I think that Elementary could do much better, and be really, incredibly great if it had more female

I think that Elementary could do much better, and be really, incredibly great if it had more female writers and “character” writers on board - it’s brimming with a kind of potential that the people currently working on it just can’t see, let alone wish to pursue. You can see moments of this greatness in a lot of the awesome emotional character scenes and acting, but overall there’s too much Sherlock fanboy minor-detail circlejerking for it to impactful outside of certain scenes and episodes. They’re barely scratching the surface here and I don’t think they’re capable of realising it, and I wonder what it would be like in the hands of other less technical/procedural-minded showrunners.