John Watson) and Rupert Graves (Detective Inspector Lestrade). Like Wilder in those long-gone jazz age cabarets, Holmes is a figure who negotiates the hypocritical upperworld and the joyfully strange underworld with equal.
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Moffat, executive producers SueVertue, series producer Rebecca Eaton,executive producer for “Masterpiece.”WITH: Benedict Cumberbatch (SherlockHolmes), Martin Freeman (Dr. Sherlock is the brainchild of Steven Moffat and. Religion is a literary reference only, a databank of language and history, useful for the solving of crimes, less helpful for the living of lives. London is a fast-moving, diverse and utterly secular place. Moffat, Steve Thompson and Mr.Gatiss directed by Paul McGuigan and Euros Lyn Beryl Vertue, Mr. The show is mainly shot in Cardiff, but it sizzles largely because of its city setting. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle written byMr. Sherlock On PBS stations on Sunday nights at 9 (check local listings).Produced by Hartswood Films and “Masterpiece” for BBC Wales. The appeal is elementary: good, unpretentious fun, something that’s in short supply around here. Enola Holmes is the kind of all-star production that might once have been made by the BBC and graced the front cover of the Christmas Radio Times. These are elements typical of the contemporary crime drama, which is what “Sherlock” resembles more than it does the Conan Doyle stories.īut it has a brio that sets it apart the other big new British import of the season, “Luther” on BBC America, looks dour by comparison. There are annoyances: the onscreen text that sometimes spells out Holmes’s thoughts the are-they-gay jokes that now seem obligatory in every show involving male colleagues a creeping moralism about Holmes’s shortcomings. so if you’re under 13, you might want to take a parent or guardian with you to.
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Cumberbatch, who brings to the table his piercing gray eyes and an appealingly playful arrogance, and you have an ensemble that lives up to the verve and braininess of Mr. Sherlock Holmes is a recently released movie that has caught the attention of many people from ages 13to and o. Graves, who has been making a specialty of guest appearances on British crime dramas (“Marple,” “Lewis,” “Wallander”), belongs with George Clooney in the pantheon of the well-aging male.Īdd Mr. Freeman’s deft performance as the grouchy but loyal Watson is one of the show’s pleasures, along with Rupert Graves’s avuncular take on Inspector Lestrade. “A Study in Scarlet” was presented as an excerpt from Watson’s memoirs in the second episode of “Sherlock” we learn that Watson has written up “A Study in Pink” on the blog he’s keeping as part of his therapy for post-traumatic stress. John Watson (Martin Freeman) returning home from a British war in Afghanistan - just as the original Watson did in the 1880s - and looking for a roommate. Sunday’s premiere, “A Study in Pink” (loosely based on the first of the four Holmes novels, “A Study in Scarlet”), begins with Dr. In other ways the show’s creators have tried, cleverly and conscientiously, to stay true to the character’s heritage.
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