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Hugh Laurie Tears Into ‘House’ Critic Over Viral Post

Joseph Okpako / WireImage Hugh Laurie has torn into a critic whose viral post heaped scorn on his show, House . Freelance journalist Janet Murray set the internet alight with a post skewering the show’s classic formula. By her reckoning, a patient arrives with a mysterious illness, Laurie’s Gregory House gets the diagnosis wrong, the patient nearly dies, House gets it wrong again, faces firing, the patient nearly dies again—then, at the last moment, House has a flash of inspiration, nails the diagnosis, and keeps his job. “Eight seasons of this?” Murray concluded. The post racked up more than a million views. Read more at The Daily Beast.