Elementary. Episode 16: "Details"

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Like Siege Malvar says about this show: “I’m not comfortable with the New Yorker Sherlock Holmes. He could have been his own character; now he can’t break out of the mold.”

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"What if I throw this basketball to break the mold, eh?"

To paraphrase it: This show could have been its own series. It could’ve stood on its own as a great procedural drama with a formidable cast. But by riding the wave of the BBC’s modern adaptation, CBS forced itself into the Sherlock Holmes mold, and now it can’t get out.

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"Yeah, you already said that. Now leave me alone with this cadaver."

So... Detective Bell has a brother. If only the show were consistent in giving the other characters back stories.

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"A Watson-Bell love affair? I totally forbid it."

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