TV-14, 89 min.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writers: Steve Thompson,
Mark Gatiss (creator), Steven Moffat (creator), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (works)
Starring: Benedict
Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Zoe Telford, Louise Brealey, Gemma
Chan, Al Weaver, Bertie Carvel, Paul Chequer
There’s a strange sense in
watching “Sherlock” of a bygone era in television. Although Sherlock’s
adventures have been modernized in these movie-length episodes, it feels like
classic television. The introductions are often simpler and seem less dark than
the nature of the crimes depicted. The television series “Monk” gave me the
same impression. That series isn’t really a far cry from this one considering
the mental handicaps/assets of the detectives.
This story starts off in a
museum, with an Asian employee warding off advances from an insistent
co-worker. Then, the story switches to Sherlock and Watson employed privately
by a bank to discover how an intruder breached their security system. This seemingly
unrelated story thread to the one which opened the episode eventually leads
Sherlock to the Asian woman, who is in much more peril than from unwanted
advances. While the bank is employing Sherlock to find the breach, its what the
vandal did to the bank during the break-in that interests him.
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