{"id":5760,"date":"2014-01-21T00:07:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5760"},"modified":"2014-01-21T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:07:09","slug":"emily-nussbaum-sherlock-and-its-audiences-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/21\/emily-nussbaum-sherlock-and-its-audiences-the-new-yorker\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Nussbaum: \u201cSherlock\u201d and Its Audiences : The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"

The show has always been fascinated by Holmes\u2019s callousness toward those who love him, his tendency to abandon and exploit them: like Bones, House, and other dark TV geniuses who are his unacknowledged offspring, Holmes sees connections but can\u2019t connect. He\u2019s like a Google algorithm, if it were sexy and wore dashing wool coats. Halfway through his best-man speech, he describes a case in which a number of lovelorn women have had one-night stands with a \u201cghost\u201d who disappears the next day. Sherlock gathers these lonely hearts in an elegant auditorium, where he interrogates them, searching for a pattern. It\u2019s only gradually, as the camera toggles from closeups to dramatic shots from above, and then abruptly to images of Sherlock in his office, that we recognize what we\u2019re actually seeing: a poetic representation of a virtual experience\u2014Holmes is online, meeting the women through a discussion board. When his conversations end, the women vanish, and he closes his laptop.
\nThe show is at its best in such moments, these sequences that capture the semi-virtual, semi-real ways that we think, and feel, and meet, and connect today. It\u2019s a rare attempt to make visible something that we take for granted: a new kind of cognition, inflected by passion, that allows strangers to think out loud, solving mysteries together.
\nvia Emily Nussbaum: \u201cSherlock\u201d and Its Audiences : The New Yorker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The show has always been fascinated by Holmes\u2019s callousness toward those who love him, his tendency to abandon and exploit them: like Bones, House, and other dark TV geniuses who are his unacknowledged offspring, Holmes sees connections but can\u2019t connect. He\u2019s like a Google algorithm, if it were sexy and wore dashing wool coats. Halfway … <\/p>\n

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