House - Episode 8.21 - Holding On - Promotional foto

The reason why House is not hated isn’t because House is ‘House’ but because he takes an interest in the people around him.

We can argue that House is egotistical and only thinks about himself. What some of us don’t understand is that House’s need to know everything and understand everything also helps him when building relationships and sustaining them.

House is obsessed with ‘The puzzle’, which is a generic term for everything within his life and outside his life; his friends, relationships, work. This obsession allows him to feed the need of the people who surround him, whether...