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Elementary, Ep. 2.24: “The Grand Experiment” is a dark, effective season finale

If I had to guess how the second season of Elementary was going to end, I wouldn’t have landed anywhere near the tone of “The Grand Experiment,” which reverses last season’s triumphant finale by blowing up the core of the series.

Elementary, Ep. 2.21: “The Man with the Twisted Lip” creates great drama for Sherlock and Joan

There really doesn’t even need to be a crime plot to frame an episode when the character is around, because these versions of the Holmes brothers and Watson can carry a full episode of material entirely through conversation

Elementary, Ep. 2.16: “The One Percent Solution” phones in with some comedy

On the spectrum of tonal heaviness, Elementary usually leans to the lighter side of things, but it’s rarely as light as “The One Percent Solution” is.

Elementary, Ep. 2.12: “The Diabolical Kind” is must-see television

“The Diabolical Kind” begins like any other episode of Elementary might. Watson walks down the stairs, notices Sherlock sitting in his beekeeping outfit, makes a sarcastic comment about his laundry and exits the brownstone. What follows – a sequence narrated by Johnny Lee Miller, which we find out is from a correspondence with Moriarty – is “The Diabolical Kind” announcing itself as anything other than a typical episode of Elementary.