The DrsC recently semi-binge watched the first season of Young Sherlock on Amazon Prime Video streaming. Endeavoring to avoid spoilers for this fresh approach to the classic Conan Doyle character, let me say upfront we liked it and look forward to a second season.
The characters are interesting, multidimensional, and at least three hark back to the Doyle original. The Brits do this sort of historical stuff so well, it’s a joy to just take in the period costuming and scenery. In this telling, Holmes has a different sister, not Enola, but Beatrice. Both his parents have major roles in this first season. It isn’t perfect, but very nice nonetheless.
Full disclosure: I am a lifelong Sherlockian, one of the first adult books I owned (and still have) is a well-thumbed, doorstop-sized Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Jeremy Brett did my favorite TV version of the famously quirky adult Holmes.
