Say Goodbye to Showtime's 7-Part 'House' Replacement on Netflix

Hugh Laurie looking to the side with a serious expression in House

Published Oct 3, 2026, 5:10 PM EDT

Erin Konrad's love for everything entertainment dates back to elementary school when she became obsessed with classic Hollywood musicals. When she's not catching up on all her favorite television shows, she's advising her friends and family on what they should binge watch next.

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Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) from Fox's House is one of the best and most complicated protagonists we've ever seen on television. The gruff, yet genius diagnostician had us following along with every episode for eight seasons. Whether you watched the show in its original run from 2004 to 2012 or have done a binge watch in more recent years, there's no denying that the medical drama showcases fascinating cases and intriguing doctors. But if you're looking for a drama that is a much more realistic and unhinged portrayal of a medical professional experiencing a substance addiction, catch this Showtime series this weekend before it leaves Netflix on October 6.

What Is 'Nurse Jackie' About?

Nurse Jackie began airing during House's run, but from the very first episode it became easy to distinguish the two shows. House is a fairly predictable network procedural that couldn't show too many graphic things, and most cases were solved within one episode. On the other hand, Nurse Jackie, which aired from 2009 to 2015, features seven seasons of brutally realistic and honest storylines. The series follows Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco, in her follow-up role after The Sopranos) as she works in the emergency room at New York City's All Saints Hospital. Jackie loves her job and is an incredibly skilled and devoted nurse, but she's also pretty hardened. She's completely no-nonsense, especially when it comes to mentoring new nurse Zoey Barkow (Merritt Wever), who naively bops into the hospital wearing cheesy cartoon-print scrubs.

Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey's Anatomy · House · Scrubs

Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.

🚨The Pitt

🏥ER

💉Grey's

🔬House

🩺Scrubs

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A critical patient comes through the door. What's your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.

AStay completely present — block everything else out and work through it step by step, right now. BTriage fast and delegate — get the right people on the right problems immediately. CTrust my gut and move — I work best when I stop overthinking and just act. DAsk the question everyone else is ignoring — what's the thing that doesn't fit? ETake a breath, make a joke to cut the tension, and then get to work — panic helps no one.

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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you'd give in an interview.

ABecause I wanted to be where it matters most — right at the edge, when someone's life is actually on the line. BBecause I wanted to help people — genuinely, one patient at a time, in a system that makes it hard. CBecause I was drawn to the intensity of it — the stakes, the drama, the feeling of being fully alive. DBecause medicine is the most interesting puzzle there is — and I needed a problem worth solving. EBecause I wanted to make a difference — and also, honestly, I didn't know what else to do with my life.

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What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.

ACompetence and calm — I need people who don't fall apart when things get bad. BTrust and reliability — I want to know that when I pass something off, it's handled. CConnection — I want colleagues who become family, even if that gets complicated. DIntelligence and the willingness to be challenged — I have no interest in people who just agree with me. EFriendship — people I actually like spending twelve hours a day with, because those hours are going to happen either way.

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You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who's worked a long shift has had to answer this question.

AI carry it. All of it. I don't look for ways to put it down — that weight is part of doing this work honestly. BI process it and move — you have to, or the next patient suffers for the one you just lost. CI feel it deeply and lean on the people around me — I don't think you're supposed to handle that alone. DI go back over every decision — not to punish myself, but because I need to understand what I missed. EI grieve it genuinely, find some way to laugh about something unrelated, and try to be kind to myself — imperfectly.

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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.

AIntense and completely present — no small talk during a shift, but exactly who you want there. BSteady and dependable — not the flashiest in the room but never the one who drops something. CPassionate and occasionally chaotic — brilliant on the hard cases, prone to drama everywhere else. DBrilliant and difficult — right more often than anyone else, and everyone knows it, including me. EWarm and self-deprecating — not the most intimidating presence, but genuinely good at this and easy to like.

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How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.

AProtocol is the floor, not the ceiling — I follow it until the patient needs something it can't provide. BI respect it — the system is broken in places, but the structure is there for a reason and I work within it. CI follow it until my instincts tell me not to — and my instincts are usually right, even when they cause problems. DRules are for people who haven't thought hard enough about when to break them. EI try to follow it and mostly do — with a few memorable exceptions that still come up in meetings.

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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What's yours?

AEverything outside these walls — I've given this job my full attention and the rest of my life has gone around it. BMy idealism, mostly — I came in believing the system could be fixed and I've made a complicated peace with that. CStability — my personal life has been as chaotic as the OR, and that's not entirely a coincidence. DMy relationships — I am not easy to know, and the people who've tried to would probably agree. EMy sense of gravity — I use humour as a coping mechanism, which not everyone appreciates in a hospital.

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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.

AThe fact that it's real — that nothing else I could be doing would matter this much, right now, today. BThe patients — individual human beings who needed something and got it because I was there. CThe people I work with — I have walked through impossible things with these people and I'd do it again. DThe next unsolved case — there's always another puzzle, and I'm not done yet. EBecause despite everything — the exhaustion, the loss, the absurdity — I actually love this job.

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Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…

Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.

The Pitt

You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn't let you look away.

You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You've made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.

You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.

You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.

Grey's Anatomy

You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.

You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It's messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.

House

You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn't fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.

You're not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you'd deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they're smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.

Scrubs

You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.

You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that's not a flaw, it's a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.

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Because Jackie seems so put-together, it would surprise her patients and everyone close to her to know that she's actually secretly battling a serious prescription pill addiction. Nurse Jackie effectively shows the harsh reality of addiction, and the (often immoral) lengths Jackie is willing to go to procure her next fix make her the ultimate anti-hero. As the seasons progress, Jackie's life unravels spectacularly, and the ripple effects of her addiction and her employment in a stressful, high-stakes environment make the series completely captivating.

'Nurse Jackie' Is an Intensely Thrilling Ride From Start to Finish

By bypassing House's predictable formula, Nurse Jackie feels like a heart-racing, addictive ride in and of itself. There are plenty of interesting medical cases that Jackie helps treat, which offer a steady stream of intriguing characters. But aside from the ER setting, Nurse Jackie thrives because its characters are so riveting. We're often focused on Jackie and the trials she's going through, but other characters are equally compelling. The relationships Jackie has with both her oft-beleaguered husband, Kevin (Dominic Fumusa), and the pharmacist she's having an affair with (Paul Schulze) crackle with intensity and drama. Jackie's friendships are also impacted by her addiction, but the chemistry she has with her glamorous and supportive best friend, Dr. Eleanor O'Hara (Eve Best), and with the irascible hospital administrator, Gloria Akalitus (Anna Deavere Smith), allows the show to have some witty, dark humor thrown in among the chaos.

Nurse Jackie works with a unique and fun blend of comedy and drama. It's a difficult tone to pull off for some actors, but for the cast of this series, the switch between a variety of different emotions feels effortless. Falco proved that her work in The Sopranos wasn't a fluke with her astonishing turn as Jackie. Although she was nominated five times for Emmys for this role, she surprisingly only took home one statue in 2010. The show could never have been successful without Falco's masterful talent. But luckily, Falco had plenty of talented actors to play off of. The true scene-stealer is Wever, who really used this breakout role to make a name for herself. She also won an Emmy in 2013 for her work as the silly, yet loyal Zoey. Several other impressive actors appeared throughout the show's run, including Peter Facinelli, Bobby Cannavale, Betty Gilpin, and Tony Shalhoub.

As one of the best medical series ever made, the series won five Emmys and was nominated for a total of 24. Fans were excited when a reboot of the series from Prime Video was announced in 2023. However, there has been no news on production since then, and Falco noted in an interview with Elle in March that "it's probably not happening." We're still holding out hope that this brilliant show will return to our screens. You have a bit more time to binge it before it exits Netflix this month, so don't delay watching this incredible series that leaves House far in its wake.

Nurse Jackie is available to stream on Netflix or to rent or buy on Prime Video or Apple TV in the U.S.