Sherlock Holmes is a world known name and story. There have been several film adaptations and texts, one of them including the BBC Sherlock series written and produced by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. The story, which is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock, follows a “high functioning sociopath” detective named Sherlock Holmes and a veteran war doctor named John Watson, who live together on the 221B Baker Street resident and solve high profile cases together.
This series is made up of four seasons, with three, one-hour-long episodes. The first episode to air was titled “A Study in Pink”, with a rating of 9.1/10 on IMDB (which I believe to be a high rating for a first episode). And within the first five minutes, we are introduced to the character Mr. Watson, as he searches for an apartment after his recent move to London. Having a friend refer him to Sherlock, Mr. Holmes invites him to share his flat and begins to give a completely accurate analyzation of John himself. Watson is shocked by Sherlock’s abrupt invite and shockingly accurate assumption, but still neither the less accepts Holme’s deal. But while Sherlock and Watson have seemingly moved in together, a new case has been bubbling up, just waiting for Sherlock to solve.
Within a short period of time, there have been three, unexplained, suicides all done by the same pill. With the police being unable to solve the case themselves, the head detective, Lestrade, calls in Sherlock Holmes to help. With the recruitment of Holmes and now John Watson, the two flatmates drive over the crime scene and study the murder in front of them. A women, wearing all pink lies face down on the floor of an abandoned building her nails marked up from the attempt to scratch the word Rachel into the wooden floor below her. With just one look at the woman, Holmes is able to describe her whole life story within two minutes, leaving both Watson and the detectives in awe. After analyzing the women dressed in all pink, he then makes the assumption that one of the main pieces of evidence is missing from the scene. Abruptly leaving, Sherlock goes and searches for more evidence. Piecing key points together, Holmes realizes that these killings were not suicides but rather murder. As the episode goes on, Holmes begins to discover new information, leading him directly into the killer's arms (or rather a car). Within a minute of meeting the killer, the shows already suspenseful tone turns into a very stressed one. I do not want to spoil any information about this episode away, as it would ruin the fun of trying to solve the case yourself. But I can say this episode was suspenseful, stressed, and yet comedic at the same time.With the dark lighting, dull clothing and suspenseful music, this episode excelled in the use of Non- Diegetic Audio and lighting key to fully set the mood.
I currently on the third episode of the third season, and although I have yet to watch a “bad” episode, nothing will beat this nail-biting opening. It was absolutely brilliant and consuming. It caught my full attention within just five minutes and made me question things. I definitely recommend this show to everyone as it is both Objectively and Subjectively satisfying.
It’s no mystery that this episode received such a high score on IMDB, and I am SHER you will agree ;)
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Sherlock Holmes, Directed by Guy Ritchie (2009)
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