'Miss Scarlet' Needs More Help Than "The Guild" Can Offer

Two episodes into the newly revamped Miss Scarlet, and it's evident the show is still finding its feet in this new era. But in a season that's only six episodes long, it's unfortunate that its first third has been so...dull. If nothing else, most of us probably expected that Stuart Martin's departure would at least shake things up on the show's canvas. However, other than Tom Durant Pritchard's arrival, almost nothing has changed outside of the location of the Scotland Yard office where Eliza spends her time.

But then again, it's unclear what we should have expected. The show's formula is what it is, and, to its credit, it has been remarkably successful. But five seasons in, starting with the same beats we've seen all over again — Eliza must convince a man to take her seriously and prove her professional skills to those (men!) who doubt them — starts to feel downright Sisyphean. What are we even doing here at this point?

Because the fact of the matter is this: "The Guild" is a serviceable, if almost wholly unremarkable, hour, one you probably won't remember much of after the season ends. It features another dull mystery (that, once again, actually isn't even a murder!), a subplot for Ivy that seems to come out of nowhere, and the generally pointless return of a random D-lister from a Season 3 installment that most of us probably wouldn't have recognized if they hadn't included a flashback to his role in the episode itself.