Shinwell as a character is fine but the writers have failed to give him a compelling storyline. One thing I like about Elementary is the frenetic pace; whenever Shinwell turns up it shudders to a halt.

Ar least they've done away with the green suit and derby hat with a shamrock on it from the comic, so there's that.

This was a fabulous episode. Sherlock did some great gurning, Joan looked delectable, I didn't guess who the villain was and there was a welcome lack of Shinwell. It was a beautifully smooth 40 minutes of entertainment. I don't think it aspires to be anything else and in that (seemingly) modest ambition lies its…

Thank you for this informative post. What it tells me is that the writers devoted so much of their energy finding ways to demonstrate their academic knowledge of the Holmes canon that they were too exhausted to write a decent plot.

Yeah, they could kill off Aidan Quinn's character and replace him with Leslie Jones.

Yeah, I noticed that. The prominence given to her bottle of creamer was a dead giveaway. Not the most subtle of clues.

True, but even in his spaced-out state surely Sherlock would be able to recognise his own sister? Best episode since the first series, BTW.

Surely even an arch-liberal like Steven Moffat wouldn't equate a child-molesting, cadaver-raping monster like Saville with the relatively angelic Donald Trump. I mean, get a grip people.

Incredible in a good way? After his ruinous score for Steve Jobs I'm surprised he's still working.

That will teach me not to comment on films I've only watched the first 20 mins of…

L&F was (for me) marred by the appalling cod-Mozart score. My ears!

Cruise has done quite well in the seven years since you posted this question. And he will probably still be around making successful big-budget cineplex catnip long after Chris Pratt has burned out. Prepare for the collective national shrug that greets Passengers. Tom Cruise consists of skin stretched over…

Son Of Rambow is a great low-budget feature with bags of charm. Sadly, Garth Jennings made no money whatsoever from making it (and very little from Hitchhikers) so here he is, taking a paycheque from a big studio, no doubt in the hope they will finance his next (almost certainly better) project. For that reason…

I agree with your observation that Oliver got it badly wrong on Brexit. It made him appear unsophisticated and shallow.

I'm talking about Dawadi's sub-par score for Westworld. As I mentioned in my original post, I have never watched GoT so have no opinion on his work for the series. Ditto PoI.

I haven't watched GoT so don't know if Dawadi's music is used as extensively - i.e. on every fucking scene regardless of whether the use of music is appropriate - as it is on Westworld, but 'subtlety' is not a word I would have used in describing his work on the show. What is clear is that he didn't write to picture…

Jesus, what a review… there's no pleasing some people I guess. I thought it was pleasing and culminated in a rational explanation for the events of the previous 9 episodes. My fear was that it would leave questions unanswered in the hope of carrying the audience to season 2, if there is to be such a thing. My only…

The music of Westworld is not 'terrific' - it is terrible. There is way too much of it - every scene has a score burbling underneath whether it needs music or not, and mostly contributes nothing to the viewers understanding. I can think only of one scene (Maeve wandering around the repair shops) where the music has…

I was being facetious. That said, there's still time for Jason…

My favourite was; "You speak Pashto?' - 'Not fluently', the line delivered with an expression from JLM that suggested he was apologising.