I'm just a glutton for punishment I guess! I keep watching and hoping for Elementary to show the signs of brilliance it did in Season 1. Alas, no such luck. And yes, I'm a fan of the actors — and the fashion, so I watch. But I won't stop advocating for it to live up to its promise.

I hear you, and I'll check back in with you midseason. ;) But man, it's sad that this is indeed the standard that the show has set. Cause it could be so much more.

I think it's impossible to read due to the weak writing. This mostly-male staff has never had a handle on Watson. We've only been TOLD by Sherlock that she was feeling stuck or depressed (because she wore the same dress twice — sexist, much?), and it was only as a plot device to get Shinwell into the picture. And yep,…

Wow, you really give this show a ton more credit than it deserves. The plot was, as usual, all talk and no action — more people sitting around tables yakking about stuff that happened off screen, broken up by a rare visit to a dock where yet more endless pages of exposition were unloaded. More than that, the plot…

Unlike Genevieve, I found this a total disappointment, especially for a 100th episode. We got a boring, expositional, scientific, who gives a flying-f*ck impersonal plot which consisted of a lot of people sitting around a lot of offices yakking about off-screen stuff. And the murder setup was unrealistic as hell.

This ^. Totally this ^ . Though I do think the leads should be in conflict at all times. That's what makes good drama.

Not to mention the fact that it took him more than a day to confront her about it. The whole subplot was half cooked and emotionally unsatisfying.

The reviewer is absolutely correct. I am not here for the cases, and I will continue to excoriate the show for losing what made it great in Season 1. We cared much more about the characters and their conflicts then. The crimes were actually connected to the characters — M and the whole Moriarty storyline provided…

He could not be more wrong. High stakes are not created by his pedestrian murder plots, they're only created by how much of an emotional investment Joan and Sherlock have in that particular crime and/or its victims and perpetrators — 95 times out of 100 so far it's been a big fat zero.

Welcome back! Thanks for pointing out all the loose threads that will never get woven up! ;)

I love them playing with the fact that Paulson & Rabe look alike and therefore are often mistaken for one another IRL. I love Angela Bassett. So far the women are winning, so yay.

I could really watch a spinoff with Chandra and Stone partnering up as lawyers — their scenes together are fantastic. She has to decide whether she wants to be the "token" lawyer at one of the big firms or really get down and dirty and use her degree. He'd be the world-weary mentor/investigator.

As usual, this episode was jam-packed with the most inane bunch of disparate facts yet, spiraling off the needlessly confusing main plot, which I could give two sh-ts about. The first guy they interviewed did it, of course, as usual, and so did the spurned wife. Another freaking white guy corporate murder, written by…

Exactly why they need a new (preferably female) showrunner and a decent, non-white-male, non-CBS hack-filled writing staff. This show is unforgivably disjointed, pays no attention to narrative history and gives its fantastic leads next to nothing to chew on. Including in this two-parter. The Joan/Lin story was…

Totally agree. He knows and is waiting for her to fess up. Meanwhile, she's about to get cut out of her own case … as she did earlier this season when she deduced Morland's shooting, then Sherly got to do all the follow-up. Sigh.

I admit, I'm not that familiar with the canon story but this episode left a lot to be desired, as usual, in terms of cohesion, tension and stakes. And thank you, also, for pointing out what incredible wasted potential this show has despite its actors and production values.

Okay, so it's #InternationalWomensDay, and I'm glad the Angels got some sort of shout out, such as it is. I was a preteen when the original aired, including this famed episode, and though I got the wink-wink sex stuff going on here, I really connected to these three strong, female characters who got shit done and…

I could kiss you, Genevieve! You are so spot on with your observations, especially in pointing out the myriad of missed opportunities we're forced to suffer through on a weekly basis.

I realize they're all on CBS, what I meant was that they're going to get killed both critically and in the ratings following those shows if they don't up their storytelling game — and fast.

"Even in an episode that doesn’t totally grab me, Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu together nearly always will … that connection between them is the heart of the show, and I always enjoy these moments." Amen.