Based on the first 3 seasons, I really thought that this show had an extremely high chance of becoming one of my favorites. By the 5th season, I felt like I was underrating this show. I felt like what came before was actually top tier content. I thought that I was just downplaying its quality because I have a hard time connecting to Live Action television. But by the end though, it was **good**. Season 6 was good. And so was 7 (for the most part). Season 8 though, it was pretty questionable.
[spoiler]The main problem with this show is in its structure. It evolves from a thematic based storytelling episode to a character drama.
Seasons 1, 2 & 3 all have (pretty much) the same formula. Seasons 4 and 5 experiment with the middle ground and Seasons 7, 8 and 9 completely become something else.
All seasons stay true to the characters (for the most part) but when your series changes its focus, it's pretty hard to care about the other half of the episode. You know, the hospital stuff. The thing that was perfectly balanced in the beginning with the main cast and now has nothing to do with them. And when the hospital stuff stops being thematically relevant to solving the episodes and is just there to fill in the time, it becomes dull. This was a Sherlock Holmes based series and it kind of forgot that in the last 3 seasons. Seasons 4 and 5 managed to go around that. But just like Seasons 1, 2 & 3, the structure of Seasons 4 and 5 can't last forever. The show evolved into a full-blown character drama and it did the best it could. I still think season 7 could've worked better if it was 2 seasons instead of 1 but I still liked it. Season 8 felt cheap (kind of like a soft-reboot) but at least the conclusion was decent. Also cheap, but decent.[/spoiler]

Seasons ratings:
**Season 1**: 8.5/10
**Season 2**: 8.5/10
**Season 3**: 7.5/10
**Season 4**: 7/10 (I'm probably underrating it a lot)
**Season 5**: 8/10
**Season 6**: 7/10
**Season 7**: 7/10
**Season 8**: 6/10
Overall: **7.5**/10

Top 10 characters:
1. House
2. [spoiler]Thirteen[/spoiler]
3. [spoiler]Masters[/spoiler]
4. Cuddy
5. Cameron
6. [spoiler]Amber[/spoiler]
7. Chase
8. Wilson
9. [spoiler]Kutner[/spoiler]
10. Foreman

Hugh Laurie brings the house down in this role. sorry, I just had to make that pun. If you want to be utterly entertained by a self-destructive Vicodin addict as he childishly plays God with the lives of his patients and root for him every step of the way as he does it, then this is the series for you.

I liked this show because House's character, but I was oblivious to most of their medical conversations.
An advice: Don't watch it unless you understand a lot of medical terminology.