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Sherlock - series one

We missed this because of being in the wrong country, so I am catching up on it via DVD. The first episode has a very different feel to the second two - it's lighter, funnier, more willing to crack laughs at itself. I miss that lightness of touch from the second two episodes, if I'm honest - but I did enjoy the whole series. It's an interesting idea to try and bring the oddities of Sherlock Holmes into the modern era, but I think Benedict Cumberbatch does it very well. The plots, too, are clever - intricate, slightly odd, reliant on enough esoteric knowledge that you may or may not have in your head but Sherlock naturally does.

I also enjoyed the characterisations of Watson, Mycroft and Moriarty. Watson is just the sort of - well, walking wounded in need of constant interest and stimulation post-war experience. Mycroft is fabulous, just fabulous, and I was terribly disappointed when he did not feature in episode two. Moriarty was a great mirror image of Sherlock - the idea of a consulting criminal to confront a consulting detective was underplayed but very clever. Of course, we're in a no major female characters, never mind two major female characters who speak to each other, zone - this is a bit cross-making, if I'm honest, but it's in the standard Steven Moffat problem and I wouldn't have expected him to have wised up to it in what is, essentially, a primeval source for the buddy movie. All in all, a fairly successful attempt to update Sherlock Holmes to the modern era - doesn't try to be more than it can be, and enjoys what it can do as much as one would hope.