Perhaps the series will end with Andy walking on water.

I liked that they kept the original Holmes's misogyny but also had him called out on it, rather than implying it was justified.

I don't know about realism, but there was an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent (speaking of modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations) where that was the murder method.

The BBC has built a viral marketing campaign around the phrase.

There are always dodgy bits of plotting in these kinds of shows, but I'm surprised you chose to single out THAT one.  Are you saying he should have foreseen that water would be spilled on him, that that would result in a stain, and that some super-genius would recognize the stain and be able to trace it to a specific…

Yeah, if they hadn't shown Emily being kidnapped up front, there might have been more suspense as we wondered if she was the one pulling the strings … stranger things have happened on procedurals.

Yeah, the Cumberbatch Holmes has pretty much the same attitude toward social media as the Miller one.  Swing and a miss.

Though in the UK Office the implication is that the documentary makes them (or David, at any rate) act like a worse person.

Though in the UK Office the implication is that the documentary makes them (or David, at any rate) act like a worse person.

Are you being serious, @disqus_okgItcD0yy:disqus ?  Even restricting ourselves just to Hollywood, that trope goes back waaaaay before the '50s.  Check out some of the old Cary Grant screwball comedies like The Awful Truth, Holiday, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, and His Girl Friday.

Are you being serious, @disqus_okgItcD0yy:disqus ?  Even restricting ourselves just to Hollywood, that trope goes back waaaaay before the '50s.  Check out some of the old Cary Grant screwball comedies like The Awful Truth, Holiday, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, and His Girl Friday.

Watch out, or she'll cut off your testicles.

He also played Robin Williams in the TV movie about the making of Mork & Mindy.

He also played Robin Williams in the TV movie about the making of Mork & Mindy.

I mean in a literal sense.  It feels like it was meant to read, "Having the fiasco lead into Underwood allowing Vasquez to believe the idea for Durant's appointment [SOMETHING] was 4d chess."

I'd define it the opposite way.  When you root for the goals and not the character, it's an antihero.  When you root for the character but not their goals, it's what TV Tropes would call a "Villain Protagonist."

One of the biggest changes from the UK original is that FU in the original was clearly a flat-out evil dude, framed in terms of what Coleridge called "motiveless malignity." (He had an ostensible motive, but it was really just an excuse to be evil.)  The Spacey version of the character seems to be just an antihero.…

"And to be sure, having the education bill fiasco directly lead into Underwood allowing Chief of Staff Vasquez to believe the idea for Catherine Durant’s appointment was a slick piece of four-dimensional chess."

It can.  And don't call me Ratner.

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