By: Kari Muzer
If you haven’t found yourself checking out the series “Sherlock,” it’s about time to get hooked. It’s not just another television series, it’s an experience.
BBC released “Sherlock” to the United States in 2010, and since then a huge fan base has grown in America. The series has two seasons currently, but each season only has three episodes per season. The third season has an expected release date for the United States sometime in 2014.
Each episode is more like a well-written movie rather than a TV show. Each episode is around an hour and a half long. The episodes are each their own story and besides the engaging plots and incredible acting by Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock Holmes) and Martin Freeman (Dr. John Watson), the artistry behind the camera work is also impressive.
Holmes and Watson bicker like children, and Holmes consistently makes Watson’s life more difficult, but in the end of every episode they are best friends and need each other. Holmes is a difficult and eccentric, but brilliant person who never fails to surprise people with his antics.
The first season that aired in 2010 begins with “A Study in Pink.” I clearly remember sitting and watching it with my friends completely engrossed with the television screen. In this episode, Watson moves in with Holmes and the audience gets its first look into the relationship between them and their crime-solving abilities.
The next episodes “The Blind Banker” and “The Great Game” are just as exciting and allow the audience to follow along and try to solve the crime before Sherlock reveals the ending in his fantastic ways. “The Great Game” is the first experience with Jim Moriarty (Andrew Scott) and the mind game that he plays with Sherlock throughout the series. Moriarity is psychotic and evil, but so hilarious that viewers love to hate him.
The second season comes in with a bang.
“A Scandal in Belgravia” introduces Irene Adler and begins to show that Holmes may be capable of possessing feelings for another human. “The Hounds of Baskerville” is one of the more frightening episodes that keeps viewers on the edge of their seat trying to find out if what they see is real. “The Reichenbach Fall” is the final episode that has aired thus far. This episode is incredible, and many points throughout the episode you wonder if you have been tricked. The ending truly is jaw-dropping and will leave you excited for season three.
Are you looking for a new series that has incredible acting, storylines and camerawork and will keep you laughing as well as on the edge of your seat? “Sherlock” is all this and more–it is a series that is hard not to love, and I can officially say I am SHERLOCKED.
