Elementary The television hit series “Elementary,” which airs on the CBS network, is a new series which takes on the old and famous “Sherlock Holmes” story and puts a modern contemporary twist to its storyline and characters. The most noticeable change in this new series is the casting for Sherlock Holmes’s age old apprentice, and almost side-kick, Dr. Joan Watson. In the works of the original text by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Watson is a male character that acts as Sherlock’s assistant in each of their investigations. Watson was commonly portrayed as the laughingstock in the older series of Sherlock Holmes (around the 1970s to 1990s reworking) in order to reflect the brilliance of Holmes. However, in the new series “Elementary,” a new twist is put onto the character of Watson as star Lucy Liu takes up the role in this version. Throughout the entire television series, we see that this new hit series not only brings about a modern twist to an age old story, but also challenges the ideologies and assumptions of ethnicity, female power/feminism, and occupational variety/opportunity for females in our current society. Having Lucy Liu star as Dr. Joan Watson not only challenges the role of feminism in our society, but also the role of ethnicity as the director introduces Watson as an Asian woman. Throughout American history, we see that the most famous fictional detectives are mostly, if not all, men. From children’s books and cartoon series such as Inspector Gadget and Batman, to adult novels and book series such as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot. The one or two famous female characters that ever left its mark on fictional detective history were Miss Marple and Nancy Drew – though many might argue that Nancy Drew was just a female take on Hardy Boys. However, no matter male or female, we see that they all have one thing in common: there are no Asian male/female