Lucy Liu To Play Watson In CBS’ Modern Sherlock Holmes Pilot ‘Elementary’
The name is Watson, Joan Watson. Lucy Liu is set to play Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick in CBS’ drama pilot Elementary, whose tweaks to Arthur Connan Doyle’s classic include switching Watson’s gender to female. The project, written by Robert Doherty, is set in present day and stars Jonny Lee Miller as eccentric Brit Holmes, a former consultant to Scotland Yard whose addiction problems led him to a rehab center in New York City.
Good lord this is…ummm what.
I don’t fucking want this.
Okay this is kind of awesome. John Watson cast as a WOC? And the series takes place in New York City? I’m willing to give this a watch. Now, if only Sherlock could be cast as a woman too, that’d be awesome…
This is…interesting. I’m with Macey, I’ll watch this with an open mind, could be better than expected!
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