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Sparkle (2)
Today is a sad, sad day.
Not only did I wake up and break a nail while getting dressed, but I learned that one of my favorite television antiheroes will no longer be, well, my favorite television antihero.
That's right - after 8 blissfully long seasons, House, M.D., will end its run this May. I am heartbroken.
While I understand the need for a series like this to end gracefully, rather than by beating a long-dead horse, I'm going to be especially sad to see such a smart, savvy, and witty television drama cease production.
Certainly House, the enigmatic, snarky, brilliant yet tortured lead, played expertly by Hugh Laurie, should be the sort that will leave the party while it's in full swing - disappearing into the black night well before the goodbyes are said, but that doesn't make the departure any less painful for those of us who have been around since the beginning. Characters we've watched grow, change, and well, fall back into old patterns, they stick with us.
Hugh Laurie as House, M.D.: Courtesy of FOX
I grew up in a medical house, which is one of the reasons the show spoke to me. If you get used to people discussing pus or abscesses over the dinner table, you'll feel right at home watching a show that routinely has both gross and mystifying symptoms. Other medical dramas, like ER or Nurse Jackie, haven't piqued my interest. Why? They don't have an antihero as their lead. Without House, the show would be just another boring hospital drama. As a nurse, I can see plenty of that without having to resort to turning on the television.
I know, I, like many others, could relate to House. He wasn't some chiseled handsome male lead, he was a deeply flawed individual - like all of us. It made it so much easier to relate to someone who was just like us...only brilliant. He had his demons, his problems, and his own ways of handling them, just like the rest of us. His tragic flaws were what made him such a perfect lead.
I'm going to miss the House Parties we threw - trying to ascertain which off-the-wall twisty diagnosis was the correct one before House and his team did. I had about a fifty-fifty guess rate - not bad for someone who ditched medicine to raise her child. It's not like American Idol, as much as I love the show, is going to give me the same amount of interaction that House, M.D. did.
(Ironic, since the premise of AI is that I can vote people on or off the island...er, stage).
And frankly, I don't WANT to go back to using Web, M.D., to diagnose my problems every Monday at 8PM. Web, M.D. always tells me that I'm dying of some rare Oregon Trail disease, and I need that like I need a hole in my head. Especially since I don't LIVE in Oregon.
But House, M.D., its unlikely premise: "Everybody Lies," its unorthodox main character, and it's tantalizing puzzles, well, the show will be missed. Greatly.
Now I'm off to weep into my pillow and pretend this is all a bad dream.
How do YOU feel about the end of House, M.D.?
