A V Club Elementary Review
A V Club:
“Well I never!” said he. “I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it after all.”
By now, with Elementary at the two-thirds mark of its fifth season, it’s clear the show walks a knife edge between comfort and complacency. It’s still capable of small moments of deep feeling; Sherlock and Kitty’s abrupt, vaguely hostile non-apologies to each other about their lapsed relationship is a perfect microcosm of what drew them together and why it’s so difficult for either of them to accept normalcy. But there are also things the show used to handle more carefully, and continuing to involve them without that care only leads to disappointment; when erosion of good faith takes a toll on a show, even the successes feel harder-won and more tenuous than they used to.
