First, there was John Watson. Penned by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes’ medic pal has come to be the epitome of the ordinary, humble sidekick to a brilliant detective.
The sleuth and doctor’s imbalanced partnership has returned, not just in Doyle’s adaptations, from Sherlock to the gender-flipped Elementary, but also in crime dramas with no immediate link to the detective saga. This formula works like a charm, but risks getting repetitive, drowning in a sea of delightful procedurals.
