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Holy crap, Councilman Dexhart's pseudonyms just killed me. "Enrique Shockwave, Willie Dynamite, Lee Harvey Teabag, Lt. Wilhelm von Penis, Ben Berspanke…" All the thinly-veiled references to Carlos Danger would have been hilarious enough, but then he finished it with "…and Anthony Weiner," which is the funniest thing

Well, after last week's excellent Moriarty episode, it was going to be hard for the next episode to match up. But it was still a solid episode overall. A few things I liked:
-Putting Joan in an evening gown and Sherlock in a tux at the beginning of the episode with no real connection to anything (um, I guess it was to

I liked this one. Any episode featuring Dominic Chianese (I literally started shouting in celebration once I saw him—Junior Soprano as tech-savvy elderly judge is one of my favorite recurring characters on this show) and F. Murray Abraham is a winner in my book. I also thoroughly enjoyed the dueling expert testimony,

That was excellent, probably my single favorite episode of the season (no surprise, since last season's finale was my favorite of any network drama all year). I never thought a tragic love story between *Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty* would end up being one of my favorite relationships of any kind on television, but

I have to say, I enjoyed Sherlock in a courtroom setting, using his normal tactics on lawyers and judges. I especially enjoyed Frankie Faison as the "real" judge (Brewster O'Hare, according to IMDB). I hope the writers occasionally make a return to Judge O'Hare's court.

I can't praise the opening sequence highly enough. Once I recognized the opening notes of "Hurt," I knew it was going to be good. An absolutely perfect song choice that really amplified the emotional weight of the mourning/search. It immediately became my favorite song choice from this show, and considering that it's

I really enjoyed Chris' soccer referee routine. At first, I thought he was just a generic referee until he hit Jamm with a yellow card. For the rest of the episode, I waited for the red card to come out, and it did not disappoint when he hit Leslie with a straight red.

I really liked the the rooftop bout of single stick between Sherlock and Mycroft, complete some rousing music and eggs as a scoring indicator. As far as opening Elementary scenes go, this one was right near the top.

Really good episode. Both cases of the week were solid (it was particularly nice to see Will working a case on the front lines), as were the Zach/Grace and Owen/Will subplots. Bringing Clarke Hayden back was a great move, as it instantly makes Florrick Agos more interesting. My only small complaint is that I wish they

They all can't be as good as the last episode, but this was solid enough. I particularly enjoyed Will buying out the tax attorneys out from under Alicia. And Diane referring to the firm as "Florrick & Associates" right in front of Cary was mean, but funny.

While I enjoyed last week's "palette cleanser" (to use Sherlock's parlance), this kind of episode is the primary reason I watch Elementary. While I agree that the case of the week didn't exactly light the world on fire (though I'm always happy to see Sarah Wynter, who I remember fondly as Kate Warner on 24), I thought

So shooting a mid-air grenade with an arrow might be my single favorite random moment from any of this show's action sequences. I rewound it a few times.

Great episode. My favorite part was Will, Diane, Kalinda and David Lee channeling Kramer as they were TCB—taking care of business—the entire episode. David Lee was particularly great, from his "concerns about missing money" to immediately calling the Department of Health once the new firm's address was ascertained. So

It's not very often that I disagree with Myles this strongly. I thought this was a very fun episode overall. While not as heavy on character development as some of the others this season, that was made up for by an interesting (to me, at least) case of the week. I enjoyed Sherlock's "diamond mine" being a morgue, and

I wasn't expecting to hear Ra's al Ghul's name on this show. Needless to say, I'm excited. Not Liam Neeson in Batman Begins excited. But excited nonetheless. Even as a kid, I always thought he was the coolest Batman villain.

Whoa, a genuinely interesting and sympathetic person of interest, the first one all season (two were genuinely unlikable, one was creepy and the other wasn't particularly interesting). Genrika was really compelling. Among other things, I liked that she employed counter-surveillance measures to catch Shaw napping, that

Yes, since it was spoken (libel is written). Also, if she lied under oath, that's perjury. Libel doesn't need to be under oath. They'd just need to prove that Kalinda said something false (it can't be an opinion) about a specific person, that she was negligent in doing so, that at least one other person heard or read

I think this was the best episode of a very good season so far. The case of the week was solid, as it…(I want to say "exposed," but I'm not sure that's the best word after Hesh's act)…identified how things can be interpreted differently. I didn't mind the twist ending, though I guess it doesn't hold up to much

Well, "best character work" is relative. I watch for the excellent action scenes (and there were a couple of outstanding ones in the finale) and the almost comical levels of gratuitous nudity (also present). I've never been particularly impressed with the two leads from either a writing or an acting standpoint (though

Yeah, I've been defending Laurel for a while, but I think I'm done. The entire episode, I was trying to figure out if they could just bring Shado to Starling City and have her replace Laurel as Oliver's love interest.