What I’m Watching: Elementary

Elementary: Season 2, Episode 10 “Tremors” (B)

I didn’t love this episode because this show usually does such a spectacular job of storytelling, and this excessively structured hour felt too forced in a fully unnecessary way. The fact that all it led up to was Bell getting shot taking a bullet for Sherlock wasn’t all that compelling for me. Sherlock coming to apologize to Bell and offering to find him the best care the world has to offer for his injured limb was uncharacteristic and took a lot of courage, and for Bell to tell him that he didn’t want to see him didn’t quite track. It was interesting to see just how content with himself Sherlock felt that they had avoided putting an innocent man in jail and how little he cared about upending the life of one parolee who was now being sent back to prison because Sherlock had blown his cover. Perhaps that’s what got Bell so upset, since Sherlock never gives much thought to what consequences his actions have. Watson, on the other hand, didn’t seem too broken up by the trial, though it was a considerably less exciting affair than it could have been. Sherlock telling the prosecuting attorney that she and the city could thank him for his services provided free of charge was both a high and a low point. It was good to see Elizabeth Marvel of “Lights Out” as the attorney who later invited Sherlock to join her at a meeting, and Frankie Faison, a familiar face from Hannibal Lecter projects and “Banshee,” as the judge.