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A short course in Sherlock Holmes
Elementary, another Holmes show starts Monday, Jan 27 on AXN. Get your Baker Street adaptations right.
Elementary, another Holmes show starts Monday, Jan 27 on AXN. Get your Baker Street adaptations right.
ELEMENTARY
What it's about
A rich Brit import in present-day Manhattan, just making do
Sherlock
Jonny Lee Miller as an 'out of drug rehab' in NYC brownstone
Looks
All-American locales, clothes and cases. A stubble!
Drug use
Hey! That was in the past
Dr John Watson
John becomes Joan! Lucy Liu is the sobriety partner in designer suits
Irene Adler
Margaery Tyrell from Game of Thrones
Professor Moriarty
Is the best character reveal of them all!
Britishness
10% They don't even try
BBC SHERLOCK
What it's about
A brilliant consulting detective in modern London, who loves tech
Sherlock
Benedict Cumberbatch, cheekbones and all, in modern-day London
Looks
Black coats, deerstalker
Drug use
Just tea, please Mrs Hudson
Dr John Watson
Ever-more-human former Army doctor in Iraq and only friend (Martin Freeman)
Irene Adler
An S&M specialist with comebacks that sting like her whip
Professor Moriarty
A delicious madman who you just might see again
Britishness
100% Even the Queen approves
MOVIES (SHERLOCK HOLMES '09 and '11)
What it's about
Guy Ritchie's idea of crime solving with lots of action and romance
Sherlock
Robert Downey Jr in a messy, glampunk Victorian London
Looks
Shiny waistcoats, bowler hats (no deerstalker!), fisticuffs
Drug use
Non-existent, really
Dr John Watson
Jude Law, so dashing, he makes any bromance theory believable
Irene Adler
Rachel McAdams, wasted as a pretty sidekick
Professor Moriarty
Appears in the climax of the first, is proper villain in the sequel
Britishness
20% Jude Law is Brit
HOUSE MD
What it's about
An antisocial doc who can diagnose disease but can't deal with society
Sherlock
Deductive Holmes is the diagnostic House, a doctor played by Hugh Laurie
Looks
Doctor's coat, motorcycle, piano playing, untreatable leg pain, cane
Drug use
Pops the painkiller Vicodin, once even injected it in
Dr John Watson
Not a roomie but a fellow doctor, the oncologist James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard)
Irene Adler
Only in one forgettable episode
Professor Moriarty
A crazed gunman who shoots him in one episode
Britishness
50% Laurie is British-born
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S BOOKS
What it's about
A deductive crime expert from 221B Baker Street in Victorian England
Sherlock
He can spot every dead giveaway within the trappings of gentility
Looks
Boxes, plays the violin, not terribly fond of niceties, bit of a pain, really
Drug use
Cocaine and morphine (both legal at the time)
Dr John Watson
Friend, assistant, flatmate, narrator, onetime Army surgeon. No, not a lover!
Irene Adler
The only woman to capture his imagination
Professor Moriarty
The Napoleon of Crime and Holmes's nemesis
Britishness
It's the original. So it's elementary, no?
From HT Brunch, January 26
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