Medical Drama

Watson – The Man with the Glowing Chest

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  • Title: Watson – The Man with the Glowing Chest
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While the title of the episode refers to a geneticist friend of Watson (Morris Chestnut), the patient (Brittany Adebumola) in the episode suffering from multiples issues stemming for sickle cell anemia allows Watson to play with the concept of what doctors should and shouldn’t do to save their patient. Putting his career on the line, while attempting to hide what he’s doing from the team, Watson performs an unapproved medical procedure which saves his patient’s life leaving the team, and his ex-wife, to face the ramifications.

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Doctor Odyssey – Shark Attack!

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  • Title: Doctor Odyssey – Shark Attack!
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Doctor Odyssey returns from its mid-season break with “Shark Attack!” featuring the cruise ship’s first mate (Marcus Emanuel Mitchell) getting attacked by sharks and, while racing to get him to port, rescuing another small group of survivors also the victims of a shark attack. There’s plenty of emergency surgery here and out-of-the-box thinking in terms of the limited resources aboard the ship keeping their patients alive. Things only get worse at the end of the episode when the ship is attacked leaving it stranded and surrounded by a group of Orca whales. I would expect more ingenuity from the crew to make it through next week’s episode.

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Watson – Patient Question Mark

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  • Title: Watson – Patient Question Mark
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Although we get threads involving Watson (Morris Chestnut) and Shinwell (Ritchie Coster) doing more odd jobs for Moriarty (Randall Park), the less effective aspects of the show are mostly kept on the backburner in “Patient Question Mark” in which Watson’s team searches out the family of Sasha’s (Inga Schlingmann) medical school cadaver to screen them for possible cancer. The journey will lead the group to Amish country, save the life of a young boy, and reunite a single mother with a larger family. Although not shown much on-screen, the trip also brings back memories for Watson and better days in his relationship with Mary (Rochelle Aytes).

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Watson – Redcoat / Wait for the Punchline

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  • Title: Watson – Redcoat / Wait for the Punchline
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The pilot episode of Watson was pretty rough. The next two in which Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) helps a man believing himself to be a colonial British soldier (Damian O’Hare) after being shot in the head and a stand-up comedian who collapses from a hereditary condition, all while the minions of Moriarty (Randall Park) work through Watson’s friend to screw with the good doctor, does show some improvement. The Moriarty segments involving Shinwell Johnson (Ritchie Coster) remain incredibly awkward, and Watson’s team of doctors still hasn’t quite clicked although Ingrid (Eve Harlow) and Sasha (Inga Schlingmann) both get some nice moments over the two episodes, although I’m still not interested in any of their personal lives (I’m already tired of Watson’s as well).

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Watson – Watson

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  • Title: Watson – Watson
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Something akin to House with Sherlock Holmes trappings, the opening episode of Watson gives us Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) starting up a cutting-edge clinic six-months after the deaths of Holmes and Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. The case of the week involves a pregnant woman (Anjelica Bette Fellini) believed to have a genetic disorder that will soon kill her, although Watson and his team begin to investigate alternatives as the episode runs through various false diagnoses before finding the true cause of her symptoms. Along the way we also get glimpses of Watson’s troubled relationship with his ex (Rochelle Aytes) who he abandoned to help Holmes on a final adventure that only Watson returned from.

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