Kasey Kagawa: imagine writing a nemesis to actually play against your protagonist's weaknesses instead of just being "for teh evuls"

ELEMENTARY has dropped on Hulu (was it there before and I hadn’t seen it?) and as I’m busted with COVID, I’m indulging. The pilot’s a masterclass, the show’s an A+ example of procedural writing, balancing the serialization and B plots.

Man ok I'll watch it. @punkey.bsky.social told me to as well, and he got me onto leverage in the first place

Best modern Sherlock Holmes take by a country mile. It does interesting things with the foundation while walking a narrow line making Holmes prickly without being a prick. Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu absolutely crush their roles.

Also a *vastly* better take on Moriarty than the BBC Sherlock. Elementary's Moriarty is at least as smart as Sherlock and scary as hell. BBC Sherlock's -- criminal, but too disorganized and maybe just too dumb to organize a heist against a kid's lemonade stand.

imagine writing a nemesis to actually play against your protagonist's weaknesses instead of just being "for teh evuls"

This is why I loved Arvin Sloane in Alias. He was everybody's nemesis

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