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December 23, 2013 "Please retry" | — | 6 |
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Genre | Television, Television/Crime |
Format | Box set, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen |
Contributor | Jon Michael Hill, Jonny Lee Miller, Aidan Quinn, Lucy Liu |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 6 |
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Product Description
ELEMENTARY, a contemporary take on the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes who investigates crimes in modern-day New York City as a consultant to the NYPD and is assisted by Joan Watson, a former surgeon, who is hired by Holmes' wealthy father to help keep the eccentric detective sober.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 5.4 x 7.6 inches; 7.2 ounces
- Item model number : 504985590
- Media Format : Box set, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 17 hours and 18 minutes
- Release date : August 27, 2013
- Actors : Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Jon Michael Hill, Aidan Quinn
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, Portuguese
- Studio : Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B00CL151G4
- Number of discs : 6
- Best Sellers Rank: #48,071 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #31,515 in DVD
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Okay. That aside:
This show is exceptional. Not only would it stand alone quite well without Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes ever having been written (which to some insults their ideas and affinities for SACD's work), but also adds societal context, modernity, and depth to Sherlock Holmes (something no one can say is easy, much less executable in such an artistic and subtle way as this series).
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
First, let us look at trying to place such a genius intellect and deductionist in today's cynical, apathetic, passive, low resolve and high civil retaliation context of modern London. This is where we must put a modern day Holmes, from his infancy up to his (SPOILER ALERT) inevitable heroine addiction. In the early London of Sir Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, there was this resolve, this popular tenacity in London, not to mention a clear cut notion of right and wrong, that permeated it's core culture and drive. A young man with Sherlock Holmes' gifts would have found quite a station and calling as he grew up in the higher learning institutions and accepting fields of forensics, police work, and medicine with their backdrop of solid morality and unwavering credos. He would have undoubtably arisen as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's main man as written. Logic trumps superstition and evil manipulation.
Now let us compare that same intellect, growing up in the morally empty, cynical, awkward avoiding culture of today's London. He, like many who dare to cling to what is right and shun what is wrong, end up shunned themselves; usually living alone with their non-utilized giftings, or moving somewhere where they may be exercised. Sherlock grows up cynical, brash, and arrogant (increasingly popular in London these days as potential and drive is squandered, replaced by entertainment and erased morals/sense of station). In this context, Sherlock Holmes arises as a frustrated genius young man who finds his only shelter lay in his crime foiling deductions and in the arms of a young woman whom he finds he can love-Irene.
SPOILER: Irene is murdred by "M". A serial killer eventually known as Moriarty.
Holmes then turns to Heroine and then loses His other shelter-Scotland Yard.
In the opening episode of ELEMENTARY, Sherlock has moved from London to New York, where he has just begun consulting for the NYPD. He had a destructive addiction to injecting heroine while working for Scotland Yard and was eventually forced to retire. His father now pays for him to live in an apartment called the Brownstone (in New York) where his sober companion, Joan Watson, lives with him in a non romantic professional relationship. Watson and Holmes sharpen each other. Watson keeps Holmes accountable. Holmes begins truing Watson in the art of Deduction.
Elementary's Sherlock Holmes feels out of place and alone in a world where he sees more than anyone else. Appropriate for a man like this in these modern times. A genius in the middle of a new breed of culture that shuns excellence for the comfort of mediocrity, and he knows it. This is revisited many times throughout the first 20 episodes.
This Sherlock Holmes lives a balance of escaping the tensions of this reality through debauchery (Prostitutes) and hyperkinetic medicating through constant activity (learning to pick locks and handcuffs, single stick fighting, watching 6 televisions at once, etc.) and his using his gifts of observation and deduction for good (good being very real and constant for him as so many shows today seem to despise).
This Sherlock is daily confronted with reality, both in the horrors he must do his best to prevent from happening again (Putting murderers out of the public domain), and in his addictive tendencies in dealing with pain. Sherlock does not run from his pain. He instead operates in the other two self destructive ways of handling pain. He shuts off emotionally and he medicates. The writers do an exceptional job in having Holmes respond to pain like a normal, albeit a genius of dynamic proportions, human being and Watson is the perfect counterpart to His medicating and shutting off emotionally. She keeps him focused on the only healing way to deal with pain. Feel it.
Aside from these things, Elementary also stands as one of the best "whodunnit" shows ever. The crimes are complex, the clues are given in a way as to have your own deductionist skills sharpened, and the plot twists are more often than not unexpected.
Overall:
1) Great writing.
2) Great characters that can be related to.
3) Great job articulating a modern Sherlock.
Elementary takes us on a trip with our favorite consulting detective!
The spirit of the characters are portayed with modern day cultural relationships. Bravo!
Having said that, I have at long last found my Sherlock in Jonny Lee Miller and Elementary. For me, Miller brings a real humanity to the character - a heart and soul, however battered and broken, to go along with the brilliant mind. He's flawed to be sure. A recovering drug addict fighting the daily battles to stay clean, he can be childish, self-absorbed and arrogant, but while Cumberbatch's Sherlock seems to relish his superior intellect and quite enjoys lauding it over the rest of us with our little minds, Miller wears his brilliance like a heavy mantle. It defines who he is and he's constantly struggling to live up to his own expectations. He relishes the detective work because it offers an escape from real life. Miller gives us a fuller character, exposing his bitterness for an emotionally distant and absent father, a glimpse of the isolation that comes with genius, the complications that arise from seeing things that the rest of us don't see - evidenced when he describes his fear of flying. There is the hint of great love and greater loss and the sense that this Sherlock is capable of deep emotion - a Sherlock teetering precariously on the edge of self-destruction. And yet there is a poignance in Millers' portrayal that makes me care as much about Sherlock as I do about solving the crime. He illicits my emotions. There are moments when he makes me laugh, moments when he annoys me, and moments when a simple expression can move me to tears. His performance is nuanced - offering the many shades, if not the complete picture of a complicated, scarred and extraordinary man. It's not so much what Miller does with the lines, but more his facial expressions and his body language. In true detective fashion, it is often me watching him watch others, for it's what's between the words that matters. The words are merely what Sherlock wants us to know. The expressions, the movements and what he doesn't say are the clues to the real Sherlock Holmes. I have, at long last, found my Sherlock and he's everything I hoped he would be. I recommend the show to anyone still searching for theirs.
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Holmes schottet wie immer sein Privatleben völlig ab. Finanziell unabhängig, löst er zum Zeitvertreib Mordfälle, unterstützt so Colonel Gregsen von New Yorker Police Department (NYPD), den er aus London kennt.
Die Folgen sind je 40 Minuten lang und gut konsumierbar, bis auf wenige Ausnahmen in sich abgeschlossen. Nur das Verhältnis zwischen Holmes und Watson entwickelt sich von Folge zu Folge weiter.
Gute Unterhaltung auf hohem Niveau!
This isn't your typical Sherlock, obviously. In this series, set in NYC in modern day, Sherlock is an ADHD hyperactive person, and Watson is a female sober companion to Sherlock. At least at the start. It sounds like an interesting twist on the traditional, and it is. The mazing thing is it works quite effectively. Apart from the usual mystery of who did what to whom in each episode, there's the on-going relationship between Sherlock and Watson that develops, bit by bit, over the series.
There's a lot of episodes here: 23 in all with some additional material, so watching this series is a long-term commitment (an interesting twist from the 8 or 10 episode series that are in vogue now). And over this season, there's significant twists in the story of Holmes and Watson to keep you curious about what happens next. I found myself sympathizing with Watson as she tries to control the roller-coaster Holmes, torn between professional and personal feelings, and her own deepening fascination with the work they do together. The supporting cast is excellent, too!
Throughout, I've enjoyed every episode, although it took a little while to get settled in. By the third episode I was hooked, and can't wait to start watching series 2, already available on DVD. This isn't your traditional Sherlock, and that's actually a very good thing!
Le trame sono del tutto godibili e la sostituzione del dottor Watson con la dottoressa Watson non ha fatto altro che giovare al personaggio che, dal bonario gentiluomo compito un pò tardo di comprendonio è divenuto un arguto contrappunto al genio di Holmes, niente affatto secondario nello svolgimento degli episodi. Un prezioso collaboratore, insomma, e non la cartina di tornasole cui era stato quasi sempre ridotto.
La qualità del prodotto in termini di audio e video è molto soddisfacente. Aspetto la seconda serie con ansia.