she was only suspended for a few months, and at the start of s5 it was revealed that her license is still active (it was stolen to get prescription drugs).

If you're in the US, you can see the last 2.5 minutes on the official Elementary YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I think the complaint is also that the "title character" doesn't exist; this show isn't called Sherlock or Holmes or Sherlock Holmes. One of the things that was supposed to make Elementary unique was the focus on an equal partnership. That case would be stronger if they devoted equal time and narrative energy to both…

Archie is also a character in the original ACD story.

I guess Kitty made that "package deal" assumption too? this ret-con in which Joan's role with Kitty is simply another view of Sherlock rather than evolution from irritant/teacher/mentor/"someone I consider family" actually explored a bit in s3 is really tedious. tho in retrospect, they'd already started writing Joan…

IIRC they forgot to hang it in the episode immediately following its debut, but it's been there ever since.

When Joan told Lin she'd talked to her mother on the phone, Lin commented that her Mandarin must be good. We didn't hear it, though.

she interviewed a woman speaking Cantonese in 4x14, but Joan responded in English.

at one point during the episode, the writer excitedly tweeted the laundry list of topics that had already come up and been dismissed, with more to come. like that was the goal. so much potential, so often wasted. why, show? why?!?

yes, we've been told multiple times she knows Mandarin, but this is the first time she spoke it in an episode.

he's back as an EP tho I don't know that he's writing for Elementary now - he just tweeted about writing Star Trek.

Ato Essandoh got another job (on Chicago Med) - good for him, terrible for Alfredo fans, and a real loss for Elementary. They should have made him recurring when they had the chance.

it's referring to the crime shown in the "hook" or opening segment of the episode.

I also liked the ending as a moment between the characters, but I agree with some of the "meh" comments above that the episode was far from being greater than the sum of its parts. It felt a bit like they grabbed a handful of stock plot pieces and jammed them together, with Sherlock's offer of the apartment a cherry…

I think they only really pulled off a well executed long-term arc in s1, which is one reason why I keep hoping they'll so it again. I didn't feel that s2 or s3 had integrated breadcrumb trails (although I do trace the earliest hints of Sherlock's relapse back to Alistair's death the season before, but they…

Vikner is older than Sherlock, who infodumped in the episode that Vikner was born in 1969, while Sherlock is a few years younger than JLM, who was born in 1972.

comments from different members of the writing staff and from the showrunner suggest each episode is written is some isolation from the others - Rob Doherty is part of the process with all of them, but the writers' room as a group is not working together as tightly as happens on other shows. if that's accurate, it's…

whether or not they did, Elementary chose to adapt ACD's works in a number of ways, one of which was - at least at first - treating Watson as a fully equal partner to Holmes and to the show. The name of the show points to it NOT being a purely Holmes-centric adaptation; rather it's about the conversation between…

I was struck by his expression of chagrin after making the joke about "maybe I just haven't met the right guy" - an automatic response to quip that he belatedly realized might fall flat in this situation. JLM did a great job of showing Sherlock feeling awkward and embarrassed that left me cringing in sympathy.

but the key thing that sets Elementary apart from other adaptations is that Watson is NOT a white man! That IS why many of us were intrigued by the show initially. Of course the conversation would be different if this Watson were a white man. And the problems many of us see in the portrayal of Joan Watson are endemic…