Is CBS’s Elementary inching closer to the edge as season 3 comes to a close? Here’s why we think Reichenbach is not far off the show’s radar.
“The Final Problem” is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story in which the famed London based detective and his nemesis Moriarty meet their end. When the story was first published in 1893 the uproar was not unlike the cries the BBC heard for years as the credits rolled on the mini-series Sherlock. The people wanted to know, where is Sherlock?
Elementary has, over the course of its three season run, taken bits a pieces from canon, slipping them seamlessly into the folds of their narrative. Joan Watson was a former surgeon, but she turned to a sober companion facing another type of battlefield than the army. Moriarty turned out not only to be Sherlock’s most brilliant opponent, but also his one and only romantic love, Irene Adler. The threads are there, but where Doyle’s overseas reimagining clings closely to the canon story by story, Elementary flips it on its head giving viewers 24 new and exciting tales each season.
So how will Elementary tackle the greatest fall of Sherlock’s timeline? We feel confident enough to say that Elementary‘s Reichenbach already happened. In fact it was the fall that served as the catalyst for Elementary‘s beginning. However, while nods to Reichenbach exist already in the show’s narrative, an explicit reference to the Reichenbach is still available for the taking.
Elementary‘s season finales and premieres have given us the building blocks on which to construct the Reichenbach narrative atop. Here are the pieces that we have and the final blocks that season 3’s finale may provide us with.
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