Sherlock made a return to 221b Baker Street in the New Year, with its second series on the BBC starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman (from The Office) as his sidekick Dr. John Watson. This series sees Cumberbatch and Co. star in three 90-minute episodes on various adventures: a classic one includes The Hound of the Baskervilles and the first episode of this series sees Sherlock Holmes fall for a girl, with actress Lara Pulver starring as dominatrix turned damsel in distress in A Scandal in Belgravia. This series also sees the return of another audience favourite, Rupert Graves who plays Detective Inspector Lestrade needing Sherlock’s help and also assisting Sherlock surprisingly.
Cumberbatch makes an excellent Sherlock and executes the character brilliantly: catching his arrogance, intelligence and his perceptiveness extremely well. And in this series we see Watson more as a soldier than any other interpretation has allowed. They make a good partnership in this series, and keep the audience gripping with what is to come next. Mark Gatiss who plays Holmes’ brother, Mycroft is also captured well: Gatiss plays the protective older brother, with his own intelligence and work as a government official.
We are yet to see Professor James Moriarty, Sherlock’s arch enemy, also known as ‘Jim’ played by actor Andrew Scott, to appear in this series and he is sure to appear in the season finale next week, which is on Sunday BBC1 at 8.30pm. It is a finale not to be missed and will have much enthralling action and serious detective work in it. And should make for an interesting Sunday evening.
