‘Elementary’ season 3 spoilers: Prepare for a big surprise
Have you felt almost like “Elementary” has spent a little too much time as of late resting on its laurels, or at least being stuck in one gear? Well, you may then be pleased to know a little of what the show has coming up.
Specifically, we can tell you now that the upcoming January 15 installment is going to be a big one, and it will contain a case that actually has some genuine surprises near the end. The final sixty seconds of this particular one could blow you away. The title here is “Seed Money,” and you can look to the synopsis below if you want to get some more specifics on what you can expect:
“While Kitty tries to find a runaway teen, Sherlock and Joan work a case in which the murder of a brilliant bioengineer looks to be at the hands of a drug cartel. Also, Joan makes a major life decision but worries it will impact Sherlock negatively, not knowing that Sherlock has big news of his own.”
In the end here, the only thing that we can really say that we are hoping for when it comes to “Elementary” is mostly just that there are some more surprises brought to the table here. This includes some moments in which to be excited about what comes next for some of these characters, and also some moments in which hope that they find something better for themselves.
Stay tuned, as we are going to have some further updates when it comes to the show soon.
Is there anything in particular you are hoping for when it comes to this key “Elementary” episode? Share with a comment, and head over here to get some further news related to the show! Also, you can sign up now to get some further TV updates on all we cover via our CarterMatt Newsletter. (Photo: CBS.)
usedtobelucy
January 12, 2015 @ 9:45 pm
I guess I see it quite differently. How could you have a long-running series in which the two main characters — both of whom are famously prickly and strong-minded and, despite being well suited in some ways aren’t particularly similar at all, in others — were always and forever sympatico? It wouldn’t be realistic, it would have no drama, and –maybe I’m the only one — but I’d be bored with a story like that very quickly.
Besides which, as last season ended, both Sherlock and Joan (not to mention Gregson, as we learn in the first episode) were hurt and reeling from the difficult saga that unfolded in Season Two.
As they even mentioned explicitly at the end of Season Two, Sherlock’s stability had to be devastatingly threatened by the revelation that he and his addiction were largely responsible for Mycroft’s return to MI6 — with horrible consequences for Mycroft ultimately — and, by extension, for Joan’s ordeal. (And after he’d solemnly promised in Season One that he would never allow her to be harmed by his connection with Moriarty. In that promise, he’d obviously overlooked other parts of his life that, unbeknownst to him at the time, could be just as dangerous to her.) …
Then, in that fragile state, he’s faced with Joan moving out on him — just when he was at his perhaps most fragile in ages and probably felt that he needed her more than ever.
Not much surprise then that, after that, Sherlock freaked out and walked out on Joan and the NYPD, with barely a word — in part to escape but, I’m sure, also in part to see if getting into MI6 could somehow get him closer to making his amends to Mycroft. Sherlock being Sherlock, I can’t imagine the need for those particular amends not weighing extremely heavily on his mind. He’s a big one for guilt, and now I’m sure he feels guilty about what he inadvertently did to someone he’s also spent his life hating and despising. The fact that Mycroft has acted with some self-sacrificing love toward Sherlock just has to make the whole situation more horrifying in Sherlock’s mind — he has to want desperately to discharge that debt, and yet how will he be able to?
So of course he walked, in the middle of all that emotional confusion. And as the beginning of Season Three makes clear, when he did that he hurt Joan and Gregson every bit as much as he was then hurting.
To me, that whole long-running story unfolds with a lot of emotional truth. And I can’t see how it could possibly have been resolved by Sherlock and Joan just getting back together without a serious struggle.
I must be in a minority on this one, too, but I also like the Kitty plot (and Kitty). The idea that Sherlock decided to not only take on a tutee — since he’s learned that he’s a teacher! — but take on someone to HELP delights me because it looks to me as if he’s really trying to emulate his dear Watson. He chose his student not just because he thought she could learn to be a good detective — which the old Sherlock would have done — but because he saw himself as being able to be a kind of sober companion to her — helping her get back to a sane life before the event that sent her down a horrible path. I love his growth in that way, and I’m looking forward to getting more of Kitty’s story as the season unfolds.
I do admit that in the 42-minute format they have, this whole novelistic story doesn’t always get told as clearly as it ideally should be. They’re trying to do things with this series that are extremely difficult under the writing circumstances that they have. But I see such strong continuing story arcs, and the overall character arcs make so much sense to me — as well as being nicely surprising, which Sherlock’s adoptive-dad-of-Kitty arc has been — that I’m really enjoying the show in this season, as I did in the first two. I wish it were perfect. But U.S. network tv has to be written terribly on the fly and the episodes’ format puts the writers in a straitjacket in many ways, that I’m actually kind of dazzled by their ambition and by their ability to create these big character arcs that are so interesting and make so much sense to me.
hollyu48
December 23, 2014 @ 8:31 pm
Some folks like the Kitty mix, I do not. I think that I miss most of all the ease with which Holmes and Watson used to speak to each other. This season it seems terse and fragile all at one time, like its always teetering on the dissolution of the partnership.. I hate that
Monkey Business
December 23, 2014 @ 12:03 pm
all i want for Elementary is to see how Kitty leaves the show for good. seriously she does nothing but annoys everyone. when Kitty’s gone that will be a big relief for all fans!