Sherlock, Can we meet tonight? Any time, Any channel!

SHERLOCK, WE LOVE YOU

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The series was, in fact, too short. ”Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 62 stories of Sherlock Holmes published between 1887 and 1927. The 62 stories include 4 novels and 58 short stories starring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.” (the Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia) This project was to transfer the stories to the modern world and that was needed for the cases to speak to a modern and young audience. To achieve this goal the BBC had to use special effects and complicated contraptions to make us believe we are dealing with miraculous cliffhanging solutions, but the producers were very careful to reveal the tricks in the next episodes.

Yet it uses some of the hallmark gadgets devised to dress Sherlock Holmes in his most traditional and famous suits, cap, and coats. That was for the older audience who had seen so many adaptations of Sherlock Holmes’s stories. But that enabled the producers to give a vision of our society with all the evils of our modern times when we absolutely cannot trust anyone to keep their opinions and their promises longer than one hour, one day, or one week like Donald Trump changing his position on Ukraine as often as he changes socks. And…