Elementary Recap: Literally

Recaps

By PennyDreadful | Tuesday, October 2, 2012 | 10:00 am | 7 Comments
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Holmes intuits that the missing woman had a significant life change 2 years ago – plastic surgery or weight loss.  Then he wanders around sniffing things, while Gregson tells Watson he worked with Holmes 10 years ago in England. 

Wait! Mecca is in the other direction!

Now Holmes deduces the victim knew the attacker.  Yet again he’s way behind your very own PennyDreadful.  Holmes also determines the attacker took a ring box, which Holmes helpfully points out is done by killers, not kidnappers. 

And then he redecorates.  With a consulting detective, you get the total package.  Murder solved AND a new home decor.

What the hell is up with Holmes’ voice?  It’s just one big monotone mumble.  HEY!  Freaking enunciate!  And show some damned emotion!  Holmes – the real one – is an irascible, excitable, emotional guy, not a sap but a guy with strong feelings and opinions.  This guy?  I would recommend mortician as an excellent career choice cause he sure has the voice for it.

Down at the precinct, the cops are interrogating the doc, while Holmes and Watson watch.  Watson asks Holmes how he guesses, he says he observes, and then we get to how did he know she was a surgeon.  Holmes explains.  Then he busts into the interview room and demands a list of tall men in the couple’s life.  (This is based on the size 11 bloody shoeprint at the murder scene, not some wish by Holmes to get it on with a well-hung guy.  Too bad).  This leads to Holmes and Watson questioning a guy who was arrested on a stalking charge several years ago.  Yes, he conveniently has a box of size 11 shoes in his office, and no I don’t think he did it.  How do I know?  Because we never see him again.  Great red herring!

As an aside, I’m glad to see from the glacial pace of this program that CBS hasn’t abandoned it’s “one foot in the grave” demographic.  Nice and slow for the oldsters.  I once actually sat outside and watched grass grow.  That was a fascinating marvel of speed compared to this show.

Even Rose can follow along.

Speaking of, we see Holmes keeping bees.  How did a guy who just got out of rehab what, 2 days ago? get a fully furnished apartment with bees?  Daddy didn’t buy those.  Holmes tells Watson he doesn’t need her, he’s finished with drugs, she should go on a vacation. 

She’s just hanging on every word, isn’t she?

She doesn’t, next morning she joins him down at the precinct records room.  Watson tests Holmes for drugs (he’s not high.  Of course not.  The relapse will come in a Very Special Sweeps Week Episode), while he posits that the killer has killed before.  Doesn’t the NYPD use computers?  How come Law & Order uses computers, but this show doesn’t?  Who hangs around the records room anymore?

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Named for lurid serialized stories (so like today's reality TV) that sold for a penny a copy in Victorian Britain, former National Spelling Bee finalist and multiple Science Fair award winner PennyDreadful has been writing for TVGasm since 2011, and cites MST3K as inspiration.

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7 Comments

  1. 1
    KartofflMuter
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 11:01 am

    So-I predict-this turkey is dead by Thanksgiving. Ja? Glad you mentioned it. I’m always telling my husband I wish the diggity damned people in charge would run to the drug store to buy a light bulb. He says it’s because they want you to see the original in the movie theatre. Then I remind him we’re watching a TV show??? Grr. Do we have to buy huge screens,draw the drapes (I have no drapes but thanks) and wait till dark?).I find that in convenient. There really should be a control button that says “Lighten up”

  2. 2
    Gypsy Gypsy
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 11:21 am

    …says the “Pot”.

  3. 3
    Wills
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    Holmes franticness (is that a word) throughout the show made me stabby. Thinking this show won’t get a season pass on my DVR.

  4. 4
    zerocool
    Posted October 2, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    As the biggest Jonny Lee Miller fan (see name “zerocool”), of course I loved it. But I can see why some people wouldn’t, especially after the excellence of BBC/PBS’s Sherlock. I think it’s a good bridge of interesting story & crime-scene drama that the seniors love on CBS.

    I was curious so I looked up the ratings. It came in 10th place – second highest rating for a new show this week. Pretty damn good so unless they mess up royally it will be around for awhile. BTW, the producers had tried to get the U.S. rights of Sherlock but were turned down. It seems like a decent copy – anyone catch the theme song – it sounds just like the U.K. version.

    I’ll keep watching unless Lucy Liu irritates me too much.

  5. 5
    ash310
    Posted October 3, 2012 at 6:43 am

    The theme song is the same as they used on PBS History Detectives which was very different!

  6. 6
    merry
    Posted October 3, 2012 at 6:45 am

    Thanks for the confirmation that I was right not to bother. The minute they cast Lucy Liu as a “sober companion” I cringed.

    There’s a lot riding on the Holmes character, of course, but I really think if you screw up on Watson you’re dead in the water. The idea of a female Watson could be great, but not done this way: it’s an essential part of the character, from the beginning, that Watson is a somewhat traumatized adreneline junkie who needs Holmes just like Holmes needs him. He (or she) doesn’t get paid to be Holmes’s partner because Holmes would never have tolerated an assistant chosen and compensated by someone else.

    Of course, this version is more accessible to the usual CBS audience than BBC’s Sherlock, and (sadly!) it’ll get a hell of a lot more episodes. I’m sure it will get a following and will probably be around for a long time, but then again you could say the same for Hee Haw or The Love Boat.

  7. 7
    Lizbot
    Posted October 3, 2012 at 7:54 am

    I feel like Johnny Lee Miller is a very good actor with horrible taste in parts (at least on the small screen). Or maybe someone at CBS has blackmail material on him?

    I was hoping for a great come-back vehicle for Lucy Liu, but her part sounds like a dud too.

    One of the problem with shows like these (and it’s a pet peeve for me with mystery novels too) is that in order to do a good job of writing a mystery being solved by someone of above average intelligence, you kind of have to be of above average intelligence yourself. I’m not saying that the writers are stupid — I’m sure they’re at least average, but I doubt they’re eligible to apply for mensa. And since they’re the voice of the supposed genius, how are they supposed to portray genius if they’re not genius themselves?

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