TV Drama review - Sherlock

Sherlock is a British-American crime drama series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Sherlock Holmes' detective stories. The series is a co-production between the BBC and WGBH Boston, with Elaine Cameron and Sue Vertue of Hartswood Films serving as producers, written and directed by Mark Gatiss and Stephen Moffat.

The series has been sold by BBC Worldwide to over 200 territories and is one of the few British drama series that are being broadcasted on the public broadcaster in Norway (NRK). After season 3 aired early 2014 it became the UK's most watched drama series since 2001, being nominated for several awards including BAFTAs, Emmys and a Golden Globe, and winning numerous awards for different categories.

A lot has changed in the series from how it was in  Doyle's original stories since Sherlock and Mr Watson are now placed in modern times, although they still live at 221B Baker Street. Sherlock is now equipped with a smartphone which he consults at lightning speed and sends texts rather than telegrams. Instead of publishing articles and monographs he now has a website "The Science of Deduction", same goes for John who now has his own blog instead of publishing articles in a magazine.
Both the website and the blog exists online:
Watsons blog: http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk
Sherlocks website: http://www.thescienceofdeduction.co.uk

Sherlock is one of my favourite series, especially season one as I found it being a great adaption of the original Sherlock-stories. I loved the fact that they cast Benedict Cumberbatch for Sherlock Holmes as he fits the traditional reading of the character plus he's a great actor. I was also impressed when I first saw the series how they could set the story to modern times and get it so right in every aspect of it.
Although I found season 1 and 2 great I was quite disappointed by season 3 and 4. The cinematic part of it was very nice and it seemed like the budget was increased, but I found the story ruining the characters.

One episode that I found very interesting was 'The Reichenbach Fall' (season 2, episode 3) which I feel beats all the other episodes in terms of drama, plot and the depth in the characters. In this episode Mr Watson is going on a difficult, emotional journey that at times was difficult to watch. The episode starts with Watson visiting a psychiatrist saying Sherlock is dead. The title 'The Reichenbach Fall' should also strike a bit of fear into the audiences hearts since Reichenback is the waterfall where Sherlock and Moriarty fell to their supposed deaths in the original story.

In this episode we follow Moriarty's plan to discredit and kill Sherlock Holmes. This is the first episode where the spotlight fully directed on Moriarty. His and Sherlock's confrontation were made very intense by Toby Haynes' still high-angels. Haynes did a great job making the episode as stylish as ever, using text-on-screen storytelling, time-lapse cityscapes and ad pans across Moriarty on the rooftop. The episode ends with Sherlock committing suicide, and was based on Doyle's story 'The Final Problem'.

Sherlock had a great influence in the making of my main character Malcolm Caine. Sherlock Holmes is a fantastic "flawed" character being funny/goofy, not caring, smart and at the same time annoying to the degree that you sort of feel sorry for Watson having to keep up with him. I like those traits as I find them making up a great character and adapted some of those traits to my character Malcolm

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