change, now that their imagined affair is out in the open?

    Best episode · S06E21 Help Me

  • Official poster for Season 7

    Season 7 · Complete

    Season 7

    201023 episodes

    8.0IMDb

    In the Season 6 finale, House, driven by the loss of a patient he treated at an accident site and confronted with the unexpected news that Cuddy was now engaged, spiraled into despair and considered treating his mental and emotional anguish with Vicodin, potentially prompting the cycle of his dependency and addiction all over again. But in a surprising turn, Cuddy revealed that she called off her engagement and admitted to House she loves him, despite wishing she didn’t. Also, Thirteen submitted her leave of absence from the hospital, prompting questions about the status of her health. As Season 7 begins, House and Cuddy attempt to make a real relationship work and face the question as to whether their new relationship will affect their ability to diagnose patients.

    Best episode · S07E18 The Dig

  • Official poster for Season 8

    Season 8 · Complete

    Season 8

    201122 episodes

    7.8IMDb

    Last season, House and Cuddy finally decided to take their relationship to the next level, but struggled to find a balance between their professional and personal lives, and ultimately, Cuddy made the very emotional decision to end their relationship. As each of them dealt with the aftermath of the break-up, House got married to an immigrant in need of a Green Card. In the series' milestone 150th episode, Thirteen was released from prison after euthanizing her brother who was suffering from the late stages of Huntington's Disease, the same disease with which she is afflicted. As the season comes to a close, when House's attempts to mend his relationship with Cuddy fall short, he's compelled to take drastic and possibly irrevocable measures that could forever change the course of their relationship.

    Best episode · S08E22 Everybody Dies

Where the series peaks

Best Episodes

The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

Still from Wilson's Heart (2)

S04E16

Wilson's Heart (2)

9.1IMDb55 votes

In the aftermath of the bus accident, House struggles with his head injuries and short-term memory loss, and must deal with a concerned Wilson who believes his friend's health may be in danger.

19 May 200844 min
Still from Three Stories

S01E21

Three Stories

9.0IMDb71 votes

House must decide whether to take the case of his ex-love's husband and he gives medical students a lecture they'll never forget.

17 May 200544 min
Still from Help Me

S06E21

Help Me

9.0IMDb45 votes

Cuddy, House and members of the team join forces with a search-and-rescue team to provide much-needed medical attention at the scene of an emergency.

17 May 201045 min
Still from Broken

S06E01

Broken

8.9IMDb50 votes

House is detoxing at a mental hospital and being held against his will by his attending physician, so he concocts an escape plan, aided by his roommate and a visitor named Lydia.

21 Sept 200988 min
Still from Both Sides Now

S05E24

Both Sides Now

8.8IMDb45 votes

House and the team are intrigued by Scott, a man whose left brain and right brain operate independently, leaving him with two distinct personalities and no control over some of his actions. As the two sides of Scott’s brain struggle for dominance, his warring personalities make it increasingly difficult for the team to figure out what is causing the unique problem. The team is forced to use some unusual methods to get him to cooperate with their necessary testing. Meanwhile, when House refuses to make an appearance in the clinic, Cuddy takes an unconventional approach to force House to make up the time with a particular patient.

11 May 200944 min
Still from House's Head (1)

S04E15

House's Head (1)

8.8IMDb64 votes

A bus accident leaves House with serious head trauma and partial amnesia. He comes to believe that a patient on the bus had a life-threatening disease and struggles to recall who it was, and what they had.

12 May 200844 min

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