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Elementary – Whatever Remains, However Improbable

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“No. We’re much better than that. We’re two people that love each other. Always have been.”

Elementary - Whatever Remains, However Improbable TV review

The aptly-titled season finale of Elementary deals with the FBI’s growing case against Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) for the murder of Michael (Desmond Harrington). With Special Agent Mallick (Parminder Nagra) targeting Watson as the prime suspect given the growing evidence, Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) will take steps to protect his partner at all costs (including destroying evidence and confessing to a crime he didn’t commit). The tease of Mallick as a suspect proves to be a nice use of misdirection before the reveal of the true killer, which only puts Holmes in a deeper bind given Watson’s refusal to allow Hannah (Liza J. Bennett) and her father (Aidan Quinn) to face the repercussions of the crime.

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Elementary – Fit to Be Tied

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Elementary - Fit to Be Tied television review

The penultimate episode of Elementary‘s Sixth Season takes some surprising turns. The serial killer Michael (Desmond Harrington) returns to New York City and a new victim appears soon after. However, things aren’t as they appear. Despite the evidence to the contrary, and the hopes of the FBI nabbing the serial killer, Michael is actually innocent of the crime. However, while still believing the victim to belong to him, Watson (Lucy Liu) delves into Michael’s past and makes a discovery that will make her Michael’s next intended victim.

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You – Pilot

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You - Pilot television review

The “Pilot” for You is one of the creepiest concepts I’ve seen on cable television. No magic, beasts, or sci-fi creatures here, the horror comes from every day life. Presented from the view of bookstore manager Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), the show’s first episode introduces Joe and the audience to the beautiful Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail) who immediately infatuates Joe. Outwardly a pretty nice guy, Joe helps the teenage neighbor whose parents often go at it, and certainly comes off charming to those he meets. He’s also a stalker who goes to great lengths to dive into Beck’s life from stalking her on social media, to following her around town and listening in to her conversations with friends (led by Shay Mitchell), to breaking into her home and rifling through her computer and phone.

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Take Two – It Takes a Thief

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  • Title: Take Two – It Takes a Thief
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Take Two - It Takes a Thief television review

When a friend’s gallery is robbed of a priceless painting just days before it was to go up for auction, (Rachel Bilson) and Eddie (Eddie Cibrian) work to recover the painting as discreetly as possible. What they find is a master thief (Sara Canning) hired by a cutthroat businessman (Nicholas Lea) whose interest in the theft is more about destroying the gallery’s reputation and putting them out of business than any love for the artwork. The episode is reminiscent of the Castle episode “Eye of the Beholder” where a female thief also showed attraction to one of the partners and provided assistance on solving the case. What’s odd here is the episode makes poor use of the thief, who displays none of her sills on-screen and, like Sam’s new beau, is really just a plot device to bring the detectives closer together.

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Danger Man – The Traitor

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Danger Man - The Traitor television review

Our Throwback Thursday post takes us back into the Cold War spycraft of Danger Man. Drake (Patrick McGoohan) travels to Kashmir following an agent hoping to catch who the man will pass his information. When the contact turns out to be a wealthy Englishwoman (Barbara Shelley), Drake befriends the woman’s husband (Ronald Howard) earning him a dinner invitation in the couple’s mountain home. Although the couple welcomes him with open arms, it soon becomes a question of whether Drake is the predator or the prey.

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