Roger ebert review sherlock holmes tv#

'Elementary' makes big changes in its source: London becomes New York. Whatever the case, read today, the stories often come off as pre-emptive 'shippers.) (One wonders how much pleasure Doyle took at hiding the utterly queer relationship between these gentlemen in plain sight. There's some surprise in who did it, and even more in how and why, but what you're here for is old friends doing the same old things the usual way.

Roger ebert review sherlock holmes tv#

Like basic TV narrative, Doyle's stories, in form, style, narrative and resolution, offer the guaranteed pleasures of absolute, unchanging familiarity. 'Elementary' has proven that trad TV is by far the best fit for our strange detective. Putin only knows what the Russians are doing in their own remake, but with American cable TV's import craze being what it is, we may find out soon. Steven Moffat's 'Sherlock' gave us a short-run take on a tech-hip, maybe asexual, couture rock star-style version of the detective. And so Guy Ritchie rendered him an action hero his Sherlock Holmes films.

The secret to the Holmes craze is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's crime buster is little more than an assemblage of data points in search of a human to hang them on: the pipe, disguise skills, the love of a seven-percent-solution of cocaine, the seething contempt of women, the superhuman deductive reasoning. He's so under-written that revisers can't resist him.

Shooting most effectively on so many cylinders is Robert Doherty's 'Elementary.' It's the smartest, most intimately passionate iteration of Sherlock Homes around, and that's saying a lot, considering that we're in the midst of a bull market for all things Holmes.