I Want to Like Houdini and Doyle

I've seen a few episodes so far and, much like you might be doing with this title, I see a pattern. Only three episodes in, I see this pattern already, because I've seen it before. Much like Lucifer and Forever before it, the pattern seems to be a matter of playing it safe with the story and the characterization. That avoids causing a certain amount of offence, true, but it also keeps things very shallow.

Unlike the previous two times I've done this, the problems spread out over multiple genres and various different yet specific purposes. So, I can't maintain so specific a theme as before. As the French say, "such the life" (transliterated).

Still, the failings are there and they are instructive.
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