Mad Men is the only one still airing. Not sure what your point is. Also, "advancing the plot" means different things to different people. I just find it interesting that the same people who complain Homeland is so over the top and unbelievable are the same people who hated the finale. Again, if you're bored, change…

Just because you didn't understand the finale (and it's clear that you, and many others, didn't) doesn't mean it was dull or boring or stupid. It was different and certainly unexpected, but its clumsy efforts to show the characters as still being human doesn't make it a bad episode.

Good. We won't miss you.

"I no longer 'care' what this show does, because it hasn't lived up to my
standards in forever, but part of me was still hoping that the idiot
writers were above that."

That is exactly what the producers of Elementary are aiming for: to keep the relationship platonic. I agree this is the right direction. While I enjoy both series, I find Cumberbatch's "high-functioning sociopath" Sherlock difficult to relate to. Miller makes a much better, and more human, Holmes. Lucy Liu is…

A trolly post written by someone who doesn't get the show at all. Whatever. *yawn*