Benedict Cumberbatch wears his hair short otherwise everything is very much as you would expect. Watson is invalided out of the Army after Afghanistan, Holmes is a peculiar character first seem thrashing corpses (as in A Study In Pink). So were we right? Almost entirely not, as it turns out.Īfter a brief recap of the Moriarty, Adler and Magnussen plots from the previous series, we were transported to the 1890s for a period retelling of the initial meeting of Holmes and Watson. We also came up with some riveting theories about Moriarty’s daughter, and the possible death of John Watson’s wife Mary (Amanda Abbington). The speculation was that the duo were in costume for a murder mystery weekend, perhaps. When photos from the New Year special were first posted, no one was quite convinced that it would indeed be set in the 1890s well, at least we weren’t. So why would the writers throw all this away and revert to the Victorian setting of the original stories? Editor’s note: This is a spoiler-heavy review, so if you want to avoid plot points, do not read. If there’s one thing that marks the BBC’s Sherlock out from most previous TV adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective tales, it’s that the setting is contemporary but the essential dynamic remains – the brilliant, perceptive but disconnected detective Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), and the warm, down-to-earth, compassionate companion, Dr John Watson (Martin Freeman).The modern setting allows the essentials of Holmes’ detective method – a combination of observation, almost eidetic memory and brilliant deduction – to work in a context of familiar police procedural technologies such as mobile phones, the internet, fingerprinting and DNA evidence. (C) Hartswood Films – Photographer: Robert Viglasky
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