Pentatonic scale thingies
A New Statesman blogger (columnist? how the world has changed) puts her finger squarely on the problems with the second episode of Sherlock, The Blind Banker, ie, that it was "an exhilarating romp through nearly every hackneyed orientalist cliché going". Where Laurie Penny is earnest, Anna Chen mightily takes the piss: "you should see my Terror of the Curling Tongs". (She also compares Sherlock to Withnail, which is brilliant.) We congratulate ourselves that things have moved on a bit from Talons of Weng-Chiang, but I'm not so sure.