Giving Elementary Its Due
Apr. 4th, 2013 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsI'll give Elementary its due tonight.
First, the mystery was actually plausible (by TV standards) and required no-one to be suicidal, stupid, or profoundly oblivious.
Second, one thing it has done ABSOLUTELY RIGHT from the beginning is not make a big deal out of Lucy Liu's ethnicity. "This is New York," the show basically says. "This is what New York looks and sounds like." (I believe that this was one of the biggest draws of the show to Liu.) And so I was not actually surprised but I was extremely pleased that when given an option to be sensational, the show simply repeated "This is New York. This is what New York looks and sounds like."
I'll even throw in a third: I thought the continuity shout-outs were a nice touch.
WARNING: Probable spoilers in comments.
First, the mystery was actually plausible (by TV standards) and required no-one to be suicidal, stupid, or profoundly oblivious.
Second, one thing it has done ABSOLUTELY RIGHT from the beginning is not make a big deal out of Lucy Liu's ethnicity. "This is New York," the show basically says. "This is what New York looks and sounds like." (I believe that this was one of the biggest draws of the show to Liu.) And so I was not actually surprised but I was extremely pleased that when given an option to be sensational, the show simply repeated "This is New York. This is what New York looks and sounds like."
I'll even throw in a third: I thought the continuity shout-outs were a nice touch.
WARNING: Probable spoilers in comments.
