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Sherlock on BBC
Jan. 6th, 2011 12:34 pmSo I just finished watching Season One of BBC's Sherlock. OH MY GOD, it is FAN-TAS-TIC. It is completely absorbing. I watched all of Season One (Ep 1-3, 75 minutes long each. Seasons here in America are a lot longer, which is probably why less shows get greenlit?) yesterday and then went over to my friend's house to make her watch it.
It follows the exploits of a Sherlock Holmes (played by Benedict Cumberbatch, who looks uncomfortably like one of our former literary-debating club presidents) and Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman!!) in a modern day context, which might seem sort of ehhh, but it really works! All the actors have a great dynamic, the writers are very flexible with the script, which makes it interesting, but still does enough research to keep it grounded in the Sherlock Holmes literature ("I would be lost without my blogger," Sherlock says, and I laughed spanakopita all over my laptop)
Cumberbatch does a really great job fleshing out Holmes. I think a lot of people know of Holmes as intensely brilliant, but he also revels in the eccentricity of Holmes in the best most ridiculous ways.
John Watson is adooorable. The only complaint I have with Watson is his slight badass decay after the first episode. Makes up for it at the end of episode 3 (don't you DARE read spoilers for the first season. Don't you DARE). But even thought I knew Holmes was being unreasonable asking Watson to do forensics, his reasons (that Watson had been an army doctor and was familiar with violent injuries) sort of makes sense, and I would have liked to see more of that- it would have been a nice contrast to see Watson getting facts from his medical background and Holmes getting different information just from observation. And I also expected Watson to be more of the fighter type since he was a soldier, but I suppose he still beats up his fair share of people.
So yeah. BBC's Sherlock. Watch it. Love it. Take it to a friend's house.
It follows the exploits of a Sherlock Holmes (played by Benedict Cumberbatch, who looks uncomfortably like one of our former literary-debating club presidents) and Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman!!) in a modern day context, which might seem sort of ehhh, but it really works! All the actors have a great dynamic, the writers are very flexible with the script, which makes it interesting, but still does enough research to keep it grounded in the Sherlock Holmes literature ("I would be lost without my blogger," Sherlock says, and I laughed spanakopita all over my laptop)
Cumberbatch does a really great job fleshing out Holmes. I think a lot of people know of Holmes as intensely brilliant, but he also revels in the eccentricity of Holmes in the best most ridiculous ways.
John Watson is adooorable. The only complaint I have with Watson is his slight badass decay after the first episode. Makes up for it at the end of episode 3 (don't you DARE read spoilers for the first season. Don't you DARE). But even thought I knew Holmes was being unreasonable asking Watson to do forensics, his reasons (that Watson had been an army doctor and was familiar with violent injuries) sort of makes sense, and I would have liked to see more of that- it would have been a nice contrast to see Watson getting facts from his medical background and Holmes getting different information just from observation. And I also expected Watson to be more of the fighter type since he was a soldier, but I suppose he still beats up his fair share of people.
So yeah. BBC's Sherlock. Watch it. Love it. Take it to a friend's house.
