Sherlock

Sherlock selects plot elements and incidental details from the original stories and mixes and mashes them together, adding new ingredients to taste.

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

If the proof of quality is that a show leaves you craving more, "Sherlock" has quality to burn.

A modern-dress Conan Doyle that crackles with superb writing, brilliant performances and snappy direction, and does it all while somehow managing t...

Moffat’s greatest accomplishment may be all the things he didn’t do. His Sherlock Holmes is the most relevant and compelling crime-solv...

The show deserves to do well because it’s so bloody good – smart, whimsical and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, finding fresh, distin...

Each week, the series takes on a Holmes classic, updates it, turns it on its ear and leaves you breathless.

The Empty Hearse, which witnessed the return of Sherlock Holmes to the world of the living, was an exercise in fan service, but that’s not en...

The series is a comment on Holmes as much as it is an adventure in which he stars. Knowingness is one of the things it wants to share with you.

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

A Scandal in Belgravia makes for a rollicking return to the Sherlock franchise and the writing, direction and performances are so sharp you ca...

Not many shows can handle such swift and complete shifts in tone as this, but Sherlock makes them look positively elementary.

One of the most dazzling confections on TV.

The stories are complex and contemporary, with references to a remembered past.

If Sherlock has anything to offer, though, it must lie in escapism.

The third season is looser, funnier, more emotional and also significantly less logical than what has come before.

Sherlock’s certainly among the most interesting people one could know, the cleverest, and maybe the smartest.

Once again, Benedict Cumberbatch’s modern-day Holmes and his intrepid sidekick Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) provide breathtaking non-stop...

The Empty Hearse, with its heady revelations and the promise of future mayhem via a new nemesis for Sherlock and John, manages to create an au...

As is often the case with Sherlock, the best bits are less about plot and more about people.

This Holmes update’s second season continues to be both clever and classic.

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

How is it possible that a show based on a set of stories that began in the 19th century could be the freshest detective show on television?

How great to see Jones let rip after so many down-at-heel roles; even his toothy leer, which reminded me of Alec Guinness’s in The Ladykiller...

There may be hashtags, blogs and motorbikes, but the spirit remains in keeping. I think Sir Arthur would approve, enjoy it too. Hard not to re...

Sherlock’s third season ultimately makes the series' world richer, and a stronger foundation for more stories to come.

Holmes and Watson are such enduring characters, and these versions written and played so well.

Though it’s impossible for Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat’s sleuth update to live up to its "best telly ever!" reviews, even die-hard Co...

Though scant on actual crime, the show remains a televisual switchback, crammed with devious twists and delicious bons mots.

In "The Truth," the Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda wittily toys with Deneuve’s persona, its layers and meanings.

The result was 90 minutes of television so richly enjoyable that I’m already beginning to wonder if we’ll see anything better...

Sherlock is a wonderful series. Just thinking about it makes me smile.

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

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...

Even better than the first time.

Happily, though it’s not the series' strongest script, the two fine actors can still extract every nuance from it.

Energetic, smart, finely polished and just a little pleased with itself, it’s quintessential Sherlock. The boys are back in town.

Cumberbatch stalks Baker Street like a Danish prince with a decisive streak.

The most unabashedly entertaining new show of the season.

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...

This is superior sleuth TV.

Thanks to the stars, the wit of the writing and a few clever tricks, the show remains a joy.

The British series' complex take on Holmes remains transfixing.

Thank goodness for flashbacks, because we also finally get to see Mr. Cumberbatch kiss a woman in a way that will leave no doubt about Sherlock&rsq...

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

Sherlock proves to be a fun and exhilarating TV experience.

It’s a jolly enough episode, but not as thrillingly stylish as some past adventures.

Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have created something of unusual brilliance … The best hour and a half of television so far this year.

A witty take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s invention.

In its third season, Sherlock at last settles into its own assured rhythm.

A paltry number of things on television are as exciting as a new season of Sherlock – and if you haven’t seen the first two tragica...

Strikes a perfect and delicious balance among comedy, pathos, murder, and mystery.

You do not have to be a Holmes expert to go completely gaga over the new season. All you need is appreciation of perfection.

Sherlock is a Rolls-Royce of a popular entertainment, beautifully engineered and beautifully finished. The doors close with a perfect thunk ev...

Returns with seduction through deduction intact.