JoeB131
Diamond Member
So I'm binge-watching the Series "Elementary", and finding a few things.
I watched the series as it ran from 2012 to 2019, but I don't remember a lot of the plots... so it's almost like watching a new show.
For those who haven't seen this series, it's an update on the Sherlock Holmes stories, with Holmes as a recovering drug addict and Doctor Watson being his drug counselor This actually isn't a big deviation from the original works, where Holmes was a drug user in those stories as well (except when the stories were written, cocaine and heroin use were still legal in the US and UK).
It's set in modern New York and Watson is played by Lucy Liu, who amazingly is a lot better as an actress than I previously gave her credit for. Holmes is played by Johnny Lee Miller, who previously played a drug addict in the movie "Trainspotting".
And it's pretty good. Despite the gender swapping of characters (Professor Moriarty is also a woman now) and being set in the modern day, it actually does a lot to capture the feel of Arthur Conan Doyle's original characters.
I'm kind of surprised that basic cable hasn't picked it up.
I watched the series as it ran from 2012 to 2019, but I don't remember a lot of the plots... so it's almost like watching a new show.
For those who haven't seen this series, it's an update on the Sherlock Holmes stories, with Holmes as a recovering drug addict and Doctor Watson being his drug counselor This actually isn't a big deviation from the original works, where Holmes was a drug user in those stories as well (except when the stories were written, cocaine and heroin use were still legal in the US and UK).
It's set in modern New York and Watson is played by Lucy Liu, who amazingly is a lot better as an actress than I previously gave her credit for. Holmes is played by Johnny Lee Miller, who previously played a drug addict in the movie "Trainspotting".
And it's pretty good. Despite the gender swapping of characters (Professor Moriarty is also a woman now) and being set in the modern day, it actually does a lot to capture the feel of Arthur Conan Doyle's original characters.
I'm kind of surprised that basic cable hasn't picked it up.