'Sherlock' season 2 "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

hitfix.com ^ | 5/13/12 | hitflix

[djone]

---The new season of "Sherlock" - like the last one, a collection of three 90-minute stories, this time loosely adapting "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and finds Holmes at a professional peak and an existential low point………Sherlock and Watson investigate the Baskerville experiments -- government research on genetically engineered animals for military use.

[djone]

Sherlock Holmes in the 21st century is well made, fast paced and visually stunning (watch in HD if you can). The BBC adaptation of Sherlock returned to American television Sunday night with "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (streaming if you missed it http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock/) ___Sunday night 5/13/2012 at___ 8 pm EST *****

[madison10]

Thanks for posting this. Considering a purchase as gift and wondered if the show was any good.

[Steve Van Doorn]

I seen the first season on Netflix they were very well done in my opinion and I am usually harsh with new shows

[Recon Dad]

I’m a big fan of anything the BBC does and Sherlock is excellent. I’m in the middle of watching all the episodes as I type.

[Twinkie]

No, it’s not all that great; rather convoluted and confusing trying to decide when Sherlock is hallucinating or tripping and when he’s in reality. That “woman” in last week’s episode left a lot to be desired in a heroine. Sherlock seems cast in a sadomasochistic personality disorder. I suppose there’s some bit of self-flattery going on when one actually watches an episode and fancies themselves as even remotely “understanding” it.

For a gift, I’d get ‘em something nice they can enjoy, like a box of chocolates or a beauty product of some sort.

[wally_bert]

I’m listening to the two ripped soundtrack CDs at present that were legal purchases.

[wally_bert]

I’m listening to the two ripped soundtrack CDs at present that were legal purchases.

[wally_bert]

I’m listening to the two ripped soundtrack CDs at present that were legal purchases.

[NewCenturions]

The first season was MUCH better than “The Woman” episode last week.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“Sherlock seems cast in a sadomasochistic personality disorder.”

Sherlock was meant to be a deeply flawed character. I don't know about sadomasochism; but last season someone called Holmes a psychopath. He replied that he wasn't a psychopath; but was a “high-functioning sociopath”. You could probably add: narcissism, ADD, drug addition, obsessive, manipulative, and amoral to his list of more endearing traits.

[AppyPappy]

We are showing 9PM here

[MotorCityBuck]

Same here in Detroit. Love it!

[Cheburashka]

Unfortunately Holmes doesn’t pay well and Dr. Watson has to moonlight as a hobbit.

[RedMDer]

[Talisker]

Thanks for posting this. Considering a purchase as gift and wondered if the show was any good.

I love the original stories and the BBC version with Jeremy Brett, and even the old fun ones with Basil Rathbone. Nevertheless, I was braced against "Sherlock" as being modernist crap, but I was pleasantly wrong. It's modernist, and definitely hip-dystopic, which is usually tediously evil. But in this case it's engaging and well done. I haven't seen the very latest shows, but if it's like the first season, it's an enjoyable alternate Holmes universe.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Sherlock was meant to be a deeply flawed character."

He didn't start out that way. Over time, Arthur Conan Doyle wanted to move in other literary directions, but was never able to fully break free from Holmes. In an effort to distance himself from his character, he tried to make him a darker, more flawed character, but the more he did so, the more popular he became.

It's actually one thing I kind of liked about Robert Downey's portrayal of Holmes, although I was originally skeptical about his assumption of the role. Other actors, from Rathbone to Jeremy Brett pretty much picked a point on the continuum and went with it. Downey embraced bits and pieces from across Holmes' character evolution.

[bimboeruption]

I don’t care for the homo insinuations.

[giotto]

If you like Sherlock, take a look at The Last Enemy, also starring Benedict Cumberbatch. It's a 2008 five-episode Masterpiece Contemporary series which vividly presents a world of 24/7, 360° hyper-surveillance. Like 1984 on steroids. You can view it on Hulu, but Netflix has captions, which are necessary to understand the Irish guy.

[stylecouncilor]

LOL!

[Twinkie]

Last night’s “final episode” (of which I missed the first part) was pretty interesting. It ended with Cumberbatch being willing to kill himself off and also allow a lie to be perpetuated that would ruin his reputation in order that his friends’ lives be spared. - Also, established that the character, Sherlock Holmes, would never really be killed off, but would always be able to mysteriously and miraculously return at any time with a perfectly logical explanation of the final scene. . and that, of course, the “unfeeling” Holmes would have NEVER surrendered to sentiment.

I still liked the “old” Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) mainly for the costumes, scenery, and low-tech stunts. IF future “Holmes” producers, directors and script writers can’t solve this latest mystery of the death of Sherlock sensibly, then, Cumberbatch’s Sherlock will, indeed, spell the actual death of Sherlock and any further episodes of “Sherlock”.

How very “Sherlock” of Sherlock! “Game on!!”