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Sherlock

Sherlock

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  • United Kingdom,
  • United States
  • 2010-2017
  • · 4 seasons
  • · 90m

Creators Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat
Cast Mark Gatiss, Una Stubbs
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery

In this series, Sherlock and Dr. Watson solve crimes in 21st century London. With the updated setting, the old story continues the classic love/hate relationship between the famous duo while reimagining the stories for the online world. Enter a world where Sherlock has a lab assistant, a cell phone, and a media circus surrounding him.

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Jamie Bitz

Its Sherlock Holmes as you've never seen him before. Cumberbatch breathes new life into the classic character with his sociopathic, addictive tendencies, Freeman's Watson is more vulnerable and human than ever, and Scott, although shorter on screen time than I had hoped, is the ultimate villain you love to hate and hate to love in what I can only call my favorite acting to date. Each feature-length episode is sure to break your heart but then mend it back together in Gatiss's brilliant way (as he also stars as Sherlock's know-it-all brother). I can see no better way to update this classic into modern times and create characters that force viewers to love them, no matter how flawed and broken they are.

What are critics saying?

100

San Francisco Chronicle by David Wiegand

There have been many great "Masterpiece" offerings over the decades, but I can't think of a single one that is as much out-and-out fun as Sherlock, a modern-dress Conan Doyle that crackles with superb writing, brilliant performances and snappy direction, and does it all while somehow managing to be oddly faithful to the original source material.

100

USA Today by Robert Bianco

The result is a sharp, funny, clever series that remains faithful to the spirit of Doyle's stories while infusing them with a vibrant spirit of modernity.

100

Newsday by Verne Gay

Cumberbatch and star British producers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss ("Doctor Who") have performed quite a remarkable feat here--they've created something unique and pleasurable where so many have trod before.

100

TV Guide Magazine by Matt Roush

Three scintillating new Sherlock brain-teasers.

100

The Hollywood Reporter by Tim Goodman

This Holmes update's second season continues to be both clever and classic.

100

New York Post by Linda Stasi

Each week, the series takes on a Holmes classic, updates it, turns it on its ear and leaves you breathless.

100

Chicago Sun-Times by Lori Rackl

The beauty of this series is that it's so entertaining and so well-executed.

100

Entertainment Weekly by Ken Tucker

Tremendously clever fun, Masterpiece Mystery! presents the first of three modernizations of the Sherlock Holmes tales.