Sherlock & Daughter

For now, the show has successfully intertwined mystery with melodrama, and American impertinence with English stiff-upper-lip stoicism, and nimbly added fresh stakes to a dog-eared story.

Thewlis and Hunt do a wonderful job playing their parts, and the show delivers sufficient intrigue and excitement to keep the narrative moving forward at a good pace.

Thewlis, who has the ranginess and sharp profile one associates with the character, is a fine Holmes, caustic with a comic edge, and Hunt holds her own as his problematic partner. I can’t say the plot makes perfect sense — as only half of the eight-episode season was available for review, I have no idea where it’s going — but you can say that about many if not most mysteries, and it’s enjoyable from moment to moment.

As a Holmesian, I find it offensive that Holmes, a radical human in every sense, should be cast as comically discombobulated by a young woman’s liberated behavior, however anachronistic it might be. But Mr. Thewlis provides a novel twist on an oft-visited character.

The cast gives excellent performances and elevates an otherwise passable series. Perhaps with time, the series will find its footing, and deliver something truly excellent, but from the first four episodes, Sherlock & Daughter is just simply alright.

Sherlock and Amelia are not exactly mentor and mentee, but something less interesting and indistinct. And yet the two of them working together would be a decent enough premise if we actually got to see them working together. The show prefers splitting them up, and when the focus is on Sherlock, it works.

It gives us a mish-mashed nothingburger of a show that will surely fade from our memories before it’s finished airing. Let’s hope for better parts for Hunt (veterans Thewlis and Scott will be fine regardless). And if you want some Sherlock, I suggest you look elsewhere.

This is actually pretty good. Downside is there are various plot-lines that it sometimes is a bit confusing who's who. Acting is fine, Moriarty looks interesting. Professor Lupin (Thewlis) is good as Sherlock and Hunt is good as Amelia, his supposed daughter. Anyway, we'd rate this "pleasant to watch and interesting too."