{"id":691588,"date":"2026-06-08T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691588\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:59:09","slug":"hugh-laurie-issues-waspish-retort-to-viral-critique-of-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691588\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Laurie Issues Waspish Retort To Viral Critique Of ‘House’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHouse<\/a> may have ended more than a decade ago, but Hugh Laurie<\/a> is still prepared to do battle for the beloved Fox series.<\/p>\n

\n\tJanet Murray, a British journalist, went viral on X\/Twitter over the weekend when she penned a review of House, in which she argued that the medical drama has the \u201csame narrative every episode.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPatient has mysterious illness. Hugh Laurie (House) gets diagnosis wrong. Patient nearly dies. Hugh Laurie gets diagnosis wrong again. Gets threatened with being fired. Patient nearly dies again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHugh Laurie has last minute leftfield idea. Gets diagnosis right. Doesn\u2019t get fired. Eight seasons of this?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLaurie was not impressed. He responded: \u201cThanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren\u2019t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn\u2019t happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor continued: \u201cOne could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn\u2019t meant for you. Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!\u201d<\/p>\n

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren\u2019t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Hugh Laurie (@hughlaurie) June 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tLaurie was criticized for being \u201cclassless\u201d with his message, to which he replied: \u201cOK.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMurray saw the funny side. \u201cWoken up to a few new followers this morning. Who may be disappointed to learn that TV reviews are not usually my forte,\u201d she wrote. \u201cPlus I may now be too busy working on my first novel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House may have ended more than a decade ago, but Hugh Laurie is still prepared to do battle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,7231,134610],"class_list":["post-691588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-house","tag-hugh-laurie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}