CBS is promoting Elementary, its new take on Sherlock Holmes starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu and I’m slightly on the fence about my feelings toward it. While I absolutely love the Sherlock Holmes books and the various adaptations that have come from them, this one really is a huge departure from anything we’ve seen before. And no, I don’t just mean because it’s been modernized. BBC has its own modernized version of the old stories, called Sherlock, and it has been an extreme joy to watch. You see, even compared to Sherlock, Elementary is a hugely different creation.
As you can see in the preview video below, Elementary has transported Sherlock Holmes (Miller) to Manhattan, far away from his homeland of England. He’s still solving crimes in his usual impressively logical way in which he looks at the facts and sees things others will inevitably have missed,...
As you can see in the preview video below, Elementary has transported Sherlock Holmes (Miller) to Manhattan, far away from his homeland of England. He’s still solving crimes in his usual impressively logical way in which he looks at the facts and sees things others will inevitably have missed,...
- 5/28/2012
- by Brody Gibson
- Boomtron
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