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PBS "Sherlock Holmes" Updated for the 21st century
Jeff Wrangler:
So have any of you fans seen Emily Nussbaum's review in the Jan. 27 New Yorker?
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 22, 2014, 07:31:40 pm ---So have any of you fans seen Emily Nussbaum's review in the Jan. 27 New Yorker?
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Thanks. I'll read it after the season is over. I don't want to be spoiled. :)
Front-Ranger:
I haven't cracked open that issue yet.
A question about the season opener: we see Sherlock at one point (I'm being deliberately vague here) from behind with his shirt off. Anybody know or can guess whether that's actually Benedict or a stunt double? I know in earlier seasons that he did most of his stunts.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 22, 2014, 08:23:23 pm ---I haven't cracked open that issue yet.
A question about the season opener: we see Sherlock at one point (I'm being deliberately vague here) from behind with his shirt off. Anybody know or can guess whether that's actually Benedict or a stunt double? I know in earlier seasons that he did most of his stunts.
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Good question. It might be him. You see his face at the very end. He did get all muscle-y for Star Trek Into Darkness and then stayed in great shape for his short movie "Small Favours", then, reportedly, he couldn't get as small as he used to be when filming for the 3rd season started. He stated he was 3 sizes larger than he used to be.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 22, 2014, 07:31:40 pm ---So have any of you fans seen Emily Nussbaum's review in the Jan. 27 New Yorker?
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I read the first half which covered the first episode. It was pretty good, especially the part about "by the end of the episode, the story coheres, and the series is rebooted with a ping."
I haven't participated in all the fanfiction shenanigans, so all that is lost on me. I saw the segues to the various scenarios as distractions to the main story, whereas Emily and others apparently saw the main story as "goofy". Also, I thought they overdid the use of hashtags.
Interesting to find that Mary is Martin Freeman's partner in real life!!
The part that blew my mind was when she said that Sherlock was not just a buddy story or a romance but the story of a "god and a mortal." Wow.
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