Elementary: Fly into a Rage, Make a Bad Landing

May 3, 2017 5:59 PM - Season 5, Episode 21

When Detective Bell's girlfriend, Chantal (Chasten Harmon), is assaulted and her ex-husband is killed soon after, in what Holmes and Watson discover is a staged suicide, they search for one suspect behind the linked crimes.

AV Club sets it up with a B-.

posted by CMcG (3 comments total)

Better than last week. But the writing in this felt quite clunky; how many times did Marcus have to deliver a "how's Chantal doing now" exposition dump? Three? Four?
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 11:10 PM on May 3, 2017

Yeah, but when your loved one is in the hospital, that is pretty much most of what you talk about, isn't it?
posted by amtho at 5:58 AM on May 4, 2017

I thought it was a decent episode overall. Ugh. Just when I had decided to stop watching because of weak plot lines. Also, the LOS (lack of Shinwell) is a good thing. Wonder if they've been getting negative feedback about how uninteresting that subplot is. I found threading the Marcus and Chantal relationship throughout several episodes was much more relatable and interesting, and hope it continues.

"Just when I thought I was out....they pull me back in"! ~ The Godfather, Part III
posted by the webmistress at 6:39 AM on May 4, 2017 [1 favorite]