Sherlock, We Love You

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH — MARTIN FREEMAN — SHERLOCK COMPLETE SERIES 1–4 & THE ABOMINABLE BRIDE — BBC — 2010–2017

SHERLOCK, WE LOVE YOU!

CAN WE MEET TONIGHT?

ON THE SCREEN YOU WANT!

Nothing new under the sun, but the sun can be changed especially with climate disorder and climate change. The stories, we know them nearly by heart, at least the titles, and they have been alluded to, adapted to all sorts of screens, so often that we go tilt in just two seconds. Then why bother and adapt them to one more screen? Because you can change so many things and make the story talk to your present situation and personality, your present culture and education. And this series is a real model in that direction.

We are in the modern world of the twenty-first century with cars and all sorts of modern artifacts and inventions. Not too much though, but well a good dose of it. We also get all the possible special effects you can imagine (you could imagine in the 2010s), and what’s more, the back-scene behind-the-wings work of these special effects. Sherlock could jump from the top of the Monument in London (he does something close to it) and survive when reaching the ground because of some contraption, and in this…