Before becoming the one that the public and the press agree to find brilliant, Benedict Cumberbatch saw his talent explode in a TV series. Signed Steven Moffat, it arrives on Prime Video. It’s time to see it or see it again!
Before playing the Master of the Mystical Arts in Doctor Strange, a rancher prevented from expressing his wishes in The Power of the Dog, the antagonist of Star Trek Into Darkness, the dragon Smaug in The Hobbit or the brilliant Alan Turing in Imitation Game, Benedict Cumberbatch was first noticed by taking over the cult character of Arthur Conan Doyle.
You have it ? It is of course thanks to Sherlock that the actor’s talent exploded before the eyes of the general international public. By embodying the genius detective defining himself as a “high level sociopath“, his career took off.
Starring the formidable Martin Freeman as Watson and helmed by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock became an instant classic.
Sherlock 2.0
A modern reinterpretation of Conan Doyle’s classic, this four-season Sherlock has managed to capture the complex, fascinating, at the same time detestable and terribly “endearing” personality of the famous detective. The first episode, “A Study in Pink,” is absolute perfection.
He installs the characters from their first meeting, establishes a bromance between Sherlock and Watson, unfolds an immediately addictive plot and manages to stage sequences of deduction that are exhilarating, ingenious and intelligible at the same time.
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Free adaptation of short stories and novels by Conan Doyle, Sherlock respects the spirit with the Moffat / Gatiss touch, this humor and this impertinence, which immediately conquers a large audience. And then it gives a serious old look to the other Sherlock, the one who appeared in 2009, a few months earlier, on the big screen and played by a certain Robert Downey Jr…
But very quickly, Sherlock almost suffered from its immense success and that of its main performers, both caught up in the cinema, and later the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Which imposes spaced seasons because of overloaded schedules, the fourth dating from 2017 and not being considered by the creators and the actors as the last.
Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman all want to give the series a real conclusion. In an interview at First in 2020, Steven Moffat still proclaimed his desire to do a fifth season. In the meantime, we can wait by (re) seeing the first four on Prime Video!