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Mixed:
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Critic Reviews
Jan 27, 2025
Jan 23, 2025
Season 1 Review:
As a free-standing medical mystery series, it has promise. There is quite a bit of nonsense at the outset. .... But for all the tortured setup, the cases addressed by Watson and his team of upstart fellows at the freshly minted Holmes Institute are off the charts, so to speak.
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The GuardianFeb 17, 2026
Jan 23, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s an OK show. It’s a regular show. It epitomizes what you think of when you think of generic network television. This isn’t to say it doesn’t have its charms, Chestnut chief among them. It’s predictable, comfortable, not particularly challenging. .... It’s not going to make you forget the brilliant “Sherlock” or anything, but it’s enjoyable.
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ColliderJan 23, 2025
Season 1 Review:
While Watson does suffer from how its ensemble is written — partly as a consequence of the narrative being set in the middle of some of these characters' arcs — Morris Chestnut is both a brilliant Dr. Watson and a solid lead. Both he and Aytes’ Dr. Morstan prove to be the most well-written and intriguing characters within the cast.
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TV Guide MagazineFeb 12, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Their cases are generally compelling, though mystery fans will likely be far more fixated by the ongoing threat from archvillain Moriarty. .... If only Sherlock was still around. [10 Feb - 2 Mar 2025, p.4]
Jan 23, 2025
Jan 27, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The one thing it is certain of is that it means to be a show you turn to because it’s satisfying to watch a smart, noble man solve puzzles and save the day, not because you’re expecting any gritty resemblance to the real world. Such escapism can have its pleasures. But it usually works better when the world we’re escaping to feels more consistently interesting than the one we’re leaving.
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Feb 12, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Chestnut has considerable screen charisma, but he can’t overcome the weak scripts. “The game’s afoot. We have a new case. Who wants to amaze us with their insights?” he says to his team, and it’s strangely perfunctory and underwhelming. As Sherlock would say: “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself.”
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Jan 27, 2025
Season 1 Review:
I expected formulaic episodes, attractive doctors in scrubs and lab coats and plenty of ridiculous medical terms. I did not expect to be so bored. I did not expect to be so befuddled, either. "Watson" wins the award for the most tedious series of the year that I also can't stop thinking about due to its sheer oddity.
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