This may be a Sherlock Holmes story, but at the same time, it would be fine if they just changed the name of the characters and change it for a different series entirely. This, however, doesn't make the show bad, there are boring episodes and some great ones (looking at you S03E24 "A Controlled Descent") and Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu makes a decent job, Miller does feel like an "addicted to mystery detective and ex-addict" and Lucy Liu does look like an "ex-surgeon, now wants to be a detective (and becomes one later)". There are also plenty of nice scenes and talks about addicting, crime etc. It is entertaining, but it doesn't force you to "believe" that Sherlock Holmes is a genius, it actually kind of depicts him as more of an obsessive character than a "genius" detective (while I do agree there are some things that don't make sense), it is at least better at showing how Sherlock Holmes got to a conclusion than the TV Series "Sherlock" since they just throw the word "he is a genius" and be done with it without giving the viewers the chance to realize the conclusion (sometimes Elementary sins on this too).
Review by J Lucas CBlockedParent2018-07-20T20:56:59Z
This may be a Sherlock Holmes story, but at the same time, it would be fine if they just changed the name of the characters and change it for a different series entirely. This, however, doesn't make the show bad, there are boring episodes and some great ones (looking at you S03E24 "A Controlled Descent") and Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu makes a decent job, Miller does feel like an "addicted to mystery detective and ex-addict" and Lucy Liu does look like an "ex-surgeon, now wants to be a detective (and becomes one later)". There are also plenty of nice scenes and talks about addicting, crime etc. It is entertaining, but it doesn't force you to "believe" that Sherlock Holmes is a genius, it actually kind of depicts him as more of an obsessive character than a "genius" detective (while I do agree there are some things that don't make sense), it is at least better at showing how Sherlock Holmes got to a conclusion than the TV Series "Sherlock" since they just throw the word "he is a genius" and be done with it without giving the viewers the chance to realize the conclusion (sometimes Elementary sins on this too).