Episode nine, written by Craig Sweeny (with whom Doherty worked on Medium), is “just a rollicking good time. It’s very, smart and fun and strange.” And it involves Sherlock trying to figure out how an “apparently unbeatable vault was broken into. It’s an Ocean Elevens type break-in. And so Sherlock has to try to figure out what happened. It’s just a lot of fun. And for us it was an opportunity to tell a story that doesn’t necessarily start with the police department.”
Elementary airs Thursday nights at 10 p.m. ET on CBS. A short clip of my interview with Rob Doherty can be heard on this week’s Let’s Talk TV Live broadcast.
Photo images and video courtesy of CBS.
Article comments
1 - Lucy H.
Great interview, thanks. I was hoping that "M" episode title that we saw in a photo the staff tweeted meant Moriarty was coming up. Looking forward to that.
2 - barbara barnett
Thanks Lucy! I'm guessing that's the "M" episode :)
3 - Lucy H.
By the way, I heard you say the other day that you're watching Eli Stone but it's a little too sweet for your taste. ... I can relate, although I do think it was quite an admirable show and a nice attempt to do some innovative things.
For anybody who's curious about the range of JLM's acting skills and the depth of his emotional reserves (and if you can stand BBC costume dramas), I recommend the distinctly non-sweet BBC two-part mini-series Byron. Not the best written thing in the world, but available on Netflix and extremely well acted, by Miller especially, but also by the rest of an amazing cast that includes Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Little and Philip Glenister.
4 - barbara barnett
I'm enjoying Eli Stone very much (sweet as it is). JLM is quite good. I really enjoyed him Plunkett and Macleane as well (a bit bizarre of a movie, but with the benefit of putting him together with one of very favorite actors, Robert Carlyle) ;)
5 - Lucy H.
I really like RC as well. It was nice to see him get such a cool show as Once Upon a Time -- and I think he's great in it.
I find myself recommending Plunkett and Macleane when somebody asks me if I can think of anything that's just silly, escapist fun. Liv Tyler aside, the cast there can't be beat, and I think the Hogarth-meets-MTV approach actually works great for the story. Never could figure out why it got such terrible reviews. RC and JLM may have had some fun making it, at least, I'm guessing, though, doing a lot of improvising and such. I seem to remember an interview in which RC said that he wondered where his and JLM's writing credits were for P&M. They're both pretty funny guys.
6 - Resa Haile
Just a note to say that it hasn't actually been a hundred years since Doyle stopped writing the Holmes story; the last one was published in the *Strand* magazine in 1927. Very interesting interview, though.
7 - Resa Haile
I meant "the Holmes stories," although "the Holmes story" makes Watson's tales sound like one long biography, which, in a sense, they were.
8 - barbara barnett
Point taken Resa. I'll make that correction.
Lucy--just posted my review of Carlyle's new movie--and an interview with the director (he talks alot about RC's improvising ;))
The more I see of JLM, the more I like him. Plunkett & Macleane is just a great lot of fun!
9 - Josh Porter
Thanks Resa for the correction. I am working on my school project about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Your comment definitely saved me from a lot of embarrassment.
You are the best!