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Post by Sarge on Aug 8, 2020 8:22:26 GMT
Elementary starts with promise but devolves quickly into generic buddy cop (except they are private detectives) show. Sherlock wanes as Watson waxes. Lucy Liu really shines though. By the time I quit watching it had turned into the British style of mystery where it's all red herring clues and at the end they pick some character at random to be "guilty" and Sherlock pulls evidence out of his butt that proves it.
If it hasn't been mentioned, The Murdoch Mysteries (Canadian), is a steam punkish Sherlockian mystery series about a turn of the century Toronto detective that invents modern forensics with Victorian science. Almost every episode has a minor or major historical figure, either cameo or "guest star." Buffalo Bill, Thomas Edison, Tesla, AC Doyle, various other authors, inventors, scientists, explorers, and characters appear as their famous selves or sometimes pre-fame.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 8, 2020 8:48:09 GMT
Do we have any Foyle’s War fans here? I enjoyed Foyle`s War.
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Post by Salzmank on Aug 8, 2020 13:54:24 GMT
Do we have any Foyle’s War fans here? I enjoyed Foyle`s War. Favorite eps?
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Post by Salzmank on Aug 8, 2020 13:58:05 GMT
Elementary starts with promise but devolves quickly into generic buddy cop (except they are private detectives) show. Sherlock wanes as Watson waxes. Lucy Liu really shines though. By the time I quit watching it had turned into the British style of mystery where it's all red herring clues and at the end they pick some character at random to be "guilty" and Sherlock pulls evidence out of his butt that proves it. If it hasn't been mentioned, The Murdoch Mysteries (Canadian), is a steam punkish Sherlockian mystery series about a turn of the century Toronto detective that invents modern forensics with Victorian science. Almost every episode has a minor or major historical figure, either cameo or "guest star." Buffalo Bill, Thomas Edison, Tesla, AC Doyle, various other authors, inventors, scientists, explorers, and characters appear as their famous selves or sometimes pre-fame. Thanks! Well, I like Lucy Liu, and I’m perfectly willing to give Elementary a try, but I’d really like to go in with a list of best episodes to see if I do like it. Obviously I don’t like all red herrings, but I do like “the British style of mystery” in such shows as Death in Paradise and Jonathan Creek. If Holmes just “pulls evidence out of his butt that proves” the solution, though, I’m not sure it’s my cup of tea. I used to like Murdoch, but the cop-out solutions and often dreadful acting started grating on me. I think my favorite episode was the one with the secret passage in the haunted house, though the (first?) Houdini one was OK.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 8, 2020 15:20:28 GMT
Fifty ships War Games The French Drop The White Feather The Hide
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Post by Salzmank on Aug 8, 2020 15:23:12 GMT
Fifty ships War Games The French Drop The White Feather The Hide Thx! |
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