Sherlocked Up

[Michael]

Two installments in, and I can say that the Steven Moffat-Mark Gatiss
"Sherlock" series on the BBC is a distinct pleasure - and, despite
modern tech trappings, much closer to the source material than last
year's Victorian Era-meets-"The Wild Wild West" popcorn-muncher
directed by Guy "Mr. Madonna" Ritchie with Robt. Downey and Jude Law
as Holmes and Watson. I will admit to enjoying the Holmes movie and
the characterizations by Downey and Law as pure entertainment, but
Benedict Cumberbatch's Holmes and Martin Freeman's Watson are much
more engaging, multi-layered, and vulnerable. Plus, the first ep ("A
Study in Pink") was tightly, artfully and whimsically directed by Paul
McGuigan, whose "Gangster #1" was at least as good as any of Ritchie's
brutish British crime thrillers. And yesterday's ep "The Blind Banker"
might have been even better, since it didn't have to deal with
introductions and could get right into the mystery. One more to go
next Sunday, although I hear that three more 90-minute episodes are
already green-lit.

[Steve Timko]

So I take it this will show on BBC America and not on PBS?

[Adam Bowie]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Steve Timko <steve...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I take it this will show on BBC America and not on PBS?
>

It's a Masterpiece co-production so I would imagine that means PBS get it first.

http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-masterpiece-pbs-productions.html

[Joe Coughlin]

It airs on Masterpiece Mystery in October.

 

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On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Michael <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Two installments in, and I can say that the Steven Moffat-Mark Gatiss
"Sherlock" series on the BBC is a distinct pleasure - and, despite
modern tech trappings, much closer to the source material than last
year's Victorian Era-meets-"The Wild Wild West" popcorn-muncher
directed by Guy "Mr. Madonna" Ritchie with Robt. Downey and Jude Law
as Holmes and Watson. I will admit to enjoying the Holmes movie and
the characterizations by Downey and Law as pure entertainment, but
Benedict Cumberbatch's Holmes and Martin Freeman's Watson are much

more engaging, multi-layered, and vulnerable. (SNIP)

Well, this summer's film is a pretty low bar (I didn't hate it as a summer film, but I did make my son go read the actual short stories after so he could see what Holmes was actually like - which he did, and really dug, so all's well that ends well with that).

I would like to repeat my response to "Sherlock", which is not that it can't be good (I can see how it might be very good), and not even that it is impossible to capture the spirit of the original in a contemporary setting (though that is quite a bit more difficult). My response was to the quote, I think by Moffat, that the Victorian setting had nothing to do with what made Holmes, Holmes. The Victorian setting had everything to do with that character and those stories, and my position (which has to be provisional until I actually see "Sherlock", which of course I will) is that anybody who wants to capture the original Holmes character in a 21st century setting will have to think deeply and creatively about how to make the proper transpositions. Otherwise you will just have a quirky, really smart and adventuresome detective story. I love stories like that, but the vast majority of those are not Sherlock Holmes. It is possible that Moffat has make the creative transpositions, even if only at an implicit level. It is also possible that he has not, but still made a really entertaining and substantive set of detective stories, which I would be happy with, even if a little irritated that he called it Sherlock and not just something else.

[M-D November]

The first series is only 3 episodes, but the prevailing logic is that
a full second series will be commissioned, with Moffat's involvement
limited (owing to his commitments to Doctor Who).

On Aug 2, 10:43 am, Joe Coughlin <inturnaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Adam Bowie <adam.bo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Steve Timko <steveti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So I take it this will show on BBC America and not on PBS?
>
> > It's a Masterpiece co-production so I would imagine that means PBS get it
> > first.
>

> >http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-masterpiece-pbs-pro...