Proper now, two episodes into Watson, there are a few issues that the titular doc doesn’t know. Morris Chestnut‘s model of Dr. John Watson, in CBS’s modern-day tackle the long-lasting Arthur Conan Doyle characters, has no concept that the villain, Moriarty (Randall Park), who was chargeable for the loss of life (however is he actually lifeless?) of his good friend and sleuth Sherlock Holmes, continues to be alive. He additionally doesn’t know that he has somebody near him, Shinwell Johnson (Ritchie Coster), working for him. Plus, he doesn’t know that his ex-wife, Dr. Mary Morstan (Rochelle Aytes), is hiding one thing from him.
Forward of the sequence premiere, Chestnut instructed us that when Watson left and joined Sherlock in London, “he left Mary in a really unhealthy scenario however didn’t notice it.” Since then, when speaking to Chestnut, Aytes, and government producer Craig Sweeny for TV Insider’s digital cowl story main as much as the second episode, we’ve gotten a number of extra particulars.
“There’s one thing that she is aware of that he doesn’t, that occurred whereas he was over there, and in case you rewatch the pilot actually carefully and Rochelle’s efficiency, there’s a second the place you’ll be able to virtually take a guess at what it’s. I’m not going to say what it’s, however I’ll say it’s within the final act of the pilot. There’s one thing that she does in her efficiency there that basically hints at what’s to return in a method that I discovered actually spectacular as a viewer of her performing,” teases Sweeny.
“But it surely turns into a thriller for Watson to unfold. He realizes that there’s one thing he doesn’t know in a specific episode, and so he turns into type of obsessive about uncovering what that’s,” he continues. “It’s truly the identical episode the place he’s hallucinating the voice of Sherlock Holmes, our seventh episode, and he winds up coming to this very highly effective revelation about one thing he didn’t learn about their relationship on the finish of that episode.”
That secret that nobody else is aware of, provides Aytes, “explains lots and of why Mary has sort of moved on as a result of she’s simply been damage and he or she’s over it for now.” In any case, “Watson again and again has chosen Holmes over our relationship, and I feel Mary simply had had sufficient.”
Normally, there are layers to Watson and Mary’s relationship. Not solely are they exes (and sure, she’s in a brand new relationship, with a lady he doesn’t know), however she’s additionally his boss. Chestnut enjoys the “enjoyable” of that. “Typically Watson is aware of what he did was one thing that he can’t take again, and he’s actually remorseful for his habits in following Sherlock, however Mary doesn’t need to let him in,” he says. “So the enjoyable is making an attempt to get her to crack, making an attempt to get her to loosen up a little bit bit in relation to Watson and what he did with their marriage. And there are going to be a number of issues which might be revealed concerning the relationship in a while within the season that I feel will shock the viewers.”
There’s a “delicate steadiness,” as Sweeny places it, to their relationship now. “They’re not achieved with one another but,” he stresses. “They’re on this hesitant strategy of, who’re we now? Would possibly they see the qualities that made this relationship value preserving within the first place, and would possibly that tempt them to place issues in a unique context?”
It falls on Mary to “preserve that steadiness,” says Aytes. “She’s making an attempt to give attention to the work, and numerous the instances, Watson is bringing the non-public relationship stuff again in it.”
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Watson, Sundays, 9/8c, CBS