Elementary (2012)

Action · Adventure · Crime

A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

IMDb rating: 7.9 (128,036 votes)
Episode average: 7.8 -0.1 vs IMDb
Seasons: 7
Streaming (US): Hulu · Amazon Prime Video
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 7 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2012)

7.98 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 8.8 44 min avg

Big finale

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.7	2,712
2	While You Were Sleeping	7.6	2,037
3	Child Predator	8.1	2,025
4	The Rat Race	7.8	1,846
5	Lesser Evils	7.7	1,761
6	Flight Risk	7.7	1,711
7	One Way to Get Off	7.8	1,678
8	The Long Fuse	7.8	1,641
9	You Do It to Yourself	7.8	1,594
10	The Leviathan	7.8	1,603
11	Dirty Laundry	7.5	1,605
12	M.	8.7	1,966
13	The Red Team	7.5	1,561
14	The Deductionist	8.0	1,606
15	A Giant Gun, Filled with Drugs	7.9	1,527
16	Details	8.2	1,587
17	Possibility Two	7.7	1,467
18	Déjà Vu All Over Again	8.1	1,531
19	Snow Angels	8.0	1,571
20	Dead Man's Switch	7.7	1,398
21	A Landmark Story	8.4	1,497
22	Risk Management	8.5	1,539
23	The Woman	8.7	1,686
24	Heroine	8.8	1,924

Season 2 (2013)

7.84 avg 24 episodes 8.0 → 8.2 43 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Step Nine	8.0	1,546
2	Solve for X	7.9	1,417
3	We Are Everyone	7.5	1,340
4	Poison Pen	8.0	1,400
5	Ancient History	7.5	1,260
6	An Unnatural Arrangement	7.8	1,280
7	The Marchioness	7.7	1,303
8	Blood Is Thicker	7.9	1,270
9	On the Line	8.4	1,360
10	Tremors	8.0	1,310
11	Internal Audit	7.7	1,221
12	The Diabolical Kind	8.5	1,458
13	All in the Family	7.9	1,211
14	Dead Clade Walking	7.3	1,188
15	Corpse De Ballet	7.7	1,186
16	The One Percent Solution	7.5	1,161
17	Ears to You	7.5	1,147
18	The Hound of the Cancer Cells	7.5	1,130
19	The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville	7.6	1,124
20	No Lack of Void	7.7	1,172
21	The Man with the Twisted Lip	7.8	1,126
22	Paint It Black	8.3	1,208
23	Art in the Blood	8.2	1,155
24	The Grand Experiment	8.2	1,188

Season 3 (2014)

7.83 avg 24 episodes 7.6 → 8.2 42 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Enough Nemesis to Go Around	7.6	1,281
2	The Five Orange Pipz	7.4	1,138
3	Just a Regular Irregular	7.9	1,157
4	Bella	7.7	1,211
5	Rip Off	7.5	1,091
6	Terra Pericolosa	7.5	1,080
7	The Adventure of the Nutmeg Concoction	7.7	1,063
8	End of Watch	8.1	1,120
9	The Eternity Injection	7.6	1,065
10	Seed Money	7.9	1,062
11	The Illustrious Client	8.4	1,153
12	The One That Got Away	9.0	1,642
13	Hemlock	7.9	1,087
14	The Female of the Species	8.1	1,098
15	When Your Number's Up	7.9	1,061
16	For All You Know	8.0	1,086
17	T-Bone and the Iceman	7.3	1,001
18	The View from Olympus	7.7	1,010
19	One Watson, One Holmes	7.5	985
20	A Stitch in Time	7.8	987
21	Under My Skin	7.9	979
22	The Best Way Out Is Always Through	7.6	965
23	Absconded	7.6	970
24	A Controlled Descent	8.2	1,150

Season 4 (2015)

7.85 avg 24 episodes 7.9 → 8.2 42 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Past Is Parent	7.9	1,080
2	Evidence of Things Not Seen	7.7	1,037
3	Tag, You're Me	7.9	1,006
4	All My Exes Live in Essex	7.8	968
5	The Games Underfoot	7.7	956
6	The Cost of Doing Business	8.0	994
7	Miss Taken	8.9	1,566
8	A Burden of Blood	7.6	988
9	Murder Ex Machina	7.9	997
10	Alma Matters	7.7	943
11	Down Where the Dead Delight	7.5	945
12	A View with a Room	8.2	1,030
13	A Study in Charlotte	7.9	966
14	Who Is That Masked Man?	7.4	923
15	Up to Heaven and Down to Hell	7.8	949
16	Hounded	7.8	980
17	You've Got Me, Who's Got You?	7.7	923
18	Ready or Not	7.8	918
19	All In	7.7	873
20	Art Imitates Art	7.6	898
21	Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing	7.7	849
22	Turn It Upside Down	7.8	872
23	The Invisible Hand	8.3	896
24	A Difference in Kind	8.2	930

Season 5 (2016)

7.68 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 8.2 42 min avg

Rebound

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Folie a Deux	7.7	1,051
2	Worth Several Cities	7.5	979
3	Render, and Then Seize Her	7.6	941
4	Henny Penny the Sky Is Falling	7.6	926
5	To Catch a Predator Predator	7.6	919
6	Ill Tidings	7.8	935
7	Bang Bang Shoot Chute	7.6	906
8	How the Sausage Is Made	7.7	908
9	It Serves You Right to Suffer	8.0	913
10	Pick Your Poison	7.8	893
11	Be My Guest	8.1	923
12	Crowned Clown, Downtown Brown	7.7	896
13	Over a Barrel	8.1	989
14	Rekt in Real Life	7.3	923
15	Wrong Side of the Road	8.2	952
16	Fidelity	7.9	906
17	The Ballad of Lady Frances	7.5	888
18	Dead Man's Tale	7.4	877
19	High Heat	7.1	856
20	The Art of Sleights and Deception	7.3	870
21	Fly Into a Rage, Make a Bad Landing	7.8	858
22	Moving Targets	7.1	862
23	Scrambled	7.8	837
24	Hurt Me, Hurt You	8.2	940

Season 6 (2018)

7.78 avg 21 episodes 7.8 → 9.2 42 min avg

Big finale

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	An Infinite Capacity for Taking Pains	7.8	987
2	Once You've Ruled Out God	7.5	802
3	Pushing Buttons	7.4	790
4	Our Time Is Up	7.5	772
5	Bits and Pieces	7.7	775
6	Give Me the Finger	7.7	763
7	Sober Companions	8.5	897
8	Sand Trap	7.5	764
9	Nobody Lives Forever	7.5	744
10	The Adventure of the Ersatz Sobekneferu	7.7	757
11	You've Come a Long Way, Baby	7.5	722
12	Meet Your Maker	7.5	733
13	Breathe	7.6	726
14	Through the Fog	8.0	750
15	How to Get a Head	7.5	705
16	Uncanny Valley of the Dolls	7.9	768
17	The Worms Crawl in, the Worms Crawl Out	7.6	711
18	The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz	7.9	838
19	The Geek Interpreter	7.5	712
20	Fit to Be Tied	8.3	798
21	Whatever Remains, However Improbable	9.2	1,513

Season 7 (2019)

7.79 avg 13 episodes 7.8 → 8.5 42 min avg

Rebound

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Further Adventures	7.8	936
2	Gutshot	7.8	778
3	The Price of Admission	7.5	754
4	Red Light, Green Light	7.6	735
5	Into the Woods	7.5	701
6	Command: Delete	7.6	687
7	From Russia with Drugs	7.3	714
8	Miss Understood	7.7	742
9	On the Scent	7.5	667
10	The Latest Model	7.6	695
11	Unfriended	8.4	813
12	Reichenbach Falls	8.5	799
13	Their Last Bow	8.5	1,177