Updated renditions of classic drama often feel gimmicky, as anyone who has seen futuristic spaceman productions of Shakespeare can attest.
“Sherlock,” the second three-episode series of Sherlock Holmes stories transported to the present, suffers none of that.
This year, once again, Benedict Cumberbatch’s modern-day Holmes and his intrepid sidekick Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) provide breathtaking non-stop exhilaration.
Cumberbatch, who should not be overlooked at Emmy time, creates a Holmes who is annoying, insufferable, self-absorbed and yet someone for whom we somehow find ourselves consistently rooting.
Dr. Watson perhaps captures it best. For an encounter where Holmes needs to look as if he’s been in a fight, he tells Watson to punch him in the face.
“What?” says Watson.
“Didn’t you hear me?” replies Holmes. “I said punch me in the face.”
“Normally when you speak, that’s all I hear,” replies Watson. “But it’s subtext.”
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