Watson

I prefer to watch an entire season before giving a review but as I won't be watching any more of this, I figured I'd just go ahead and fire away.

I'm not exactly sure what happened in the pilot but I'm sure I didn't like it. I'm a Sherlock Holmes maniac, which is largely irrelevant here because if the premise and execution of this show has anything to do with Holmes then I missed it.

There are a lot of problems here; not the least of which is that it's not a Sherlock Holmes detective show. It's a medical show that borrows heavily from, as I'm sure you've read from all the other reviews, House.

It's incredibly disappointing. The idea of the solid, discreet companion that is Watson having his own show is intriguing, to say the least. Too bad it's not that Watson. It's an arrogant, overbearing, rude, and cruel Watson. Almost every character trait the antithesis of the stories and novels. Sigh.

They throw in a nod to Sherlock Holmes here and there with deductive reasoning, at which Watson was never very good in the original stories and novels.

Let me talk about the other characters. They sure are pretty. Do I believe any one of them as top physicians in their fields? Not for a second. There is just no way. My immersion is gone every time one of the models opens her or his mouth to fast talk medical terms.

Fast talking. Oh boy, if you like fast talking, this is your show. It's rapid fire big medical terms from everyone. I'm not a doctor but I'm reasonably intelligent, and I could not keep up. I lost the thread mid-sentence multiple times.

The sets. Over The Top. That medical facility looks like something from a James Bond evil villain hideout.

The costumes. Over The Top. The Gucci lab coats. The scoop tops showing off impressive decolletage, not that I'm complaining mind you.

Then there is the exposition. Lots of it. How did you figure that out? I did things off screen.

Watson's sidekick? Maybe that was explained at some point, but I sure missed it. Who is he? Why is he? What is he?

Finally, the ending. Sigh. No build-up, no foreshadowing, just, hey, look who's here.

I'm incredibly disappointed in this mess. What a shame with what is clearly a big budget.

Oh well.

I like it better the first time when it was called House M. D. I mean it's not that it has some resemblance, it is an outright copy. It's as if someone decided he wanted to make a 2020 version of House, and when he couldn't get permission to do it he figured he could do it without anyone noticing by making it a conglomerated kludge by taking on the Sherlock Holmes mystique. Well, you ain't fooling anybody. As every moment passes while I write this (on my IPad, a tedious job that it is) I see more and more moments of House. I even expect they'll start using old scripts from that show.

It's a good thing you're not ripping off Harlan Ellison - you'd be in a heap of trouble (just ask James Cameron about The Terminator). Wait - come to think about it he passed away a while back. Never mind. Oh, and talk about plagiarism, I did shamelessly ripped off David Spade's schtick. I'm sure he doesn't mind.

The ending, though, does offer some intrigue about the future. And that guy - wasn't he the one who played the FBI Agent in the MCU?

It was called Rosewood. Minus the beauty woman detective and the badass classic car. Only other difference is he's working with live people instead of working with the dead. Both shows he goes against what everyone else thinks. He physically and mentally has issues that he doesn't want others to know about. And he's surrounded by young people whom he sees potentially in but wants them to dig deeper. As far as the Sherlock Holmes theme goes we will have to see how that unfolds. If it wasn't for the ending of the first episode I probably wouldn't continue watching but it has me a little bit curious.

I love, love, love Morris Chestnut but this show is overly dramatic and boring. I'm not sure who this show is for. As a medical professional it's just a silly show trying to be smart. Watson is a halfway interesting character, but the rest of his physician crew are stereotypical smarties with bad attitudes. I really wish they had made the series more like Bones. With smart people really wanting to find the answer to a medical problem to benefit normal people or to help people who don't have access to such care.

Of course, at the conclusion they had to throw in their overarching mystery. By that time, I didn't care.

It is impossible not to compare to House since it is basically same story, only with less interesting characters and a Sherlock premise that quickly becomes irrelevant to the series.

I readily admit i only watched to half way of 1st episode, and normally i would say at least watch 2-3 episodes before jumping to conclusions, however half an episode in my case at least was enough to know i am not going to be interested in the characters,the storylines, or any half baked Sherlock references they may dream up.

If house had never existed as a series am pretty sure i would give this one 2-3 episodes, or may even have stuckk with it a series or more, but fact is House series does exist, and the same premise of super smart diagnostic medicine solving problems that should never in reality exist within the lifetime of one person let alone weekly, assisted by teenesque helpers who find clues same way Houses team used to, is not going to be interesting enough to keep me interested when have already watched all series of House doing it much better and with more interesting characters and plots. (I would guess some of the plots will be identical to House ones, there are only so many rare symptoms and deseases after all) Make up your own minds of course,but if liked House, i would be surprised if decided to watch a worse version of it with more boring characters.