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30 Mar

Did The Irregulars Need its Sherlock Holmes and Watson Connection?

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Warning: contains some plot details for The Irregulars There are Sherlock Holmes purists in this world, but I’m not among them. You want to put Sherlock Holmes on a spaceship, or make him a quarterback, or a hedgehog, or a woman? Go for your life. Make him Elton John for all I mind. Just show me a Sherlock who uses genius powers of observation and deduction to solve unsolvable crimes in whatsoever context, with whatsoever number of claws, X chromosomes or Top 10 hits and we’re good.  The cases are the thing. As long are there are brilliantly devised deductions…
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26 Mar

The Irregulars Ending Explained: Sherlock, Watson, Linen Man & The Rip

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Warning: contains spoilers for The Irregulars finale Praise be for a proper ending! Too many new Netflix series pull their punches when it comes to the finale, bowing out on a cliff-hanger that gambles on a second series commission that often never arrives. The Irregulars does nothing of the sort. It delivers a traditional, big, flashy conclusion that bests the bad guy, saves the world, and leaves plenty of space for emotional breakthroughs and teary goodbyes. Yes, some groundwork was laid for a potential return, but if these eight episodes turned out to be it, you won’t leave feeling dissatisfied.…
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26 Mar

How Netflix’s The Irregulars fit in with Sherlock Holmes Canon

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The titular “Irregulars” who star in the new eight-part Netflix series are total badasses, but outside of their shared team name, they are significantly different from the Baker Street Irregulars who originated in the pages of the Sherlock Holmes canon as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This isn’t to say that The Irregulars defies the Holmes canon per se, but it does weave an alternate dimension of the 221B universe, one populated by a lot of elements we never saw in the classic Watson-narrated stories. In Doyle’s ‘The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire’ Sherlock debunks the existence of an…
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03 Nov

The Closest Sean Connery Ever Came To Playing Sherlock Holmes

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In the course of his nearly 50-year career on the screen, the late Sean Connery portrayed many famous characters, both fictional and non-fictional. Among those were, of course, Ian Fleming’s suave spy James Bond in seven films; Daniel Druvot in 1975’s The Man Who Would Be King; King Arthur in 1995’s First Knight, Robin Hood in 1976’s Robin and Marian; Dr. Henry Jones Sr. in 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and many more. One role Connery never got to play was Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. But he did come close, playing a character who was…
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08 Oct

Robert Downey Jr. Wants to Build a Sherlock Holmes Universe Like the MCU

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You don’t come out of working in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for a decade without high aspirations and some good ideas—nor without the resources and star power to potentially make them happen. This is the case for Robert Downey Jr. who, after helping Marvel to launch the MCU and working as a key part of the ever-growing franchise for almost 10 years, wants to use what he’s learned to grow another franchise: Sherlock Holmes. “At this point, we really feel that there is not a mystery-verse built out anywhere, and Conan Doyle is the definitive voice in that arena, I…
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25 Sep

Mycroft, Eudoria, Enola & Sherrinford: How FanFic Expands the Sherlock Holmes Family

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Author Nancy Springer invented Sherlock’s secret sister. You might remember back in 2017 when Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes met his secret — and criminally insane — sister Eurus Holmes (Sian Brooke) in the 4th season of the BBC’s Sherlock, but Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) came first. Springer’s Enola made her splash in the 2006 middle-grade book The Case of the Missing Marquess (upon which the new movie Enola Holmes is based) which makes her the reigning champ of secret Holmes siblings, at least in the 21st century. Are there other secret Holmes siblings? What about the Holmes parents? Did…
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24 Jul

Sherlock 10th Anniversary: Behind the Scenes Set Secrets

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Two chairs. A fireplace. 17 steps leading up from the ground floor. On the mantelpiece, letters pierced by a knife, cigars hidden in a coal scuttle and tobacco concealed inside the toe of a Persian slipper… Sir Arthur Conan Doyle provided a few compass points from which set designers on screen adaptations of his Sherlock Holmes stories could work when creating their 221B Baker Street. The rest takes imagination, artistry, a storyteller’s eye and , in the case of BBC One’s Sherlock, the odd bit of mischief. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Sherlock’s arrival on the BBC, production designer…
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24 Jul

Sherlock Designer Arwel W Jones: ‘There’s a Magic to Set Design’

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It’s summer 2011 and Arwel W Jones is causing a commotion in the Brecon Beacons. Cars overtake his forklift along the narrow country road, puzzling at the sight of a living room wall travelling solo past hedgerows and moorland. The wall belongs to Irene Adler, sometime adversary/paramour of Sherlock Holmes. It’s on its way to stand behind Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Lara Pulver in the series two opener of Sherlock, to help to tell their story and to make them look good.  Storytelling and making things look good are Jones’s job. As Sherlock’s production designer, his art department conceived, created and…
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26 Jun

Sherlock Holmes History Proves Enola Holmes Lawsuit is Nonsense

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From the moment there were Sherlock Holmes fans, there was Sherlock Holmes fanfiction. In almost every conceivable way, Sherlock Holmes fandom informs nearly all major “geek” fandoms that followed it: There’s extensive canon to debate, highly organized fan groups, and most of all, fan-penned stories which often directly contradict the established canon of the characters. Usually, this results in fun debates, but when it comes to Sherlock Holmes, it occasionally results in lawsuits.  Currently, the Conan Doyle estate is suing Netflix in regard to the upcoming Sherlock Holmes spin-off, Enola Holmes. Here’s why their claims are baseless, why the history…
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