‘Elementary’ season 3, episode 3 review: Watson’s breakthrough with Kitty

Elementary November 13, 2014

We love “Elementary”, but to be honest this season has felt like it has stalled out a few times already and we are only at episode 3. Splitting Watson and Holmes hasn’t been working out as well as we had hoped, the premiere episode didn’t even have Holmes in it for the first 20 minutes and the dynamic that we love between Holmes and Watson is being disrupted by Kitty. We are hoping that the kinks will be worked out tonight and that there will be more Watson and Holmes working together and that we will learn even more about this mysterious new protege that Holmes has taken on.

Watson asks Kitty to work with her on a case, and Holmes approves of Watson reaching out an olive branch to Kitty, but when she tires again to connect with Kitty, her therapist side comes out and she begins to feel that Kitty needs more help then what Holmes can offer. Holmes says that he not only talked to Kitty in the past about therapy, but he offered to pay for it and she declined. Holmes decides to try to talk to Kitty about therapy one more time and she agrees to go without much of a fight. She realizes that it was at Watson’s suggestion that she go to therapy and that if she wants to get anything out of her time with Holmes that she needs Watson’s help too. Seeing Kitty and Watson at a group meeting together was inspiring.

The case of the week involves a man named Harlan: A math expert who is taking part of a game that involves puzzles, texts and different areas of the city (and a cash prize worth over a million dollars), but when he is sent to a warehouse where he finds a dead player he calls on Holmes for help. Why Holmes? Harlan is part of his network of specialists he calls on every so often for help, but Holmes has recently stopped calling on him because Harlan tried to take their relationship to a level that Holmes wasn’t comfortable with… friendship. Of course after solving the case and thinking about things Holmes realizes that ending his working relationship with Harlan over this was ridiculous and they patch things up.

It was nice to finally see Watson, Kitty and Holmes all find a better footing of this strange triangle. Also watching Andrew and Holmes meet for the first time was entertaining since Holmes as usual doesn’t know how to keep his mouth shut. Episode grade: B

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1 Comment

Mitra
November 14, 2014 @ 12:06 pm

Elementary writers have fallen short of a script for Kitty that would allow her to have at least some chemistry with Sherlock, even though he migh have taken her on either as protégée or a “father” in order to cope with her past. There should have been at least a short scene from “earlier in London” as there was with Irene to show how and under what circumstances sherlock took Kitty under his wings. Failing that, the show will continue being patchy and not charged enough with emotions for the viewers to be involved with the new characters. It’s not surprising that in this episode, Harlan came out as the most endearing and the least boring character. His “neediness” towards Sherlock was precisely a testimony to how much the viewers need that certain attachments that his peers can have towards Sherlock.