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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-28 (Tuesday)
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:56:49 -0500
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 09:54:25 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

>On 1/29/25 9:13 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>> On 1/29/2025 8:59 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> I watched:
>> 
>> Watson - New CBS show about Sherlock Holmes' partner Dr. Watson (Morris 
>> Chestnut).  Following Holmes' death Watson returns to the U.S. to run a 
>> medical clinic.  This show is basically "House" with Watson and his team 
>> of doctors taking on a weird medical case that stumps all the other 
>> doctors.  But Watson uses the deduction techniques he learned from 
>> Holmes to solve the cases.  The only thing that makes this show 
>> different than "House" is a spoiler I can't mention yet.

Yet it is a rather obvious sort of spoiler.

>That's disappointing - I assumed he'd be a doctor who solved 
>mysteries/crimes on the side. If this really is "House-redux", then I 
>can't say I am interested in it at all.

It's well written and acted but it is just a "House-redux" with a
nicer version of House.