If we go back to the source, the protagonist House of "Dr. House" should be the great British detective Sherlock Holmes. They have the same thin appearance, always acrimonious, reliant on drugs, and their health is not good. In their bones, they have no sense of trust in people, they always feel that others are lying, and they have a natural sense of superiority in intelligence, and often facts prove that they are right.
They resolutely crack down on criminals or intractable diseases. No matter how successful the evidence is hidden, they will always win. They never talk about much interest in women—unless that woman is smarter or stronger than them, but they have a male close friend by their side, and the emotions between them are dry and shattered. Even though "Doctor House" is an American drama, the producer still hired an authentic British man Hugh Laurie to play it. Even House's name, House, is inextricably linked to Holmes.
"The New York Times" said that the most attractive thing about "Doctor House" is that it has the skin of a soap opera, but it has always rejected the soul of the soap opera. If it's just a TV series depicting the protagonist as smart and invincible as Sherlock Holmes, then it should be renamed "Hospital Edition 007". But "Doctor House" will never make up a perfect hero. Its protagonist is a doctor and a patient at the same time. House inherited the keenness of Holmes' genius, and also continued the side effects of genius-he was always struggling and suffering in self-torture. House's famous saying is that people always lie. A person with outstanding observation ability, in addition to judging the crux of the problem from the small details such as the mouth, diet and daily life of the leader, can always see the deepest secrets of human nature and the moral dilemma. When they fail to forgive others, they lose the ability to love themselves.
"Doctor House" is a unit drama. In each episode, House and his team have to face patients suffering from various incurable diseases. The root causes of strange diseases often point to the same reason, human tragedy. He always made the worst assumptions from the beginning, guessing in the most vicious direction and actively supporting them. His patients are more or less selfish or righteous and have reservations. In every episode, House's team will protest his "simple and rude" in a universal sense, believing that the boss is incomprehensible. But when things develop to the end, it will always prove that House, who does not shy away from the dark side, is truly careful. Taking professional ethics as the criterion, although it is desperate for House to be always right, he is still an extremely clever doctor.
But this doesn't hurt him as a "jerk" in the secular sense. Dr. House has the foundation to approach happiness, but has lost the ability to approach happiness. He has fame, status, talent and wealth, but unparalleled intelligence but no wisdom. Choose to torture others by punishing yourself with brutality and coldness. His team came because of him, endured high-intensity pressure and long working hours, just to learn from him. But after a few years, they will always leave again in disappointment, and even someone who chooses to commit suicide is no longer willing to show emotional fluctuations in front of him. Both his ex-wife and female boss had a close relationship with him, but because they loved him and knew him, they chose to leave him and send him to get rid of drug addiction after accepting that they could not save this person. And his best friend Wilson—he kept borrowing Wilson’s money and never repaid him, using words to humiliate him, trying to test Wilson's bottom line—similar to Holmes and Watson, in the process of getting along with House , Wilson must feel humiliated and powerless.
Therefore, even House still lives in a social environment. But he was always alone and helpless, and his soul could never be redeemed. He doesn't believe in God. In addition to being hostile to the believers, he even has a kind of mental contempt for them, so he certainly can't get balance from prayer. He does not believe in patients or colleagues; he does not believe in lovers, let alone friends. House has a handicapped leg, so he provides ample excuses for swallowing Vicodin (a psychoactive drug), and he uses mental anesthesia to combat physical pain. This makes one's life more paranoid, and paranoia is often an important reason for the success of geniuses. Only with blind resoluteness and stubbornness can Holmes pretend to die to destroy Moriarty, and can House stumbling but never stopping on a road to despair. In the six seasons of more than 100 episodes of "Doctor House", everyone tried to save him in their own way, but found nothing. The healing process of every patient's physical pain is aggravating House's own spiritual pain.
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