Why-o-why can't directors tell their actors to speak in a normal voice like everyone else does in normal life. I'm watching the 3rd series now and it's getting worse and worse. If it doesn't get better in the 4th series I quit watching and lower my rating.

When CBS put "Elementary" on the chopping block at the end of last season, I couldn't wait for the axe to fall and prematurely wrote my final review entitled, "Goodbye Elementary". It was painful to watch the modern day New York adaptation of the famous English sleuth and his doctor companion become more tedious and time consuming than entertaining, mainly because the writers had drifted away from creator Robert Doherty's original mystery theme. Sherlock Holmes' (Johnny Lee Miller) deductive skills were now so tangential to the story line that when he exposed the "unlikely" criminal, his logic seemed far fetched and overplayed. Fans lost interest and turned their attention elsewhere, downgrading the show to background noise. Joan Watson (Lucy Lui) no longer had her exotic sheen and Morland Holmes (John Noble), Sherlock's father, was not only a long winded, unnecessary character in the show but took the stories in more dramatic directions, leaving mystery fans unengaged and twiddling their thumbs. On the bright side, Natalie Dormer played her role as criminal mastermind Jamie Moriarty with the same sinister coldness as her "Game of Thrones" character, Margaery Tyrell. Not only has CBS renewed the show for a seventh season but seems to have given it a full makeover. The dialogue is more precise and clever and the production values have been bumped up. Seeing Joan Watson dressed in a designer outfit, having lunch in a swanky New York restaurant adds some real sparkle to the screen. And more importantly, Holmes' brilliant skills of deduction are once again prominent throughout every story line and cast a wide enough net to catch culprits wily enough to elude NYPD patriarch, Captain Thomas Gregson (Aidan Quinn) and Detective Marcus Bell (Jon Michael Hill). There is little chance that CBS will renew "Elementary" again next year but season seven deserves a second look, especially from past viewers like myself who had given up watching in despair.

It's not cumberbach and Sherlock but jings it's a good yarn. Helped of course by fantastic acting. A must watch!

Casting crew is somehow satisfying, although I'm not Lucy Lou biggest fan. There is maybe 5 episodes in the whole show where she wears anything but short dresses/shorts. Mildly irritated with lack of expression on her face, but I like the fact that Watson is not again grumpy man (regardless of the book). And one more actor that I cannot stand to look at (he is quite creepy in my opinion) is Microft, very bad choice. Luckily he doesn't appear often. I gave it 8.