Elementary - First Look at Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu
16 May 2012
Elementary
ELEMENTARY stars Jonny Lee Miller as detective Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson in a modern-day drama about a crime solving duo that cracks the NYPD’s most impossible cases. ELEMENTARY premieres Fall 2012, Thursdays, (10:00-11:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Craig Blankenhorn/©2012 CBS BROADCASTING INC. All Rights Reserved
I really hope this works.
ReplyDeleteThere's always 'Sherlock' from BBC One (PBS in the US), which is outstanding.
ReplyDeleteOr the older ITV series with Jeremy Brett (available on UK DVD) which is also outstanding in a different way!
ReplyDeleteI don't see yet, but I like the movies with Robert Downey Jr.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be such a train wreck....
ReplyDeleteFor fans of the actors I hope it works. My guess is many fans of Sherlock Holmes will be put off immediately be the format and female Watson. I know I am.
why can't the american create their own original ideas?
ReplyDeleteThey absolutely can!
ReplyDeleteDoing a show called Elementary and based on one of the most iconic literary figures in history, but tweaking it with a pea coat and a female Watson is not really original though. Especially when you consider the success of the BBC version of Sherlock.
Me too...if they had done a female Watson AND female Holmes, I might be interesting, but this way, it's more or less the same relationship we allready had with House and Cuddy, with Patrick Jane and Theresa Lisbon, and so on. It's overdone. And I already smell the UST. Which for me is a definitive reason NOT to watch a show.
ReplyDeleteI somehow think people would be less annoyed if they chose to have female Holmes...
ReplyDeleteIn he time slot it has? I doubt it, my guess is it'll rate high enough to get a second season. I think it'll comfortably win the 10pm slot Thursdays.
ReplyDeleteI can see that on some level.
ReplyDeleteAlthough honestly to me Sherlock and Watson are men... that is what they always have been and should be. It's iconic. There are plenty of great female detectives in books they could have used as inspiration.... or for that matter create a new character!
It could very well get a season season....
ReplyDeleteIt's on my maybe/ maybe not list honestly.Even if it's picked up though that does not mean it is not a train wreck! XDThere have been some terrible shows on TV that got multiple seasons.
If Lucy Liu was Sherlock instead and if the show wasn't on CBS I would be more inclined to give it a chance
ReplyDeleteI just don't think its going to work but i was surprised that i liked Lucy Liu in Southland,the first thing i did like her in....I'll check out the first episode anyway,so i waste an hour wont be the first time...
ReplyDeleteI am not watching this one! this is an abomination of Sherlock Holmes, not an adaptation
ReplyDeleteThen you've missed something....Sherlock is really high quality TV, and a joy to watch.
ReplyDeleteBoth in pleated cloth? Does one dress the other? And he of course is wearing a dark overcoat and soft black shoes. And a scarf tied around his unwashed neck. I suppose a tight purple shirt is lurking somewhere under his ragged outfit. Sigh. No, no attempt to copy Sherlock at all. Where's Benedict when you desperately need him?
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