What I observe is that Joan is consistently less developed in a way that's quite telling given that she's NOT a white woman. The white female guest stars often have more details in their characterization than Watson gets despite being on screen in all but one episode (and in fact we actually learned a bit more about…

I had a similar reaction - the underlying misogyny in the serial murders and in the one in this case wasn't strongly countered other than the ME's line about husbands killing wives. Plus, we had nothing from the victim herself except her death throes - a little bit of description from those men in her life and her…

The final scene is now up on the official Elementary youtube channel, although you have to have a US IP address to be able to watch it. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

psst: Joan's woken Sherlock up more than once (which I assume you mean the time in Female of the Species): she tossed a sweater on his head while he slept on the couch in Dead Clade Walking. It's also possible — though not clear from the camera angle or conversation — that she nudged him awake in the car at the end of…

Tim Guinee, who's played Agent McNally on the show a few times.

the squirrel first appeared in The Leviathan (1x10), on a scale balanced against Joan's keys ("because they weigh the right amount"). We also saw it in Tremors (2x10), when Sherlock was resorting to science as a distraction from the case frustrations and was again weighing different things. I don't remember if we saw…

yep - I think the last time they even touched was when Joan punched him for being right that she didn't want a serious relationship with Andrew, back in 3x13.

I agree that Sherlock seemed in somewhat better spirits than much of s3, and to some extent I interpret it as having come through the experience he'd been dreading so long — I date this relapse as building from the time Alistair died in s2; it was the next episode when he stole the heroin packet from the crime scene,…

Laura Benanti's role in "Poison Pen" would qualify.

back in 2x15, Corpse de Ballet, Joan suddenly referred to her supposedly long-standing (but never mentioned before or since) volunteer work with a homeless shelter and eventually told Sherlock she did it to try to stay in contact with her biological father who'd been homeless for decades because of his disease. That…

that video is on the official Elementary youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Sherlock and Kitty might not wear their hearts emblazoned on neon t-shirts but they are emotional juggernauts compared to Joan's perennial stoicism. She gets the occasional flash of energy (a dash of contradiction here, a pinch of guilt there) while working with Sherlock, but as ever, we are told about Joan, not shown.

Having read the story first, I still wouldn't have connected "Del" with the villain - it was reading the cast list at futoncritic with the character's full name that tipped me off long before the episode aired.

I read Sherlock's extreme reaction to Bundsch as being mostly about his unresolved issues with M, Moran, Irene, and Moriarty. His eagerness to demonstrate how clever he was by revealing Samantha Wabash's plan thwarted her attempt to sacrifice herself to stop evil. That in turn triggered his guilt and shame that 1. he…

I'm not only talking about their childhoods but didn't want to post 12 inches of comment all at once; that was an illustrative sample. the focus on her surgical career has been since her patient died plus her medical expertise applied to current cases but not with info on past ones (do we know of any other patient or…

I just wrote almost 600 words in reply and decided that was excessive. instead I'll stick to a comparison: what we know about each character when they were kids:

If this show is about two equal partners and friends, then I want to know as much about her history and psychology as I know about his.

yes - they tweeted about watching the director's cut of 202 back in July but did not reveal the episode's title until it was slotted into this date a few weeks ago.

I assumed the shock of Watson's baby statement momentarily distracted him until logic recovered. (and to extrapolate wildly, if Jennifer really did instigate this time & had wanted to get pregnant, she could have supplied a faulty condom. which, considering his behavior, I'd almost accept as justified.)

"Childhood sledding accident. But let's not get caught up in the backstory of a passing alias."