Last Year, every single nominee for lead actor in a movie or miniseries was from HBO. They aren't concerned about that.

Girls is supposed to get upwards 80% of its viewers from on demand anyway, so hbo probably just doesn't care about losing a few live viewers for this show. Where as they want true detective to get every viewer it can get.

Eh, I was never as sold on Vikings as everyone else on here was. It always bugged me how big of an idiot they had to turn every character other than Ragnar into for the plot to work. The antagonist they set up in the finale looked pretty good though.

I didn't watch much of Spartacus, but what I have seen was the single WORST greenscreen and bloodspatter CGI I have ever seen in my life.

"Television can build intricate worlds with the sets and costumes to match, but when it comes time for the action sequences and big moments that form the climax of a blockbuster film—television just can’t compete."

So you have terrible strw man argument, is what your saying?

Complex?Not always, but they do have the advantage of making logical sense. And your british nationalistic BS is grating.

Sherlock is just as much of procedural as Elementary.Elementary just has better plots and characters.

"but I keep finding things that are either too obvious, or that don't make logical sense in order to push the story forward. It is as dumbed-down as most television is, unlike Sherlock which keeps surprising me by unexpected but logical twists."

Two problems with your thesis.

This is a reason, not an excuse.

Sherlock is a pretty terriblie 'story-about-a-detective' then, if a shwo with no intent to have character development has characters 100x more interesting and developed.

There names would be on plane tickets. And don't you think terrorists would put some effort into finding out if anyone was on the plane.

The Sherlock fans on this board seem to have gone with Vera's 'Begging for mercy means that she won' line of thinking. And I use the term 'thinking' loosely.

Elementary has all that, plus a more fully realized Watson, and far better side characters.

Except that it isn't.

"What "Sherlock" did was have Irene confront Sherlock at both an emotional AND an intellectual level"

Addendum to point: Elementary being the underdog forces fans to articulate why they think the show is better, whereas Sherlock fans seem to think they can just declare victory.

I think M would have been the equivalent of Sherlock's season 2 finale, minute-for-minute.

And we haven't seen anti-social bastards who are always right a million times before.