Review: Elementary 2x2 'Solve for X'

Elementary
Season 2, Episode 2
Solve for X
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Brief Summery:  When a well-respected mathematician is found dead, Holmes and Watson set out to solve a murder and the purpose of the highly guarded equation he was trying to decipher. Meanwhile, Watson is conflicted when the son of a former patient approaches her for a loan.

Review: Okay with this episode, we have Joan visiting the grave of one of her patients who passed away on the surgery table and made have her so much guilt where she quit working in medical. The son of the patient 'coincidentally' being at the grave site at the same time as Joan, and then asking Joan for a loan for a bar.

It was quite funny how Sherlock rocks up and says that Detective Bell had texted him to come, but it was a old text from 2 years ago. I thought that the crime was quite interesting with the invisible ink hiding a room of maths equations.
I loved Joans face when she walked inside and there is this random guy topless doing/looking at maths.

I love how Holmes had a suspect all figured out then Detective Bell tells him that the guy was murdered, and he seemed a little baffled at that. I've seen it happen in quite a lot of crime shows and it wasn''t all that surprising but quite predictable.

How the hell did Sherlock figure out what kind of dog it was ?!?!

We hear and learn about Joans past and what happened to make her change professions. It seemed fitting as last episode we learn about Sherlock. It was quite sad to hear what had happened.

I loved the scene with Sherlock and the taxi. Also a Sherlock work out scene, why hasn't this been done more often. I though Sherlocks speech about poisons and how guilt is the strongest form of poison, was really good and also so very true.

Joan asked for an advance on her paycheck to give to this kid and Sherlock ends up giving her $20,000 to give her a way out of it (which I thought was sweet of him to do). Let me tell you, this kid annoys me way to much, I kind of want to hit him. Joan ends up telling him that she will only pay for his education and not give him money for a bar. I thought that was good of her.

The crime is a bit confusing. you know its the professor but with her changing the time stamp on the video, you get confused. At the start the crime seems really cool and interesting but by the end you only cared about the storyline with Joans past.

On an end note I really likes Sherlock at the end being all sweet and asking to go with Joan to visit the grave with her next time.

 

Review: Elementary 2x1 'Step Nine'

Elementary
Season 2, Episode 1
Step Nine
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Brief Summery: Holmes and Watson travel to London to find Holmes' former police partner, Lestrade (Sean Pertwee) who's gone into hiding after threatening a murder suspect with a grenade. While there, they discover that Mycroft (Rhys Ifans), Sherlock's brother, now lives at 221B, Holmes' former address. Holmes sets out to prove Lestrade's suspicions right while coming to an understanding with his estranged sibling.

Review: I have been waiting for this series to come back and I was not disappointed, and coming from someone who isn't really a Sherlock Holmes fan is saying something. Yes, the crime kind of sucked but I loved the fact we got to see some of Holmes life in London.

The episode starts off with them finishing off a case in New York, which I thought was pretty cool that it was solved because of carrier pigeons, and plus Watson with taking the culprit down.

Then they end up flying to London to help find Lestrade. I thought it was adorable and sweet that Holmes picked up Watsons bag without a word, it showed that he is a gentleman, and then Holmes explaining what she will see when she enters his apartment and then bam, it is totally different and he is all upset.

Then Mycroft comes in and Watson asking if he was 'Geezer Bob'. To Holmes seeing his brother again, I loved the 'oh my god' "my ...croft, it hasn't been that long". I must say that they had great chemistry playing sibling dynamic. We later see Watson telling Mycroft that Holmes actually has a friend and that she is it :).

Holmes has found his old 'partner' Lestrade  at a pub waiting to raid one of Holmes secret money stashes and still tries even though he is drunk and Holmes is with him. I'm unsure if he actually did do it or not though. Holmes introducing Watson to Lestrade and then going to the suspects home and Holmes telling the guy that she was 'Americas No.1 Expert on Home Security' I loved her face when he said that but just went with it.

This came to the realization that the suspect used a 'plastic gun' ..okay I don't know if this is even possible to make or not and in a way it sounds really cool but really ridiculous. I actually liked the whole message to the security camera.

We then get Holmes and Watson talking about how Mycroft wants to take Watson to dinner, but Holmes thinks he just wants to have sex with her to get back at him because he slept with Mycrofts fiance.
At the dinner we find out some more about Mycroft and what has happened to him and such, it kind of broke my heart when Mycroft asked 'How does one become Sherlocks friend?'  

Then we have Sherlock trying to apologise to Lestrade and then they come across a clue that leads them to a dead body, which sherlock solves with biting into a apple haha.

We end the episode with Sherlock and Mycroft talking and Mycroft blowing up all of Sherlocks things and saying that he forgives him. Then Holmes and Watson are heading back home.

So all in all, I really enjoyed the episode even though it didn't really have much crime or crime solving.

 

Book Review: Divergent by Veronica Roth.

Divergent by Veronica Roth
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

 "Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it."

Summery:  In a future Chicago, 16-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. One choice decides your friends, defines your beliefs and determines your loyalties ... forever.


I have just fallen in love with this series. It has taken me ages to actually read Divergent. I even suggested it to people saying it was a good book. I tried a couple of times but I just couldn't get into it, but with the movie being made I was determined to read it and have fell in love.

It was similar to 'The Hunger Games' or 'Uglies' with the factions/districts and such. But was very different as well, and you couldn't compare the two books.
I thought that the book was well written (so kudos to Veronica) and I enjoyed the plot as well :D.

I really liked Tris (Beatrice), she isn't like your typical damsel in distress like what you get in majority of books these days. I also loved Four, and I enjoyed finding out why he is called Four as well.

I would of liked to be able to have more of an explanation about the history and how the factions and things all started out.

I thought it was pretty cool that they had to do a test to see what faction they would best belong to, but they still got to choose which one they actually wanted to go to.

 Dauntless seems like it would be the hardest to get into, jumping out of trains, off of buildings. We only hear what you have to do to get into one or two of the other factions so unsure. 

I was shocked about the ending, i didn't realise it was actually finished at first. I am so glad I've read it with the second book being out already or I may of went crazy waiting for it.

Tris has this whole internal battle of what is wrong and what is the right thing to do, she stands up for her friends but she wont stand up for herself against them. She is a character that is easy to relate to.

I would recommend this book to everyone, who is into dystopian books. 

 
Also if you want to know which faction you belong to, try this Facebook app.

Review: Criminal Minds 8x23, 'Brothers Hotchner'.

Criminal Minds

Season 8, Episode 23

'Brothers Hotchner'

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Brief Summary: When a number of ecstasy overdoses in Manhattan show a pattern, the team travels to the city for the profile. Hotchner is surprised, however, when the investigation reveals his long estranged brother is somehow involved.

Review: I liked it but I didn't love it, who the unsub was kind of ruined it for me. I always enjoy finding out about the teams backgrounds and family as such. I had forgotten that Hotchner had a brother, the storyline for them was done well. I would of liked to have more brotherly scenes with them together but I understand why there were not as many (fingers crossed for it in a later season) I found the case quite an interesting and clever one.

So we have the episode starting off with Sean (Hotchners Brother) calling up his brother because he was in the room when a girl died of a 'seems to be' drug overdose, but she wasn't the first one and seems to be not the last one either. The unsub was using PMMA also known as 'Doctor Death' on the streets (sounds like such a nice drug doesn't it ..not) and it all kept leadin back to the bar where sean worked. It found out that his bosses (Jim and Thane) are involved, but of course nothing is ever that simple.

I was kind of disappointed that the unsub had been a father whose daughter had died from a suspected drug overdose at one of Jims's other clubs. I was hoping for something a tad more dramatic and not typical unsub. It was pretty awesome how Reid was the one to take him down by knocking him over using a bag haha (It was pretty badass for Reid).

The episode ended with a little tease for the finale, as Garcia was closing everything all her screens were taken over with photos of the team and te word 'ZUGZWANG' repeatedly, this happens just before the replicator made his move and entered Strauss' hotel room and stood over her while she slept (kinda creepy ig you ask me). I think they did a good job of setting up the finale with that scene.

Line of the episode would go to Garcia for her doctor who reference with "I found something stranger than a time-traveling police box."