![]() Yuko Takeuchi plays the legendary detective with a quirky, but fashionable edge Shihori Kanjiya plays Dr. HBO and Hulu co-produced the show, which aired in Japan and across Asia earlier this year and now premieres in the U.S. Miss Sherlock is the first major series to cast a woman to play the titular detective. So, too, does Martin Freeman.) There’s room for a new Holmes, especially among fans who resent the manic pixie man-genius characterization that’s come to define the legendary detective this century. (As Doctor Strange, Cumberbatch now fights alongside Downey Jr. BBC’s Sherlock has floundered as its two leads, Cumberbatch and Freeman, prioritized their film careers. has left the film role dormant given his prevailing commitments to Iron Man and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Cumberbatch did not begin the trend of Sherlock Holmes being a dick, but he has made it the new canon.īut Sherlock Holmes’s cultural capital has fallen into disrepair. TV series, Elementary-which CBS has run for six seasons-splices some humanitarianism into Sherlock’s edge, registering a mild dissent against the BBC characterization. Watson watches in horror as Sherlock conducts his investigations with all the grace and efficiency of a hurricane. John Watson the series adapts Sir Doyle’s best Sherlock Holmes stories-“A Study in Scarlet,” “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” “The Final Problem,” “The Sign of Four”-into modern, fanciful episodes about Sherlock’s dysfunctional genius. And then there’s the popular BBC series, Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr. ![]() In theaters, Guy Ritchie’s two Sherlock Holmes movies, starring Robert Downey Jr., feature the legendary detective with a similar dickishness. There’s even a deadly “Moriarty” antagonist who emerges in the show’s Season 2 finale. House reimagined Holmes as a cantankerous, drug-addled physician, Dr. In the 21st century, Sherlock Holmes has only grown more popular-and redundant. ![]() In 1930, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died regretting Sherlock Holmes’s outsized place in his literary legacy. Miss Sherlock, a new HBO series, has solved the great corruption of so many popular Sherlock Holmes adaptations that came before it: celebrating the detective’s genius without the flattery of transforming Holmes into a manic-pixie detective or, worse yet, an insufferable dick.
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