How do you become awesome with only 3 episodes per season? You toss Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman into a TV set and stir. The result is BBC’s hit Sherlock. If you have not had the pleasure of watching this version of Sherlock Holmes, stop what you are doing and seek it out now. The storytelling happens at such a breakneck pace that the rhythm of the show is intoxicating. Cumberbatch and Freeman have the perfect pH balance of character. One is just as important as the other. The banter and pranks are priceless. It has a buddy cop feel to it.
Sherlock manages to be horrifying, suspenseful, sexy, and funny; something sorely missed in Elementary. I’m still not overly fond of the casting of Moriarty and I don’t find him scary; the intimidating kind or the psychological thriller kind. I love Irene Adler. I hope they maneuver the story so that she makes a reappearance.
Season 3 of Sherlock will return in fall 2013. With the success of Freeman as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit and the upcoming success of Cumberbatch as a villain in Star Trek Into the Darkness, I hope we will continue to get episodes out of these guys. While I’m throwing out wishes, let’s have more than 3 episodes per season please!
Sherlock airs on BBC One.