‘You see it not coming’

Note: This article contains spoilers from “Watson” episode 1.

In the first paragraph of “Watson, “ which premiered Sunday night at CBS, we meet Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut), who in turn focuses on his medical career after losing partner Sherlock Holmes. We don’t see who plays Moriarty at first … until the end of the section where we meet an actor who is widely known for the sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat” and a FBI agent in Marvel Cinematic Universe .

TheWrap talked to Chestnut about the surprising disclosure and why he all goes in for the casting, as well as how Watson struggles with his own perceptions after surviving a traumatic head injury. Can he at all trust his own memories of the fateful night when Holmes died?

TheWrap: There is an ongoing bow with Moriarty, which has survived the accident that killed (or probably killed) Holmes. I was surprised to see Randall Park playing your arch enemy.

Morris Chestnut: I love the casting. First of all, Randall is a fantastic guy. I love working with Randall, but I love the casting, because you don’t see it coming. You don’t think of Randall Park as this character, but he is so good at being a villain and you will see the nature of his intimidation during the season, of his strategic planning of evil against sherlock and others is so good the game.

How do you describe the series to friends and family?

It is a modern tale of Sherlock Holmes mythology told from Watson’s perspective. It opens up after Sherlock’s death: He has given Watson a clinic to resolve medical mysteries. It has a very strong investigative backbone, because we not only solve the mysteries inside the hospital, we also go outside as detectives to gather the information to solve the medical mysteries. So we are doctors in the hospital and detectives outside the hospital. So we are doctectives.

Watson has collected a talented team of medical professionals for these cases, but they are all a bit skeptical of each other and perhaps also to Watson.

Yes. They are quick to question and try to find out things including each other,

Some of them suspect Watson hired them as part of his own genetic research. The twins (both played by Peter Mark Kendall? worry about being part of an experiment.

I definitely think they do. You will see very interesting things about each of them during the season that everyone comes into play.

What is your favorite part of the show so far?

I love working with the role crew. I love that the character has to figure out his life. Watson is probably the wisest person in any room without sherlock nearby, and he believes he can find out anything.

He brings together his life again. He handles the loss of his relationship with his wife and he does all that with a traumatic brain injury. It affects his thoughts. It affects how he reacts. So things are a real challenge. A man who was sure and sure who he was and what he’s doing now has to guess things. He is wise and he knows how to help people save lives, but his personal life is ruined and he can’t figure out how to put it back together.

So he himself is like his own experiment? He tries to find out the right medicine, for example.

Yes, he also tries to figure it out and he is not aware of what is happening around him.

He has some empty memories from the night when Holmes died. So I imagine some pieces can come back to him.

Yes, a lot. Some things come back to him and some of the things come to him that probably didn’t happen.

Oh, so you say he has fake memories.

Possibly. Yes, it will be difficult when it is your own head. You are not sure if you can trust yourself exactly. In addition to dealing with a traumatic brain injury, he has to do with medicine that he should not take. And why does he take them, who gives him this medicine and how deeply do they affect him? You will see all that.

New episodes of “Watson” premieres at CBS in its normal Sunday night-time space, which begins on February 16. Episodes are also streamed the next day at Paramount+.

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