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Perception (2012)
Worth Watching
I've followed this show since it's pilot. The fact that it starts almost every episode with a lecture (ones that look far more interesting than the ones I sit through) is something I find fascinating, and the information they provide is rather accurate, so that's also very interesting. The cases themselves are average, but just in the character played by Eric McCormack I couldn't turn it off. I wasn't as taken initially by Rachael Cook's performance, but she too grew on me, though never to the extent that McCormack's performance takes. While this show takes a slightly lighthearted approach to mental illness, the average world sees these as plagued people rather than almost fully functioning, possibly highly intelligent individuals, which this show helps to portray. As a side note, I really like the few times I get to hear McCormack cover a song in the show. He introduced me to "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers and "You May Be Right" by Billy Joel, and to a couple of classical pieces that are surprisingly enjoyable to an 80's lover. Anyways, it's a show worth watching, at least to try the first couple episodes. If you're not taken, then perhaps it's not your cup of tea, but I had wished to the deepest of my heart that it was not cancelled so quickly. Alas, three seasons to me is not nearly enough.
Elementary: The Leviathan (2012)
Relations to the original stories
I can really see the relations to the original Holmes stories when I watch this series. Not the stories overall so much as the logic and the personalities of the characters. I love all of the original Sherlock Holmes stories so much, and I really like how they incorporate some of the lesser quotes that are still important in the stories. I've seen plot similarities in some of the stories to some of the episodes, but not nearly to the point where they're just doing a TV version of the texts, which makes it a lot more interesting this way. Having Watson as Lucy Liu is awesome, and I love how they incorporate the other characters too. I also find it interesting that they chose to start with Gregson rather than Lestrade. Still, it's awesome in my opinion. I even like it more so than BBC's Sherlock.