User Reviews

What an opening scene! As a pom of a certain age I was chuffed. Thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Had such a different vibe that I had to come here and see who directed it. It felt fresh, thank you Lucy Liu. We had little insights to how Bell and Gregson's work progresses, things that we presumed happened, but have never really witnessed before. Those scenes acknowledged the strength of other detective partnership that has been building this season.

This was a rather inventive episode. Interesting. Only weak point is the subplot, which doesn't have much to say.

This was another very interesting episode of Elementary! But it was marred by the producers sticking their and the management of the networks political views into the story- line. It was clever, it's injected in such a way that they probably assume it will just wash over the majority of users who won't think about it. It's a subtle form of brain-washing. Instead of beating us over the head with boring rants they stick their messages into popular TV shows to get them heard by as people as possible. Unfortunately they put a lie on the lips of Sherlock Holmes in this storyline. He extols the effectiveness of gun buy back programs and claims they are very effect. What they are effect at is rounding up all the rusty, broken, useless outdated guns. The vast majority of the guns turned in ancient rusty non-working relics. Why not dig out some gun you haven't used in 30 years and get some money out of it. God knows only the government would pay money for. And while you go home with some green in your pocket. The bureaucrats get what they want, statistics. They trumpet the numbers of guns turned in. But they don't mention anything about the condition of those firearms. But Hollywood gets in a little jab at our freedom. Our freedom to peace- of-mind for those of us willing to protect ourselves. 911 can not save you in a home invasion, or attempt by anyone to harm you. 911 will send out someone to write a report and MAYBE find the person that beat you within an of your life or even murdered you, your spouse, your family. But that makes Hollywood uneasy, so they come up with stuff like this. I'm not going to give the episode a bad review. It was another good story, well acted, albeit with a couple unfortunate anti-American lines. Why is it anti-American? Because proper rights and liberty are the basis for the American experiment.

Instead of historic sleuth and his friend/inspiration accompanying to solve crimes, more and more Sherlock and Holmes do their own things, solve crimes without audience participation, nothing in episodes for audience to speculate on who the murderer(s) might be, and increasingly becoming just a soundboard for social agendas.

Sherlock makes an epic fail citing "gun buy-back programs" as a huge success everywhere they've been implemented...wrong! They've absolutely been proven to be utter fails, gang members don't participate, crime doesn't get impacted, and almost exclusively collected guns are from legal owners that have no use for them anymore.

Writers - just give us a good crime to try and solve with our hero!

Focus!