‘Watson’ Creator On Premiere Twist & Moriarty Casting Reveal, Sherlock Easter Eggs & ‘House’ Comparisons
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: The story includes details from the series premiere of CBS’ drama series Watson. Five and a half years after the end of Elementary, CBS is returning to the world of Arthur Conan Doyle with Watson, which debuted tonight after the AFC Championship game.
The premiere of the medical drama, which stars Morris Chestnut as the eponymous Sherlock sidekick who leads a team of young doctors in solving medical mysteries, was bookmarked by two scenes right out of the Holmes canon.
It kicked off at Switzerland’s Reichenbach Falls where Holmes and Moriarty fall to their deaths before Watson could come to his friend’s aid in Conan Doyle’s The Final Problem.
While the mystery author eventually revived Holmes, in Watson, it is Moriarty who survives. In the final minutes of the premiere, Randall Park is revealed to be playing the infamous villain as he gets a case of samples from an associate of Holmes and Watson’s, Shinwell Johnson.
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