#crowned clown downtown brown

[halloawhatisthis]

Elementary playing the long game with Odker (part 6):

5x09 It Serves You Right To Suffer 5x12 Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown 5x13 Over A Barrel 5x14 Rekt In Real Life 5x16 Fidelity 5x18 Dead Man's Tale 5x19 High Heat 5x21 Fly Into Rage, Make A Bad Landing 5x23 Scrambled

[oneoftheexactsciences]

This is, in fact, my third murdered clown.

[autisticsherlockinelementary]

Two upcoming hiatuses

After tonight’s airing of S5E12, “Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown,” the episode schedule gets a little bit weird for the next month.

S5E13 - “Over A Barrel”: January 29th

S5E14 - [Episode Title TBA]: February 19th (the E-sports episode)

So, unless something changes, we’ll have a one week break after tonight, then a two week break after Jan 29th.

[to-the-fishies]

We just finished Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown and Marcus Bell is Sure Something.

[selenesedits]

Elementary rewatch : Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown [S05E12]

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Elementary season 5 episode 12 "Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown" (2017) dir. Michael Slovis

[whyruntothetardis]

Elementary 5x11 and 5x12 promo photos (first two are 5x11)

[lichfucker]

whomst in the elementary writers’ room is in charge of episode titles because five seasons of episode titles like “crowned clown, downtown brown” is significantly reducing my lifespan I can feel it

[myepisodecalendar]

Elementary Season 5 - Episode 12: Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown AirDate: January 15th, 2017, 10:00 PM

[flameintobeing]

“Sherlock has a longstanding tendency to hide his hands when he’s meeting people he isn’t going to like, and when meeting the AdRupt CEO and during the Homeland Security meeting in Gregson’s office, Sherlock and Joan stand side by side, both of them hiding their hands against the enemy. It’s the most visually united they’ve been in a while.” -- Elementary gets cozy in “Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown” By Genevieve Valentine, The AV Club

[halloawhatisthis]

[221brownstone]

5x12 Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown  Sherlock Holmes & Detective Bell

[liunaticfringe]

Short-ish Review of Elementary 5x12 Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown Grade: F

The good: Zip. Zilch ... not even a beautiful dress to save us... One of -- if not THE -- worst episodes ever.

The bad: Why did Sherlock have to be such a dick about Joan installing a water system? Excuse the f-ck out of her for doing you a favor and trying to feel safe in her own home. And she just lets it roll off her back -- so to speak. Let’s see some anger, conflict, emotion, something, dammit!

The ugly: I can’t even... The entire episode was about gastrointestinal distress. Which is what I had after about 15 minutes of this deadly boring, inconsequential piece of sh-t. Not to mention, they’ve done this freaking exact plot, with the murder covering up the coming-upon-the-corporate wrongdoing, like 1000 times. And it never works, and it never gets any more interesting.

And yeah, sure the guy who works at the EPA has a multi-million dollar patent. 

WASTED both Peter Onorati and Debra Rupp, who join LL in deserving SO much better.

Ways it could’ve been 1000x better:

Pay off the opening scene and have the dreaded stepdad get in the way of the case and then find a way to actually help.

Show Sherlock and/or Marcus in quarantine and keep him there at least an act. And show Joan shifting into doctor mode, actually worried for him and fearing for his life.

Sherlock does get the virus and JW gets to do the actual footwork on the case and has to report back through the bathroom door. 

Actually acknowledge how ridiculous all this poop talk was and have JW make snarky comments.

Make Marcus’ B-story the A-story and have them involved with this big case the DA is trying -- we NEVER get to see SH/JW testify about any of their collars. Stakes are immediately raised, cause they care about whether or not the killer goes free.

Saw this one on the AVClub board -- it would’ve been awesome if the whole thing had come back around to the prankvertising company somehow.

If it were anything other than another damn chemical / genetic / corporate / tech case. 

I could go on ... just sayin’, it’s not that hard, extremely well-paid writers. Come the hell on.

[jamesrogue]

Elementary 5x12 - Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown

Lucy Liu as Joan Watson; Aidan Quinn as Captain Gregson

I’m attempting to watch a bunch of shows.

[nellie-elizabeth]

Elementary: Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown (5x12)

This episode dealt with some things that should have felt like big, monumental developments, but instead ended up being smaller character-driven moments. I, for one, am not complaining.

Cons:

The main plot involved somebody poisoning New York's water supply. I actually quite liked most of the mystery, and as I mentioned, I enjoyed the fact that the smaller moments were given priority over a big city-killing super bacteria. But that being said, I feel like the resolution was a little sloppy. We learn that the bad guy is somebody who patented a water filtration system. He wants to make everybody sick so they turn to his system for clean water. I was annoyed by the fact that the bad guy was black - usually Elementary goes for the comfortable cliche of making white corporate America the baddies, and in this episode in particular, that cliche actually would have felt thematically relevant. People in positions of power willing to stomp on the little guy to make extra money? Why did this guy need to be black, again?

Oh, and it gets even worse, because Joan brings up the lead crisis in Flint, Michigan as an example of contaminated water. But she talks about it in the past tense, as if this primarily black area is not still affected by an appalling lack of response from the government.

Now that I think about it, this episode actually had two black bad guys... the villain in the subplot was a black man as well. Obviously this show has earned my trust in the area of representation, but still... this episode did make me a little twitchy when it came to that stuff.

Pros:

Like I said, this episode was full of smaller character moments. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I just really loved the way Joan and Sherlock interacted with each other in this one. There's a gentleness and domesticity to their partnership. They really are partners - not just in work, but in life. I liked their griping over the water filtration system, and the way that both of them came up with some of the puzzle pieces to solve the case. One of my favorite little patterns in Elementary is that whenever Joan takes command of the subplot, Sherlock always takes time out of his detective work to check in with her about how it's going. They really do share their lives with one another. It makes the fragility and uncertainty of their partnership this season all the more fraught.

The subplot is about Marcus Bell and his new girlfriend. Bell gets into a fight with his girlfriend's ex-husband, not knowing who the guy is at the time. Turns out, this guy is actually looking to sabotage his ex-wife's case. She works at the DA's office and is lead chair in an important murder trial. Bell ends up threatening the guy, using blackmail to get him to back off.

I mentioned that I wasn't thrilled with the two black villains in this episode, but I did rather like the subplot, for all that. First of all, we don't get nearly enough focus on the side characters in this show, so any chance to do a Marcus-centric plot thread is welcome. I really like his burgeoning relationship with his girlfriend, and I liked that the random brawl in a bar ended up tying back into a slight against her career. It made the stakes feel real.

Joan gets involved, first happy and gossipy with Bell about his new relationship, and then serious and dedicated to getting to the bottom of the situation with Bell's girlfriend's ex-husband. Joan is consistently shown to be a good friend, one who is willing to go the extra mile to help out when she can.

That's where I'll stop for this one. A decent episode, if unremarkable for the most part. One last note: oddly enough, Sunday night's Sherlock finale also involved a scary clown. Worlds collide.

8/10

[flameintobeing]

[...] for an episode that includes a superbug potentially poisoning the New York City water supply, “Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown” is as close to a cozy mystery as Elementary‘s had in a while. How cozy? “Murder In Mount Pleasant” cozy. Complaining to a family friend about your stepfather’s books and then asking him for a favor cozy. (Them replying “Am I going to be the next one kissing your partner?” cozy.) Coming home, yanking the cord on a hellish barrel organ number, and casually suggesting murder cozy. Snipping at your life partner about what they drank at the bar cozy. The plumber calling your roommate your girlfriend and you not correcting them cozy.

Elementary gets cozy in “Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown” By Genevieve Valentine, The AV Club