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Genre | Drama |
Format | Multiple Formats, Subtitled, Color, NTSC |
Contributor | Vinette Robinson, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Louise Brealey, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, David Nellist, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Scott, Jonathan Aris, Tanya Moodie, Zoe Telford See more |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 2 |
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A New Sleuth for the 21st Century
In Sherlock Season One, the BBC presents a thrilling, contemporary twist on Arthur Conan Doyle's revered detective. Set in a London filled with cell phones and laptops, the new Sherlock Holmes is a high-functioning sociopath. His loyal companion, John Watson, is an army veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. But the two still reside at 221 Baker Street, and somewhere out there, Moriarty is still waiting. Join Sherlock and Watson in this action-packed, modern-day mystery TV series as they navigate a maze of cryptic clues and lethal killers to uncover the truth.
Trivia
The memory technique (mind palace) used by Sherlock is real, dating back to ancient Rome.
To prepare for his role of Holmes, Cumberbatch read every original Conan Doyle story.
The Molly Hooper character was not part of the original Sherlock Holmes series and was meant to be a one-time appearance. However, Moffat and the other producers liked Louise Brealy’s performance so much that they decided to make the character a recurring role.
In the original stories, Dr. Watson had also served in the military in Afghanistan.
The exteriors of 221 Baker Street are actually shot at 187 North Gower Street in London.
Suspense-Filled Whodunnits
- From the creative minds of Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
- Complex characters and plot twists will keep you guessing
- Features an award-winning cast and movie-quality production
- Three feature-length episodes, plus bonus material
- Available as a two-disc DVD or two-disc Blu-ray set
Meet the Cast
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Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch)As a consulting detective, the genius Holmes can solve even the most baffling mystery through shrewd observation and deductive reasoning. |
John Watson (Martin Freeman)A veteran who served as an Army medic, Watson is fascinated by Holmes and considers him brilliant, while others find him annoying. |
Mrs. Hudson (Una Stubbs)The landlady of 221 Baker Street, Mrs. Hudson fusses over her two tenants and keeps an eye on them in a motherly fashion. They return her affection. |
D.I. Lestrade (Rupert Graves)A detective inspector at Scotland Yard, Greg Lestrade often calls on Sherlock Holmes to assist in the Yard’s more difficult cases. |
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Product Description
A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. Co-created by Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Coupling) and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock stars BAFTA-nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (Hawking, Amazing Grace) as the new Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman (The Office, Love Actually), as his loyal friend, Doctor John Watson. Rupert Graves plays Inspector Lestrade. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain--they live at the same address, have the same names and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed and highly modern-day adventures, Sherlock and John navigate a maze of cryptic clues and lethal killers to get at the truth.
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In the wake of Guy Ritchie's reimagining, the BBC puts its own stamp on Arthur Conan Doyle's sleuth--and sets him in a London filled with cell phones and laptops. In the pilot, director Paul McGuigan (a keen visual stylist) introduces Sherlock Holmes (Atonement's Benedict Cumberbatch) as a "high-functioning sociopath" and Dr. John Watson (The Office's Martin Freeman) as an army veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder. Through a mutual friend, the two become flatmates at 221B Baker Street (Una Stubbs plays their landlady). Holmes, who consults with Scotland Yard inspector Lestrade (Rupert Graves) on his trickier cases, drafts Watson to assist him.
In "Study in Pink," four people commit suicide by poison. When Holmes sets out to establish a link, he falls right into the culprit's clutches. Other cases concern a smuggling operation ("The Blind Banker") and a mad bomber ("The Great Game"). Though he doesn't make a formal entrance until episode three, an infamous figure from Sherlock's future has a hand in each mystery, while the detective's brother, Mycroft (co-creator Mark Gatiss), first appears when he tries to hire Watson for a case of his own, an offer that gives the good doctor pause. Through his job at a medical office, Watson also meets Sarah (Zoe Telford), who becomes his girlfriend.
Part of the fun of Jeremy Brett's Holmes (and Agatha Christie's Poirot) came from the period details, so this update takes a little getting used to--as does the occasional mumbled line--but Cumberbatch and Freeman share an enjoyable Odd Couple rapport, marked by flashes of deadpan wit, which compensates for the absence of deerstalker caps (Holmes favors scarves) and journals (Watson maintains a website). Extras include commentary on the finale, the original pilot, and a featurette, in which cocreator Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) notes that Cumberbatch was his only choice for the title role. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Review
Tremendously clever fun, Masterpiece Mystery! presents the first of three modernizations of the Sherlock Holmes tales. --Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly
The result is a sharp, funny, clever series that remains faithful to the spirit of Doyle's stories while infusing them with a vibrant spirit of modernity. --Robert Bianco, USA Today
The stories are complex and contemporary, with references to a remembered past. But it's easy to forget the past--the present Sherlock, droll yet naive, is so wonderfully weird. --Nancy DeWolf Smith, Wall Street Journal
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Item model number : 883929129775
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Subtitled, Color, NTSC
- Run time : 7 hours and 41 minutes
- Release date : November 9, 2010
- Actors : Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Louise Brealey
- Subtitles: : English
- Language : Unqualified
- Studio : BBC Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B004132HZS
- Writers : Mark Gatiss
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #41,917 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #2,095 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #6,995 in Drama DVDs
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The BBC's three-movie resurrection of Sherlock Holmes has made a sort of thunder across the Atlantic. This brilliant update of Holmes will please aficionados, and, perhaps, make the Victorian-phobe electronics culture dip in.
Sherlock has a website, Watson a blog. Yet, Sir Conan Doyle's lads - and stories - have everything they need. There are even nods through out the films to the original stories. You can tell (feel) the creators love Holmes as much as his followers.
This DVD has the three films in what one hopes is a first season to be followed by many more. With the films, you get the pilot that got the producers the high-production-value nod from BBC, and a doc on how they went about updating Holmes and Watson for the 21st Century. They've properly de-fogged him, but added a bit of mystery, as you watch in wonder (if you know the works), how they've adapted the tales, and characters.
Study in Pink is the first film. The pilot on the DVD is Study in Pink as well - with uncanny Dr. Who music...hmm.TIP: Watch the pilot after the high-end production. In fact, I suggest viewing the three films then the doc, then the pilot. Layer the tastes!
As I was typing...SIP introduces us to Watson, and Holmes. Holmes is asked by Lestrade to help on an odd bit of suicides that have gripped Londontown. Folks without a worry (it seems) are committing suicide, in random places, in the very same manner - and they do not have any connections, that the police can find.Enter Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch). He's a tall, eccentric fellow who like to store severed heads, and whip cadavers in his spare time to further his deductive skills. This is just the sort of thing that gets him going.
Just as he's to jump into the investigation, an acquaintance has introduced him to Watson (Martin Freeman). They may share a central London flat - over at 221B Baker.
Faster then you can say "How are they gonna work in a deerstalker?" the duo take on a clever killer and Sherlock and Watson appear to have always been here - now. You may well read their web-thingies daily via RSS.
Next, comes The Blinded Banker. The way they've spun the tale - I think - of The Dancing Men to fit into the current era is magical. If it's not that update, it's still freakin' brilliant; all ciphers and foreign drug smugglers. Watson gets a gal pal, and Sherlock manipulates another.
This one's very much going to thrill mystery viewers of any sorts. There's just a mélange of parts that puff up into a hearty stew of viewing; rich and robust.
Finally there is The Great Game. Ah, missing treaty papers do smoothly reshape into missile plans, sadly. War is the same in any century.
We get to meet Mycroft (Mark "co-creator" Gatiss) and Moriaty (whose name I confess I couldn't catch within the speeding credits - sorry sir. It's the season's cliff hanger and it should leave you sufficiently stunned - and praying there's another season to come!
The reason Sherlock works is two-fold really. The casting of Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch is spot on. It need to be. This is a bromance people take very seriously. The players need to be quite spectacular to work. They do, it does...
Freeman is known (here in USA at least) for comedy delivered with that subtle British "thing" they do...Freeman's got that everyman look that director's love. But, he works his face like a concert pianist (immediately order the under-loved, absolutely hilarious, "The Robinsons" for a visual lecture on acting with the face). Little remarks wash across, and the watcher can read his character's soul. The man's amazing frankly.
Not too shabby is the lad beside him either. Benedict Cumberbatch, for all his manly looks, can not escape his deep DNA. He looks as though he's walked off a fox hunt, bullied the stable keeper and could do those fancy ball dances so "in" back in 1890. Hell, even his name is a tad pompous. That said, he is scruffed up a bit here (really just the hair) and is perfect for the eccentric genius.
The two have a chemistry that is rarely found proper these days. And, they are both swell on the eyes. Not Guy Ritchie's ass-biting version, which had the beautiful Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr., swell, but the man-loving among us will get it...
Then there's the two who bring us the update themselves....Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. They are clever Dr. Who sorts to begin with. But, honestly, they've pulled off a remarkable feat here. Sherlock is like a sacred character to many of us. There's an assumed brilliance, mixed with a bit of arrogance. Mix the two improperly, and you've got a jerk. The team behind this project mixed like mixologists at a contest for the best bar tenders of the world. The result is a cocktail of awe.
Then there's the London they've placed Watson and Sherlock in. It's 100% now. And they use the now in everyway. At each moment you know, this Sherlock is part of the modern city, and the modern technology. He uses the apps on his phone to assist him, the way a consulting detective would...
Even the theme and ambience music is worthy!
Snack recommendation: Chinese Take Away; to be including, lotus scented rice, and tea from 500 year old clay pots please. Splurge a bit.
Of course, like any rational Sherlockian I immediately purchased Series/Season 1 and waited anxiously for its arrival.
There have been by far too many plot summaries, and delightful as they are, they do get tedious and repetitive after a time so instead i'll do a 'Character Portrayal' thing. Starting with The Master—
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH AS SHERLOCK HOLMES: I was quite impressed. He is a brilliant actor; quite handsome in that interesting, original way that—I feel—is nessecary to pull off Sherlock, and he does—pull it off. Brilliantly! His Sherlock is wonderful, a self described "High-Functioning Sociopath" with a rapier-sharp mind and an even faster tongue; the man delivers the famous Sherlock monologues in a rapid, lyrical staccato—VERY fast! He also is quite in touch with the quirks and vices of Sherlock: randomly firing his pistol at the wall because he's bored, plucking despondently at the strings of his violin whenever the mood strikes him, abusing drugs, silently staring blankly into space while he thinks, dashing off in the middle of a sentence with no explanation, not eating for days on end, not sleeping—all of Sherlock's classic habits. I highly commend both Benedict and the writers for bringing Sherlock Holmes to life again in the modern world. Bravo!
MARTIN FREEMAN AS DR. JOHN WATSON: An intriguing interpretation. Watson is a war veteran who misses the danger of combat and the thrill of the chase. He is the only man who could possibly be Sherlock's flatmate—simply because no one else could tolerate him. But Watson thrills in the excitement, even if Sherlock sometimes drives him to his breaking point. When they meet, Watson is recovering from an injury—there are a few fun nods to the original stories where Watson never can seem to decide where his wound actually was!—and looking for a flatmate. Martin Freeman is an excellent Watson; his acting is top-notch and his portrayal wonderful. His Watson is both amazed by Sherlock's extraordinary mental powers and at the same time bewildered by Sherlock's lack of common knowledge and social skills. He can't help being frustrated with Sherlock at times, for all the obvious reasons, but Martin Freeman treads the fine line between nagging and extreme tolerance with grace. Wonderful.
MRS. HUDSON: Mrs. Hudson has perhaps undergone the greatest change from the original stories, usually a rarely seen character with seemingly no past, future, or family; this Mrs. Hudson is introduced as a woman whose past relationship with Sherlock is that of a former client. He ensured her husband was executed, and so owes him a favor. This Mrs. Hudson is rather spacy, is always popping in and out with a tea tray and despairing at the mess 'her boys' have made. She is less of a landlady and housekeeper and more of a mother-figure for Sherlock and Watson.
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR LESTRADE: Classic Lestrade. Basically competent; resents the fact that he needs Sherlock's help, while at the same time admiring him—though he'd die before admitting it. It's interesting to see the relationship between Sherlock and Lestrade; they bicker like two pageant girls most of the time, but it is evident there's something akin to grudging mutual respect between them.
MYCROFT HOLMES: Excellent job. Mycroft is the very mysterious elder—and smarter—brother of Sherlock. He practically is the British government, and seems to have a hand in every secret agency you've ever heard of, and no doubt some you haven't. He's a delightfully odd, never-leaves-the-office-but-happy-to-do-the-brainwork type and the sibling rivalry between him and Sherlock is hysterical; they're always trying to outdo one another, while at the same time pretending the other doesn't exist. It's quite funny. The repeated jokes about Mycroft's weight are an amusing throwback to the original stories where Mycroft is quite rotund.
MORIARTY: He scares me. He really does. Others have said he yells and carries on too much...but I find him terrifying. It's bone-chilling, and his picture should be in the dictionary under: criminally insane, demented, manipulative, psychopath with serious problems that absolutely no psychiatrist in the world could solve. An absolutely wonderful portrayal of Moriarty for which the actor deserves great applause(though it won't be coming from me, because I'd be too scared to be in the same room with him, even though i'm sure he's a lovely person in real life).
All in all a wonderful show that masterfully transports the greatest detective of all time to our time. I am a fan.
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Now, imagine that this Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson come not from the mind of a literary-minded physician but of the fevered brains of two of Britain's reigning television writers, Steven Moffat (of the re-booted "Doctor Who") and Mark Gatiss (actor, screenwriter, and novelist). Both men are fans of the original Sherlock Holmes stories, and it shows in how they write their re-imagined Holmes and Watson. For this Sherlock is an original himself; he is the only consulting detective, ever. He has no precedent, no antecedent. He simply is.
Now cast the inimitable Martin Freeman ("The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy", "The Hobbit") as the steady John Watson, Holmes's only friend and his rock. And cast the spectacular Benedict Cumberbatch ("Atonement," "War Horse") as Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant yet socially awkward (he describes himself as "a high-functioning sociopath") detective. What you have is something that is at once familiar and utterly original.
One of the things I liked about the episodes is the way Moffat and Gatiss worked elements from the original stories into the teleplays. I'm a Sherlock Holmes buff, and I've read Conan Doyle's stories dozens of times over the years. You don't need to know the originals at all, however, to enjoy "Sherlock." Cumberbatch and Freeman have excellent chemistry on the screen; you believe they are Holmes and Watson and that they are friends. Once you've seen them together, you'll have trouble imagining Holmes and Watson any other way.
Ainsi, à l'instar de son double classique, le Sherlock Holmes moderne demeure au 221 B Baker Street chez sa logeuse : Madame Hudson ; il a exactement les mêmes défauts: un brin mysogine, un brin associal... On retrouve également les protagonistes que l'on connaissait, Mycroft le frère, Moriarty l'ennemi ou Lestrade l'inspecteur. Une chose toutefois est amusante, c'est le remplacement de l'usage par Sherlock de produits stupéfiants par l'application de patchs nicotiniques !
Pour ce qui est de la série, les trois premiers épisodes constituant la première saison (90 minutes environs par épisode) sont passionnants, rythmés et très bien interprétés. Les fans de la version de Sir Conan Doyle, ce qui est mon cas, s'ils sont surpris, ne seront pas déçus tant les scénarios sont brillants.
Un vrai régal.
Seule ombre au tableau : le packaging sommaire !
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