Watson: Season 1

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CBS | Season Premiere Date: January 26, 2025

Summary: Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) returns to medicine after Sherlock Holmes is killed by Moriarty in the medical drama from Elementary executive producer Craig Sweeny.

Genre(s): Drama

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Keith Phipps

Jan 23, 2025

Watson uses both time-tested characters and a familiar model, but the show itself never seems tired or overly familiar. Read full review

John Anderson

Jan 23, 2025

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. Read full review

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Jan 23, 2025

“Watson” is somewhat lackluster as a Sherlock Holmes remix. It’s a predictable problem when you remove Holmes from the equation. Read full review

Rob Owen

Jan 27, 2025

The medical case in the premiere is pretty dense and sometimes hard to follow but future episodes are more streamlined. Still, it’s not a show you can multitask through and completely grasp what is going on in the medical cases. Read full review

Samantha Nelson

Jan 23, 2025

The show has some decent humor, too, courtesy of a sketchy biohacker friend of Watson. But it’s unlikely that Watson will achieve the success of House. That said, if it takes some more risks as the season goes on, it could at least provide some engaging comfort TV. Read full review

Nina Metz

Feb 12, 2025

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.” Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nandini Balial

Jan 24, 2025

There is no point to CBS’s utterly stale procedural “Watson.” It thinks it’s clever but isn’t. The writing is in shambles. The original score possesses all the depth and nuance of a toddler’s tiny electronic keyboard going boop-boop-boop. Read full review

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  Air Date: October 13, 2025
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  Air Date: January 26, 2025
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