We watched the second episode "The Blind Banker" another murder in the first scene another give-me pseudo-mystery. Don't get me wrong there is some delightful racism throughout, fortune cookie accents, and inscrutable Asians. So it was not a total loss. the show is fun it is just not smart and worse it assumes we are not smart.
Then came the "The Great Game" and the worst Moriarty ever. He plays a hyper-controlled super-genius criminal like Jim Carey playing "gay". Speaking of which the already have in the cast the perfect Moriarty Mark Gatiss. When he appeared in the Pilot I thought what a great choice of Moriarty. Not only is Mark number 3 on the list of people I would go gay for. He is wasted on Mycroft. He is the right age a -generation older than Benedict Cumberbatch-, the right temperament, he is a member of the league of gentlemen and can actually act. More importantly he is believable as a math-professor that controls the criminal world like a chess game. The fool they have playing the part, screams and chews the scenery any time he gets a cellphone call. The "I am sOoOo changeable" line had me on the floor laughing and not in the good way.
I guess I should be grateful Moffat has presented me with a real mystery - why does this show only have good reviews?
We've been watching Downton Abbey, which was a suggestion from kleinbl00 before he left us. It's not perfect, but it's very enjoyable. It loses a bit of its wit over time, though.
To each their own though.
But the whole series has a feel of the authors dumbing things down for the rubes. 1. the conceit of having the murder being shown in the scene why? so we don't have to be troubled solving anything. what is this CSI? 2. Labeling the clues with cg text so the writer can be lazy writing dialogue and the watcher can be lazy on figuring out what is important. This robs us of the two joy of mysteries being surprised or figuring them out. 3. having Jim Moriarty be behind every single crime but having the worlds greatest consulting detective never say maybe "hey Jim is behind this on too ?" as his first guess.
like it is a saturday morning cartoon. 4. having Jim Moriarty be behind every single crime by inserting a Post-mortem "some guy named Moriarty told me to do it" 5. Irene Adler her password was "sher"-locked? also in that episode the cameras and graphics told us Holmes could not read her but 1 minute later Holmes reads her. It is stupid and sloppy show ,it is fun, but it is not smart.
I like it but I also like the A-team mostly for the same reasons.