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JasonCarswell
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Elementary: Meet Your Maker (2018)
I Love This Show But Hate This Episode
I've seen every episode, love most of them, and I rarely comment, but this episode was soooo poor I had to express it.
Unimaginative, obvious, repetitive, poorly written, poor casting, behavior out of character, and concepts misrepresented with more propaganda than usual (though within norms).
The trébuchet scene is neither clever or practical, nor is it in Holmes character to use excuses or be lazy. The suspects are all unpleasant poor actors. The sensationalized sexualized economic dominatrix story illustrates a lack of imagination in a world of far more interesting low budget YouTube content, censored though it may be. So too, the InCel guys are a caricature of the worst of the MGTOW used just to inflame sexuality wars. The freaky exposition was freakishly too convenient. Typical propaganda for authority, political correctness, etc that is all too common from Hollywood, cultural engineering and manufacturing consent over the debt slaves of our great consumerist West.
Disappointment after disappointment. I hadn't even gotten half way through the show when I started writing this criticism - when I shock even myself to see my disappointment grow yet further. The non-conformist alternative lifestyles of the Burning Man-esque Maker's Fair parody was nice to include for diversity yet was weakly executed at best. I've been to Burning Man 10 times and know the community, and I've even been to a Maker's Fair so I know of what I speak. Steampunks and cyberpunks in top hat cosplay don't make a community, just as tinfoil on cardboard makes a poor substitute for a robot costume - all glitter and no substance.
What I actually liked... Joan's hat and coat, the sudden Marshal Marcus thread, ghost guns, and suicide by cop.
What worries me... Has Elementary jumped the shark? Is it downhill from here? Is it going to drift into oblivion, make a clean exit, or make a strong comeback and finale?