There are so many ways this show could've gone wrong. Setting Sherlock Holmes in the present day. Using text messages as a vital plot device. But it's dangerous and funny and geeky and awesome. It gets both the armchair-detective thing (quick, clever character bits) and the action sequences. You'd think it was stepping on the toes of that other Holmes movie from last year, but it's not. If all Holmes-related movies were this good, everyone should be allowed to make one.
It helps that this Sherlock was created by Steven Moffat, who made Coupling, also on NI, and is currently head writer on Doctor Who. There are only three episodes so far, but they're making more, and those last two links should keep you busy for a while. Or till tomorrow's post, at least. Go watch it.
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