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Elementary - While You Were Sleeping

episode 1.2

USA 2012
produced by
Alysse Bezahler, Jonathan Filley, Carl Beverly (executive), Michael Cuesta (executive), Robert Doherty (executive), Craig Sweeny (executive), Sarah Timberman (executive) for Hill of Beans Productions, Timberman-Beverly Productions/CBS
directed by John David Coles
starring Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Jon Michael Hill, Aidan Quinn, Jennifer Ferrin, Bill Heck, Casey Siemaszko, Rosa Arredondo, Chris Bresky, Amy Landon, Rey Lucas, Ken Marks, Asa Somers, Paul Michael Valley
written and series created by Robert Doherty, based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle, music by Sean Callery, Zoe Keating

TV-series
Elementary, Sherlock Holmes

review by
Mike Haberfelner


A woman is found murdered, and of course, Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn) calls in Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Dr. Watson (Lucy Liu) for assistance, even if the investigating detective Bell (Jon Michael Hill) is less than pleased. But Holmes is quick to acquit the prime suspect, a neighbour of the victim, of the crime, and deduces the murderer must have been a woman - of which he soon enough gets a detailed description, and also soon enough, he finds out her identity, Yvette Ellison (Amy Landon) ... and she's been in a coma for three days now. Sure, she has a twin sister, Rebecca (Jennifer Ferrin), but they are fraternal twins and look nothing alike. Then another murder happens, following the same m.o., and when investigating the two victims background, Holmes finds out they were both illegitimate children of Yvette and Rebecca's crazy rich dad - so according to Holmes' deductions it had to be either Yvette or Rebecca, who wanted to guard their inheritance ... but Yvette's in a coma, and for Rebecca to dress up as Yvette for the first murder (at least) wouldn't make any sense at all. Having painted himself into a corner though, Holmes loses it, turns up in hospital where Rebecca's visiting her sister to accuse her of murder and to tell her about another illegitimate child of their father, knocks out Detective Bell who has come after him, and lands in jail for it ... but of course, the third illegitimate child was only a hoax to catch the real killer - Yvette. But how could she have faked her own coma?

 

What goes for the pilot episode also goes for this one: Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu make a great Holmes and Watson - but again they have to fight themselves through a story that's way too forced, convoluted and overly constructed, and Holmes' deductions at times defy logic. That said, the show as such is still entertaining enough due to its leads, one just wishes they had been given better scripts.

 

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