Nothing But Netflix: Watson
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January 27, 2025
TLDR: Rob and Chappell discuss the new CBS medical drama, Watson

In this episode of Nothing But Netflix, Rob Sistrenino and Chappell delve into the new CBS medical drama Watson, which aired after the ASC Championship game on Paramount Plus. While the podcast typically focuses on Netflix content, the excitement surrounding Watson warranted special coverage. The hosts explore the intricacies of the show, the characters, and its ties to the iconic Sherlock Holmes universe.
Key Points Discussed
The Premise of Watson
- Setting and Plot: The show stars Morris Chestnut as Watson, who must navigate life after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes. Watson transitions from being the sidekick to solving medical mysteries as the main character.
- Medical Focus: Unlike traditional detective narratives, Watson focuses on medical investigations, utilizing Watson's background as a doctor. The show adopts a format similar to other popular medical dramas, engaging audiences in intriguing health-related mysteries.
Character Analysis
- Morris Chestnut as Watson: The character of Watson is reimagined to have a Sherlock-like intuition while maintaining his core identity as a doctor. This shift reflects a modern take on the character.
- Supporting Cast: The podcast discusses Watson's diverse team of specialists, including his neurologist, Dr. Darien, and the twins Croft, who contribute to the medical aspect of the show.
Sherlock Holmes Influence
- Connection to the Original Lore: The podcast emphasizes that Watson contains elements from Arthur Conan Doyle's works but ventures into a new narrative thread. The show explores what happens immediately after Sherlock's fall over a waterfall, hinting at potential revival and continued adventures.
- Webbed Ties to Popular Culture: The hosts debate the multitude of interpretations of Sherlock Holmes across various media, touching on how different adaptations have shaped public perception of the iconic detective.
Themes and Format
- Case of the Week Structure: The format of Watson includes a medical mystery each episode, similar to classic procedural dramas, relying on Watson's deductive reasoning to solve complex cases.
- Exploration of Family Dynamics: The podcast also highlights the personal drama in Watson's life, such as his broken marriage and strained relationships, which add depth and relatability to the character arc.
Noteworthy Medical Details
- Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI): A central storyline revolves around a woman suffering from a rare disorder, serving as a plot device to explore the intersection of medicine and mystery. This condition heightens the stakes and emphasizes the show's unique blend of genres.
- Character Interactions: Watson's interaction with his patients and their families emphasizes emotional storytelling, showcasing how medical dramas can evoke strong sentiments about family ties and loss.
Insights from the Episode
- Entertainment and Engagement: The hosts share their perspectives on Watson, noting the balance between engaging storytelling and procedural elements. They speculate on the future of the series and its potential for growth in the CBS lineup.
- Exploration of Modern Themes: They comment on how Watson approaches contemporary themes, such as mental health and familial issues, within the context of a modern procedural drama.
Final Thoughts
- Overall Reception: While Watson may not cater to all tastes, it presents an intriguing mix of medical drama and detective work, contributing to the wider landscape of the Sherlock Holmes legacy. The hosts express excitement about future episodes and how the show might evolve.
Conclusion
This episode of Nothing But Netflix provides listeners with a thorough exploration of Watson, capturing its blend of heart and ingenuity. By reimagining a beloved character in a contemporary setting, the show offers new stories while honoring its narrative roots in Sherlock Holmes lore. Whether you’re a fan of medical dramas, detective stories, or simply curious about innovative television, Watson offers something for everyone.
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I was flipping through the channels the other day But there was nothing good on another, nothing to play So I went to my computer and realized that there was so much content before my eyes But there's nothing the Netflix in my heart and on my screen There's always something that did I still haven't seen
Yeah, that's right. Nothing but Netflix is back for something that's actually not Netflix. Rob Sistrenino, and we have a big event that happened in television, the kickoff of a big brand new show, which is streaming on Paramount Plus. I'm not sure if we've done a Paramount Plus exclusive here on Nothing but Netflix, but we will today here with the guy who is, I mean,
Are we are we not unlike a Sherlock Holmes and Watson? Here he is ready for his star turn. It's Chappelle. Hey, yeah, I guess I guess you could be Sherlock Holmes, but like that would mean you wouldn't be here because Watson
We don't see him. He's not here. He dies in the, in the opening minutes of allegedly allegedly. We'll see. We'll see. But yeah, big event here on CBS and Paramount plus on Sunday night after the ASC championship game, the debut of the brand new series Watson starring Morris Chestnut. And so with a lot of hype and a lot of hoopla, we said,
nothing, you know, that we could jump in and cover on Netflix. I really, a couple of big things on Netflix coming up. The night agent returns, but it would be tough for Chappelle and I to jump in and start covering the night agent.
Yeah, because we missed the first season. Yeah, it really bothers me to now in retrospect, obviously, because it's like that's like people are actually talking about the night age. And then I was the best show on Netflix. And I was like, why didn't y'all tell us the best show back then? Y'all had us watching the other one. The other night. They were cool. Which is also going to be back soon.
Yeah, but no one's going up for the recruit that they're going to the night age. You know, I don't know. Maybe I'll binge it or whatever in the next, for season three, I'll catch you up on the night age. How about that? That sounds good. But honestly, I feel like with the recruit, when we watch season one of the recruit, I think it was two years ago. I don't even know it was one year ago. Thank God. Yeah. I don't know. I think it was the beginning of like 2023 when we watched the recruit.
See, that's not our fault. We had no clue that this was going to happen. I don't know. I know there was a strike and everything, but listen, you can't wait two years to give us 10 more episodes. Stop it. Right. We got to move on, baby. We got to keep this train on the tracks. We can't just slow down for the recruit or the night agent. We got to make sure that we're on top of the new stuff and Watson is brand new and I'm happy to talk about it.
How about this? How about a show? This is a format, okay? You got 10 episodes, okay? Put out one a month, okay? What do you think of that? What do you think of like a book club? Because we could cover a show if it came out like, instead of 10 episodes, drop them all at once. Put out a new episode every month. And then it's like, okay, now I gotta wait two months and then the next episode is here.
Well, it's funny that you mention that because there have been shows that have really stretched out their releases and then obviously the British shows are probably the best at this, right? They'll have one season of television. It'll be four episodes long, but every episode will be moving length.
And so I was like, you feel like you're, yeah, you're waiting a minute for the next episode, but you got a movie the first time, you know, you get, it's like, it's multiple episodes in a series. They released them sparingly, but you never away from them so long that you're like, I'm not going to have it. Now, the one caveat being Sherlock, but we'll get to that later on. But yeah, this would be better because it's something about dropping all the episodes, have me waiting three, four years for me, dropping all that once. And then I'm just like,
In one day, I'm done. I have nothing. You know, a squid game dropped and it was just like, damn, now I got old. It's gone. It's back. It's here for a minute. It's like, OK, now it's gone again.
Yeah. So I don't know. There's got to be a better way to do this. The weekly thing isn't really working for the podcasting. The one time drop thing isn't working. Like we got to figure this out. Streaming is really starting to get on my damn nerves. Okay. All right. So we're here to talk about Watson. Last week we talked about back in action with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz. You could hear that in the nothing but Netflix podcast feed. But today Watson, Chappelle, are you a Sherlock Holmes guy?
So I had an era where I was in on Sherlock Holmes. So I'm a Batman guy. And Batman is the greatest detective who ever lived, right?
But Sherlock Holmes is like Batman without the karate, you know, and then sometimes depending on the depending on which version of Sherlock you might actually get some of that. So yeah, there was a time where I dove deep into the waters of Arthur Doyle's Sherlock. And yeah, I'm very familiar. And so when you say we're talking about Watson, I was like, okay, cool. Cause I haven't watched anything Sherlock related since Netflix's Sherlock starting Benedict Cumberbatch years ago.
Okay, yeah, so when I was a kid, I feel like there was almost nothing Sherlock Holmes. Was there young Sherlock Holmes? Was that a thing?
Like young children. Yeah, I was young in the end of Jones. Yeah. Young Sherlock Holmes was like a movie, though. Was that over? I don't mean to be a TV show. Yeah, did that ever happen? Yeah. Okay. Yes. 1985. Yes. Okay. Well, I'm not crazy. 1985 had young Sherlock Holmes. It was a TV show or a movie, right? A movie directed by Barry Levinson as schoolboys.
Okay. Okay. So there was young Sherlock Holmes. All right. But really in the last 15 years, we've got Sherlock Holmes, more Sherlock Holmes than we know what to do with. Okay. There's in 2010, there is the BBC Sherlock Holmes, okay, with with Cumberbatch. Beth, listen, listen, if you haven't watched it,
They did the things, man. That's a good series. I loved it. I loved it so much. It was on Netflix. I don't know. I guess it aired on the BBC first, but when it came to Netflix, I was all in. Yeah. Okay. So that, that really started to bring Sherlock Holmes, but actually before that in 2009, there was no, yeah, there was Robert Downey Jr.
And Jude Law, as Watson, there was in 2009 Sherlock Holmes. And then in 2011, there was Sherlock Holmes colon, a game of shadows. So we were really kicking off the Sherlock Holmes era.
Yeah, I've seen all of those. Maybe I am a Sherlock Holmes guy, and I just didn't know it. To me, it's like, first of all, you might not know this, and I might be making this up. But I think he's the most depicted human fictional character of all time. I think non-human would be Dracula, but human?
It's Sherlock Holmes. There's so many depictions of him, so many different iterations of him. It's crazy. And so for you to say that, it's completely true. Sherlock Holmes is a character and a book series that will define the way, like, different book canons are looked at.
Right? So like, obviously you get the Sherlock Holmes books, but then once they end, people started to be like, hey, bro, I didn't get enough Sherlock Holmes. I'm gonna start writing my own Sherlock Holmes stories. And so they do so much to where the author, Sir Arthur Doyle, he goes and he says, like, bro, I gotta come back because everyone's demanding OG Sherlock, like information. So at that point, people start saying, well, is it canonical?
because in his version of Sherlock, that's not canon or this is not canon based on this. And so he really is the pioneer of the idea that you can have one character with so many different competing storylines and he didn't even wanna do it. He legit, right. This man raised the prices of his books. So basically it was to be like, no one's ever gonna pay for me to write these books anymore because I'm over it. I don't wanna do it. And people were like, nah, we'll throw all the money at you in the world.
He got rich off of a book he didn't even want to continue. Wow. Yeah. Isn't it crazy? Yeah. Okay. Well, it's still a big part of the media landscape. Chappelle. In 2012, a new show comes along. Okay. We've already got the BBC Sherlock Holmes. We already see Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in the movies, but now on CBS.
Johnny Lee Miller plays Sherlock Holmes alongside Lucy Liu. Oh, elementary. As Watson in elementary.
So I've been elementary. No, and I've never seen elementary. It's funny, because you brought you, like I was sitting here like, I'm not a Sherlock guy, but I remember distinctly being kind of like you at this point being like, this is a lie. We just did Sherlock Holmes. I just did. I think I was still probably at that point been like watching the Netflix, you know, BBC Sherlock, and then like obviously the RDJ two movies. I think I was burnt out by now on Sherlock Holmes. So I was like, no, I'm good on elementary, but I mean,
I kind of want to watch it. No, no, thank you. I think I got to go back in, man. I got to get back in. Okay. And then there was a 2021 Netflix series called the irregulars about the Baker Street crew. But here we are now with 20, 25s.
Watson, starring Morris Chestnut. And there is some shared DNA to elementary. It has the same showrunner as elementary, but it is not a spinoff. It is not the same shared universe.
Yeah, I've never seen elementary, but yeah, it can't be a spin-off because in elementary, Lucy Liu is Watson, correct? Yes. And so this would be, more chestnut would be Watson in this. So it's going to be a completely different universe. This universe, from what I can tell, is a continuation of the original canon, kind of.
I'm a spoiled Sherlock Holmes for people who don't feel like reading Victorian literature, I guess. Sherlock Holmes dies exactly how he dies in this show. We see him and a guy named Mortiari, they're on the edge of a waterfall, and then they fall over the waterfall, and then he dies, they both die.
basically. And then, as I said, we had to bring him back. So he becomes like one of the first characters that like, canonically died, but was brought back to life. Like, oh, he didn't really die. We didn't really see that. And so this feels like it's taking place right after those events, right? Right after he goes over and it's like, this is kind of like the continuation of that original, the final problem storyline where he goes over the waterfall. So what happens in the book that they ever explain what happens over the waterfall?
No, so he goes over the waterfall and I believe it ends at that point, right? And it's like, oh, he's never to be seen. But then when they bring him back for the next iteration, it's like, oh, you thought he died, but did you see the body? You know, it's kind of, they kind of pull one of those things. Or, and I think that's what they pull. I'd have to go back and reread it, but it does stop at the final problem. Uh, problem. And I think the waterfall is racking back falls. Uh, so I can back falls.
I think that's what it's called. Yeah. And so right back falls, it's like the scene of where this actually starts. So that's what your life is. Dumbest move ever.
going in the waterfall? Well, that's the thing. In the original, we're led to believe he dies, but then he's still alive. In this one, we're led to believe he's dead and he's still dead. So maybe this wasn't the smartest thing for him to do. Okay, so that's what we start off with seeing. And we see sort of just in the show, Watson, play by Mars Chestnut, is sort of like following the action that Holmes and Moriarty are by the waterfall. We see that basically,
Mars Chestnut gets like some sort of like head injury. He goes over the waterfall too.
Yeah. So they go down into the water and then he dives into the water to save Sherlock Holmes because anything we know about Watson is you follow this man off a cliff or even off a waterfall. And so he goes after him to save him and he goes over to, I don't think Watson goes over the waterfall on the original canon. So, you know, not that that matters, but I think this is where we start to deviate the plot a little bit more. Okay. But now you're thinking like, okay, I'm watching the show called Watson. Okay. We're based in the Sherlock Holmes universe. All right.
It, this is a detective show. I'm watching, I'm going to watch a detective show, case of the week. He's now, okay, maybe Sherlock Holmes out of the picture, but this is all about Watson solving crimes. No. No. That's not what the show is.
No, he's solving mysteries, but like medical mysteries, you know? It's like, at the end of this episode, his wife, who we'll get to, she says something like, ever since like, it's something about that last time you spent with Sherlock Holmes, you're starting to really like, I can tell even in the way you doctor it's different now, you're giving very Sherlock Holmes. And I think that anybody who's read Sherlock or familiar with the past, like, like different adaptations will tell you that this is not the one
that you normally get. You normally get like the lovable, like he's like the more human lovable character that people latch on to Sherlock's more cerebral, Terran Armstrong type, right? And so, but now we're getting kind of like this mix where Watson is a doctor, but he's got strong Sherlock energy. And so he's using all his deductive reasoning, all his logical reasoning. And even some of Sherlock Holmes's catchphrases to make sure that he can solve the medical mystery
of the week. It's a giving a house. Yes. That's almost exactly what's and I wasn't a house guy. I do think that Hugh Laurie and Benedict Cumberbatch like I think you could you could have seen like an alternate universe where Hugh Laurie could have been Sherlock Holmes.
Yeah, you know, there was often a universe where Batman and Sherlock met, you know? Oh, yeah. So, yeah. So we can definitely bring these detective powerhouses together. Bring them together. Yeah. So we're going to basically be solving like medical mysteries and, you know, Watson is going to, we're going to find out has his own like health issues that he is trying to work out. I mean, this seems more like this is a house spinoff than a Sherlock Holmes spinoff.
It's this is Sherlock Holmes, a Sherlock Holmes with a doctor named Watson, you know, because it's the same concept. It's just that we're so used to following Sherlock, the detective. John Watson is always a doctor in Sherlock Holmes. And so it makes total sense for him to be a doctor in this. But it's the detective reasoning, the logical reasoning that he's using, this idea that once you weed out all the information that doesn't make sense and then whatever's left makes it. So it's a whole thing. It's the Sherlock Holmes fallacy even.
He's now embodied all of that. And so, yeah, I think house might be something that's like, maybe was always a Sherlock Holmes bin offer we didn't know, you know? Like now it's starting to make sense. Yeah, yeah. It just blew our minds. And yeah, I mean, Sherlock Holmes and Watson, they're out here solving mysteries, but Chappelle, what's a greater mystery than the human condition?
Yeah, yeah, because there's so many different things that happen to the human body that science has gone. People, you would have dedicated their lives to science to figure it out. But then there's stuff that we don't know that we don't know. Things that happen, and everybody's like, I don't know what that is. Or that's possible, but it's probably improbable. And so, yeah, there's a ton of things to do. Grey's Anatomy is built on the medical mystery. They bring in people who have random, I don't know if they pull them from the news or if they just dive people
Pull out from the news, I think. Yeah, but they find these tiny news AF, like type of conditions, and then they make a whole episode of the show up behind it. It's like, yeah, sure, this could happen. Someone could die from the hiccups, but how often does that happen? It's like, in Grey's Anatomy, there's a whole storyline that will shape the way somebody has looked at as a character for a long time. And so this is not unheard of. I just wasn't, I was actually kind of surprised that this is the direction we went. Yeah.
I know you watch more of these medical procedure holes. You know, I just feel like that is this that novel of an idea? Like, I guess we sort of have like sort of like the big picture and maybe like serialized Sherlock Holmes, esque mystery of what happened to Sherlock Holmes. Where's Moriarty? But then I feel like that this show is a show that is going to be just a case of the week
medical procedural. Yeah, but Sherlock Holmes always works. As you can see, it's been done so many times and no one's like, you know, like, oh, you know, that last Sherlock was they just bringing another Sherlock Holmes. And so I think they just put another spin on it. Elementary, as you said, what was it, 2009, maybe when that 2012 2012 to me, it felt like it was on forever.
You know, and it's so I think that, yeah, this is another one of those, like you said, case of the weeks, but also because it's Sherlock Holmes adjacent, there can be a through line to a bigger mystery that we'll follow later on. I think Alex Cross that book series is doing the same thing with Cross on Netflix as well, where it's like, yeah, it's following the story of Alex Cross the detective.
But there's bigger, you know, there's, it's bigger than the little case of the week that he's following. There's like this overarching storyline that he has to get to the bottom of before we can end the series. Hold on, Chappelle. I don't want to get too much, you know, comments, fact-checking. I forgot to mention the Netflix films, Enola Holmes. Enola Holmes! Sherlock Holmes is sister Enola where Henry Cavill played Sherlock Holmes.
When we did Todum a couple years ago, they were like, and the thing you didn't watch and Nola Holmes is what you really, I was like, should I be watching Nola Holmes? I put a mental note in my head to watch Nola Holmes and I didn't. And so now you're right, that's the one. I think that's Netflix's Sherlock Holmes baby. And so they really turned over the reins here to watch it. Maybe there could be some Millie Bobby Brown.
Yeah, maybe that could be some joint universe here with the two of them. I don't know if Anola Holmes has a Watson, but you can get a new one. So we've talked about elementary where we had the gender-swapped Watson. We had Anola Holmes. We have now, okay, we're following a woman Sherlock Holmes, but Chappelle.
Is this a huge development in the Sherlock Holmes universe that we have our first black Sherlock Holmes swap in Watson? Is Watson woke? Is Sherlock woke now? Is that what's going on? Dear God, please don't let the voters find out. I don't know. I'm pretty sure the president said you got shut this kind of shit down. They made this a while ago.
Yeah, look, I don't know. I've never been familiar with a Black Watson in Sherlock Holmes lore. And I'm sure there. I mean, like I said, this man, it's been done so many times. Was this Sherlock Holmes Black? Oh, we don't know. We couldn't really get a good look.
Morty Ari ain't black, you know? Yeah. It's so, yeah. It's so, who knows? Who really knows? I think it's very fun. I think this doesn't take away from the lore. It doesn't take away from the story. It's just a different actor. It's okay. Sherlock Holmes is not a real person, y'all. Like, it'll be okay. Yeah. And neither is, and neither is Dr. John Watson. He's not a real person. He's done. It's okay. He could be black. Now, ooh, now there is a theory. Yeah.
So there was a time in literature where after, like, this is when the canon argument really starts because certain people started to think, is Sherlock Holmes real? Are these stories that Arthur Doyle is taking? Are they taken out of the news like a Grey's Anatomy, like a, like a, like a law and order SVU? Is he really right? Is he writing stories about actual mysteries that happened? Is Sherlock Holmes a real person? And the jury was out on that for a while, like, where people were like, I don't know, like,
It's maybe. And so there are a bunch of people who really wanted to stick to the original canon because they're like, no, these are real things that happen. I just can't prove it, but I just feel like it is. And there's like connective thread to other stories that we can tie this into. But then there were people who were like, this is made up, leave it a long go away. So I think for if you're at home shaking your fist, like, no, he's a real like, you have now been acknowledged. Don't get in the comments. Okay. Chibelle Watson takes place in Pittsburgh.
That's the backdrop for Watson. Yeah, which is crazy. Because like Charlotte Holmes in general is like taking place in London, like this sprawling city with like these dark shadowy corners and like, you know, I don't know. I don't know. Pittsburgh fine. Fine. As long as they don't undo what Bane did, I'm fine. All right.
So, elementary was set in New York. This is interesting. I guess, does Sherlock Holmes, like, would it work on the West Coast? Like, would Sherlock, would it work? Sherlock L.A. would be interested. I could see it. Do we need it to be in the Northeast for the Watson Holmes dynamic to work?
Yeah, I will see the thing is like with Sherlock Holmes and even Batman, you got London, you got Gotham. It's just like, again, these big cities with like these robots, but like very much like dark underbelly that you can probably point to. Pittsburgh be giving dark underbelly all over the time, you know, like all the time, like not even some time, but like always.
And so I was like, OK, maybe LA could give you that same energy. But here, it's still in the candidate. Watson was once in London. He's just come back home to Pittsburgh. So he's like, he's left Sherlock's universe there.
and come here even though he still kind of got one foot in London. I think that's what we're doing. We're playing defense here. Okay. Yeah. So the canon here is that Watson like went off to go like start like this bromance with Sherlock Holmes. He had like something missing. I don't know how he met Sherlock Holmes.
See, I thought they were saying that he went to London. He met Sherlock Holmes. They were locked in and then he came back home and Sherlock was like, no, I need you for one more. One, we got one more project and he's like, I gotta go. And his wife's like, no, no, don't go. Like stay here in Pittsburgh for me and the Steelers. And he's like, no, ladies, the Steelers suck. I'm leaving. And so he goes to London and then that's where they find themselves and they'll wrecking back falls and
fall they do. And so after suffering a traumatic brain injury, he survives, Sherlock doesn't, but now he's back at home in Pittsburgh and
His wife's like, uh, you can stay wherever you can. Yeah. But it didn't seem like when he has a conversation with his wife about this whole experience that her ex wife, um, separated wife separating. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So she felt, uh, did you hear about the astronaut who got divorced from his wife? No. What happened? He needed space. I love a Laffy Taffy joke. Thanks.
Yeah, but in all seriousness, okay, but it sounded like his wife was like, yeah, I wanted you to go. You're like, like, there was something like when you were hanging out with Charlotte, that I felt like there was something you needed for him. I thought it was a good thing, but then you were going for a while and then I kind of met somebody.
Yeah, she's like, and she doesn't do me like you did me. So okay, like we don't have to worry about that. Yeah, no, I think that she probably saw that when watching the Sherlocker together, you know, it's like a JT and Steve and ask, you know, you know, just like this, you just can't, you can't, you can't figure out what it is that makes it work, but it just works. It's just like these two people are powerful, similar to like a Batman and Robin. You see, I keep going back to my favorite detectives, but she was able to say like, no, go, go. You want to go, you clearly want to be over there.
You know, everything, every day you wake up talking to me, I want to be sure to like, do you want to be sure to like, call? Is Sherlock saying anything about me? It's like, go, go see what he wants. Now, she didn't know you were going to go over there and halfway die. She didn't know that was going to happen. So I think she finally said, let me just release myself from whatever this is that we're enjoying, because you're always going to want to get back to that old feeling that you have. And I can't be waiting up by the phone for you to get that awful call one day when you don't make it.
I want to talk about the case that Watson is working on here in the pilot of Watson that there's a woman. We see her. She's getting like a sonogram. She's like five months pregnant and we're seeing like she from her POV.
like faces are like melting and hallucinating. And then she like just runs off. I'm like, what is going on? Is this magic? Is she under a spell? She runs it. She actually gets hit by pregnant woman gets hit by a car.
Fine. They're fine. Least of her problems getting hit by a car. But she has a condition where she can't sleep. Chappelle, is this a syndrome that you can relate to?
Uh, no, no, no, see, I can sleep. I'm good at really taking naps. Like I'm, I'm good for like a seven to 12 minute nap. If I'm tired, if I start to like lose it, like, hey, I could really fall asleep in this conversation. But if you give me eight minutes, I'll be back in action. I call them appetizers.
You know, I'm really good at just like, boom, and then I'm bounced back. And cause that one nap will get me through like the next 10 hours. And so yeah, no, I don't have difficulty falling asleep. Cause when I want to sleep, I'm going to go to sleep. The problem is once I'm up, I be up. Now this, this is different. This idea been awake for several days, I think at this point. Yeah. And I've never heard about this syndrome. I've never heard it. Very, very much house, but fatal familial insomnia.
Yeah. FFI. They talk about it. I'm like, they make this up. Is this real? I looked it up, uh, cause it's progressive sleep disturbances and other senses that affect the nervous system in the brain. That's, it's a real thing.
Yeah. And basically they say in this episode, FFI, the fatal familial insomnia, it's like you get it from a relative and then it's like once you get it, that's it. It's over. You just never can go to sleep ever again and eventually your body is going to just deteriorate and you're done.
Yeah, the symptoms will start and then it will get worse and then it will get worse and then it will get worse until you die, right? And I don't know how common this is. I didn't get into all of that because when I watch these medical dramas and stuff, I don't really get into all of that because that's not for me, right?
wanted me to learn about medicine, this would not be how they were showing it to me. This is just a plot device that they can use to say, this lady's not falling asleep. And we need to know why, because they ruled out fatal familial insomnia very quickly in this thing. And this is very much industrial, our homes kind of model of just we have a mystery.
And then I'm going to go through each of the possibilities, right, to figure out what we can rule out and then whatever's left. We'll even see him say it. When you have eliminated them possible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth. So they start taking out all the stuff that's like, nope, that can't work. That can't work. That can't work. And then even if it sounds crazy, this must be the answer once we have everything left behind. No, you really know your Sherlock Holmes stuff.
It was a time. I had a time, okay? It was a time.
I also will say that Sherlock Holmes would probably hate that that's like a thing now because obviously like that's a cracked fallacy, right? Like it's like, I rule out all the impossible stuff. So whatever this last thing is, it kind of makes sense. It's like, no, that's not necessarily true. Like there are things that you don't know that you don't know. And Sherlock Holmes does not operate like that. He goes and finds the most minuscule, you know, like he's looking at dust, he's looking at fingerprints, he's looking at all the tiny things to really decide like, okay,
Now I have everything that I need to know. I can make these decisions. We're in real life. There's no way you can do that.
Yeah. All right. Well, Sherlock Holmes, I'm sorry, Watson has a assembled a team, which is kind of an interesting group. I don't even think that they really understand why they're a team. But, you know, we have like this like core cast of people that Watson has put together. Did you follow like what like the Watson's team is?
So Sherlock Holmes, when he dies, he leaves a bunch of money to watch him because famously, he lives at 21B Baker Street or whatever. And he lives there in like, it's like a two bedroom, like a apartment, like it's nothing crazy, right? But so in this, he dies and he has a bunch of money.
221b, Baker Street, I'm sorry. But he has a bunch of money. And so he leaves the fortune to Watson, but he funds a medical clinic instead. He's like, hey, I'm going to fund this medical clinic and you're going to take over it. And I'm going to give you a neurologist to help. And I'm going to give you a sidekick as well. And then you're going to be able to pick the team of doctors that you want.
you know, as a part of this homes clinic of diagnostic medicine. And so I guess Watson is a geneticist and he's going to use his geneticist superpowers to bring together this team of like the Avengers of doctors to where they can do these medical mysteries and diagnosis. The Avengers of doctors was the 2009 Sherlock Holmes.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You're right. You're right. Yeah. I didn't see that timeline coming. I guess I should have saw that. Oh, yeah. Dr. Strange is not included. Yeah. Together. All the Sherlock Holmes.
Yeah. Cause, cause what are they doing? Why was Dr. Strange Sherlock Holmes and Robert Downey Jr. Why is that a thing? Like Iron Man was Sherlock Holmes. Really? Okay. Uh, but here, here we have, uh, Dr. Darien, I think her name was, who was his neurologist that he's, she's actually, she's actually kind of his doctor too, but she's on the team and you have Dr. Lubbock, who was an Asian woman who grew up in Texas who he's clearly fascinated by because she has a deep Southern accent. And then you have Dr. Croft and Dr. Croft, who are both their twins and they are twins who date at the same woman. So it seems,
I would love to know more about that because they have a good like this. You can see there's a disdain between the two of them. Obviously if you date it the same woman or in a relationship with the same woman, that would cause that. But yeah, these twins are there too. And I think the show presents us with
Watson is interested in all these people based on their genetics or, you know, whatever their upbringing was because he's a guy who likes to solve a good mystery. Okay. We haven't talked too much about Morris Chestnut here. Um, so first off, uh, the Chappelle age game. How old is Morris Chestnut? 54. Very close. 56. Oh, okay. Just had a birthday. Yeah. Rob.
What do you know Morris Chestnut from? You know, I know the name Morris Chestnut, but I really don't really, I had to go on IMDB. I could not think of one work that I know Morris Chestnut from. And I could probably name 10 off the top of my head. Okay, what do you know him most from?
That was why I asked the question, because I think Morris Chestnut's black famous, but he's not famous famous. He's just black famous. So he was in the best man, best man one, two, and three. So best man one or two, so best man, best man holiday. And the best man chronicles, I think is what it's called, which was a show on Netflix. I mean, on Peacock, he was also in the wood, I want to say, as well. He was a football player in the best man. Let me see what else he's in for his chestnut.
Um, he was with, yeah, so he was with Gabrielle Union in the wood. I'm not, not the wood. Um, the brothers, I think is what it's called, right? Uh, what else was more? It's just not in. I don't know. Now that you put me on spot, I don't think I can go home. So IMDB, uh, cites his most famous works, uh, as, uh, known as for kick ass two. What? Yeah. Yeah. I don't see you should do dark. That's some stuff. Yeah.
No, he's black famous. You got to get into the you got to get into the old stuff. So he was in like Mike. He was in Rosewood. I believe he like the remake, not the original Rosewood because that would be crazy. He was in to complete that game. He was in a girls show who he was in what girls trip.
Oh, I saw a girl strip. I don't remember him being in it, but I'm sure that's a thing. But this man has been on my TV screen and on my VHS since I was a child, you know, like he really was one of the people like in the late 90s, early 2000s that kind of shaped black television and media. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, he gets a big star turn here that he was on 22 episodes of V.
Which one was V? I don't remember. V was one of these like mystery box shows that like used to be on like they tried like about like 12 different shows on ABC that was on after Lost usually having one of the actresses from Lost. I think that
Juliet from Lost was one of the crossover people on Unvee. I do like Juliet from Lost. Yeah. Maybe I'll check it out. He was, oh, famously. So this is the most famous role, more shit. I don't know. I was thinking of recent stuff. He's Ricky from Boys in the Hood. If this is like the pinnacle of that era of black
like actor stardom right 1991 boys in the hood he's one of the main characters if not one of the more memorable characters one of the more memorable scenes in black media um that if you if you black at home probably yell and be like how did you forget Ricky like yeah I'm trying to off top my head give us a break
I'm trying to do everything on Sherlock Holmes. It's hard shifting between the two. I'm sorry, okay? But yeah, I don't really ever acknowledge him as a television star because for me, he's like a movie A-lister in a way. So yeah, I was very excited to see him. But he's done a lot of television. He has. I just don't watch it. I like his movies. He did episodes of Reasonable Doubt. He did like, it seems like he did 30 episodes of The Resident.
I wanted to watch reasonable doubt for- You mentioned Rosewood, Nurse Jacky. I wanted to watch reasonable doubt for recap, kickback, but I feel like it's kind of like the night agent where I feel like I'm too far behind, you know? It's like, I gotta get caught up. This is our weekly recap, do I just do like a season catch up? You know, cause there's so much to talk about in reasonable doubt. I've been hearing good things about it, so maybe I'll check it out. Yeah. Any other big names here that you recognize in Watson?
I actually didn't even take note of the cast too much. I mean, uh, let me see. Let me see what the list of the people is on the cast because we will have, uh, we'll talk about Moriarty at the end, uh, who is, uh, another person. Yeah. We will talk about him eventually, of course. We're going to give him his time because they make a good, they make, they do a good job of making sure that he's not in the IMDB, uh, previously to this airing. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, there's this woman who plays Mary Watson Rochelle 8. I'm gonna say I don't know her pronounce her last name. I know her from everything. First of all, she's Denise from White Chicks, number one. Like that is the first thing that popped out immediately. But she a little black famous too.
You know, she's she's got her things like she was in the media movie. She was in the TLC story. So she popped out of somebody that I recognize. But and then of course, television shows, right? Like she's she's one of those. Oh, that's that woman. She's in all this stuff. You know, she's she keeps a job. So I'm very happy to see her there as well. But the rest of the cast.
No, I actually don't. I'm not really familiar with a lot of them. So that's why I was like, Hmm, I wonder what this is going to be like. Cause I don't know these people. Okay. This thing takes a lot of twists and turns of, okay, she's got the, you know, uh, FFI and, you know, where we got to figure out how to, what to do. We got to find a track down her relatives. They go down the rabbit hole. They track down the relatives. They sort of wonder like, wait, did she even have FFI?
Right. Yeah. They start saying, well, I mean, there's always a possibility. I mean, even from Jump, he says, like, she could, there's a world where she doesn't have FMI, right? We're trying to rule out the impossible. And so, he's like, so what if she doesn't have FMI? Like, how do we even approach that? And they're like, well, the only way to find that out is to make her go to sleep, you know, like, it's because, you know, unless we can track it through her relatives, and they seemingly could not. They were like, we can't really
like determined if they're if her dad or grandpa had it because I think what the story is is that her dad like took his own life prior to dying from FFI like the stress of FFI took it took him out and so he actually never actually died from the syndrome so it's like we don't know if that's what it was so they're like well let's just convince her to go to sleep and so Watson does the thing he lost stories he's like hey
You don't have it. We done the test. I have the best geneticists on the planet working with me. You don't even have it. Go to sleep. And she does. The problem is she wakes up blind. And so now we have another one. It's going really wild. This lady is like, she cannot catch a break. Yeah. And so yes, she's so relieved. She doesn't have FFI, but she does wake up. She's like, but she's so cracking jokes about like, he's like, I need you to smile. And she's like,
Mr. Watson, uh, weren't you married once? Didn't you, didn't you, don't you know not to tell a woman to smile? Yeah, the show was like, remember y'all. Listen, he's, he was left by wife. If I wake up blind, no jokes. No joke. Not the first, not in the first hour of me waking up blind.
I would probably make some jokes. I'm the type of person to joke through my pain a little bit, so I could see that for me. But I definitely don't want anybody else making any jokes. And don't tell me to smile. No, I think I'm on her side. I just woke up blind, sir, and the first thing to say, OK, you're not going to hear this, but I need you to smile. It's like I need you to go to hell.
Right. I know you didn't just tell me his mouth. Right. Right. There's no silver lining here. No. And they feel like, okay, oh no, she has some kind of like autoimmune deficiency. She's like the boy in the plastic bubble. We need to do a bone marrow transplant. We need to find a match in her family. And so we got to go track down the rest of her family members. And so they end up like tracking down her cousin.
who then Watson is able to tell like, oh, she has like track marks and she has tattoos over her track marks. So uses that to get her to come in and start to explain what's going on with her.
Yeah, so they know she has a cousin, but they need a sibling, right? And they're like, all right, she has a sibling, we need to find them. So how do we do that? Watson goes to her cousin Autumn and is like, hey, I see you've got track marks on your hands, on your arms. Looks like you've been doing the heroine, you know, the heroine. And so, uh,
know anything that happened to Erica's brother, you know, because I'm sure he used to do the heroin with you. I heard he had a pass. So can you tell us where he is? And so she gives them the alias that he's been using that like so that they can track him down. And this man, Dr. John Watson, just text Scotland Yard like it's normal. Like, okay, I'll get my people in on Scotland Yard, Gregson. I was like, you can't just do that. No, don't get me wrong. You can't.
Could you text somebody at Scotland Yard? I'm not loving it. I love it. And that's why I was taking it back. Because like since, hey man, you can't just text Scotland Yard from Pittsburgh and be like, all right, I got this missing person I need to find in America. Can you help me? But he can. This man is like, I guess he stepped in, really stepped into his Sherlock Holmes bag in this one. Because there's no reason why he should be able to, like any other doctor is not doing this. Even the other doctors are saying it's like,
I mean, I thought we were doctors since when did we become detectives? But Watson, he texts Gregson and Gregson is a recurring character in the Sherlock Holmes lore as well. He's a Scotland Yard inspector. He's like always like seeking like, okay, like let's get Sherlock on the case, you know, like in a way like Commissioner Gordon would do for Batman, you know, something like that. He's not Commissioner Gordon level, but it's kind of like in that same like, hey,
You know, we're hitting a wall here. We need some help. And so I like that they're still pulling from, you know, the characters in the actual canon and actual lore. Okay, how about Sheenwell Johnson? Is this a real Sherlock Holmes person? Oh, yeah. And I was like, very shocked that this is who they decide to go with. They call him Porky in Sherlock Holmes. And he's not okay anymore.
why they call him Porky maybe they call him Porky because he's big on the pig you know who knows but he's a he used to be a criminal right and then he became an informant and he started giving Sherlock that information from the inside of like the criminal underbelly here he does talk about how he reformed his life for Sherlock Holmes
but they don't really talk about it like that. He's more like Watson's assistant. If Watson has a Watson or if Watson has an Alfred, this guy, then Porky is him. Now I don't trust Porky though because if this is the Porky that we used to know, he got a little criminal edge to him and I need more information about that. Yeah, he's really coming across as like Watson's fixer.
Yeah, yeah, it's just like, hey, I got a phone call to make. Let me call, let me get Shinwell on the phone, see what he can make happen. And yeah, he is a criminal informant that turns good, basically. But by the end of this episode, I'm not sure that he's good in Watson. Yeah.
All right. So they bring the cousin in and she's got stuff going on around her mouth also. Like these, I don't know what, like these people need some bliss decks or something. They've got some sort of like issues around the mouth and they both have it and they're trying to figure out what's going on. They go through the garbage and they find out that she has like dead birds that she handled. Yeah. So I guess if you're a cat,
kills birds and you handle the cat that killed the bird, then you can get songbird fever. Who knows? Again, they're just pulling this stuff out of the air or out of the whatever, the back pages of whatever. I mean, you tell somebody like, hey, I've got songbird fever. I mean, that sounds good. It's like I got songbird fever. Like I'm walking on air, baby. Yeah, I'm doing a little ditty over here. Don't say that.
Yeah. Well, as Dr. Will about that, I think that for me, songbird fever definitely sounds like, you know, like you got, you got an earworm, you know, like it sounds nasty a little bit, but also, you know, it's like, it can be a bad thing, you know, I love to sing about the moon and to do it. Like it feels like something like that, but no, this is awful. This is awful because you got this nasty stuff now. Your mouth is being weird and it feels like you're getting really sick and
I don't know. So now they think they both have songbird fever because they found these birds in each of their trash. Yeah. But then they realize, OK, one of them is responding to it to antibiotics in the songbird fever. OK, great. The other one isn't. How could that be? And there's something else at play here. Yeah. And it's a race against the clock because now that you've been treating them for the wrong thing, well, treating one of them for the wrong thing, she could go into septic shock and all this other stuff. So now we got to figure out how to stop that. And so.
watching his run out of options. You know, he's kind of like, I've ruled out all the stuff. There's something's not making sense here. There has to be something impossible going on that I haven't ruled out yet. And so he sits there and he just stares at him until he figures it out. Staring at them. And then he says, I notice you both have web toes between those and like, I'm like, my guy, like really staring at these women's feet to pick that up.
Hey, he's stared at them for a long time. They were, they were even getting uncomfortable. Like, sir, are you okay? You know, like, I'm blind and I don't. Okay, Watson. Right. Like, sir. My dear Watson. Yeah. Um, he, he stares at them long enough to where he can start to rule out other like, he can start to go through his, his mental roller decks of all the medical issues that they could be having or all this similarities, all that kind of stuff. And he does notice the web feed. And, um, apparently like,
It's impossible for Autumn to have Webfeet because she's claiming that her dad did not have Webfeet. And so, what that means is that- The orbital eye sockets.
Yeah, that too. These are their eyes are very far apart. I don't know. I don't know what we're going on there. You're supposed to talk about that. You can't say that, but you can talk about people's web feet for sure. And so he's saying like, hey, there's no way you inherited web feet if your parent didn't have web feet. And we know your mom didn't have web feet so your dad had to have it. And she's like, my dad did not have web feet. I don't know who I got it from, but I didn't get it from my dad. And they're like, well, that's close. It wasn't your dad. Eureka, he says, which is a Sherlock thing. I don't watch something normally.
But co-opted it. Yeah. Yeah. We had to get into like who was hooking up with who to make this happen. We don't talk about it. We don't talk about it. There's a lot of questions. Right. I mean, I mean, you thought she was your cousin, but she's really your sister. Hold on. You're half so, yeah.
Who got with who? Right. We don't, we don't get into the mess. I think he's above that, right? We find out their siblings and that is what we're looking for because if they're half sisters and that means that they both, uh, they both have web feed, but that also can explain why they're reacting like this, you know what I'm saying? So we had songbird for autumn. I'm sorry. Songbird for Erica, the original who we thought had the, uh, the skid. Um, and now we have autumn, uh, who can get treated for the actual skid. All right.
Two other things I want to talk about. Watson and his wife, he goes to visit his separated wife. He has moxes of stuff he needs to take out. He's like, listen, two car garage. One of these, there used to be a bunch of stuff over here. There's no jacket on the hook. Somebody's been here. We find out that the former Mrs. Watson is seeing somebody else
Who's a she? Or she got a roommate. You know, like, they don't really get into the interview. Why was the roommate at the hide?
I don't think Jay want anybody knowing that she's really moved on. Like I started to fill your space with stuff. I don't know. Look, she's moved on to somebody else. Regardless, this man is not getting back in that house. And I think that he starts off the episode really thinking they're like, okay, she's gonna let me come home eventually. You know, he tells his story about how she left him hanging like how he's going through things. Yeah, of course, like, but it's okay. We're gonna work through this, honey. She like, nah, you on your own, baby. And so, yeah, I think
He has the disconnect from Mary. And this is very different from Sherlock, you know, the OG Sherlock course. But yeah, he has a disconnect from her so that he can go and fight these crimes on his own, these medical crimes or whatever they are. Yeah. We're Watson and Holmes. They have love interests in the canon. Oh, yeah. Dr. Watson and Mary are always married in the canon. Like that's their thing. Who's Mary?
This woman marries his wife. Yes. It's a strange wife in this show. They're always, always a thing. Now, she'd be dying sometimes, depending on what book she reads, she'd be dying. But Sherlock is different. He kind of, and I'm thinking more of the Benedict Cumberbatch one than anything right now, Sherlock really just be kind of like married to his work, you know? So I don't, I can't think of a real love interest. We're not in elementary, we're there with a busserney.
You know, I don't know any canoe tension between homes and Watson. Was it a little bit of like a Scully and Mulder situation? Not to mind. See, I didn't watch elementary. Also, you know, elementary in and of itself, you know, that's based on that phrase, right? Elementary, my dear Watson, right? You know, it's that's he doesn't actually say that. Sherlock didn't, he didn't say that in the original camp. That's like, that's not a thing. You know, that's like retcon, like later on, you know, where did I come from?
other people writing Sherlock, you know? But yeah, but the OG Sherlock would never say elementary my dear watching. That's not how he talks. But anyway, I think that maybe there was some canoeing there in elementary, but it would be so. Let us know what happened with.
It would be so outside of what we going to understand about Sherlock Holmes, though. It's because he's almost too tapped into his work to ever be bothered by something like that. You know what I'm saying? So there's like Irene Adler is in Sherlock Holmes, but it never actually becomes romantic that I know of. Maybe I'm tripping, but it's almost like she's very smart. And he likes that. I appreciate the intelligence, but I don't ever like,
You know, I don't think it ever got anything romantic. You know what? Honestly, let me stop lying. I think in the Robert Downey Jr. one, who's the woman in that? Is it? Who? Rob, can you tell? I think they had a little something, something going on, but that wasn't Watson. That was... Oh.
I remember. So I remember back in the day, people were trying to say this. Maybe Sherlock Holmes and Watson in that movie, Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. They had a little something going on. Okay. That was the first, but I think he did have a romantic love interest in that movie too. Yeah. So Rachel McAdams of the notebook plays Irene Adler.
Yeah, so her name pops up a lot. But now that we're talking about it, I do think people were insinuating back then. Yeah, I'm going to look this up. I'm actually, I need to know. Yeah, because I remember, I don't think it was tension in the movie, but you know, people like to write the fan fiction. Oh, Sherlock Holmes, look no further. If you want to see some fan fiction, this is where you start. Sherlock Holmes always.
Yeah, I think this is, I think this is where it was. I think this was like, okay, people started to question some things. Yeah, I was like, y'all getting too close outside the office. All right, so then the last scene we see, we go back to our good buddy, Cenwell Johnson. Yeah, Porky. He's in like some kind of like cable car. And we see here Randall Park.
My mouth, I just felt like, what? Why it's Randall Park here? Why is he Moriarty? This is crazy. It is crazy that we know that Moriarty has his fingers fused together with webtoes. We have fingers. Is that a thing? Moriarty has fused fingers. They made this up. I've never heard this before in my life. I think that was like Wu Tang.
No, I think it's just like, you like to have the M motif on Moriarty, you know? Like I think they're like in maybe like popular stuff is like the M is almost like his calling card. That's not a thing. But I think that, you know, you do what you want. Again, like I talked about how canonically this is different, but that's the whole point of Sherlock Holmes after a while is there. You can make your own Sherlock story and it makes sense. There are certain things that there are not, like almost like irrelevant to the story.
Like it's like these little tiny things, canonically, we latch on to them as TV watchers and consumers of media and readers of books that were like, oh no, all this stuff has to make sense because it's in the same exact universe and it has to be the same thing all the time. But a lot of times when these authors were writing books, they were just writing.
that little stuff that it didn't matter. Okay. Yeah. Like, Oh, yeah, it happened at eight o'clock. Fine. But it's like the stuff that does matter. That's the stuff that you really got latch onto for Sherlock Holmes. Yeah. And what he already can do, whatever he wants that he can have. He can have one hand for all I care. As long as he is Sherlock Holmes is arch nemesis.
who he could never, like, who was almost his equal. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's the thing with Moriarty. It doesn't matter who you get to portray him. He's supposed to be intelligently, like, intellectually, like, combative with Sherlock Holmes. Like, they're on the same level. He cannot be the, is this Batman and the Joker levels of villainy, okay? One cannot survive while the other one lives. You know, like, that's the kind of energy they got. And they're tied together, like, Hancock and that white lady from that movie. I never, I can never remember who that was. Yeah.
Yeah. Hancock, the Will Smith movie. Yeah. Him and the white lady are like, but in hands for centuries, you know, and like they keep batting, they keep coming together and then like toward it'll just have happened whenever they meet. Okay. All right. So Randall Park kind of playing against type here is in a lot of comedies best known for fresh off the boat, but the devil works hard. Randall Park works harder. He that is in so many things. Yeah, the office.
Yeah. No. Um, is he from the, did he show up on the office? Well, he was John Krasinski. They're the same person. That was like the running joke for years was that like John Krasinski and Randall Parker, like interchangeable. So, so I believe they swap him out in that one episode of the office and everybody's like acts like everything is normal. They kind of play on that a little bit here with Moriarty. Cause I think, uh, Porky Johnson says,
I didn't expect for you to be more, you're already basically like, I didn't expect to see you. No, I didn't see you here. And we're all like, yeah, I'm like, no, yeah, nobody. That's 100 guesses. And they hit this. I looked, I checked the IMDb for the cast list. He's not on it. Yeah.
Yeah, at the very end, they drop the, you know, and Randall Park is Moriarty. And what comes they have on shows where like in the opening credits, they spoil like some surprise person. I know it was like an issue with like the actors guild. I wonder if they fix that where then they can have a big surprise and then say the actors name at the end of the show because that's what they did here. And I know it was an issue for a while, but Randall Park has been
in something that we have covered before on Nothing But Netflix. Do you remember what it was? Randall Park? Yes. No. No, I don't remember. He was the lead in a show that we once covered on Nothing But Netflix in 2022 called Blockbuster.
Wow, oh my god to go here today smooth Yes, he was the face of blockbuster the Netflix original series That's crazy first of all forgot that we watched that forgot that we talked about it could tell you the plot They were bringing blockbuster back baby, and it did not come back. I don't think we've got any more It was like instantly canceled
Right. And we were like, wouldn't it be crazy if this was instantly canceled because it's blockbuster and it was really so sad. Man, we really had that. We've gone through so many shows here on Netflix. It's crazy. We've gone through a whole era in Netflix. And then that's Watson. And so hopefully Watson, a lot of people checked it out here tonight and, you know, it could be a new big hit for CBS. Look, the shows that do well on CBS, of course, there's our beloved reality shows. But other than that, you know, cop shows, doctor shows,
Yeah, welcome home. Yeah. Yeah, this is great. This is great. I've never got to premiere a scripted show with you like live premiere it right after the episode. This is fun. Yeah. I mean, could it fit in with Matlock and Tracker and NCIS origins and his death and fire country? Of all those shows.
The trailer for Elizabeth really speak to me. I don't know what it is. It's just kind of like, I can't get into Elizabeth. I don't know. Did you ever check it out? No, I never watched an episode of Elizabeth. I kind of want to watch it. I'm thinking that I'm leaning into like, yeah, it looks fun. It looks fun. Do you think Watson was fun? I know there were moments of fun here on Watson. I feel like it's not a show really for me.
I didn't know if it was fun. It wasn't stale.
It reminded me a little bit of the show numbers. Yeah. You know, but I'm like, is there a charm in the show, right? Like, is Morris Chestnut the charm? I like Morris Chestnut. I've known him my whole life, you know, as far as like television and movies go, seemingly. So I like, naturally, I'm like, oh, no, he's good in this. And I really thought he was, but I was really trying to figure out like, you know, like, is this like a funny shot? Like, is it lighthearted or is this like an intense
mystery drama that we're going to be in on. And I'm on the fence. So I will be checking out the next one just to see. I feel like there's some room for them to really play around with the murder, with a medical mystery of it all, the overarching mystery of what happened with Sherlock Holmes. We see more of the arties here. It's Sherlock going to pop up at some point or another, who knows. But I think there's something there, and I want to check it out. Okay.
All right. There you go. That is Watson. Chappelle, for next time out, I don't know necessarily where we want to go. I don't know. Anything premiering live after the Super Bowl? I guess that's in a couple weeks. Two weeks. Two weeks. Yeah. The recruit is back. There's an OJ documentary coming out. They're not an OJ documentary coming up though. It's like every day. Amy Schumer has a movie coming to Netflix in two weeks.
Okay, let's see what that is. I think they're pregnant. Oh, well, I don't know. Should we even talk about that? Real loud? Talk about what? Amy Schumer or pregnancy? Both. You know, people being kind of pregnant is kind of like, oh, look, I don't want to. When the lady in Watson flinched at the ultrasound, I was like, I felt seen because me too. Wait, ultrasound?
me what the if the day I'm looking at an ultrasound and I'm like oh yeah there's a baby on the way for Chappelle whoo yeah someone going to check on me because that's not that's not my ministry not right now I would definitely have run out in the street and got hit by a car too yeah looking and seeing what else apple cider vinegar is coming next week
No, I'm just going through the list. It says provocative. Two young women advocate for wellness remedies to cure deadly illnesses, unraveling their lives as they unknowingly lead the world. Australian drama. Let's see. Uncle Drew seen that before as old. I don't know. We'll see what happens. Let's keep an eye out for the stuff.
He's supposed to. I see on the work the wait though, Randall Park is back. He's on one of those Netflix contracts. Yeah, offbeat witty mystery, the residents, Randall Park. Yeah. Hey, you do one, you got to do eight. Check that out. Okay. All right. Chappelle, what else is coming up for you?
uh this week on recap kickback i gotta go to the movie sadly i just don't want to go because i just hate going to the movies now yeah what do you see send me the link i know someone's got the bootleg uh one of them days uh and is array film starring scissor and kiki palmer is out i'm gonna go support the movie don't yell at me you're gonna be pirate in the movie support black business whatever i'm gonna go check it
But then also send me the link. The buddy comedy game. Yeah. And me and Mar, you're going to talk about it with our special guest, Latanya Starks, returning to recap, keep back up for the first time this year. And so get out, recap, kickback.com, youtube.com slash at recap, kickback. Rob, last week. I got to be honest with you to go, go see a comedy in the movie theater. I feel like that's, that's not a thing a lot of people are willing to do.
I'm not willing to do that, but Mari is bullying me. And so I'm going to do it for for Mari and for the art. And hopefully one day yesterday, we'll see the podcast and want to talk to us about stuff. And so we're in kiss ass until we get it. Did you see last week's recap, kick back? We have Mari talk about her 10 best mario's all time. Yes. Yeah, she's a big star, a South Park girlie, which I know.
Oh, yeah, she's in. Yeah. Mario's seen every episode of South Park her screens. Her screensaver on her phone is still like Cartman. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Mario, your mom should have punished you. You shouldn't have been watching this show. Her and her mom had a good relationship. I was sneaking and watching all the bad TV I was watching. Yeah. So, so yeah, check that out. If you want to hear more about. Are there still new South parks? I believe so. Yeah. And she said she's still be keeping an eye on it, but she doesn't watch it. Like as like it's kind of like the Simpsons people at this point. Like it's like I keep an eye on it, but.
You know. Yeah. Can't do this forever. Chipotle, I knew you covered the new Joe Shmo Show with Mike Bloom this week. Did you like it?
It was cool. It was a typical Joe Schmoe stuff. Except, you know, we got Jonathan Lippnicki was there. That was cool. We talked about it on the reality flash. So I was Mike's first guest there. He gave like 15 minutes of background on Joe Schmoe, the entire lore of it. And then we came in and talked about the episode quick and easy. It's a fun watch. Check out Joe Schmoe and make sure you subscribe to the reality flash so you can keep up with all the little quick and easy shows out there. So you don't miss anything.
Of course, traders going on, Dandy, Chappelle and I and Jenny are covering best Dandy coverage bar none. And we've got so much great stuff on the network this week. I hope you come and check out everything we have going on. Be sure to make sure, find it. Look, we make it very easy. Go to roperswebs.com slash subscribe to find the links to everything we're doing. Take care everybody. Have a good one. Bye.
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