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Where else would you put a severed head?

Holmes is bored…BORED!

Sherlock. Tonight at 9 on PBS.

Last week’s episode, The Blind Banker, is online.

Lance Mannion on Sunday, November 07, 2010 in Too Much TV | Permalink

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Dammit, I'm gonna have to watch to see if the gun pattern is VR; everything else is contemporary, so . . .

Posted by: Linkmeister | Monday, November 08, 2010 at 01:08 AM

Link,

Not enough rounds. This time. (And "ER" would probably take more with that middle line.) But I was wondering the same thing until I watched the scene again here.

And if this isn't the best of all possible Watsons (David Burke and Jude Law are also reasonable candidates) the look into the refrigerator was the best slow double-take since Cary Grant stared into the head at the pig ("Ensign Hornsby") in "Operation Petticoat."

Posted by: El Jefe | Monday, November 08, 2010 at 10:09 AM

I'm still puzzled at Watson's inability [redacted by editors to remove spoiler] at poolside. I guess I wasn't watching closely enough to understand why that didn't take.

Posted by: Linkmeister | Monday, November 08, 2010 at 02:03 PM

Watson's inability to what? I'll be glad when the redaction is retracted, because I'm not sure what Link might have meant. It was a great scene, though.

Posted by: velevet goldmine | Monday, November 08, 2010 at 03:12 PM

Oh, oops. I'm not fully part of the time-shifting universe yet. Sorry.

Posted by: Linkmeister | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 at 01:27 AM

I confess that I watched Sunday night in large part because of Lance's recommendation, and was very pleasantly surprised. Altho some of the updating seemed contrived...I mean, really, Sherlock Holmes needs to Google? A character who was a quick study on nearly anything he applied his mind to?...I thought the transition to modern England was clever and well-conceived and executed.

It was House without the dying patients.

Thanks, Lance, I probably would have given this a miss!

Posted by: actor212 | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 at 02:11 PM

actor212: Sherlock Holmes needs to Google?

actor, actually Doyle's Holmes would've loved the google. Holmes made a point of not remembering things. He didn't want to clutter up his mind with facts and trivia that could be looked up whenever he needed them. One of the reasons the flat at Baker Street was a perpetual mess, to Mrs Hudson's despair, is that Holmes refuses to throw any papers away. He wants them at hand in case he needs to look up something. Also, he relied on Watson's memory. Essentially he assembled his own private Google.