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I may be repeating myself but it would be hard to go wrong with Sherlock
Holmes as your base story but the writers have captured even more than the
original with this series. The 2 main players Sherlock (played exceptionally
well by Jonny Lee Miller) and Watson (played just as well by Lucy Liu) just add
depth to an already interesting story each week. This can be called a bromance,
but one of the bros just happens to be a woman. He said that from the very
beginning and I think it's really an apt description. There's this idea that a
man and a woman can't be together on a show especially without needing to be
together sexually or in love or whatever, and this is really about the
evolution of a friendship and how that happens. Watching that should be as much
the story of this show as the mysteries that you see week in and week out about
who killed who. I just know that after a few episodes I was already addicted.
The addition of Aidan Quinn as Captain Tobias Gregson of the New York City
Police Department was genius. He genuinely likes Holmes and the two have mutual
respect for each other so we get to avoid the good cop bad cop plot lines that
many shows that have talented citizens playing at detectives, I love The
Mentalist but this re-imagining of the Sherlock Holmes story takes the genre to
a new level of entertainment.
This second season moves the bar up a bit since Watson (Lucy Liu) is accepted
as part of the crime solving team by Holmes, this also brings a bit more
entertainment since if the show proceeded as more of a 1-man-show it would get
stale. The best thing about this show is not really the cases as much as the
interaction of the characters, I can only hope this season maintains the high
level of quality television that the first season did.
UPDATE: People still seem to think there will be a romance but this is what the
show's creator said (Hollywood Reporter 7 Oct, 2013):
"Don't expect Watson and Sherlock Holmes to fall in love on
"Elementary." The dynamic detective duo played by Lucy Liu and Jonny
Lee Miller on the hit CBS drama won't be crossing over to
"Moonlighting" romantic territory anytime soon.
"I feel like a broken record, so forgive me, but it's just not what we set
out to do," creator Robert Doherty told a New York audience at a recent
PaleyFest event. "At the end of the day, it's too easy to turn it into a
romance ... We've been happy with what we've done up to this point, so I don't
see any reason to mess with it. We want to mess with Sherlock's life and Joan's
life in many other different ways, but we don't have to put them
together.""
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Perfection
on TV
By curlygirrl
IMHO, there is not a better show on television. Jonny Lee Miller is absolute
perfection as Sherlock Holmes. (That he did not receive an Emmy nomination
makes a mockery of the Emmys.) Lucy Liu is almost his equal. I find the
interaction between these two to be so unique in that, as much as I love their
characters, I don't necessarily wish for their relationship to become romantic.
Rather I am charmed by Holmes' growing respect for Watson's abilities. They are
both highly intelligent individuals and the writers deserve kudos for such