Watson is a crime blogger, text messages onscreen help propel the plot, and the lead characters call each other Sherlock and John instead of Holmes and Watson — it doesn’t sound like it would work, and yet somehow the top-tier cast and talent bring it all together in a way that’s far from elementary.
If you’re not a fan of costume dramas, don’t worry: The Bafta and Emmy-winning series based on the Sherlock Homes stories is set in the present-day, though it preserves the famous detective’s Baker Street address and retains his infamous adversary, Moriarity (“hot priest” Andrew Scott). Benedict Cumberbatch is Holmes, while his roommate Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) is a former army medic who served in Afghanistan. Rupert Graves, as DI Greg Lestrade, is gradually won over by Holmes’ uncanny powers of observation as he consults to the police force. Dr. Watson is a crime blogger, text messages onscreen help propel the plot, and the lead characters call each other Sherlock and John instead of Holmes and Watson — it doesn’t sound like it would work, and yet somehow the top-tier cast and talent bring it all together in a way that’s far from elementary.