House rip-off


A poor imitation too..
Don't think I'm gonna watch it again.

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This is beyond a rip off, it's like cookie cutter TV. Jesus, there's even a "Cuddy" character. So sad.

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I think the show is similar to House, but so is CSI CSI MIAMI AND CSI NEW YORK...AND LAW AND ORDER, LAW AND ORDER SVU AND LAW AND ORDER Criminal Intent...SO WHAT?........this show was thought of enough to film 13 episodes...and yes another British actor is the star...and there is a Cuddy like boss for the guy....and young doctors who have a boss who quizzes them...this is what doctors and hospitals do..the acting, the being a bit different than house and from one type of hospital...and a caring doctor...not an assh**e which HOUSE has become...I have grown tired of house especially when the Indian guy went to the White House....and gave up a great character for a guy who never really had a real job.

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Well Duke. No one is saying this show is a ripoff of House because it's about doctors in a hospital. It's a ripoff because..well..I mean really..do I need to point it out to you?

And the Law & Order and CSI series' aren't similar in anyway, well maybe they are because they're about crime. But the multiple CSI & L&O installments are all in the same family by the same creators so of course they're similar. You're making it seem like we're saying every cop show is a ripoff of NYPD Blue or Dragnet. Nobody would call this a ripoff had the creators bothered to be even the slightest bit original

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Mental was dreary because it was filmed in a basement--a turn-off for me. But Chris Vance has a powerful presence which led to the Transporter role. I'll try to catch up with him on Rizzoli and Isles and await another, richer lead role.

Vance is one of my current favorite leading men.

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Yeah, very similar. I thought it was decent though, and certainly reasonable entertainment during the off-months for the big shows. I think the acting will get better with time and that the show will get its own identity.

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Although I didn't think it was terrible, it is such a blatant rip off of House that it will be hard to watch and not make comparisons. Personally, I think this has been a pretty bad year for Fox. House and 24 are getting to be boring and their new shows Dollhouse and Lie to Me, both sucked, and they cancelled TSCC and Prison Break. I love the Fox network for bringing cutting edge shows to prime time in the past and always try to give their new shows a chance to grab me, but if this cycle keeps repeating I may have to move onto Showtime and HBO for my weekly shows.

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Prison Break should have ended 2 seasons ago imho.

This show is like.. House for the soul. Chris Vance, indeed another Brit dude as a leading man in an American show.. He's a great actor. And he has Annabella Sciorra ("The Sopranos") and Jacqueline McKenzie ("The 4400") by his side. Two gorgeous milfs and great actresses! I'll keep watching it.

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While it did rip-off Cuddy, Jack Gallagher is very different from House. He cares for the patients rather than the puzzle. Not a pill popping junkie or as yet seen addicted to prostitutes. This show at least has more originality to it than other medical based shows such as Grey's Anatomy and ER

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Agreed!

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While I agree this might follow the same rules as House did, Mental is more of the "Anti-House" - let's take a look.

House is played by Hugh Laurie, British Actor playing an American doctor, while Chris Vance is playing Jack Gallagher, a British Actor playing a British doctor.

House deals with physical illnesses, Gallagher mental illnesses

House is cold and generally uncaring towards his patients, dealing with the puzzle of what's wrong. Gallagher cares about the patients

House works under Cuddy. Gallagher is the boss on Mental.

...so on and so on.

I like the formula, and the characters seem interesting enough, I am gonna give it a shot.

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I agree and disagree with this being the anti-House. I think after watching one episode it's hard for me to decide how much different the shows are. However, in the first episode there were several glaring similararities between the two shows that can't go unnoticed.

1. Even though he's the boss, he still answers to a hierarchy and a board who has a certain way of doing things, and in the first episode he took it upon himself to show them all how stupid and wrong they are and how he's going to do things a certain way...Typical House kind of move.

2. Even though the two characters deal with different types of illnesses, the shows are not about the illnesses specifically, they are more just the means to set the characters in motion and pushes them to do the "crazy" things that everyday people like you and me decide we can't do because we will either be fired, or put into a place that we don't want to be.

3. Yes, their demeanors are much different, but they both are driven by the premice that they are always right and know the best way to do things and are not going to let others get in their way.

4. The quote about the two British guys playing different types of parts, one American, one British, I haven't seen this new guy do anything yet where he's sported an American accent, maybe it's garbage so they just let him speak in his normal tongue, only the future will tell on that one...

5. In the pilot episode the protagonist is faced with a antagonist (the patient's sister) who has legal authority, and he responds by doing something illegal (breaks into her house), which is a pretty classic House move.

All this being said, the show is just starting and I think I will try to see how it goes, but if it keeps up trying to be like House I will certainly stop.

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Jack Gallagher is not the Boss on mental, that black guy always goes running off to the hospital administrator which is the exact position Cuddy has in house.

House and jack both answer to "cuddy" basically and both of them do radical treatments. There are diffrence's between the show but clearly not enough to prove to the majority of us that it's not a ripoff and in the end majority rules. So if most of the fan base on mental is house fans which I am sure it is then I will be surprised if we see a second season.

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After one episode, its hard for me to decide if I like it or not. Part of me likes it because its like House, and part of me wants to hate it because its like House.

I think its interesting that a show like House tries to show that its different from it. House is mean and doesn't care about the person. Jack is friendly and cares about the person. House limps and rides a motorcycle while Jack is a fit and rides a bike.

If the show tries to imitate the success of House while trying make itself different from House, then I think it will fail. If Mental finds away of going its own way and making itself an individual, then I may like it.


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you forgot a few differences

House is funny and entertaining
Mental is dull and boring

House is a 5 year running fall season
Mental is a summer series that will be lucky to last 5 episodes

House has story lines and other characters
Mental has 1 character and 20 people that stand around and suck his d!kc

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STFU. Your basic reasoning is basically stating that any medical show is a rip-off off of House.

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"House is funny and entertaining
Mental is dull and boring"

First off why should something about mental illness or disease for that matter be funny?

"House is a 5 year running fall season
Mental is a summer series that will be lucky to last 5 episodes"

According to some critics about the pilot, House was also a show that was doomed to fail as well. And people gave it some time.

"House has story lines and other characters
Mental has 1 character and 20 people that stand around and suck his d!kc"

No explanation needed for this one, especially with the last sentence. Shows you what kind of person is commenting on this show. Mental has many great characters that are more involved in the first show than I have ever seen in other pilots. They even have separate sub-plots for the different characters.

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No explanation needed again.

You know, when you give constructive criticism it tends to resonate better than
"Mental has 1 character and 20 people that stand around and suck his d!kc"

And I know that everyone is going to say that its a rip off of House. Well the idea is probably similar but most shows nowadays are:

CSI - Bones
Law and Order - Raising the Bar

Just because its similar does not mean that its going to be the same premise as the show. Hugh Laurie is a great actor. No doubt about that. But to me, its all about the characters. Characters are what makes the story, not actors. So give this new character a chance to develop like Hugh Laurie made House into what he is.

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"House is funny and entertaining
Mental is dull and boring"

First off why should something about mental illness or disease for that matter be funny?

I don't see you argueing that Mental is entertaining. A medical show does'nt have to be funny, but a comedy should be.


"House is a 5 year running fall season
Mental is a summer series that will be lucky to last 5 episodes"

According to some critics about the pilot, House was also a show that was doomed to fail as well. And people gave it some time.

Again don't see you saying that Mental is any good.

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but you fail to remember is that

"House is funny and entertaining
Mental is dull and boring"

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"House is a 5 year running fall season
Mental is a summer series that will be lucky to last 5 episodes"

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Keep in mind that not everyone watches House. I just watched Mental and found it to be enjoyable.

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It's not at all a rip-off... Galagher is nice House is not.and like you said before mental illness not suppose to be funny...

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Scratch everything I said before.. I'm still watching the show.. I'm not sure if it's cos the lead character is very hot.. gosh did you see that body?

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are u gay??

though the lead actresses are hot...

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are u gay??

though the lead actresses are hot...


Are you under the assumption that every IMDb user is a man?

And even if this person is a dude, are you really going to sit there and tell him that he can't offer his opinion on an actor?

This show really does show promise, the last episode "Book of Judges" was really really good. All these "similarities" that are being mentioned are things that have all been done before, and yes, House has done them too. You can't honestly say that House is completely original in all its ideas. Lets see, rebellious person rages against the machine that he works for because he knows he is right...I just gave a synopsis for about 6000 different shows/movies/books/comics/games.

It's the STORIES that make things different. I give you my word, the first episode that features a patient with a physical illness that has absolutely nothing to do with a mental illness I will join the "Mental is a House Rip-off" team, until then, get over yourselves.

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Hehehe Touche.

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definitely gay

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It's called a formula. you know, kind of like every medical show, cop show, legal show...all look kind of similar?

welcome to american tv, dude.




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