I am appreciating the comic chops of JLM in my rewatch of Elementary. I have guffawed loudly at several of the scenes - particularly those between Sherlock and Joan. It’s a delightful diversion.

What's the episode where Sherlock and Watson are at a hockey rink investigating a murder, and Watson confides in Sherlock about her mother thinking Watson's brother is having an affair? Sherlock provides a brilliant perspective on family dynamics and how being related by blood does not entail one's obligation to be involved in drama.

But THAT was a perfect finale. I am weepy but like in the best way. I loved this show!

British guy sitting at a pub somewhere that’s not England, and he’s a traitor, and he’s eating food and drinking beer. Someone shows up and confronts him that they’ve identified he’s the traitor.

British guy asks how they found him.

Confronting character says something like “you always said this place had the best beef Wellington this side of the pond.”

They have a conversation in which the traitor guy coldly believes he has maintained the upper hand (he’s eventually wrong and loses). But the traitor guy says something to the courting character along the lines of “I’m not gunna surrender. I’ll tell you what I will do. I’m going to finish my lunch. Then you and I are going to get in my car. We’re going to drive somewhere secluded. And I’m going to put a bullet in your brain. No pain. It’s better than [insert another characters name] got or it’s better than you deserve or something like that

Is this from elementary? It’s been driving me nuts. ChatGPT keeps telling me they located the scene in one show or movie and I go to watch it and it’s not there AI is lying to me lol.

I'm on my second binge watch of Elementary and there are so many story lines that are reminiscent of story lines from Criminal Minds. Has anyone else noticed this or have an explanation?

I just finished the third to last episode of the show. I’m crying my eyes out. And man oh man did the writers really put Sherlock through it in the series. He just cannot catch an emotional break. It’s so freaking heartbreaking.

RIP Morland

Even if it might not be the premise of this show, I feel like Elementary is a show that in a way defines for you what is freedom and the willingness to do what you want. You do not need to tell the world what do you support or not support, as long as within your household you apply your own values. In a sense, it has helped me focus on a few lessons.

1) Productivity is all about two things : focus and fail-and-retry.
You do not need to be right from the get go, you do not need to enjoy it but you have to do it anyway because it is necessary. Elementary does a lot of this, reviewing proof for hours, making up theories at least 4 times per episode before they find the correct one, sometimes it might take days or weeks. Focus is all about sticking to what you're doing even if you do not like it, your body wants something else but your mind can control your body, do not let your instincts take control over you.

2) Set on your own values within your household, do not accomodate to society. Live in secrecy.
The reason I put both of these together is that one complements the other, of course this insight is not to encourage immoral behaviour, there are things to tolerate but there are also things to fight. The point is, if you think that something should be accepted but that society isn't especially kind towards it, you do not need to follow their path, fix your own values within your safe space.
Elementary does this with a few topics, like prostitutes, dominatrixes, even gangsters, drug addicts (as long as they're there to improve themselves) and a few other cases that would be viewed negatively by most people but not within the walls of Brownstone. This has always given me a comfy feeling about Sherlock and Watson's house.
Secrecy comes of value here because you do not need to tell society what do you support or not support, you simply apply those values within your walls.

3) Focus on active production rather than passive consumption.
Active production is the investment of your body and mind towards an activity that requires efforts, allows you to gain experience and elaborate new skills.
Passive consumption is closer to enjoying spikes of dopamine while laying down and resting, through consumption of movies, social medias, books, etc.
Even if we basically never see Holmes into passive consumption, both remain important for normal people, you do need to reward your brain with some passive activities after productivity, however the ratio of passive consumption should not be higher than active production.

4) Sports and meditation
The brain gets tired while being productive, sometimes you need to turn it off in order for it to rest and do something simpler. Meditation or doing sports allows for that and should be part of your routine.

5) Focusing on crafting skills that matter to you
Life is short, so are days and our time is limited, especially for normal people who do not have Sherlock's wealth and need to focus on working on things they do not enjoy as much as he does in order to sustain for their needs. Using the remaining time should be focused on skills that you consider important to you and only those, do not fill your brain with unnecessary information and skills. Sherlock is a detective, everything regarding law, criminology, murder weapons (sharp objects, mushrooms, poisons, etc.) and medecine are important to him, the rest is not. Which is why Sherlock is an expert in those fields but might not be competent on things like astronomy or pop culture because those are unnecessary to him. Consider what skills are important to make you an expert on your work field and invest your time into those.

What are yours ?

Can you guess what his name is?

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Purposeful or not, for us Elementary rewatchers this seemed like a reference.

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It feels cheap that we were never given the option of a Bluray version. :/

I just wrapped up my first watch of season 6 and I think I’m more mad that Gregson tried to blame Holmes for the murder and cover up of Michael than I am that he participated in the cover up itself.

But also, he loves Joan and he loves his daughter and that surely felt impossibly hard, but it still felt very out of character.

I used to have a small flock of chickens. We had some roosters that I once carried inside our house when it was really really cold. In the morning they would wake us up with lusty crows. The sounds of R & R remind me of these moments 🐓 (I really loved my chickens).

I've been trying to find the episode where Sherlock tells Watson that he likes to review old case files, because sometimes old names jump out at him that didn't have any meaning at the time, but now do because of other crimes the suspects have gone on to commit. Kind of like watching an old TV show or movie where some of the cast were no-names at the time, but have since become major stars.

This quote has stuck with me and has actually ruined some shows/movies for me because I can recognize a now-famous actor in a small role and deduct that they'll likely be connected to some surprise twist later in the storyline.

I saw that they released the first episode of the new Watson show and I’m curious to see if anyone watched it. I know it was made by one of the elementary creators but I’m curious to see how good a show without Holmes really is.

Hello fellow....medical fellowship?

You do not have brain damage, we are discussing the Watson pilot. Buckle in, have fun.

"Dr. John Watson resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders six months after the death of his friend and partner, Sherlock Holmes, at the hands of Moriarty."

For fun, we're going to start a running count of episodes it takes until our friends in the production team cave and bring back someone from Elementary to cameo.

Episodes without an Elementary Cameo: 1.

Also willing to start a counter on if Sherlock will stay dead if people are interested enough.

My good brother Mr . Morris Chestnut is starring in this new Watson TV show and the role definitely isn’t what I’m used to seeing him in BUT never too big or different for him. I’m 100% sure he’ll kill it but are YOU excited? Imagine if we get a cameo from elementary Watson .

I’m so curious to hear everyone’s opinion

Rewatching this and I’ve always just glossed over Mason’s “Button Box Theory”…but I actually paid attention to it this time and it’s absolute bollocks.

Why in the world would you program that AI to want a button to be pressed? What possible benefit could a computer get from a button being pushed? It’s not triggering any sort of emotion so why would the computer want to increase said button pushing?

Listen, she's harmless. I don't dislike her... I just prefer when she's not around. I was more than happy to wave her off but she's returned halfway through season five and I'm feeling a bit... meh.

Does anyone else struggle with her? Or am I just being harsh?

I admit I watch a lot of TV. It'll be a bit before I do another Elementary rewatch since I just finished one earlier in the month. I've seen Sherlock twice as well. So well you guys might recommend things I've seen, I still figure you might give me some ideas. I'm betting this is a well "watched" group.

This is one of my favorite jokes in the show but for the life of me I can't remember what episode it's from.

Sherlock is at the brownstone, in the library, I think he's sitting on the floor. He has a scale which he places the taxidermy squirrel on, notes the result, and says "Interesting." and... that's it, we don't get any explanation. I think maybe Joan comes in at that point or something. He may have been weighing Clyde against the taxidermy squirrel but I'm not 100% certain.

It kills me every time but I can never go look it up because I don't remember the episode that surrounds it. I'm hoping maybe someone watched this scene recently and can tell me where it is in the show.

EDIT:Ah, right after posting I scrolled down this sub and found a video about Clyde, the clip was contained therein.

Thank you, u/cakevaljean, for posting your Clyde compilation!

I'll leave this thread up just in case anyone else goes looking for the episode. It's S2 E10 "Tremors" and it happens abput 21 minutes in.

OOOMMGGGGGGGG I JUST FINISHED SEASON 6 THE ENDING WAS PERFECTTTTTTTTTT UGGGHHHHH I GENUINELY LOVE THIS SHOW AND NEVER BEEN BOARD OF ITTT THEM MOVING TO LONDON??!?? LIVING NEXT TO EACH OTHER!!! “ we’re not partners, we’re two people who love each other “ 🥹 That was so perfect 🥹🥹🥹