SummaryDr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) returns to medicine after Sherlock Holmes is killed by Moriarty in the medical drama from Elementary executive producer Craig Sweeny.
Created By:Craig Sweeny
Watson
Season 1 Premiere:
Jan 26, 2025
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54
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4.3
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16% Positive
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Jan 23, 2025
71
Watson uses both time-tested characters and a familiar model, but the show itself never seems tired or overly familiar.
Feb 17, 2026
60
The uneasy mix of medical drama and Holmes worship is set to continue. Perhaps it was unreasonable to hope a show in the Sherlock universe might tick off every other main character and ignore the man himself … but it was nice while it lasted.
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37% Positive
13 Ratings
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20 Ratings
20 Ratings
Apr 14, 2025
3
I find the show to be boring,. And Watson's manner of speaking, without inflection, doesn't help the boring thing.
Feb 3, 2025
3
Really wasn't an enjoyable Sherlock Holmes spinoff. Watson, here, seems to be a wannabe Sherlock and it doesn't fit. Too much certainty when wrong until finally they've eliminated the options. Everything in this show seems too random. Our view is: "skip it for some older shows."
Jan 23, 2025
60
While Watson does suffer from how its ensemble is written — partly as a consequence of the narrative being set in the middle of some of these characters' arcs — Morris Chestnut is both a brilliant Dr. Watson and a solid lead. Both he and Aytes’ Dr. Morstan prove to be the most well-written and intriguing characters within the cast.
Jan 27, 2025
58
The medical case in the premiere is pretty dense and sometimes hard to follow but future episodes are more streamlined. Still, it’s not a show you can multitask through and completely grasp what is going on in the medical cases.
Jan 23, 2025
50
The show has some decent humor, too, courtesy of a sketchy biohacker friend of Watson. But it’s unlikely that Watson will achieve the success of House. That said, if it takes some more risks as the season goes on, it could at least provide some engaging comfort TV.
Feb 12, 2025
37
Chestnut has considerable screen charisma, but he can’t overcome the weak scripts. “The game’s afoot. We have a new case. Who wants to amaze us with their insights?” he says to his team, and it’s strangely perfunctory and underwhelming. As Sherlock would say: “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself.”
Jan 24, 2025
10
There is no point to CBS’s utterly stale procedural “Watson.” It thinks it’s clever but isn’t. The writing is in shambles. The original score possesses all the depth and nuance of a toddler’s tiny electronic keyboard going boop-boop-boop.
Jan 29, 2025
3
Morris Chestnut was never a great actor. This laughable super genius premise is so very, very tired. My advice? Watch house instead.
Feb 8, 2025
2
What Elementary did right this show does wrong. CBS has already done a reboot of Sherlock holmes with Elementary, and instead of using the new character of Watson, they once again decided the need to reboot once more. Instead of feeling of be able to watch an relax, I felt like I was a kid once more forced to chores by watching the first episode. It fails at being related to Sherlock Holmes with in the first few minutes of the episode and by the end, you see that they are trying to recreate the success of both Elementary while also trying to be House with bad acting and bad writing. 2/10.
Feb 18, 2025
0
Not very good same concept as the old show house just different character. **** watching.Anymore.Morris. Chestnut . Can do better
