"Everbody Dies": House M.D. Comes to a Close

Eight years ago, when I was in the middle of high school and generally too busy proto-texting through AIM to watch much television, my father suggested that I join the family to watch a new show that was debuting on the Fox network.  Even then I was generally in the habit of taking my father’s advice, but I wasn’t especially impressed by his description of a medical procedural with an unlikeable protagonist based on the literary detective Sherlock Holmes (this was 2004, before I had read any Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Downey Jr. was still recovering from his stint on “Ally McBeal”).  However, after watching House, M.D.’s pilot, “Everybody Lies,” little doubt remained for me, and eight years later, I sat down with my parents to watch the show’s conclusion, “Everybody Dies.”