{"id":347678,"date":"2026-06-08T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=347678"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:47:07","slug":"hugh-laurie-slams-viral-house-criticism-that-show-is-repetitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/hugh-laurie-slams-viral-house-criticism-that-show-is-repetitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Laurie Slams Viral &#8216;House&#8217; Criticism That Show Is Repetitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHugh Laurie continues to be a fierce defender of \u201cHouse,\u201d even greater than a decade after the show\u2019s ending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe English actor, who starred within the Fox medical drama from 2004 to 2012, didn&#8217;t mince his words in response to a critic who went viral on X over the weekend for saying that \u201cHouse\u201d has the \u201csame narrative every episode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFreelance journalist Janet Murray wrote on X that in each storyline, \u201cPatient has mysterious illness.<br \/>Hugh Laurie (House) gets diagnosis incorrect. Patient nearly dies. Hugh Laurie gets diagnosis incorrect again. Gets threatened with being fired. Patient nearly dies again. Hugh Laurie has last minute leftfield idea. Gets diagnosis right. Doesn\u2019t get fired.\u201d She concluded, \u201cEight seasons of this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn response, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hughlaurie\/status\/2063714447084929437?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Laurie fired back<\/a>: \u201cThanks on your critique, Janet. We actually tried a few episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the fitting place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren\u2019t pleased. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn\u2019t pleased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe added, \u201cOne could apply your trenchant evaluation to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the identical chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what?? The purpose is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn\u2019t meant for you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLaurie finished off his post by quipping, \u201cNonetheless, I look ahead to your first novel!\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThough many fans within the comments responded with support for Laurie, Murray appeared to take the roast in stride. \u201cWoken as much as just a few latest followers this morning. Who could also be disenchanted to learn that TV reviews usually are not normally my forte,\u201d she wrote on X Monday. \u201cPlus I&#8217;ll now be too busy working on my first novel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFor his work on \u201cHouse,\u201d Laurie received two Golden Globe Awards and develop into certainly one of the highest-paid actors in TV drama on the time. He went on to star in \u201cVeep\u201d and \u201cThe Night Manager\u201d and can soon feature in BBC and MGM+\u2019s series adaptation of John le Carr\u00e9\u2019s \u201cLegacy of Spies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Laurie continues to be a fierce defender of \u201cHouse,\u201d even greater than a decade after the show\u2019s ending. 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