Julio rambles about Watson and things that happened the past week.
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This is Julio's Corner, my corner of the Internet where I talk about whatever is on my mind. I'll mostly talk about stuff I've watched, read, or listened to, but sometimes I may ramble on about the news or politics or in society at large. This episode is being recorded on Sunday, 12/14/2025. And welcome back to the show. A lot has happened. Well, not a lot, but, a week has gone by that I did not record. And the reason why I did not record last weekend, which I guess would be December 7, is that, my apartment flooded. To be more specific, the apartment next door flooded, and the water from that apartment creeped into mine.
So I spent a good portion of my morning after arriving, you know, coming back from work. I spent a good portion of the morning cleaning up and drying up my bedroom, my bedroom closet, the hallway outside my bedroom, and the bathroom area. And, and yeah. So that took up most of my Saturday morning. And, so I slept later than normal. So I woke up later than normal. And that pushed back everything else that I was planning to do this weekend. Sorry. Last weekend. And so, yeah, no recording of my podcast was done. So we're back, week after the fact.
Thankfully, it was a one time thing. I hope it'll stay that way, and, there'll be no, re repeat offense from the apartment next door. So, this episode is gonna be unscripted for the most part. I have my bullet points. And, also, I mean, there isn't really a lot, to script, so to speak. At least well, regardless, this is a non scripted episode. It's just gonna be me rambling, per normal. The last the previous two episodes that were scripted were fun, but shorter than, than my normal ramble. So so I gotta find a balance between the two formats, so to speak. I need to figure out what's, what's better for me.
Anyways, so the past few weeks or, well, mostly this week that just has passed that passed, I've been, mostly reading manga and watching some anime based on the mangas that I've been reading. I go through these, I'll call them seasons, where I decide to switch it up, my, my media content. I don't even remember what I watched previously. Obviously, there's these, shows that are currently airing on on television, Watson, Sheriff Country, and, Boston Blue and a few others. Well, a couple of them are on hiatus now because of the holidays or whatever. And so those aside, I mean, there's a a k drama that's on the back burner. I just haven't gone back to it. There's this revolution documentary by Ken Burns. I'm currently on the second episode.
Oh, yeah. McGray. I I watched McGray before this, and I finished that season. I was watching, this werewolf show called Biddon, and I watched the first two seasons. There's only one more left. But, for whatever reason, I just decided okay. I'm taking a break. Also, it's Christmas holidays now, so I'm more inclined to wanna watch some Christmas movies. I I saw a few of those. But a lot of them, I I don't wanna watch some classics because, you know, I've seen them. I was trying to find some newer content, but most of these Hallmark Christmas movies are not that good.
There is this this, this Hallmark show slash movie franchise called the Good Witch. I am I am checking that out. I did watch the first two movies of those, which which are okay. They're not great. It's, you know, the actress is cute, so I'm watching it mostly for her because she's pretty. Catherine Bell is her name. But that aside, I've been, the YouTube algorithm has been showing me some trailers for different animes that piqued my interest. And I like to go to the source first. So I go to the mangas, and, and then I've speed read through them.
And, so now I'm on hiatus with them. So I put them on my my manga database of mangas that, you know, I sped read through that are incomplete. So I'm just, you know, keeping track of the last chapter I read and whatnot. So yeah. So the ones I'm current ly watch reading is reincarnation of re reincarnation as a sword, and this other one called, Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy. I think that's what I think that's what it's called, Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy, which are they're both isekais. That that seems to be the genre that I'm mostly into anime wise and and manga wise.
So, yeah, I'm into that. And, there were a couple that I erased I I sped rant through. One was called, jack of all trades, master of none. And, what was the other one? I go through so many that, something about an aristocratic born in another world or something like that. So I'm I'm I'm in the middle of Tsukimichi moonlit fantasy and reincarnation as a sword. Those are the two current ones that I'm reading at the moment. But, anyways, let's get to the, meat and potatoes of the show. We're gonna talk about Watson. I mentioned this a few episodes back, how it is a it's sort of, you know, a reimagining of of a character from the Sherlock Holmes universe. But it seemed to be more like House MD because Watson is a doctor, and he's not really trying to solve murder mysteries or anything like that, which is generally Sherlock's purview.
So I did watch the first season. I watched all of it, and it was, like, 13 episodes. And and I'm on currently on the second season, which is airing on CBS right now. I think it's up up to episode eight at the moment. And, yeah, it is definitely more of a House MD copy with a veneer of Sherlock Holmes familiarity. Meaning, you know, you have, Sherlock Holmes. You have Watson, John Watson, Mycroft, this female that was Sherlock's love interest. I forget her name. Yeah. The name escapes me. And then, of course, some new characters that were created for this specifically for this show where, Watson has this clinic, this foundation, funded by Sherlock Holmes's money that he left in his will because, you know, he faked his death.
And they tried to solve like these unsolvable medical cases, basically, which is why they're right above or or next or in the same building that's, that that runs a hospital that is, managed by, Watson's ex wife. And I think the characters, names escape me at the moment. But, but they're all basically, they're all, like, psychologically damaged in some way, which is why Watson handpicked these people because on top of trying to solve these these cases, at least as the first season goes, the way the colleagues are reading it, they're also part of an experiment of what you know, Watson just studying them, in in their, controlled environment, so to speak.
So you have, these twins played by two different actors, but I guess they're using, like, CGI or whatever to make, the other actor look exactly like, the the other one, the main one, so to speak. And so one one suffers from severe depression. The other one suffers from alcoholism, but he's, he's now sober. And he's, so the one that suffers from severe depression, is an actual, I forget what his specialty is now that I'm I'm drawing a blank now. But but he's basically into more serious medicine. I think immunology is what is his thing.
And then you have the the twin who's more into, like, general medicine, general practice. Then you have this this sociopath who's a neuro neurologist. And and she was originally hired in the first season because Watson was suffering from brain damage. And the whole first season was him, you know, medically administering, a cocktail of drugs to help manage his brain damage symptoms so he can continue working when he should be instead resting and recovering. He wants he he's basically trying to speed run his recovery with, all these, medications that he prescribed to himself through someone else.
And, of course, at the time, in the first season, you had Moriarty. That's the Sherlock connection. He decides to fuck around with, Watson by blackmailing one of his colleagues, Shinwell, to switch his medications with other other medications to mess with his brain or whatever, which is which was weird because, well, there they never clarify what the end goal was. Was the end goal just to mess with his brain? Because, you know, so so the medications that he switched it with was like wow. I can't speak. Or hallucinogenic hallucinogenics.
So they were making him hallucinate and and and and have him have mood swings. And then there was another one that was messing with his blood pressure, I think. And then he was and then, of course, Moriarty started blackmailing the, the sociopath slash neurologist to destroy his his collection of, his cultures. I I don't know. It's I'm I'm I I don't know medical terms, but I think they were, like, culture cells, his cultures, which could be used to, fight different ailments. So so you have, the twins. You have the the the sociopath, and then you have this, this Asian girl who was adopted by, a family in Texas. So she has, like, a or Georgia. I think it was Texas. Somewhere in the South. So she has, like, a southern accent.
So naturally, she has, I guess, abandonment issues. So she's always trying to please. She's also, I think she was also in in immunology. I'm I'm so bad with medical terms. Immunology? I think that's how you say it. Immunity. You know, she fights she she, she's involved with the immunity system the immune system. So immuno I think it's immunology. Anyways, so the way the first season eventually ends, one of the, actually, both twins get poisoned in a way because it was, attacking their genetic code. And and it was actually only one of them was targeted because, apparently, Moriarty did not realize that there was a twin brother. So it just it was just double the fun. By attacking one, it affected the other because they, you know, they're twins. They're genetic, twins, identical.
So they both got affected with the same thing. And the cultures that would have saved them were obviously destroyed by the sociopath because she was blackmailed into doing it, not realizing, that they would be needed to save those two guys. And so, anyway, in the end of the first season, it, you know, once once the sociopath finally confesses to to what her, because she felt guilty, obviously, when she saw that now both twins were dying, and it's her fault. She decide she she came clean, with Watson. And so Watson now knowing that Moriarty was involved with all this, he gets him infected with the same tactic based but, you know, attacking his genetic code because that's what in this show, Watson's a geneticist. He's a geneticist, and, and, I forget what other specialty. But but, yeah, he's all about the DNA, your genetic code. And so he was able to use that, against him. And in order for Moriarty to be healed, you're gonna have to give him if you want the antidote for you, then you have to give him the antidote for the twins. And so that's how that's how the first season ended. And, of course, he ended up not healing Moriarty, so he killed him. So he went against his Hippocratic oath of do not harm.
And, and the reason being is because Moriarty kept causing harm to him and and his his company, his, his coworkers. And, of course, he he killed Sherlock because that's what he believed, that Sherlock was murdered by Moriarty. So he had more than ample reasons to, to just let him die. And, of course, there would be no way to trace it to him because he he died of a disease, even though it was genetically engineered by by Watson in the same manner that Moriarty did the same to the to the twins. So, anyways, he dies. The second season begins with the sociopath, now being you know, because of what she did, she quit the job or she was forced to resign. I forget.
And she started and she joined a psychology group of fellow sociopaths, basically. The twins, of course, are trying to make life better, trying to, you know, get past that trauma. One of them got it worse than the other, suffered worse, so he has to walk with a cane. But he got involved with, that Asian girl, because, you know, they were kind of showing that relationship build up in the first season. So now in the second season, they're now they're, you know, they're happy. They're a happy couple. And, and the second season is, for the most part, outside of the Sherlock verse because, you know, they got rid of my Moriarty.
And Mycroft showed up for a few episodes threatening to, close down the home found the Watson Foundation because he suspects that his brother is, in fact, alive and is ruining his company because in his will on top of giving the foundation to to Watson for his brother Mycroft, he gave him this medical formula. But he actually it was basically not a Trojan horse, but it was basically like a like a time bomb because the whatever the drug was, the form the drug formula that he gave Mycroft, it, it was, it wasn't a it wasn't a stable one or whatever. And it after, like, three months of circulation or whatever, it just started going bad or whatever. And, so that's affecting, obviously, his, his stock value and and the company itself.
So then he he so Mycross start threatening Watson, with taking over taking away the foundation if, because he's Holmes. And, outside of, even though his brother, you know, willed the foundation to to to Watson, somehow, legally, he could still take take control of it because he's the living relative. So outside of that little subplot that they stop that there doesn't seem to be a a, conclusion. It it just they just ignored it the past, few episodes and just continued with, you know, these medical stories. Outside of that, it's pretty much just a medical show, with these weird situations.
The last one actually was kind of, AI based because there was this kid who, basically, you know, the AI psychosis thing that's going around in in in the news and and social media. Apparently, you know, young kids, developing these, relationships with these chatbots, these AI chatbots, to the point where some of them are committing suicide or self harming themselves or or whatever. So in this episode, the last one they had there was this this kid with autism who, you know, had this AI that was making him do bad decisions.
Like, one was the first one wasn't so bad. It was to convince him to to confess to this girl that, was his lab partner in in high school, his chem hence chem lab partner. And, of course, she is not into him at all. She's just a friend. But the the chatbot was convincing the kid that no. No. If you're not if you were reading the signs correctly, she's in fact into you. So you're gonna you're you're actually gonna score with this grand gesture, asking her to the prom. And, of course, it blew up in his face. And then but whatever. A little embarrassment.
But then the AI was convincing him that there's something insidious going on in that girl's household, so you need to prove it. And if you prove it, you know, that the the father is, you know, doing something bad to her or whatever, you'll you'll you'll be the hero, and then you'll win her over that way. So he went to the to their house again in, like, the middle of the night looking through their garbage. And, of course, the father comes out and, chases him away. So as he runs, into the street, he gets he gets hit by a car by a moving car because, you know, he wasn't looking. And he, you know, he's in the hospital healing or whatever, but he's suffering from from this whole AI psychosis. Because even though logically he understands that, you know, this is not a real thing, He still is letting it influence his his, decisions.
But outside of that, you know, Watson started asking him, like, why did he go there and whatnot. And he was the kid explained her his observations about how he noticed that the the girl's, walking her, her her gait changed. So she felt like he felt like something was like like, he was he was thinking that maybe she was being abused physically or whatever. So Watson sends, you know, two coworkers to their house, and that girl starts she she faints in front of them. And it turns out her brain is hemorrhaging because, she's part of a the cheerleader squad in of the school. And apparently, she, she had a head injury, during one of the practices, and they didn't think much of it. But in reality, her brain was hemorrhaging, and so they needed to resolve it. But then, of course, on top of that, there was, this other weird syndrome that she was suffering from that was genetic that was discovered later in the show. So, you know, it's still a very crazy diagnosis, like, HouseMD based show, with just the Watson, Sherlock branding.
I still find the show interesting because the characters themselves are interesting enough that that I'm, I'm invested to continue watching it. Some people find Morris Chestnut portrayal of Watson to be unsympathetic or something. Like, they think he's too arrogant or whatnot. I don't I don't quite see it that way. He he just seems very medically folk like, very medical focused, and and he doesn't really come off as to he he definitely doesn't come off as arrogant at all. There are times where he he he does seem more what's what am I looking for? How am I to describe it?
Not sympathetic, but more interested in in the issue itself, the medical issue itself. And, and and because of that, he doesn't really his social skills aren't as, as good as, you know, a normal person, so to speak. So outside of that, the characters are interesting enough. So I'm I'm still watching it for that reason. But I can't I don't know where the show is going. Like, it doesn't really because unlike this is definitely one of those shows that's just it's mostly episodic. There's no real subplots happening in the background as as much as the first season. The first season definitely was a little more, there was a a overreaching story arc because of the whole Moriarty character influencing, people, you know, Shinwell, messing with his medication, and then, forcing that other girl to destroy his cultures, and then, you know, then the big the big finale in the end of that first season. This season, like I said, they started with the whole Mycroft thing. Well, first, they brought back Sherlock, which was a nice which was an interesting surprise and then having two episodes with him, you know, reminiscing of all times and and, you know, Sherlock catching up with what Watson's been doing with the foundation and, of course, sabotaging his brother Mycroft. But then he disappears, and then Mycroft enters the fray.
So basically, he's threatened Watson. And then he basically tells him flat out, you know, if you don't tell me if you don't admit that what that Sherlock is alive and tell me where he is, I will shut down the foundation. But if you tell me what I wanna hear, I'll I'll I'll be hands off and and leave you to your devices. But then after that episode, he just hasn't been around for, like, the last two or three, and it seems that, you know, Watson has control of his foundation again. He's able to do whatever he wants. So I guess that's implying that he did, in fact, admit to Mycroft that, yes, Sherlock is alive.
But he wouldn't know where he is because Sherlock just said, I'm not gonna tell you where I am. I'm just gonna go. And he did. So I don't know about that. But regardless, I'm still interested enough to continue watching it. It's interesting enough, the the episodes, even though I don't know where it's going. It's definitely not, the most quality of, writing, but the characters are interesting enough, to keep me going. And I guess even without a script, I can do a short episode. So and that wraps up the show. If you are watching this on YouTube, don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe.
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This is Julio's Corner, my corner of the Internet where I talk about whatever is on my mind. I'll mostly talk about stuff I've watched, read, or listened to, but sometimes I may ramble on about the news or politics or in society at large. This episode is being recorded on Sunday, 12/14/2025. And welcome back to the show. A lot has happened. Well, not a lot, but, a week has gone by that I did not record. And the reason why I did not record last weekend, which I guess would be December 7, is that, my apartment flooded. To be more specific, the apartment next door flooded, and the water from that apartment creeped into mine.
So I spent a good portion of my morning after arriving, you know, coming back from work. I spent a good portion of the morning cleaning up and drying up my bedroom, my bedroom closet, the hallway outside my bedroom, and the bathroom area. And, and yeah. So that took up most of my Saturday morning. And, so I slept later than normal. So I woke up later than normal. And that pushed back everything else that I was planning to do this weekend. Sorry. Last weekend. And so, yeah, no recording of my podcast was done. So we're back, week after the fact.
Thankfully, it was a one time thing. I hope it'll stay that way, and, there'll be no, re repeat offense from the apartment next door. So, this episode is gonna be unscripted for the most part. I have my bullet points. And, also, I mean, there isn't really a lot, to script, so to speak. At least well, regardless, this is a non scripted episode. It's just gonna be me rambling, per normal. The last the previous two episodes that were scripted were fun, but shorter than, than my normal ramble. So so I gotta find a balance between the two formats, so to speak. I need to figure out what's, what's better for me.
Anyways, so the past few weeks or, well, mostly this week that just has passed that passed, I've been, mostly reading manga and watching some anime based on the mangas that I've been reading. I go through these, I'll call them seasons, where I decide to switch it up, my, my media content. I don't even remember what I watched previously. Obviously, there's these, shows that are currently airing on on television, Watson, Sheriff Country, and, Boston Blue and a few others. Well, a couple of them are on hiatus now because of the holidays or whatever. And so those aside, I mean, there's a a k drama that's on the back burner. I just haven't gone back to it. There's this revolution documentary by Ken Burns. I'm currently on the second episode.
Oh, yeah. McGray. I I watched McGray before this, and I finished that season. I was watching, this werewolf show called Biddon, and I watched the first two seasons. There's only one more left. But, for whatever reason, I just decided okay. I'm taking a break. Also, it's Christmas holidays now, so I'm more inclined to wanna watch some Christmas movies. I I saw a few of those. But a lot of them, I I don't wanna watch some classics because, you know, I've seen them. I was trying to find some newer content, but most of these Hallmark Christmas movies are not that good.
There is this this, this Hallmark show slash movie franchise called the Good Witch. I am I am checking that out. I did watch the first two movies of those, which which are okay. They're not great. It's, you know, the actress is cute, so I'm watching it mostly for her because she's pretty. Catherine Bell is her name. But that aside, I've been, the YouTube algorithm has been showing me some trailers for different animes that piqued my interest. And I like to go to the source first. So I go to the mangas, and, and then I've speed read through them.
And, so now I'm on hiatus with them. So I put them on my my manga database of mangas that, you know, I sped read through that are incomplete. So I'm just, you know, keeping track of the last chapter I read and whatnot. So yeah. So the ones I'm current ly watch reading is reincarnation of re reincarnation as a sword, and this other one called, Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy. I think that's what I think that's what it's called, Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy, which are they're both isekais. That that seems to be the genre that I'm mostly into anime wise and and manga wise.
So, yeah, I'm into that. And, there were a couple that I erased I I sped rant through. One was called, jack of all trades, master of none. And, what was the other one? I go through so many that, something about an aristocratic born in another world or something like that. So I'm I'm I'm in the middle of Tsukimichi moonlit fantasy and reincarnation as a sword. Those are the two current ones that I'm reading at the moment. But, anyways, let's get to the, meat and potatoes of the show. We're gonna talk about Watson. I mentioned this a few episodes back, how it is a it's sort of, you know, a reimagining of of a character from the Sherlock Holmes universe. But it seemed to be more like House MD because Watson is a doctor, and he's not really trying to solve murder mysteries or anything like that, which is generally Sherlock's purview.
So I did watch the first season. I watched all of it, and it was, like, 13 episodes. And and I'm on currently on the second season, which is airing on CBS right now. I think it's up up to episode eight at the moment. And, yeah, it is definitely more of a House MD copy with a veneer of Sherlock Holmes familiarity. Meaning, you know, you have, Sherlock Holmes. You have Watson, John Watson, Mycroft, this female that was Sherlock's love interest. I forget her name. Yeah. The name escapes me. And then, of course, some new characters that were created for this specifically for this show where, Watson has this clinic, this foundation, funded by Sherlock Holmes's money that he left in his will because, you know, he faked his death.
And they tried to solve like these unsolvable medical cases, basically, which is why they're right above or or next or in the same building that's, that that runs a hospital that is, managed by, Watson's ex wife. And I think the characters, names escape me at the moment. But, but they're all basically, they're all, like, psychologically damaged in some way, which is why Watson handpicked these people because on top of trying to solve these these cases, at least as the first season goes, the way the colleagues are reading it, they're also part of an experiment of what you know, Watson just studying them, in in their, controlled environment, so to speak.
So you have, these twins played by two different actors, but I guess they're using, like, CGI or whatever to make, the other actor look exactly like, the the other one, the main one, so to speak. And so one one suffers from severe depression. The other one suffers from alcoholism, but he's, he's now sober. And he's, so the one that suffers from severe depression, is an actual, I forget what his specialty is now that I'm I'm drawing a blank now. But but he's basically into more serious medicine. I think immunology is what is his thing.
And then you have the the twin who's more into, like, general medicine, general practice. Then you have this this sociopath who's a neuro neurologist. And and she was originally hired in the first season because Watson was suffering from brain damage. And the whole first season was him, you know, medically administering, a cocktail of drugs to help manage his brain damage symptoms so he can continue working when he should be instead resting and recovering. He wants he he's basically trying to speed run his recovery with, all these, medications that he prescribed to himself through someone else.
And, of course, at the time, in the first season, you had Moriarty. That's the Sherlock connection. He decides to fuck around with, Watson by blackmailing one of his colleagues, Shinwell, to switch his medications with other other medications to mess with his brain or whatever, which is which was weird because, well, there they never clarify what the end goal was. Was the end goal just to mess with his brain? Because, you know, so so the medications that he switched it with was like wow. I can't speak. Or hallucinogenic hallucinogenics.
So they were making him hallucinate and and and and have him have mood swings. And then there was another one that was messing with his blood pressure, I think. And then he was and then, of course, Moriarty started blackmailing the, the sociopath slash neurologist to destroy his his collection of, his cultures. I I don't know. It's I'm I'm I I don't know medical terms, but I think they were, like, culture cells, his cultures, which could be used to, fight different ailments. So so you have, the twins. You have the the the sociopath, and then you have this, this Asian girl who was adopted by, a family in Texas. So she has, like, a or Georgia. I think it was Texas. Somewhere in the South. So she has, like, a southern accent.
So naturally, she has, I guess, abandonment issues. So she's always trying to please. She's also, I think she was also in in immunology. I'm I'm so bad with medical terms. Immunology? I think that's how you say it. Immunity. You know, she fights she she, she's involved with the immunity system the immune system. So immuno I think it's immunology. Anyways, so the way the first season eventually ends, one of the, actually, both twins get poisoned in a way because it was, attacking their genetic code. And and it was actually only one of them was targeted because, apparently, Moriarty did not realize that there was a twin brother. So it just it was just double the fun. By attacking one, it affected the other because they, you know, they're twins. They're genetic, twins, identical.
So they both got affected with the same thing. And the cultures that would have saved them were obviously destroyed by the sociopath because she was blackmailed into doing it, not realizing, that they would be needed to save those two guys. And so, anyway, in the end of the first season, it, you know, once once the sociopath finally confesses to to what her, because she felt guilty, obviously, when she saw that now both twins were dying, and it's her fault. She decide she she came clean, with Watson. And so Watson now knowing that Moriarty was involved with all this, he gets him infected with the same tactic based but, you know, attacking his genetic code because that's what in this show, Watson's a geneticist. He's a geneticist, and, and, I forget what other specialty. But but, yeah, he's all about the DNA, your genetic code. And so he was able to use that, against him. And in order for Moriarty to be healed, you're gonna have to give him if you want the antidote for you, then you have to give him the antidote for the twins. And so that's how that's how the first season ended. And, of course, he ended up not healing Moriarty, so he killed him. So he went against his Hippocratic oath of do not harm.
And, and the reason being is because Moriarty kept causing harm to him and and his his company, his, his coworkers. And, of course, he he killed Sherlock because that's what he believed, that Sherlock was murdered by Moriarty. So he had more than ample reasons to, to just let him die. And, of course, there would be no way to trace it to him because he he died of a disease, even though it was genetically engineered by by Watson in the same manner that Moriarty did the same to the to the twins. So, anyways, he dies. The second season begins with the sociopath, now being you know, because of what she did, she quit the job or she was forced to resign. I forget.
And she started and she joined a psychology group of fellow sociopaths, basically. The twins, of course, are trying to make life better, trying to, you know, get past that trauma. One of them got it worse than the other, suffered worse, so he has to walk with a cane. But he got involved with, that Asian girl, because, you know, they were kind of showing that relationship build up in the first season. So now in the second season, they're now they're, you know, they're happy. They're a happy couple. And, and the second season is, for the most part, outside of the Sherlock verse because, you know, they got rid of my Moriarty.
And Mycroft showed up for a few episodes threatening to, close down the home found the Watson Foundation because he suspects that his brother is, in fact, alive and is ruining his company because in his will on top of giving the foundation to to Watson for his brother Mycroft, he gave him this medical formula. But he actually it was basically not a Trojan horse, but it was basically like a like a time bomb because the whatever the drug was, the form the drug formula that he gave Mycroft, it, it was, it wasn't a it wasn't a stable one or whatever. And it after, like, three months of circulation or whatever, it just started going bad or whatever. And, so that's affecting, obviously, his, his stock value and and the company itself.
So then he he so Mycross start threatening Watson, with taking over taking away the foundation if, because he's Holmes. And, outside of, even though his brother, you know, willed the foundation to to to Watson, somehow, legally, he could still take take control of it because he's the living relative. So outside of that little subplot that they stop that there doesn't seem to be a a, conclusion. It it just they just ignored it the past, few episodes and just continued with, you know, these medical stories. Outside of that, it's pretty much just a medical show, with these weird situations.
The last one actually was kind of, AI based because there was this kid who, basically, you know, the AI psychosis thing that's going around in in in the news and and social media. Apparently, you know, young kids, developing these, relationships with these chatbots, these AI chatbots, to the point where some of them are committing suicide or self harming themselves or or whatever. So in this episode, the last one they had there was this this kid with autism who, you know, had this AI that was making him do bad decisions.
Like, one was the first one wasn't so bad. It was to convince him to to confess to this girl that, was his lab partner in in high school, his chem hence chem lab partner. And, of course, she is not into him at all. She's just a friend. But the the chatbot was convincing the kid that no. No. If you're not if you were reading the signs correctly, she's in fact into you. So you're gonna you're you're actually gonna score with this grand gesture, asking her to the prom. And, of course, it blew up in his face. And then but whatever. A little embarrassment.
But then the AI was convincing him that there's something insidious going on in that girl's household, so you need to prove it. And if you prove it, you know, that the the father is, you know, doing something bad to her or whatever, you'll you'll you'll be the hero, and then you'll win her over that way. So he went to the to their house again in, like, the middle of the night looking through their garbage. And, of course, the father comes out and, chases him away. So as he runs, into the street, he gets he gets hit by a car by a moving car because, you know, he wasn't looking. And he, you know, he's in the hospital healing or whatever, but he's suffering from from this whole AI psychosis. Because even though logically he understands that, you know, this is not a real thing, He still is letting it influence his his, decisions.
But outside of that, you know, Watson started asking him, like, why did he go there and whatnot. And he was the kid explained her his observations about how he noticed that the the girl's, walking her, her her gait changed. So she felt like he felt like something was like like, he was he was thinking that maybe she was being abused physically or whatever. So Watson sends, you know, two coworkers to their house, and that girl starts she she faints in front of them. And it turns out her brain is hemorrhaging because, she's part of a the cheerleader squad in of the school. And apparently, she, she had a head injury, during one of the practices, and they didn't think much of it. But in reality, her brain was hemorrhaging, and so they needed to resolve it. But then, of course, on top of that, there was, this other weird syndrome that she was suffering from that was genetic that was discovered later in the show. So, you know, it's still a very crazy diagnosis, like, HouseMD based show, with just the Watson, Sherlock branding.
I still find the show interesting because the characters themselves are interesting enough that that I'm, I'm invested to continue watching it. Some people find Morris Chestnut portrayal of Watson to be unsympathetic or something. Like, they think he's too arrogant or whatnot. I don't I don't quite see it that way. He he just seems very medically folk like, very medical focused, and and he doesn't really come off as to he he definitely doesn't come off as arrogant at all. There are times where he he he does seem more what's what am I looking for? How am I to describe it?
Not sympathetic, but more interested in in the issue itself, the medical issue itself. And, and and because of that, he doesn't really his social skills aren't as, as good as, you know, a normal person, so to speak. So outside of that, the characters are interesting enough. So I'm I'm still watching it for that reason. But I can't I don't know where the show is going. Like, it doesn't really because unlike this is definitely one of those shows that's just it's mostly episodic. There's no real subplots happening in the background as as much as the first season. The first season definitely was a little more, there was a a overreaching story arc because of the whole Moriarty character influencing, people, you know, Shinwell, messing with his medication, and then, forcing that other girl to destroy his cultures, and then, you know, then the big the big finale in the end of that first season. This season, like I said, they started with the whole Mycroft thing. Well, first, they brought back Sherlock, which was a nice which was an interesting surprise and then having two episodes with him, you know, reminiscing of all times and and, you know, Sherlock catching up with what Watson's been doing with the foundation and, of course, sabotaging his brother Mycroft. But then he disappears, and then Mycroft enters the fray.
So basically, he's threatened Watson. And then he basically tells him flat out, you know, if you don't tell me if you don't admit that what that Sherlock is alive and tell me where he is, I will shut down the foundation. But if you tell me what I wanna hear, I'll I'll I'll be hands off and and leave you to your devices. But then after that episode, he just hasn't been around for, like, the last two or three, and it seems that, you know, Watson has control of his foundation again. He's able to do whatever he wants. So I guess that's implying that he did, in fact, admit to Mycroft that, yes, Sherlock is alive.
But he wouldn't know where he is because Sherlock just said, I'm not gonna tell you where I am. I'm just gonna go. And he did. So I don't know about that. But regardless, I'm still interested enough to continue watching it. It's interesting enough, the the episodes, even though I don't know where it's going. It's definitely not, the most quality of, writing, but the characters are interesting enough, to keep me going. And I guess even without a script, I can do a short episode. So and that wraps up the show. If you are watching this on YouTube, don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe.
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