By Helen Fulton
With Elementary beginning its second series, you would hope that it would continue as the first series ended. Not necessarily with the same storyline, but the same style and wit that the first series brought to our screens. I feel honoured to say that Elementary has opened the series with a bang!
With Elementary beginning its second series, you would hope that it would continue as the first series ended. Not necessarily with the same storyline, but the same style and wit that the first series brought to our screens. I feel honoured to say that Elementary has opened the series with a bang!
We begin series two with a funeral in London, and an uninvited guest...LeStrade! Yes it is in fact the first episode of the American series that was filmed in London! As you can predict, many of the characters familiar with our Sherlock Holmes series make an appearance, including a visit from the one and only Mycroft. Sherlock and Joan Watson have been asked to help find LeStrade, after his poor taste performance at the funeral, only to have the tables turned and finding Sherlock helping LeStrade solve a case from years ago.
It's hard to describe this episode if I'm honest. After such a long absence of this programme, you find yourself thinking that you need to re-watch the last series to keep track. Honestly, you don't need to. You seem to start this series the same way the first series started: excited yet sceptical if it can live up to the hype. To start with, I was a little confused, but I gasped when I saw it was LeStrade. After that, the story did what it does best, build up into the pinnacle moment that you realise it's the same, if not better than the first series opener.
It's hard to describe this episode if I'm honest. After such a long absence of this programme, you find yourself thinking that you need to re-watch the last series to keep track. Honestly, you don't need to. You seem to start this series the same way the first series started: excited yet sceptical if it can live up to the hype. To start with, I was a little confused, but I gasped when I saw it was LeStrade. After that, the story did what it does best, build up into the pinnacle moment that you realise it's the same, if not better than the first series opener.
I like that to change things up, they have filmed an episode in London. I'd like to think they did this on behalf of all the British followers of the series, or to lay tribute to the original book's location, but I think they've just done it for the sake of doing it, but it's a nice touch.
This episode we see the appearance of LeStrade, played by Sean Pertwee, and Mycroft Holmes, played by Rhys Ifans. Even though these are guest appearances, I would like to think that they would appear once again, even on the one-off. Pertwee plays LeStrade in a very different light to the "Sherlock" version. This LeStrade has been disgraced, cut off from the police, nowhere else to turn but onto alcohol and revenge against the people who made him like this, and addicted to the thought of returning to his former glory. It's very interesting to see, and very convincing. You really feel for this character, and want Sherlock to help him as much as he can. An excellent portrayal in regard to the storyline.
Mycroft Holmes. Rhys Ifans. Need I say more? Of course I do, but I don't have that much room. Rhys brings his own style to Mycroft. Far away from the uptight, government led Mycroft we have known from the BBC series and the films, but now he is a successful restaurateur who actually gets on with his father, much to the annoyance of Sherlock. He however has been keeping secrets, which I will not divulge here, I'm not that nasty that I would spoil it for you!
Mycroft Holmes. Rhys Ifans. Need I say more? Of course I do, but I don't have that much room. Rhys brings his own style to Mycroft. Far away from the uptight, government led Mycroft we have known from the BBC series and the films, but now he is a successful restaurateur who actually gets on with his father, much to the annoyance of Sherlock. He however has been keeping secrets, which I will not divulge here, I'm not that nasty that I would spoil it for you!
Overall, a very good opening to the series. Lots of twists, turns and giggles, exactly what you would expect from this series. I can't wait to dig into the rest of this series and see what Holmes and Watson have in store for us!
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