A brand new recreation is afoot on this modern-day medical thriller drama. Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut), the onetime companion of the well-known Sherlock, is grieving the sleuth’s latest homicide by the hands of his nemesis Moriarty. Watson dives right into a distracting and intriguing new gig, treating uncommon ailments on the Holmes Clinic with the assistance of 4 quirky beginner docs.
“We’re not simply medical doctors. We’re not simply detectives. We’re ‘doc-tectives,’” says Chestnut, who’s performed loads of MDs together with the titular Miami pathologist on Rosewood (Fox, 2015-17). “That’s the place our present is completely different than quite a lot of primarily straight-line medical dramas or straight-line detective dramas. It’s a mixture of each.” It’s additionally a thriller. Little does Watson know, Moriarty is lurking close by and has his sights set on the doc.
Beneath, Watson‘s Chestnut clues us in.
What makes Watson tick?
Morris Chestnut: Watson genuinely needs to see his sufferers get higher. What excites him greater than something is fixing a thriller. He can’t take [anyone] at face worth. He’s at all times choosing out one thing intriguing. However he had a traumatic mind harm [sustained trying to save Holmes] and he’s being affected by his treatment. He can’t belief everybody round him.
Had been you a fan of the Sherlock Holmes books and novels by Arthur Conan Doyle?
I used to be. Craig Sweeny, the showrunner and creator [who also created the Sherlock-verse series Elementary] is properly learn within the mythology. I learn a few tales years in the past previous to this and have seen motion pictures and TV initiatives. Understanding the motivations of the characters within the story actually helped me in my method to sure scenes with sure characters. [What I took away] was primarily a research of their relationship. Watson is sensible and noticed Sherlock as somebody larger than him. He needed to be taught from him, be like him.
The premiere contains a case of probably deadly insomnia. Are the medical mysteries actual?
The science is 100% actual. Each time I’d decide up a script, I used to be like, this will’t be true. The case of the hand that moved by itself? The present’s medical marketing consultant says he can’t go to the seashore or stroll down the road [without] his thoughts racing [diagnosing people].
Medical director Mary Watson (S.W.A.T.’s Rochelle Aytes), says, “You’ll be able to see into individuals’s our bodies and their souls,” however she’s nonetheless executed with their marriage. Why?
What’s going to be revealed all through the course of the season is when Watson left [to work with Holmes in London], he left Mary in a really unhealthy state of affairs however didn’t understand it. He loves this girl and needs her again.
What is going to it take to outwit the lethal Moriarty, who will quickly present his face?
Moriarty has affect over many individuals for a lot of causes. He [can] be locations and contact individuals near Watson when he isn’t essentially in entrance of them — the medical doctors, [his aide] Shinwell Johnson [Ritchie Coster], even Mary. Moriarty makes Watson take a look at everybody and every part in a different way – there may be one significantly that Watson has to be careful for.
Watson, Sequence Premiere, Sunday, January 26, 10/9c (after AFC Championship Sport), CBS (Common Time Interval, Sunday, February 16, 10/9c)