TELEVISION REVIEW A modern classic, modernized
Sherlock Holmes in a strange and brilliant take By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff | October 22, 2010 So what, you might be thinking. Another Sherlock Holmezzzz. And that would be a fair so what, given the fact that we've been swimming in Sherlocks since he first appeared in the 1880s. And I'm not just talking about adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes; I'm talking about Sherlock knockoffs on TV's countless forensic dramas, including the "CSI'' shows, "The Mentalist,'' and "Bones,'' not to mention the most Sherlockian of them all, medical detective Dr. Gregory House, who even has his own Watson - Wilson. House is definitely a Holmes. But PBS's "Sherlock'' is not just another Sherlock Holmes. The new three-part series, which premieres on Sunday at 9 on Channel 2, is a strange, fascinating, and sometimes brilliant contemporary take on the father of forensic crime-solving. This texting, laptopping Sherlock is part Conan Doyle, part House, part petulant rock star, and part Sheldon from "The Big Bang Theory'' as he makes social blunders with shades of Asperger's. Instead of a 7 percent solution of cocaine, he's hooked on nicotine patches, and he isn't averse to solving daytime-TV mysteries and having a website to attract business. But underneath the present-day tweaks by series creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the new Sherlock is remarkably true to the spirit of the original, an arrogant, antisocial man fixated on tiny details and deductive reasoning. ... http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2010/10/22/sherlock_holmes_in_a_strange_and_brilliant_take_as_a_pbs_series/ _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
