Its compelling take on the titular character, with a star-making performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, will feel reminiscent of the modern-day, rocambolesque capers of Assane.

Full Review | Mar 30, 2021

The cleverness of the writing, the charm of Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson, the wit of the visuals, the sheer all-encompassing magnificence of it... Everything about it is perfect. Even the score is amazing.

Full Review | Apr 8, 2019

The expert sleuthing remains, but everything else about this three-part series has been stylishly updated to produce a fun, smart and entertaining drama.

Full Review | Apr 5, 2019

Sherlock demonstrates, bringing Holmes and Watson into the 21st century ought to have been, well, elementary.

Full Review | Apr 4, 2019

Although the Sherlock plots can't beat Conan Doyle's works (and whose could?), they are impressive, inventive, baffling, exciting, and engrossing.

Full Review | Apr 4, 2019

Arthur Conan Doyle's classic series has been retold countless times, so it's impressive that this latest version actually feels fresh.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2019

Life with Holmes allows Watson to reexperience some of the exhilaration of battle. Their deepening friendship is beautifully delineated.

Full Review | Nov 26, 2018

All right, the dangling ending was corny, Moriarty unveiled was just silly and I could do without the nudge-nudge hints of gay goings-on, but Gatiss's finale was spectacular, and he makes a horribly creepy Mycroft to boot.

Full Review | Sep 10, 2018

It's shaping up to be one of the TV drama events of the year.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2018

Even if you're not familiar with the old Sherlock Holmes adventures, you'll love this new Sherlock series. If you are familiar with them, chances are you'll love this new Sherlock even more.

Full Review | May 15, 2018

Sherlock worked because it was having fun. It also let down the po-faced pretence that the suffocating abundance of TV detective shows often labour under: that the detective actually cares about the victims.

Full Review | Feb 17, 2017

This irrepressibly ingenious show had me enraptured from the get-go.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 28, 2014

The appeal is elementary: good, unpretentious fun.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2010

The writers have done a splendid job of keeping the audience off-balance while weaving in elements of the Holmes mythology.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2010

"Sherlock" is the rare classic drama that not only survives being dressed up with a new suit, but looks darn good in it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2010

This series does what you'd want a modern-day Sherlock Holmes series to do: It acknowledges that he would use technology to assist him in his prodigious feats of deduction, yet it stays true to the characters that Arthur Conan Doyle created.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2010

This is superior sleuth TV.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2010

The smart dialogue and warm performances - even Holmes has a discernible beating heart, or perhaps two - keep ice from forming on the production.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2010

the reinvention is so smart and funny and thrilling that I hope we get another, longer season before too long

Full Review | Oct 24, 2010

Should you bookmark it now on your DVR? The answer, my dear reader and viewer, is elementary.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2010