http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/21st-century-sherlock/ The great ones are back in action. Tue, 21 May 2013 22:39:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/21st-century-sherlock/comment-page-1/#comment-1303 Jack Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:33:30 +0000 http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/?p=2751#comment-1303 I watched the first run of “Sherlock” on Masterpiece Mystery. IMHO, it’s one of the better British imports of recent years. The spirit of the Doyle stories is captured perfectly – far better than the Rathbone/Bruce films which cemented the unfortunate caricature of Dr. Watson as a bumbling baffoon rather than able assistant. The allusions to the Holmes canon (the meaning of “Rache” in “A Study in Pink;” Holmes’ use of nicotine patches and his description of a case as a “three patch problem”) were well placed. Most importantly, in this era where so many TV sleuths are Holmes-inspired (“Monk,” “The Mentalist”), “Sherlock” truly gives us Holmes instead of an imitator. I’m more a fan of the Doyle stories and the Jeremy Brett Granada series than the Rathbone films, so that could also account for my enjoyment of the Cumberbatch/Freeeman series.

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