Elementary - Season 2

Elementary’s first season followed a simple arc with complex origins. The season was efficient in its focus on…

“Art In The Blood” opens as one expects it would, as Mycroft sits down with Sherlock and tells him the truth about…

“It’s a simple matter of perspective.”

When the final arc of Elementary’s first season began, it didn’t announce itself as such. The show had seen false…

We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?

More than anything else, this week’s Elementary is a strong case for the value of procedural world-building.…

If you’re a regular reader, you may have noticed that whenever the show makes an overt reference to the Conan Doyle…

The final moments of “Ears To You” could have at least been somewhat ambiguous.

In its second season, Elementary has tried to emphasize its serial aspects in big ways and small ones. “The One…

Earlier today, former A.V. Club contributor Noel Murray posted an essay proposing to “Ban The Backstory.” It’s a…

It’s been a running complaint of mine that Elementary has a murder problem. Despite being in a position to tell a…

One of the central tensions of any procedural is the way each episode must balance two different speeds of…

There was never any doubt that Moriarty would return to Elementary. After leaving her fate open-ended, apprehended…

Networks have been trying to make “midseason finales”/“fall finales”/“winter finales”—take your pick of terms—happen…

Sherlock Holmes would be a terrible narrator of his own life. This is clear early in “Tremors,” when he embellishes…

“No one can accept something like that forever.”

When I returned home from dinner, I discovered my DVR had not been recording the first eight minutes of “Blood Is…

We never see the murder that kicks off the central mystery in “The Marchioness.” By the time Sherlock and Joan visit…

Sherlock Holmes knew that Thomas Gregson—Tommy to his family and neighbors—was separated from his wife. He observed…

“Ancient History” begins with the search for a case to solve. Holmes, not finding any of the NYPD’s open cases…