Ok. Just watched the first episode. If the rest is like this I'm hooked already.
OMG! this was amazing!
Such a brilliant episode!
Got hooked after the first 20 minutes... amazing!
Remember when John asked Sherlock if he had a boyfriend and then slowly moistened his lips while intensely staring at his new flatmate??!
Oh, those were THE DAYS...
Great first episode. Looking forward to the rest of the series. :thumbsup_tone1:
Liked the show, as I love virtually anything Sherlock Holmes, but it is very convoluted and extremely difficult to understand the dialog. Will continue watching but hope I can learn to read lips as the dialog is buried under other noise.
Rewatching after more than eight years. Did not remember every detail. but I enjoyed it all the way through. And on reaching I realize they take time to develop characters and story.
incredibly great pilot episode for a series. 9 / 10
Decided to give this a whirl. All-in-all an enjoyable watch with two great leads. There were moments when Sherlock went on his ingenious rants, where they became somewhat exhausting, so I’m hoping those don’t remain as frequent and intense. But I was ultimately entertained.
Probably one of the greatest episodes of television I've ever watched. Only an alright movie though. Transitions are cheesy but I love SH's character.
Been watching and rewatching this since I was 13, and this is the first time I have appreciated this as a TV series and not like a fandom thing if that makes sense. Fun sense of humor for its time, I suppose.
I mean it’s one of my favourite pilots ever, but it kind an as to be good given that there’s 3 episodes a season. Love this show
Amazing start i didn't expect to like this so much.Great perfomances too 8.6/10
A sharp, witty modernization of the Holmes mythos, the first in this ongoing series of feature-length chapters almost perfectly strikes the difficult balance between respect for the source material and fresh, original elaborations. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are equally prickly, sardonic and brilliant as Holmes and Watson, both to the common folks they're tripping over at every turn and to each other while they hash out the boundaries of their burgeoning friendship.
Smart, fresh editing techniques give the audience an abundance of visual hints to Sherlock's methods at a crime scene, and also give the transitions between each scene a sleek, artsy edge that helps to convince this is more than a made-for-TV movie. Though it does occasionally leave Holmes himself in the dark just a bit too long in hopes that viewers at home will figure things out first, that's a very minor gripe and one I'm not entirely sure is actually a negative in this era of the deus ex machina. A bold, rewarding first step that sets the ball into motion for any number of future developments.
a good episode as an introduction to modern retelling of Sherlock Holmes.
Review by ltcomdataBlockedParentSpoilers2017-05-16T00:50:51Z
The introduction of Sherlock Holmes in a modern London. A series of suicides by poisoning keep occurring. Sherlock finally discovers them to be murders: someone is making people commit suicide.
The show episode revolves around pride. Sherlock, of course, is an arrogant prick. But the enemy in this episode styles himself the equal, or the better of Sherlock. He intends to make Sherlock commit suicide merely by talking. And indeed, he would have accomplished it --- had it not been by Dr. Watson (who in this version is a veteran of the Middle East wars) --- by a strong appeal to Sherlock's arrogance. At the end his episode enemy ends by saying that a more cunning enemy awaits Sherlock: Mr. Moriarty. Thus the archenemy of Sherlock is introduced at the very beginning.
As it happens, the episode enemy was a simple cab driver. Themes of class were obviously explored in the episode: The cab driver took advantage of the very traditional British way in which no attention is paid to the help, to commit his murders. In an arrogant move that mimics Sherlock's, the cab driver styled himself infinitely superior intellectually to those who would so easily dismissed him.
The episode reminded me of another mystery short story by Mr. Chesterton, in which a crime is committed at a party of rich people and no one notices the criminal under their very noses. Fr. Brown is perplexed that no one saw the killer, given that there are clear tracks in the snow going in and out of the house in question. It happened that a member of the lower classes employed as "the help" committed the crime, and because their very humanity is easily dismissed, everyone simply ignored death passing by.
Similarly, in this episode, even Sherlock doesn't even fathom the cab driver as the killer until the end. The rebellion against the inhumanity of ignoring "the help" in the Sherlock episode is to create an arrogant member of "the help" who deplores the stupidity of those who disregard him too easily. The story in Sherlock ends with death. The story by Mr. Chesterton ends with the Sacrament of Confession. The shows have so very different outlooks: one highlights arrogance; the other the brokenness of humanity.