Elementary Season 4 continues the good work of this US serial, though it does begin to lose a little of its vitality in its storytelling
“I am actually the basis for several fictional characters across various media”
Here’s my 10 favourite performances in Season 4 of Elementary.
- When Sherlock looks like Jonny Lee Miller, then of course he’s going to be highly sexually active but this season throws a curveball with the introduction of Betty Gilpin’s neuratypical Fiona as a rare moment for him to be genuinely vulnerable as he tries for a relationship with her
- A bit of a random apeparance but an actor I do like, Gary Milner pops up in Episode 1 ‘The Past is Parent’ as one of Sherlock Snr’s factotums
- I’m not saying Elementary has a type but scientists played by Broadway stars rarely turn out to be goodies – Marin Ireland’s Alta Von See a case in point in Episode 2 ‘Evidence of Things Not Seen’
- Shohreh Aghdashloo could read the phone book and I’d love it so who cares what her Liliane Bellerose gets up to in Episode 3 ‘Tag, You’re Me’, just revel in that voice
- Post-Come From Away, Jenn Colella might be a Broadway legend but Episode 4 ‘All My Exes Live in Essex’ relegates her to Blonde Group Wife
- I really liked Episode 10 ‘Alma Matters’, which stars the always-good Tate Donovan as the slippery Wilson Trager
- And it also features the marvellous Tamara Tunie as the kindly Lily Cooper who you just know is tragically doomed
- The wittily named Episode 13 ‘A Study in Charlotte’ has much to commend it, not least Richard Kind’s brilliant performance as disgruntled neighbour Trent
- The back end of this season sees Captain Gregson get a proper subplot with the arrival of Virginia Madsen’s love-interest-with-a-past Paige, who first appears in Episode 14 ‘Up to Heaven and Down to Hell’
- And as the finale approaches, Scottish Tony Curran’s Joshua Vikner is temptingly set up as a new big bad…
