Elementary - Season 1

Last week, Elementary concluded on a powerful final sequence in which Sherlock Holmes was sent by Moriarty to a…

Crime procedurals operate from the outside in. At the beginning of an episode, we are introduced to a group of…

We—as viewers and critics—often make distinctions between episodes of a crime procedural that focus on a weekly,…

As his one-year sober anniversary approaches, Sherlock explains that he abhors the idea of a chip being bestowed to…

As the investigation at the heart of “Snow Angels” unfolds, Sherlock Holmes makes an observation: given how skillful…

With Joan branching out as a consulting detective in her own right, Elementary has opened the door to enabling more…

“Meet Holmes and Watson.”

The title of this week’s Elementary, as with many of the first season’s episodes, features a bit of a pun: While it…

Some of the many attempts to adopt, update, or reimagine Sherlock Holmes have run aground on the misconception that…

Whenever we talk about post-Super Bowl episodes, Alias’ “Phase One” looms large, for two reasons. The first is that…

“The Red Team” begins where “M.” left off: a shot of the wall above Sherlock’s mantle, focused on a small piece of…

By virtue of diving headfirst into the Sherlock canon and being the first episode that’s not a mystery of the week,…

Myles is off mingling with the critical elite at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, so your regular Eleme…

There was never truly any chance that Joan Watson would spend only six weeks with Sherlock Holmes. Elementary may…

There is an intense spatiality to crime procedurals. While the interpersonal conflict between a detective and a…

It doesn’t take a metaphor scientist to know that “The Long Fuse” has created a conundrum of sorts. Should this…

Earlier today, CBS ordered two additional episodes of Elementary for this season, bringing the total to 24. This is…

Procedurals with larger casts often divide their storytelling into two separate cases, allowing the narrative to…

“Lesser Evils” ends with Sherlock catching his man, or at least a man. The chief of surgery wasn’t actually guilty…

While Sherlock Holmes is intended to be one of the world’s smartest detectives, there’s one variable that makes the…