Elementary 4.04
Nov. 28th, 2015 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakEveryone to whom I still owe replies to comments: it's not you, it's me, I have a terrible headache and also yesterday, I had ca. 300 letters to write. I'm not talking exaggaratedly. The two might be connected.
However, watching Holmes and Watson turned out to be helping with the headache somewhat. And thus, a review:
Despite the obligatory murder, this was comfy as a pair of beloved and well worn slippers. This episode gave me Holmes & Watson teamwork and neat friendship scenes, Joan solving the case by the power of her medical knowledge, and Joan acquiring a new female arch nemesis (temporarily), all of which made for gemütliches tv watching, which you can translate only approxmatingly als "cozy". Mind you, I could have done without the nth reuse of cop show clichés by Detective Gina Cortez, because those complaints about how hard life as a cop is when everyone is critisizing you and wanting to check on you may have sold in the 80s and 90s, but at a time where hardly a week seems to pass without yet another shot-by-cop (black) unarmed civilian, it's spectacularly out of tune. Otoh bringing back Joan investigating Gegson's could have been successor gave a follow up on what at the time felt like a very random and belated plot point, and I suspect this episode mostly needed to establish Gina Cortez as a character because there's a future subplot involving her and Joan in the wings. Which I'm all for.
(The whole boxing as conflict solution was silly, but since the show skipped the box match itself I had no unfortunate Unfinished Business from BSG (how I loathed that episode!) flashbacks, it didn't come across as a gratitious "cat fight! See two female characters go at each other!" plot (since we didn't see them), and I could instead enjoy the tag scene of Sherlock patching up the victorious Joan.)
Case of the week: we've had gay characters (both male and female) before, but this was the first case involving poly marriages, plural, and I thought Elementary did a good job with it, presenting them matter-of-factly without sensationalizing them. Poly arrangements weren't presented as the solution to all problems, nor were they demonized; instead, they were simply shown as another form of living together. Abby's first poly marriage ended in her leaving because of irresolvable conflicts with one of the other participants, but they were financial in nature, not out of sexual jealousy, and while her killer turned out to be her husband from her second poly marriage, he killed her because she'd discovered his medical sins (the profitable concer misdiagnosis), not for reasons related to the marriage.
Joan using her surgeon knowledge repeatedly through the episode: always lovely to see, as mentioned above.
In conclusion: not a "best of" type of episode, but exactly what I needed on a cold, wet day after swallowing aspirin to cure my headache.
However, watching Holmes and Watson turned out to be helping with the headache somewhat. And thus, a review:
Despite the obligatory murder, this was comfy as a pair of beloved and well worn slippers. This episode gave me Holmes & Watson teamwork and neat friendship scenes, Joan solving the case by the power of her medical knowledge, and Joan acquiring a new female arch nemesis (temporarily), all of which made for gemütliches tv watching, which you can translate only approxmatingly als "cozy". Mind you, I could have done without the nth reuse of cop show clichés by Detective Gina Cortez, because those complaints about how hard life as a cop is when everyone is critisizing you and wanting to check on you may have sold in the 80s and 90s, but at a time where hardly a week seems to pass without yet another shot-by-cop (black) unarmed civilian, it's spectacularly out of tune. Otoh bringing back Joan investigating Gegson's could have been successor gave a follow up on what at the time felt like a very random and belated plot point, and I suspect this episode mostly needed to establish Gina Cortez as a character because there's a future subplot involving her and Joan in the wings. Which I'm all for.
(The whole boxing as conflict solution was silly, but since the show skipped the box match itself I had no unfortunate Unfinished Business from BSG (how I loathed that episode!) flashbacks, it didn't come across as a gratitious "cat fight! See two female characters go at each other!" plot (since we didn't see them), and I could instead enjoy the tag scene of Sherlock patching up the victorious Joan.)
Case of the week: we've had gay characters (both male and female) before, but this was the first case involving poly marriages, plural, and I thought Elementary did a good job with it, presenting them matter-of-factly without sensationalizing them. Poly arrangements weren't presented as the solution to all problems, nor were they demonized; instead, they were simply shown as another form of living together. Abby's first poly marriage ended in her leaving because of irresolvable conflicts with one of the other participants, but they were financial in nature, not out of sexual jealousy, and while her killer turned out to be her husband from her second poly marriage, he killed her because she'd discovered his medical sins (the profitable concer misdiagnosis), not for reasons related to the marriage.
Joan using her surgeon knowledge repeatedly through the episode: always lovely to see, as mentioned above.
In conclusion: not a "best of" type of episode, but exactly what I needed on a cold, wet day after swallowing aspirin to cure my headache.
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