Almost if to prove that they can do the original Sherlock Holmes better than Guy Ritchie’s 19th century film adaptations, showrunners Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss are promoting the next episode of their Sherlock. This time stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman return to the story’s roots instead of modern England, yet the latest trailer hints that they still live in a world well aware of Holmes’s crime-fighting fame.
“You’re Sherlock Holmes,” says Dr. Watson as he thrusts the famous deerstalker hat into Holmes’s hands, “wear the damned hat.”
The 19th century streets, the buildings, the entire environments are impeccable. Would we rather have a Sherlock movie or a television series so long as either stars Cumberbatch and Freeman? We may all answer “series” if only they could crank out more than three episodes every year or so. But we’ll happily wait as we did for the equally good A&E Channel Horatio Hornblower episodes starring Ioan Gruffudd (Forever, Fantastic Four), Denis Lawson (Star Wars: A New Hope, Marchlands), Paul McGann (Doctor Who), David Warner (Tron, Star Trek, Twin Peaks, Time After Time), and Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica) that arrived piecemeal in a series of eight TV movies between 1998 and 2003.
So check out the latest from Sherlock here:
Celebrate the new year with the Sherlock episode “The Abominable Bride,” on New Year’s Day on PBC Masterpiece.
C.J. Bunce
Editor
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