Sunday, October 24, 2010

Sherlock

Having enjoyed Benedict Cumberpatch's performance as a brilliant mathematician fighting an all intrusive state, I was looking forward to his performance as Sherlock Holmes in a modern setting.
From the very start, I was not disappointed: the dialogue was funny, gently so, in keeping with Holmes-and-Watsonian banter: the assumption by Mrs Hudson that they were gay being a particularly delightful touch.  I have some niggling little annoyances, but by and large, I thought it a brilliant piece.  I'm really looking forward to the second episode of the series.

Yours, thinking that Cumberpatch is going to redefine Holmes, in much the same way that Jeremy Brett did,
N.

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