There’s one aspect of the Roy/Keeley conversation that I wanted to add my voice to and that I believe it’s totally plausible that Roy would misread Keeley’s needs as she gears up for her new job.

Yeah, that’s it, even if Nate doesn’t do it himself. I feel like season 1 Ted Lasso— and Ted Lasso— would have interrogated himself on whether and how he failed Nate, whether this is indicative of other problems in the team he’s not noticing, what else he might have been neglecting, etc. (and probably talked about it…

I enjoyed Beard’s reaction when Ted uses the name “John Obi-Wan Gandalf” while making up an inspirational quote during his speech to the team.

Like, are they giving Trent Crimm his own spinoff? I feel like there wasn’t nearly enough information to understand why he would purposefully burn Nate, resign from his job, and go off in search of himself.

Wow. That season 2 finale was a whole series of choices. And I agree with you, they could have been much better. So, Edwin Akufo apparently really is a billionaire from Ghana, and a much bigger prick than he seemed last episode. I’m disappointed that my wild guess that he was a scam is wrong, not so much because I…

So I’m going to make a show, and George Clooney is going to play my Harvey Weinstein stand-in, only in our world he only ever asked for clothed massages (which somehow in no way diminishes and insults everybody who suffered at his hands) and then in season 2 he gets to bang, say, Marg Helgenberger, and complain about…

Not for nothing, who wants to watch a show that wants to redeem Matt Lauer? It’s such a weird hill to build a billion dollar flagship tv show on.

I really just wanted Rebecca to retain more of an edge. I appreciate the effort the show has put into having her bond with other women characters, but is the endgame for her character just to be nicer and nicer until she ascends to heaven? Also, the actor who plays her is only one year older than Jason Sudeikis. I’m…

I already said this in the “Carol of the Bells” feature, but I’ll say it again: I like my nice TV friends being nice to each other. And hey, if Ted Lasso isn’t your thing, then far be it for me to tell you how to feel about it. Personally, I don’t need sustained conflict; I already have that every single goddamn day…

Okay, so as always I’m literally the only person alive who wishes they had taken 20 seconds to explain the logistics of Ted’s situation, but now that you made me realize it would’ve been Apple product placement for the Dual E-Sim function, I’m going to admit that it’s better left unexplained. Thank you for that.

Maybe because it’s conveyed through stuff like “a random classroom TV displays climate-change warnings on a loop,” which isn’t exactly organically integrated into the plot. I thought for sure more would be made of the fact that the aliens were presumably awakened by melting ice; even thought maybe the idea would be…

mostly the movie extends the option on Hollywood’s baffling collective decision to employ him as an all-American can-do adventurer rather than an underachieving goofball.

I watched it last night and I thought it was fine. I enjoyed the premise of “The future recruited all the active military and veterans first, but they died, so now they’re just recruiting the leftovers. They’re giving machine guns to 50 year old soccer moms and overweight D&D dudes.” That felt different.

I would hazard to say that Elementary show runner Rob Doherty did take a view of the BBC Sherlock show, and used it to flip Elementary to the greater heights than whatever Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss had in mind.

Fair comment, but the Sherlock Holmes mysteries were always meant to be standalone storytelling; no long-terms arcs that meant to be served, really. (At least I learned this from epic 2-hour rant on BBC Sherlock that hrbomberguy put out on YouTube!)

What a perfectly worded summation of what the Elementary journey has been liked over the seven seasons of the show. I’m in a post-Elementary funk already thinking of the times when the date of the newest season would be announced, settling in to what we know would a good, many times great, television. But there won’t…

Almost everything I thought while watching this series and this finale has been said before. Almost....

I was a big fan of Sherlock, but in all honestly, I think Elementary was better overall. A big part due to the sheer number of quality episodes it had. Having 3 episode seasons, no matter how good, clearly doesn’t help with character development besides the two primary cast members.

A B-grade seems fair here. This episode did everything that fans really needed it to do.* Reichenbach was sent to prison forever. Sherlock and Joan rode off into the sunset together.** Elementary finally explained what was happening with Moriarty/ what happened to Moriarty and Morland’s evil organization after…

It kinda hurts saying goodbye to this show Elementary I’ve consistently been a bit of a comfort food for me these past few years. While I agree the show never really was as good after the first three seasons it always did a good job of a reminding you of its best elements.