Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

It's like if Agatha Christie met a meticulous Belgian with an egg-shaped head and a waxed mustache while studying music in Paris, stimulating her little gray cells. This version of Holmes and Watson without Holmes and Watson fairly divides itself between the investigative and romantic plotlines, only to merge them into a fateful moment where words become solace and create a character who, unlike in real life, always wins. Even if Charles Dance had a smiley-face contact lens, that villainy would still gleam in his eyes. (09.11.2022)