CBS’ ‘Elementary,’ a radical reboot of the Sherlock Holmes tale, hasn’t even premiered yet … but is getting a lot of buzz thanks to casting Lucy Liu as Watson. Some folks are mad. In this week’s Clacking in Color, writer Jaylen Christie wonders … what the heck is the big deal?
The latest releases include ‘Franklin & Bash’, ‘Louie’, ‘Wilfred’, ‘House Of Payne’, ‘Web Therapy’, ‘Sarah Silverman’, ‘Sherlock Holmes’, ‘Invisible Man’, ‘Trial & Retribution’, ‘Power Rangers’, ‘Dragonaut’, ‘Batman’, ‘Carry On’, and ‘Hey Dude’.
Can casting Lucy Liu as a genderflipped John Watson on CBS’ new show ‘Elementary’ be what makes it work, or will it be the downfall of the show before it even starts?
This past month, ‘Sherlock’ elevated itself to (in my opinion) the best damn show on television. And most Americans don’t even know it exists.
If you watched the season finale of ‘Sherlock’, we’d like to apologize – both for your emotional pain and because after those 90 minutes of perfection, all television is inevitably downhill from here.
Katie and I team back up to discuss the Hound of the Baskervilles episode of ‘Sherlock’, have a love-in for Martin Freeman (and Russell Tovey’s predilection for tragic bit roles), exchange more nerd references than strictly necessary, and steel ourselves for next week’s killer finale.
The season 2 premiere of BBC’s ‘Sherlock’ was fast-paced, furious, brilliant, and far too complicated for me to analyze on my own, which is why fellow clacker Katie helped me break it down.
