Watson Season 2 Episode 20 Begins Wrapping Things Up, But Why Did We Need That Weird Cliffhanger?

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If it wasn’t obvious before that Watson is ending, it is now.

Watson Season 2 Episode 20 ended Mary’s storyline, suggested that Watson needs a resolution to his brain tumor, and that Ingrid likely is going to be arrested for Beck’s murder.

It also had a weird, random, and soap-like cliffhanger that didn’t seem necessary with only one episode left.

Watson Season 2 Episode 20 Offered a Strange Birth Story

Television births are going to be dramatic, messy, and life-threatening in one way or another. That’s a given on every medical drama.

Watson Season 2 Episode 20 took an unusual path by having the OBGYN be the one in crisis long before Lauren or the babies were.

I have to hand it to them — that was way more original than having one of the triplets die or be in extremely bad shape.

There won’t be much time to have any type of story surrounding the triplets now, since this was the penultimate episode, so my hopes for a realistic NICU afterbirth story are mostly dashed.

Watson did put them in the NICU instead of whisking them away and magically making them the same as full-term babies, which was a good start.

There is a lot of potential drama in NICUs, and not just from medical issues. When my nieces and nephew were first born, they weren’t all discharged from the NICU at the same time, and it’s common for preemie parents to have to split their time between home and the hospital when they have kids in both places.

That can be beyond exhausting, especially while trying to bond with multiple new babies at once, and brand-new parents like Adam and Lauren are likely to need help.

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If only Watson were getting a third season, it could explore some of this alongside new cases at the hospital. What a shame!

I haven’t been thrilled with Watson Season 2, yet I’m heartbroken there’s only one more episode left, especially since we’re missing out on some potential storylines and wrapping up others in weird ways.

We did have some of the mandatory dramatic labor drama, which, once again, used the trope of an inexperienced person being talked through a medical procedure over the phone.

I’ll never love that trope, but at least Mary was talking to an intern, not a layperson who had never heard of any of the medical procedures she was describing.

Thankfully, it all worked out fine, and Lauren’s subsequent crisis was merely a stepping stone to Watson encouraging Adam to use the skills he taught him to figure out what was wrong.

I wouldn’t have been able to take it if Lauren had died. I’m not all that attached to her as a character, but Adam’s grief would have been too much to bear so close to the end, especially since Watson is severely ill himself.

Watson’s Road Trip Was One Of The Strangest Parts of The Hour

Mary convinced Watson to drive with her to a specialist in Baltimore, but heavy rain and the need to communicate with Adam ruined her plan.

I know it was necessary to advance the triplets’ birth plot, but it seemed ridiculous that Mary and Watson spent hours at the pie restaurant just to be close to the owner’s phone in case a doctor needed them.

Maybe it’s me, but I couldn’t imagine a restaurant owner allowing his phone and a table to be tied up like that. Then again, there were almost no customers in the store, so they weren’t taking up too much room or interfering with business.

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It was also weird that they didn’t have a specific appointment with this doctor — they could hang around for hours, and then Mary had to convince Watson to keep heading toward Baltimore instead of going back to UHOP.

Of course, since Watson promised to bring back a dozen pies, I could hardly blame him for wanting to head that way immediately!

Although the whole pie shop plot was unrealistic, it was forgivable because it led to something extremely important: Mary’s exit story.

I love the idea of Mary going to LA to become Chief of Medicine. It closes her story perfectly and also forces Watson to stop fantasizing about her.

Of course, Watson’s own exit story could be far more depressing. Let’s hope the final episode doesn’t include any time jumps to a dead or dying Watson!

Meanwhile, Watson Season 2 Episode 20 Had Two Ridiculous Cliffhangers

The Ingrid/Beck storyline has annoyed me for a while, and Ingrid casually talking to Sasha about how she killed Beck, but it was self-defense didn’t help matters. Additionally, Sasha learning that Beck impersonated her birth mother should have been on-screen so that she could react emotionally.

Lestrade showing up at the end was even worse. For some reason, people on TV never call a lawyer in these situations, and Ingrid agreeing to talk without one seems like an especially bad idea.

Hopefully, the finale doesn’t end with Ingrid in jail. That would be a horrible ending for a seriously maligned character.

Worse yet was this Sherlock business.

First, he’s only a figment of Watson’s imagination, created via the brain tumor. Now he’s real… but has amnesia.

What kind of soap opera-like nonsense is this? And by the way, is Mycroft real? Because his running the hospital like a business seems to have disappeared.

That’s how I see things, anyway. What about you?

I’d love to hear your opinions on how Watson will wrap up and whether you like the direction it seems to be heading!

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Watson airs on CBS on Sundays at 10/9c and streams on Paramount+ on Mondays. The series finale will air on May 3, 2026.

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