Elementary: “The Woman”/“Heroine”
Last week, Elementary concluded on a powerful final sequence in which Sherlock Holmes was sent by Moriarty to a…
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Elementary: “Risk Management”
Crime procedurals operate from the outside in. At the beginning of an episode, we are introduced to a group of people…
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Elementary: “A Landmark Story”
We—as viewers and critics—often make distinctions between episodes of a crime procedural that focus on a weekly,…
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Elementary: “Dead Man's Switch”
As his one-year sober anniversary approaches, Sherlock explains that he abhors the idea of a chip being bestowed to…
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Elementary: “Snow Angels”
As the investigation at the heart of “Snow Angels” unfolds, Sherlock Holmes makes an observation: given how skillful…
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Elementary: “Déjà Vu All Over Again”
With Joan branching out as a consulting detective in her own right, Elementary has opened the door to enabling more…
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Elementary: “Details”
The title of this week’s Elementary, as with many of the first season’s episodes, features a bit of a pun: While it…
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Elementary: “A Giant Gun, Filled With Drugs”
Some of the many attempts to adopt, update, or reimagine Sherlock Holmes have run aground on the misconception that…
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Elementary: “The Deductionist”
Whenever we talk about post-Super Bowl episodes, Alias’ “Phase One” looms large, for two reasons. The first is that it…
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Elementary: "The Red Team"
“The Red Team” begins where “M.” left off: a shot of the wall above Sherlock’s mantle, focused on a small piece of…
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Elementary: “M.”
By virtue of diving headfirst into the Sherlock canon and being the first episode that’s not a mystery of the week,…
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Elementary: “Dirty Laundry”
Myles is off mingling with the critical elite at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, so your regular Elementa…
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Elementary: “The Leviathan”
There was never truly any chance that Joan Watson would spend only six weeks with Sherlock Holmes. Elementary may have…
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Elementary: “You Do It To Yourself”
There is an intense spatiality to crime procedurals. While the interpersonal conflict between a detective and a suspect…
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Elementary: “The Long Fuse”
It doesn’t take a metaphor scientist to know that “The Long Fuse” has created a conundrum of sorts. Should this review…
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Elementary: “One Way To Get Off”
Earlier today, CBS ordered two additional episodes of Elementary for this season, bringing the total to 24. This is…
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Elementary: “Flight Risk”
Procedurals with larger casts often divide their storytelling into two separate cases, allowing the narrative to spread…
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Elementary: “Lesser Evils”
“Lesser Evils” ends with Sherlock catching his man, or at least a man. The chief of surgery wasn’t actually guilty of…
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Elementary: “The Rat Race”
While Sherlock Holmes is intended to be one of the world’s smartest detectives, there’s one variable that makes the…