Collider recommends Fox’s House as an eight-season option for viewers who enjoy the medical urgency of The Pitt and the deductive mysteries associated with Sherlock. The article argues that the series combines diagnostic puzzles with a flawed central character, making it a notable alternative while fans await new episodes of those franchises.

House premiered on 16 November 2004 and follows Dr Gregory House, played by Hugh Laurie, at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. House is portrayed as a brilliant but abrasive doctor with chronic leg pain and a Vicodin addiction, repeatedly clashing with hospital administrator Dr Lisa Cuddy while relying on oncologist Dr James Wilson as his closest friend.