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Elementary
2012 · TV Series · TV-14 · 43 min · ★ 7.6 · 85% critics
DramaMysteryCrime
Elementary follows a crime-solving duo as they tackle the NYPD’s most impossible cases. After a fall from grace and rehab, an eccentric detective escapes to Manhattan, where a wealthy parent forces him to live with a sober companion and working partner, Doctor Watson.
Based on canon of Sherlock Holmes
Also known as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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109 hours to watch · 154 episodes.
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Details
- Years
- 2012–2019
- Release date
- 2012-09-27
- Network
- CBS
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-14
- Runtime
- 43 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 85/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.6/10 (1,830 votes)
About
Not for you if you want strictly period Sherlock Holmes or fast, action-heavy crime plots, but if you enjoy character-driven mysteries and found-family recovery tales like Castle or Monk, Elementary is a strong pick.
Pros: standout character chemistry; smart, wry writing; emotional recovery themes | Cons: tone complaints; dialog/audibility issues; later-season quality concerns
Themes
- new york city
- detective
- investigation
- recovering addict
- police investigation
Awards & recognition
- Teen Choice Award — Choice TV Actress Action · 2013
- Teen Choice Award — Choice TV Actor Action · 2013 · nominated
- Satellite Award — Best Actor – Television Series Drama · 2012 · nominated
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Main Title Design · nominated
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music · nominated
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- TCA Award — Outstanding New Program · nominated
- Teen Choice Award — Choice TV Actress Action · nominated
Cast & crew
Jonny Lee Miller
as Sherlock Holmes
Lucy Liu
as Joan Watson
- EJ
Erik Jensen
as Isaac Proctor
- VJ
Vinnie Jones
as Sebastian Moran
- MD
Michael Den Dekker
as Detective
Jon Michael Hill
as Marcus Bell
Aidan Quinn
as Thomas Gregson
- SF
Sutton Foster
as Tara Parker
John Noble
as Morland Holmes
- NE
Nelsan Ellis
as Shinwell Johnson
Directed by Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu, Jon Michael Hill +1 more
Episodes7 seasons · 154 episodes
Season 124 episodes
- S1E1Pilot46mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E2While You Were Sleeping43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E3Child Predator43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E4The Rat Race43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E5Lesser Evils43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E6Flight Risk43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E7One Way to Get Off43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E8The Long Fuse43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E9You Do It to Yourself43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E10The Leviathan43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E11Dirty Laundry43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E12M.43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E13The Red Team43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E14The Deductionist43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E15A Giant Gun, Filled with Drugs43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E16Details42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E17Possibility Two43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E18Déjà Vu All Over Again43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E19Snow Angels43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E20Dead Man's Switch43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E21A Landmark Story43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E22Risk Management43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E23The Woman (1)43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S1E24Heroine (2)44mDisney+Hulu
Season 224 episodes
- S2E1Step Nine43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E2Solve for X43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E3We Are Everyone43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E4Poison Pen43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E5Ancient History43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E6An Unnatural Arrangement43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E7The Marchioness43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E8Blood is Thicker43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E9On The Line43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E10Tremors43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E11Internal Audit43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E12The Diabolical Kind43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E13All in the Family43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E14Dead Clade Walking43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E15Corpse de Ballet43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E16The One Percent Solution43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E17Ears to You43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E18The Hound of the Cancer Cells43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E19The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E20No Lack of Void42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E21The Man with the Twisted Lip43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E22Paint It Black43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E23Art in the Blood43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S2E24The Grand Experiment43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
Season 324 episodes
- S3E1Enough Nemesis to Go Around43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E2The Five Orange Pipz43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E3Just a Regular Irregular43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E4Bella43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E5Rip Off43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E6Terra Pericolosa40mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E7The Adventure of the Nutmeg Concoction43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E8End of Watch41mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E9The Eternity Injection43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E10Seed Money43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E11The Illustrious Client (1)43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E12The One That Got Away (2)43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E13Hemlock42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E14The Female of the Species42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E15When Your Number's Up42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E16For All You Know43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E17T-Bone and the Iceman43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E18The View from Olympus43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E19One Watson, One Holmes43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E20A Stitch in Time43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E21Under My Skin41mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E22The Best Way Out is Always Through41mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E23Absconded43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S3E24A Controlled Descent42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
Season 424 episodes
- S4E1The Past is Parent43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E2Evidence of Things Not Seen43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E3Tag, You're Me42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E4All My Exes Live in Essex43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E5The Games Underfoot41mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E6The Cost of Doing Business43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E7Miss Taken43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E8A Burden of Blood40mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E9Murder Ex Machina43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E10Alma Matters43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E11Down Where the Dead Delight43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E12A View With a Room42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E13A Study in Charlotte43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E14Who Is That Masked Man?43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E15Up to Heaven and Down to Hell43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E16Hounded43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E17You've Got Me, Who's Got You?43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E18Ready or Not40mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E19All In43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E20Art Imitates Art43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E21Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E22Turn It Upside Down43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E23The Invisible Hand42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S4E24A Difference in Kind43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
Season 524 episodes
- S5E1Folie à Deux43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E2Worth Several Cities43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E3Render, and then Seize Her43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E4Henny Penny the Sky is Falling42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E5To Catch a Predator Predator43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E6Ill Tidings43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E7Bang Bang Shoot Chute43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E8How the Sausage is Made40mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E9It Serves You Right to Suffer43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E10Pick Your Poison43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E11Be My Guest40mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E12Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E13Over a Barrel43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E14Rekt in Real Life43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E15Wrong Side of the Road (1)40mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E16Fidelity (2)43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E17The Ballad of Lady Frances40mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E18Dead Man's Tale43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E19High Heat43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E20The Art of Sleights and Deception43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E21Fly Into a Rage, Make a Bad Landing42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E22Moving Targets43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E23Scrambled43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S5E24Hurt Me, Hurt You43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
Season 621 episodes
- S6E1An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains41mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E2Once You've Ruled Out God43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E3Pushing Buttons43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E4Our Time is Up43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E5Bits and Pieces43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E6Give Me the Finger43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E7Sober Companions43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E8Sand Trap43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E9Nobody Lives Forever43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E10The Adventure of the Ersatz Sobekneferu43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E11You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E12Meet Your Maker43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E13Breathe40mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E14Through the Fog43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E15How to Get a Head40mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E16Uncanny Valley of the Dolls43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E17The Worms Crawl In, The Worms Crawl Out43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E18The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E19The Geek Interpreter42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E20Fit to Be Tied42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S6E21Whatever Remains, However Improbable43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
Season 713 episodes
- S7E1The Further Adventures43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S7E2Gutshot43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S7E3The Price of Admission43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S7E4Red Light, Green Light43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S7E5Into the Woods40mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S7E6Command: Delete43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S7E7From Russia with Drugs41mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S7E8Miss Understood42mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S7E9On the Scent41mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S7E10The Latest Model43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S7E11Unfriended43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S7E12Reichenbach Falls43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu
- S7E13Their Last Bow43mDisney+Amazon Prime VideoHulu