@PaugusSpdragoo@monsterhunter45 It's a question of degree. The best shows make you forget the template. But you can't suspend disbelief enough to believe that House is going to help the patient in any way before the very end of the episode.
@TheCriticalDri2 She's right, though. Every show is fail, fail, succeed. The doctors are completely clueless for the first three quarters of the show then suddenly become geniuses and solve the case.
Yes, I know it's a procedural. No, not all procedurals are this rigid. See also: Mentalist, The.