Watson is implicated in a DEA investigation into doctors writing illegal prescriptions, so she and Holmes look for the culprit using her medical license to sell drugs.Watson is implicated in a DEA investigation into doctors writing illegal prescriptions, so she and Holmes look for the culprit using her medical license to sell drugs.Watson is implicated in a DEA investigation into doctors writing illegal prescriptions, so she and Holmes look for the culprit using her medical license to sell drugs.
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- TriviaWhen checking the gunshot victim's pulse, Dr. Watson places her fingers on top of the lab coat's sleeve. A medical professional would never make such a novice mistake.
- GoofsThe DEA number on the forged prescription is incorrectly formatted. All DEA license numbers have nine digits: two letters and seven numbers. The first letter indicates the type of prescriber (Hospitals are assigned the letter B, individual practitioners are assigned the letter C, mid-level practitioners (Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants) are assigned the letter M). The second letter is the first letter of the prescriber's last name, so Watson's DEA number would start with the letters BW.
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[Upon entering the brownstone, Joan Watson sees Sherlock Holmes examining a crash-test dummy with a knife in its back slumped over a chess table from a 78-year-old murder]
Dr. Joan Watson: Sometimes I wonder what hobbies other people's roommates have.
Sherlock Holmes: I briefly shared a flat in London with a collector of wild game urine. He used it as a lure for hunting and trapping.
Dr. Joan Watson: Oh. Then I count my blessings.
The first episode set before the Christmas break do not offer hope of a really strong finish. Instead it feels much more 'safe pair of hands' – like the creators are making sure they keep their core audience, and don't do anything that would put off new viewers feeling like they can jump in here and there. As a result there is very much a focus on the case-per-week approach, with little else on top of that. Okay old characters are brought in here and there, but mostly they are plot devices and the 'previously' usually gives enough knowledge of who they are to serve the thin purpose they serve in that individual episode. Each episode is perfectly decent on its own. The characters we enjoy all do the things that we know they will, in the way that we know they will. Occasionally one of them will look down, or look happy – but any change generally is in support of a particular direction for the show – so it is only ever a device, not something more grounded or of more consequence. The cases are still enjoyable, but there isn't a sense of something developing or building.
The introduction of Shinwell is the 'thread', but in these first ten episodes it is not particularly compelling. Only the episode wholly focused on him makes good use of this thread, otherwise it is just hanging around like it needs to be there. I would hope that the second half of the season can produce something more from this, or bring in a much stronger and more urgent core – but nothing about this first half of the season suggests that this is on the agenda for the makers. It continues to be very professional, very well made, have all the money up on the screen, and all of that – but it continues to leave me feeling like it is content to do what it is doing each week until the network tells it to stop, at which point everyone will pack up, upset at the loss of a job perhaps, but certainly not upset that they had such great stories to tell.
- bob the moo
- Apr 8, 2017