The Watsonian Weekly

CBS's Watson draws to a close and we have opinions on that. And why we're reviewing Sherlock & Co episodes that don't have Watson in them, I do not know!

This year Reichenbach day falls on Monday, just like it did in 1891 and boy is Watson just taking it hard. Either he's in a coma or needing a brain tumor removed, it's all pillow forts and pie to talk about for the bull pups. There will never be a more Watson week of Watsons! Unless it's next week!

Our spoiler-filled reviews of CBS Watson's latest dying dictator episode and podcast Sherlock & Co.'s final part of "The Three Garridebs" inspires more chat than usual, even after some big cuts! (Mostly regarding Doctor Who.) When Watson's in trouble, we just talk like conversation will do for him what clapping did for Tinkerbelle. Enjoy! (Or tolerate! Just listen, okay?)

With Sherlock & Co. and CBS's Watson both placing Watson in dire peril with varying degrees of creative ability, we get right to reviewing the current stuff. So let's get to it!

In a test to see if the Watsonian Weekly can record guerilla style like John H. Watson does on Sherlock & Co., we attempt to cover this year's 221B Con in Atlanta, Georgia and manage to give you practically no information. John Watson is a genius!

We're right to our reviews of Sherlock & Co. and CBS's Watson this week, because Watson is in trouble in two shows and we have places to be! 

The bull pups are full of thoughts this week as we find Watson in dire straits in both podcast land and TV land! He may have killed Moriarty in CBS Watson, but he seems to have brought another person back from the dead with just the power of his mind. And Sherlock & Co. Watson could be in for a Moriarty-based hiatus all his own after a very controversial final chapter of "Six Napoleons." Get ready for one of our longest episodes yet!

It's almost like the bull pups sensed the upcoming tremors in the Watson Force, even though they recorded before the CBS Watson cancellation news.  T'was a week when both Sherlock & Co. and CBS Watson had a few bones. that needed picking! And apologies for the audio quality of this episode -- lower rez due to the high level of Watson content this month!

Things eventually get weird this week as the bull pup who was apparently our grounding influence didn't make it.

Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers as we discuss the latest offerings from Sherlock & Co., Young Sherlock, and Watson for a very long session with the bull pups.

There's a lot of crime to cover this week, between the mid-season opener of CBS's Watson and the last part of Sherlock & Co.'s adaptation of "Stockbroker's Clerk."  How are these people not in jail? But that's a question that gets asked a lot in other venues these days, so maybe we'll forgive Watson and friends this week.

A new play, more CBS Watson on the horizon, and this is not your grandfather's "Stockbroker's Clerk" on Sherlock & Co. And why did that engineer's thumb have to be a story? All this, this week on the Weekly!

It takes very little to get us excited about a single detail on Sherlock & Co.'s latest episode, one name we haven't heard mentioned in all this time, and in "The Stockbroker's Clerk," one of the most lacklustre adventures of Sherlock Holmes? Inconcievable!

Our review of the second half of the Sherlock & Co. "Beryl Coronet" might have some issues about being stuck in a bookshop, like Watson himself. But there might be dinosaurs by the end of the podcast, if you stick around!

What? The Literary Agent's Ten Percent is at the start this time? Get ready to suffer through that voice before we get to Sherlock & Co.'s Beryl Coronet surprises. 

In celebration of a Watson-filled "Musgrave Ritual" on Sherlock & Co., we're also doing a retro-review of the Granada "Musgrave Ritual," since it had Watson joining what was originally a Sherlock-only tale as well. Enjoy all the Musgrave!

Mainly, our review of the third part of Sherlock & Co.'s "Musgrave Ritual," and probably way too much discussion of the thickness of ice . . . especially for winter.

A bit of news, both good and bad, then on to a frigid time at Hurlstone for Watson and a trip to Switzerland for his literary agent.

We cover a whole lot of "M"s this episode as the Montague Street Incorrigibles gather some Watsonians to study moustaches, bull pup Maddy gets a meritous medal (of sorts -- sure, it's a coin, but it's kinda like a medal), we talk about Musgraves, and wind up with a Moriarty mention on a Mediterranean voyage. Suspicious, isn't it?

Get ready for the shortest episode of the Watsonian Weekly in years, harkening back to those days when we talked about Clark Russell novels chapter by chapter . . . but no Clark Russell this time, just a full five or six minutes of nonsense!

We're early this week to finish out reviewing the holiday version of "The Man With The Twisted Lip" by Sherlock & Co., which had to have been the most Christmas-based Sherlock Holmes drama in history. Will it be a new Christmas tradition? Could be!

A little bit of news about the latest meeting of the John H. Watson Society and a lot of reviewing of Sherlock & Co.'s second part of "The Man With The Twisted Lip," and overall a shorter episode to close out the year.

Can "The Man With The Twisted Lip" be done as a Christmas story? We're finding out thanks to Sherlock & Co. And who wrote the worst Christmas story ever, teaching kids about explosives, and what does he have to do with Watson? Compliments of the season, Watsoniacs!

The one thing about Sherlock & Co. -- having killing off Watson's one potential wife, it gets to focus on other aspects of Watson besides his relationships. And this week we got his thoughts on his mother country.

The Bull Pups are reviewing part one of Second Stain on Sherlock & Co., Watson and his Literary Agent probably don't meet, and colorful phrases from one of Watson's earlier cases can serve as fandom titles.

Sherlock & Co. brings their Hound of the Baskerville in for a landing and we're here for it! Also, is Watson being extremely stupid actually a good thing?  An extra long episode gets into all of it, with a special guest for Houndsgiving!

A little news on CBS Watson's coming family member and they into discussion of the penultimate Sherlock & Co. Hound episode. And Schenectady, New York gets it's moment in the Literary Agent's Ten Percent. 

Get back to CBS's Watson if you haven't already, as Sherlock, Mycroft, and Lestrade all appear in a recent episode. And the latest adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles gets a brand spanking new detective insterted into the classic novel AND SHE'S GOT A GUN! We'll chat about that, of course, but listen to that other podcast first!

You never know who'll you meet on the moor . . . unless you've read the book. Our latest review of Sherlock & Co., and that's pretty much it!

Watson hearing the late Mary Morstan's voice on the moors? We have a theory on that as we get into the latest Sherlock & Co. bit as the hound of the Baskervilles roams the moor. A few thoughts on CBS Watson, but it's mainly Sherlock & Co. of which we must talk. 

As Sherlock Holmes & Co continues their adaptaion of The Hound of the Baskervilles, we are certain of one thing and one thing only: Mariana better not die in this novel!

The second season of CBS's Watson has brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead as is original Canon, with Robert Carlyle picking up the baton from a hallucinated Matt Berry voice last season. While we're not reviewing every Watson episode this time out, we had to do this one!

When Sherlock & Co. adapted its last novel Watson lost his love, and now its Marianna's turn with a new novel and a new relationship that ends before it even begins . . . even if it might not be human. Curious? So are we.

CBS's Watson show starring Morris Chestnut is back and the John H. Watson Society bull pups have some thoughts. Can Watson keep a girlfriend? Why do we have to watch again next week to see Robert Carlyle's Sherlock Holmes? Get readly for rambling and spoilers a'plenty!

Watson is trying to investigate a case on YouTube and a little more reticent about it on Sherlock & Co. Hope he finds his mojo soon!

We finally get to meet John Watson's future moor buddy this week on the latest Sherlock & Co. and we have thoughts on that guy. And we make it through talking about a morgue scene without mentioning cake. Why would any Sherlock Holmes fan mention cake in that context? Why indeed ...

Sometimes, somebody tries to set up a point but just makes matters all the more confusing. Our initial review of Sherlock & Co. has all sorts of things that have nothing to do with the episode, but still manages to have spoilers. So beware the Hound!

We're all pretty anxious for Baskerville Autumn, but that doesn't mean we can't go on about doctors Watson and Armstrong, one of whom just wants your ears, while the other is looking for a more literal part of your body. And eventually, we mention Napoleon. What more could you want from an obscure Sherlock Holmes podcast?

Whether it's Pittsburgh or Cambridge, this week Watson just can't seem to stay on target for where he's expected to be. 

There's actual Watson news, the pups are on board for the latest Sherlock & Co.'s "Missing Three Quarter" adaptation, and who missed a certain week in Liverpool. 

Nothing this week but our sigh of relief reviewing the third part of Sherlock & Co.'s adaptation of "Mazarin Stone." 

How many times can one talk about Star Trek in a podcast about John H. Watson and never mention Giordi LaForge? A lot more than you would think! One of the worst reviews of an episode of Sherlock & Co. we've seen during an episode of the Watson podcast dedicated to people who are driving around Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico for Sherlockian fannish reasons. Come for the news bits, stay for the first ever Literary Agent's Ten Percent segment with a stardate!

How do you adapt "The Mazarin Stone" without adapting "The Mazarin Stone?" This week we found out! And isn't adapting old Sherlock Holmes stories "folly" anyway according to one Sherlock Holmes fan of note? This is the week to wonder such things!

Is there another star of Watson's own who besides Watson? Does changing the ending to "Abbey Grange" make it even more depressing? And what the heck was Watson's literary agent actually doing on his honeymoon? It's all here!

Watson is bringing us a new Sherlock, we have news of a third Watson brother, and modern day John hangs out with the elderly and loves it. Here we go again!

The episode starts with the bull pups reviewing the Sherlock & Co. start to their version of "Abbey Grange," but if you hang on until we pass the 35 minute mark, you can hear the John H. Watson Society discuss a story that appeared just before Sherlock's first tale in The Strand Magazine that seems it might be about Sherlock Holmes as well.

Somehow discussed the much enjoyed conclusion to Sherlock & Co.'s "Priory School," Mariana leads us into an international soda pop discussion. And who is Sherlock the AI's Watson according to a certain site? Scraping the news for that single Watson story.

Moriarty pops up a lot in this episode. Perhaps that's why it ends a little more abruptly than usual.

The bull pups run through part one of Sherlock & Co.'s Priory School adaptation looking for a certain brother, then the Literary Agent's Ten Per Cent pushes his novels. It is what it is, as always!

A very short episode discussing the Sherlock & Co last of "Blanched Soldier." And how do you spot a lectroid Watson? Asking for a friend.