So I thought I could resume why Brilliant Minds is good in his own right and not at all comparable to House and why you all should give it a chance : (there will be spoilers)

- Brilliant minds have a main character who is gay and has his coming out story presented in flashback from when he was a teenager/young adult. (And yes he's a nice doctor, I know, shocking...)

- the same gay character have a medical condition who is talked about and accepted by the other characters and he's also very intelligent

- every episode we see the personal past life of the main character through flashbacks and they are so beautifully filmed and play on sound and colours and we really can feel what the main character felt, it's really well written and acted.

- the main characters have some interns, yes like a lot of medical shows. It's pretty normal because it's also like that irl. Anyway, those interns all have a well rich history and BM play on presenting them in the first episode as some stereotypes but then develop the characters and we see they're in fact rich and complex characters. One of them is also a queer woman so yeah this show has more than one main queer characters !

- the main character has a best friend who he's known for decades who is a black woman who is a successful and good psychiatrist.

- this woman has such a good storyline for her during the season. She was cheated on by her husband and they're now separated etc... yes, maybe it's not a new concept etc... but she don't want to forgive the infidelity and the story always say that the husband was 100% at fault, I can't remember the last time I saw a cheating story where the woman cheated on said all that I wanted her to say. And let me tell you, without spoilers, the story goes wild and it's really good to see such a good actress play this storyline.

- the main character works for his mom and let's just say their relationship is interesting to say the last. Like all the other characters, the mom is not just a mom. She's also a successful, intelligent and powerful woman who is in charge of a hospital. Her personal story is wild. Her past love life and how she was as doctor, etc... would want so much more of her, don't want to spoil too much, but her approach of her son, his intelligence, his gayness etc... that we can see in the flashback is so interesting and so well done by the writers but also the different actors and especially the actress playing the mom.

- the show also develops the relationship between the main character and his dad. I know maybe cliche but not how it's written in brilliant minds. It talks about the dad's mental issues, his death/disappearance and how it affected the main character. Frankly I saw a lot of "mom had mental issues but I loved her" in other shows, can't remember the last time it was the dad so that's pretty new and refreshing for me. The actor is really good and we can feel the bond between the main character and his dad really well.

- the main character has a love story with another gay man also doctor in the same hospital and they have adult conversations and resolutions about their relationship, it's just nice to see queer older characters acting and talking about their relationship like adults.

- so now for the different medical cases, yes it's a one case/episode kind of show, not always, sometimes we have two, but yeah like a lot of shows it's like that. But the way the cases are approached, talked about and especially FILMED is something I've never seen before. The cinematography is insane. The show plays with colours and sound and the scene from the cases that explains how and why the patient is sick could be cut and put together and we would have a beautiful short movie. If you like movie's scenes where it tries to recreate wild and weird dreams then you will LOVE Brilliant minds !

- the patients are not miraculously in perfect health at the end of the episodes. Every case explains why and how the patient is going to live with his sickness, the doctors are here to help the patient know their medical condition and help them adjust to it. It's really interesting and also refreshing, I've never seen that in a medical show.

And in 10 episodes, we already had 2 queer patients, even one with an episode centered around his queerness in a way, and how it relates to the main character's own story, so the show really isn't afraid to write queer stories and characters.

Anyway, I'm gonna stop here, hope I didn't forget something but yeah I don't really understand the comparison with House in any way. Because yes, one could say it's an intelligent doctor having patients and interns, but it's literally what is real life. Real Doctors can be intelligent and have patients and interns. It's like if we begin to compare every cop show or every lawyer show ? It's weird to me, yes, house and brilliant minds are both medical shows but brilliant minds have queer characters (and not just one...) and one of them is literally the main character, the show has flashbacks scenes, the show has a diverse cast who each have deep and rich and complex personal history, sometimes I feel like the show is more on the fantasy/science fiction side than the medical side because of how beautifully the cases are filmed. So no I don't think it can compare to House, be it by the characters, the cases or the way the show is filmed.

Be it that you loved House or hated it, for all those points, I really think you should give Brilliant minds a try 😉