The brand new CBS medical drama Watson opens six months after the loss of life of Sherlock Holmes by the hands of James Moriarty, as Morris Chestnut’s Dr. John Watson, Holmes’ associate in crime-solving, resumes his medical profession as the pinnacle of a clinic treating uncommon issues. The logline provides, nonetheless, that Watson’s outdated life “isn’t finished with him,” since he and Moriarty are “set to put in writing their very own chapter of a narrative that has fascinated audiences for greater than a century.”
Talking of Watson’s outdated life, how a lot you wanna wager Sherlock Holmes isn’t really lifeless on this new adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective tales? We’re so sure that twist is coming that we’re already dream-casting the position of the consulting detective.
In a Watson sneak peek shared by TVLine, Watson wakes up in a hospital and meets Shinwell Johnson (Ritchie Coster) — one other character from Conan Doyle’s tales — who reveals Watson suffered a traumatic mind harm as he leapt over a waterfall in pursuit of James Moriarty and “Mr. Holmes.”
So we all know Holmes is male on this story, however we don’t know a lot else. We solely see the detective from a distance within the Watson trailer and thus can’t make certain he’s the tall, pale, black-haired, gray-eyed man from the books. And so we’re casting a large internet within the dream-casting under!