If AHousereboot ever happens, bringing Hugh Laurie’s character back will not be easy considering how the show ended. One of the most popular shows of its generation,Houseran for eight seasonsand had highs and lows throughout its run.Houseseason 8 was not as remarkable as one would expect from the final season of such a great show, not to mention how the series finale was somewhat divisive. However, between all the cast exists and the fact so much had been done withHouse’s characteralready, there were only so many ways to end the show.
At the beginning of season 8, we learn that Wilson, House’s best and arguably only true friend, is dying. Wilson was diagnosed with terminal cancer and only had a few more months to live. While House tried to find diagnoses and treatments,it soon became clear that Wilson was going to die. InHouse’s series finale, House realizes he only has five more months with Wilson. However, House was about to be sent to jail for at least six months due to destroying hospital property. This is why House faked his death and hit the road with Wilson.
Apart from the fact that House spent the next five months with Wilson and was probably by his friend’s side when he died, there is not much else we can infer about what happened after the finale.House did promise to euthanize Thirteenwhen her genetic disease hit a critical stage. However, not only did Thirteen believe House is dead, but he would risk being found and arrested if he ever returned home. The show impliesForeman realized House faked his death, whereas everyone else thinks he is dead.
6House Is Practicing Medicine In Other Countries
There Would Always Be Cases For House To Work On
Perhaps the most popular theory for how House can return in a reboot is that Hugh Laurie’s character never returned home but continued to use his gifts to diagnose and treat people in other countries. House would obviously not be able to start an official, legal practice, but nothing would stop him from doing the only thing he knows how to do.AHousereboot could see the character going from one place to another, always with fake documents and new identities as he looks for the most absurd, puzzling medical cases.
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While this may not be the most inspired premise for aHouserevival, it would fit the tone of the original show.Housewas a medical procedural in which Greg and his team would work on a case every week, and the show goes a long way to establish that House was always looking for a challenge. The idea of House incorporating Bill Bixby’s David Banner and going from town to town every week looking for trouble while handling what is both a gift and a curse could be incredible if done right.
5House Returned To The US And Is Now In Prison
House Would Likely Get Caught If He Returned
Another option to bringHouseback would be to establish that Gregory House eventually returned to the US, most likely to fulfill his promise to Thirteen, and was arrested. While House wasn’t originally going to spend a lot of time behind bars, the fact he faked his death in the finale means he was now looking at a much longer sentence. And that is not to mention whatever things House could have tried to pull off to run away from the police while trying to enter the country and find Thirteen.
Thirteen suffered from Huntington’s Disease and asked House if he would euthanize her whenever her condition reached a critical stage.
The problem with this scenario is thatHousealready did a “prison arc,”and it was one of the least interesting parts of the show. Without Wilson and having fulfilled his promise to Thirteen, House would hardly have any reason to even care about whether or not he was in jail. This would also not be a long-term solution, as any kind ofHousereboot would have to turn into a medical drama eventually.House getting arrested and then freed again would be repetitiveand a waste of time.
4House Did His Time And Somehow Got His License Back
A House Reboot Could Revert Things Back To Status Quo
While having House in jail again would be repetitive, a revival could start with him getting out of jail after returning to the US and doing his time. In fact, given that more than a decade will have passed in the real world by the time a potential reboot happens, House could have done his time and become a free man a long time ago already. Even though it’s very difficult to imagine him regaining his license in those circumstances,Houseis a TV show after all.
Between his fame and talents, House could perhaps have gotten his license back and resumed his practice. Whether this would be on Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital would remain to be seen.The circumstances of House’s return would also depend on which characters would be brought backfor a revival. For example, if Foreman is still the head of Princeton-Plainsboro, he could supervise House’s return. The problem with this option is that it would reverse things back to the status quo, almost as ifHousenever ended in the first place.
House left his hospital ID under Foreman’s desk before faking his death, which is how Foreman realizes his old boss pulled off one final stunt.
Houseusually struggled to keep the stakes high and often reversed things back to the way they were. For example, when Foreman was recovering from the biopsy performed on his brain, House noticed that something was off. However, in the next episode, Foreman was back at work as if nothing had happened. Likewise, House once suspected that Kutner had been murdered, only to completely drop his theory in the next episode. If a reboot ever happens, it should avoid doing something like that.
3House Never Got His License Back But Is Now A Consultant
House Could Still Do What He Does Best Without Being A Doctor
An interesting twist on the previous option would be to have House as a free man working as a medical consultant instead of an actual doctor at Princeton. The idea of “private consultants” has been used countless times on TV procedurals, from Adrian Monk to Richard Castle, and even ties into the primary inspiration behind Gregory House’s character –Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.House was never a traditional doctor and treated his cases as puzzlesthat needed to be solved. House couldn’t care about running tests or researching a patient’s medical history anyway.
Having House as a consultant would allow aHousereboot to introduce an all-new set of charactersand do something different instead of just replicating what the original show did. Greg House could act as a mentor to a new generation of doctors, this time not having the final say on cases. It would be interesting to see House stripped of the power he had for most of the show and having to rely on other people to make the difficult calls he was so used to doing when he was a doctor.
House is such a fascinating character that, regardless of the setting of the premise, a revival would be worth it just to see more of him.
This could be a fun twist onHouse’s formula. Gregory House had a team in every season of the show, but he was the one to make the final call every time. An older, seasoned House having no resources but his mind consulting on cases and helping younger doctors solve the most difficult cases could make for a great new series that would echo the original show while still doing something different. This would work especially great for a limited series or something with fewer episodes thanHouseused to have.
2House Abandoned Medicine Altogether And Never Returned Home
House May Have Found Other Things To Do
A wild take on aHouserevivalwould be to establish that, not only did House never return home, but he also abandoned medicine altogether. While many assume that House would eventually take his own life after losing Wilson, I believe this would go against the point of the series finale.House’s final episode was all about House deciding to get up and live, even if it had to sacrifice his career to be with Wilson during his friend’s final moments. However, House choosing to live doesn’t mean he would want to keep practicing medicine.
The lack of a license wouldn’t stop Greg Housefrom doing what he does best, but he may have chosen to abandon medicine altogether and live a completely different life. AHouselimited series showing what this new life looks like could be interesting, namely because it would go against what people would expect from a revival of a medical drama. House is such a fascinating character that, regardless of the setting of the premise, a revival would be worth it just to see more of him.
1House Is Training A Young Doctor To Be His Successor
A House Reboot Could Be About A New Main Character
By the end ofHouse,Chase had officially become the “new House” as he was now the head of the Diagnosis Department.Having worked under House for years and always coming up with clever, out-of-the-box theories, Chase was the perfect choice to lead the department after House’s “death.” However, aHousereboot could see the titular character training a more traditional successor – a young doctor who has a once-in-a-lifetime talent and could become as famous as House did. House mentored a lot of characters throughout the show and had a strange aptitude to teach.
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This would allowHouseto introduce a new protagonist and have Laurie’s character act as their mentor, thus setting up this new series as its own thing rather than just a continuation of the eight-season show. However, for this to work, this new character would have to be very interesting in their own way instead of just a “new House.” Between Chase, Foreman, Thirteen, and Masters, we already had plenty of “new Houses” in the original show. A new take on this trope would have to be fresh and exciting.
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House is a medical mystery drama in which the villain is typically a difficult-to-diagnose medical malady. It follows Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), a world-renowned disabled diagnostician with a notorious substance abuse issue. With his team of world-class doctors, House has built a reputation as one of the most brilliant doctors in the world - an especially impressive feat when taking into account that he rarely actually sees his patients.
