Sherlock: The Hounds Of Baskerville

January 12, 2012 2 Comments

Earlier in the week I reviewed the second episode of Sherlock‘s second season for Empire magazine. Hop over there to feast your filmic eyes.

So last week I thoroughly enjoyed the marvellous season two opener of Sherlock, which welcomed the Beeb’s modern day story of Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth back to our screens with assurance. Like the first season’s opening instalment, it was penned by co-creator Steven Moffat and offered a frequently-breathless plate-spinning act of knotty plotting, dazzling dialogue and Watson-impressing deductions. Admittedly, there were one or two niggles (as Ali Plumb pointed our in his well-reasoned blog piece), but on the whole it was sufficiently superior viewing to result in many critics and industry bods gushing with enthusiastic praise via Twitter and elsewhere. Continue Reading…

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2 Comments to “Sherlock: The Hounds Of Baskerville”

Antony Noh says:

January 18, 2012 at 2:48 pm

One question – in the Hounds of Baskerville, was the setting (with the inevitable gas) the same as the Jeremy Brett setting?

As for the dead man by the lakeside, it’s the same sort of puzzle as the person of limited stature who always takes the lift from his flat down to the ground floor when he goes to work, but on his return, he always gets out on the 7th floor and walks the last 7 flights up to his flat on the 14th floor. Why? (You can add a twist by saying … unless it’s raining). He can’t reach the button on the lift above floor 7 (unless he has an umbrella)

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Stephen Carty says:

January 18, 2012 at 3:01 pm

Hi Antony, good to hear from you!

If you mean the 1998 one, I think that was also set in Baskerville, but I believe the military setting was new for this adaptation.

I know what you’re saying RE the boomerang, but it just felt silly and beneath Sherlock to me. But I’m fine with the odd bit of silliness, given how superb it is in most respects.

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