Season 1, episode 0: "The Murder of Sherlock Holmes".
Damn, Sherlock was only three years from his 100th birthday.
Like the opening with Jessica attending that play rehearsal. Always reminds me of the opening of The Mirror Crack'd (1980), where Miss Marple (played by Angela Lansbury) attends the showing of a movie. It's either one heck of a coincidence, or the writers took inspiration from Guy Hamilton's film.
Chuckled a bit, at one of the characters having the same name as Lana Lang's great aunt on Smallville. Of course, John Glover shows up in two episodes. So it's not the only connection between this show and Smallville.
I quite like the 90 minute pilot (do they even do 90 minute pilots anymore?). We get an idea of who Jessica is, before she gets involved in the murder investigation. We get to follow her journey, from a teacher in Maine (think Jessica knows Stephen King? Shame that the show never had the two Maine teachers turned novelists encounter each other), to a celebrated first time novelist. Liked that they threw in a bit, with some random lady trying to sue Jessica, insisting that Jessica stole her novel. Reflecting the real world: you create something successful, suddenly, people you have never met or heard of will try and sue you, insisting that you stole their idea (and should give the money to them).
Would've been fun to see the Peter Brill character play something from Anyone Can Whistle, Mame, Gypsy or Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Though, at the same time, I'm glad that they didn't. Would've just been thrown in, because Angela Lansbury's playing Jessica. They had a poster or something, for Sweeney Todd, in a later episode, that was enough.
Damn, Sherlock was only three years from his 100th birthday.
Like the opening with Jessica attending that play rehearsal. Always reminds me of the opening of The Mirror Crack'd (1980), where Miss Marple (played by Angela Lansbury) attends the showing of a movie. It's either one heck of a coincidence, or the writers took inspiration from Guy Hamilton's film.
Chuckled a bit, at one of the characters having the same name as Lana Lang's great aunt on Smallville. Of course, John Glover shows up in two episodes. So it's not the only connection between this show and Smallville.
I quite like the 90 minute pilot (do they even do 90 minute pilots anymore?). We get an idea of who Jessica is, before she gets involved in the murder investigation. We get to follow her journey, from a teacher in Maine (think Jessica knows Stephen King? Shame that the show never had the two Maine teachers turned novelists encounter each other), to a celebrated first time novelist. Liked that they threw in a bit, with some random lady trying to sue Jessica, insisting that Jessica stole her novel. Reflecting the real world: you create something successful, suddenly, people you have never met or heard of will try and sue you, insisting that you stole their idea (and should give the money to them).
Would've been fun to see the Peter Brill character play something from Anyone Can Whistle, Mame, Gypsy or Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Though, at the same time, I'm glad that they didn't. Would've just been thrown in, because Angela Lansbury's playing Jessica. They had a poster or something, for Sweeney Todd, in a later episode, that was enough.
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