If you thought Robert Downy Jr and Jude Law did a good job of updating the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories of London’s first great detective, wait until you see what Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman do as Holmes and Waston in this enormously entertaining BBC series. Set in modern day London, the show never so much as winks at its audience in allusion to any Holmes that has ever come before. This Sherlock is a modern man – with his own crime advice website – who helps Scotland Yard solve the seemingly unsolvable. The fact that he sometimes sends them the solution in a text message only adds to the quirky charm of the show. The rapport between Cumberbatch and Freeman is spot on, too, particularly in the timing of their banter as they race to find the bad guy. Even in its infancy (the first season just came out in America on DVD) this series already ranks as a Holmes for the ages.
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