Sherlock returned for a second season Sunday night on PBS’ Masterpiece Mystery!, and offered its take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia” by giving you a chance to match wits with the Master in… cracking the password to Irene Adler’s smartphone.
The first installment of a scant three-episode season commenced with “A Scandal in Belgravia,” which quickly dispatched with last season’s swimming pool cliffhanger to get on with an adaptation of the first Holmes short story and one of the few in which the Great Detective is out-smarted by someone else. Irene Adler, played by Lara Pulver, a seductive woman who plots to blackmail the royal family, is referred to in Conan Doyle’s story and in the Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss adaptation as “the woman,” intended as a phrase of admiration for her intelligence and crafty allure.
The TV version emphasized this by making Adler a clever-tongued dominatrix who aroused the hetero-man in Holmes (his first glimpse of her was in the buff — Irene, not Sherlock) even as she stimulated his deductive powers. (And, perhaps, initially confounded them: Holmes, who draws so many instant conclusions about people via their clothes, could not form too many opinions about a nekkid Irene Adler beyond, “Hubba-hubba, pip-pip!”)
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