Elementary Catch-Up: 2x15 - 2x24

[yours_truly]

2x15 "Corpse de Ballet"

• Love learning more about Joan and her family history. Love that she shares it with Sherlock. Love that he collects blankets and invites her to distribute them with him!!
• Holmes is telling the truth when he says he is not a nice man, but he is a COMPASSIONATE man, and that’s also important.

2x16 "The One Percent Solution"

• DOUG Chat instead of TED Talk??? This show makes fake versions of the most random things!!!
• How is everyone using their smartphones with latex gloves on hmmmm?
• The subtle teasing about getting Joan to say the word cock is so funny? It’s not overplayed and just seems like the kind of genuine stupid shit two friends would do. Holmes and Watson, urban hobby farmers <3

2x17 "Ears to You"

• OK it is a hate crime that we have to watch this much Lestrade before getting a reappearance of Ms Hudson.

2x18 "The Hound of the Cancer Cells"

• “Misanthropy was so easy. I miss it sometimes.” Hits different in quarantine.
• The coffee shop date at the end is cute, love that for Marcus and Sherlock.

2x19 "The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville"

• Sherlock inviting Joan on a sunny tropical vacation mmhmmmmm
• This frozen reference is bringing home how long ago this was filmed!!
• Clyde as a shark <3

2x20 "No Lack of Void"

• I hate American television why are there so many episodes in every season ugh.
• They’re so chill about someone dying in their custody ugh fuck cops.
• “I came here today because I loved you very much.” MY CREYS!!!! God, character driven stuff is so much better than case bullshit.

2x21 "The Man With the Twisted Lip"

• Oh good, the ‘previously on’ is all Mycroft. Can’t wait.
• Ms Hudson!! A small gift if we also have to deal with Mycroft.
• “Did he take liberties with you?”
• “She has a very symmetrical face and she will attract a mate when she’s ready.” It’s so douchey but also so cute.
• I remember this episode and the next very well, but I’m surprised to see that they aren’t the penultimate and ultimate eps of the season. Could not tell you what happens after this. And tbh I think I’m remembering fic more than the actual next episode, because I love angst and h/c and great stuff came out of this two parter.

2x22 "Paint It Black"

• “Call me back and let me know you’re okay.” 🥺
• “I think she’s the person you love most in the world.” I’m trash for this character driven angst, sry not sry.

2x23 "Art in the Blood"

• They deserved to hug at their reunion!!!!!
• Halfway thru the ep and I’m so bored, I want interpersonal reactions to trauma not case stuff!!!
• Uuuuugh I remember this now. Such a great scene with Joan telling off Mycroft and then SUCH a disappointment later. 😩 I’m just saying, having Joan forgive Mycroft and sleep with him because Mycroft took extraordinary measures to protect Sherlock.... is still.... very much about Sherlock and Joan.... and like maybe that’s still the point, because the show certainly didn’t develop Mycroft/Joan into a real relationship, but I truly wish they just hadn’t gone there.

2x24 "The Grand Experiment"

• the roMANce of the conversation between sherlock and joan!!!!!!! gravity and orbits and change!!!! truly i just want holmes and watson talking to each other, that's all i need from any adaptation. FEELINGS.
• These tears over Mycroft! NO ONE CARES! Truly no memory if this is the last time we have to deal with him, but I remember hoping so when this aired. 
• Reichenbach and overdose: the two tragedies constantly hanging over this adaptation.

Everyone is always whispering in this damn show. When I watch The X-Files I can't see anything, and when I watch Elementary I can't hear anything.

Is the third season the one with Kitty Winter? I think It's the last season I watched all the way through, though I might have made it through the fourth because that's the last DVD set I appear to own. Once I finish the show I'll decide whether to keep those or not--I used to just keep and collect anything Sherlockian on principle, but I've got too much stuff at this point. I can access the show on Hulu for as long as that's a thing anyway.