Been a while, I know.
Day job, line edits, audio tracks, and I've been hanging with some
steampunkers. Of course, none of this has stopped me from checking out the
latest in fall television.
CBS has opened the
doors for yet another updated version of Conan-Doyle's hero. The procedural
aspect of it is pretty standard, although it feels like Aidan Quinn has finally
found a niche for his hardened NYC detective in Captain Gregson. I don't see much
difference from Lieutenant Kevin Sweeney in last year’s short lived NBC offering of a Prime
Suspect remake. And the return of Jon Michael Hill, formerly of ABC’s DETROIT
187, is a plus.
The real chemistry of Elementary is between John Lee Miller
and Lucy Liu. Here the update of the Holmes and Watson characters develop a
new, fresh layer in the canon of Holmesian knock-offs. It allows Watson to go
from making casual observations about Holmes as Conan-Doyles’ pair did to
allowing an insightful exploration of the centerpiece character, but maybe not
as much as Martin Freeman’s Watson to Benedict Cumberbatch’s Holmes in the
excellent BBC Sherlock.
BLATANT SELF PROMOTION CORNER: Signed the contracts today on my first picture book. It’s got
a holiday theme and this is November so I imagine the rlease date will be about
ten months from now.
BLATANT SELF PROMOTION CORNER ACROSS THE PAGE: Trouble Comes to Sorrow, the second in the
three part series of northern Michigan
sheriff Cal Haskell has been released. You can listen to a snippet of it here: Mind Wings
