[tv] Elementary
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inulroI'm not overly impressed with the first episode of Elementary.
Holmes comes across as deliberately rude, not brilliant and oblivious.
Lucy Liu - just how much plastic surgery has that woman had? It has to be excessive if I even notice.
Closing with Elvis Costello's "Watching the Detectives" - really? I mean, I love that song as much as the next obsessive 80s new-waver, but - was that somebody's idea of wit?
As the successor to House, it doesn't make the grade.
Having said that, there's lots of New York scenery porn. Which is just as well, because Jason seems to like it so I'll be stuck with the whole series.
Holmes comes across as deliberately rude, not brilliant and oblivious.
Lucy Liu - just how much plastic surgery has that woman had? It has to be excessive if I even notice.
Closing with Elvis Costello's "Watching the Detectives" - really? I mean, I love that song as much as the next obsessive 80s new-waver, but - was that somebody's idea of wit?
As the successor to House, it doesn't make the grade.
Having said that, there's lots of New York scenery porn. Which is just as well, because Jason seems to like it so I'll be stuck with the whole series.
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Date: 2012-10-26 05:27 am (UTC)Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss decide to create a modern Sherlock Holmes during their train rides from London to Cardiff while they were filming Dr Who. When BBC's Sherlock became a hit, CBS approached Steven Moffat and asked him to remake Sherlock for American TV. When Steven turned them down, CBS decided to make it anyway. The Moff threatened a law suit so CBS had to make the show not an exact copy so it resembles their typical procedural shows. (NCIS, Criminal Minds, etc.) It's caused a huge rift in the fandom and tons of wankery on both sides of the pond. I haven't watched Elementary, but I don't watch that much TV except for Dr Who, Once Upon A Time, and RuPaul's Drag Race.