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David McK (3786 KP) rated Young Sherlock in TV

Apr 4, 2026 (Updated Apr 4, 2026)  
Young Sherlock
Young Sherlock
2026 |
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
Sticking closer to the 'original' Sherlock Holmes story, setting wise, than the 2010 Benedict Cumberbatch-starring BBC show, this is set - as the name implies! - before the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle; before he becomes a 'consulting detective' in late Victorian England.

This also gets a lot of mileage out of the bromance between Sherlock and James Moriarty who, here, have yet to become rivals and are instead the best of friends as they investigate a mystery surrounding the Holmes family and - in particular - Sherlock's father and younger sister Beatrice.

Enjoyable.
  
The Killing of a Sacred Deer  (2017)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
2017 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
I honestly don't know whether or not I actually liked this movie. The score was god awful, and the 'tension' music came at weird, non-tense times. The sex was plum bizarre and the characters did a whole lot of nothing. The beginning sequence when it's around 2 minutes of a beating heart creeped me out, and made me feel slightly ill to my stomach. Barry Keoghan (AKA the guy from 71 and Dunkirk) did well, though his American accent sounded like a mix between Ryan Gosling and Benedict Cumberbatch doing American accents. Though, as whack as it was, it kind of fit with the awkwardness of the character.
  
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Erika (17789 KP) Apr 7, 2018

I definitely liked the fact it was different. The Lobster has been on my to-watch list since it was put on Prime.

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Andy K (10823 KP) Apr 7, 2018

I had to look up what the Sacred Deer thing meant. Now that I know I think it's very interesting.

The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.1 (14 Ratings)
Book Rating
Perhaps the most famous of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, in which the super-sleuth investigates the supposed Baskerville family curse of the hell-hound on the moors.

What else can I say? Originally serialised by Arthur Conan Doyle, there's been many attempts to adopt this for TV, film or stage over the years, right through from the classic Basil Rathbone 1939 classic (and which many - myself included - still envisage Holmes as) to the more modern BBC Benedict Cumberbatch TV series, one of which has an episode largely based on this story.

Mysterious deaths, ghostly hell-hounds, escaped convicts and the marshy moors all play a part in this ...
  
Mowgli (2018)
Mowgli (2018)
2018 | Adventure, Drama, Family
Just have to admire not only the technical craft on display, but the clear love for it by Serkis who has built a career involving some of the most iconic performances via motion capturing - here directing himself and an entire cast of elites through the same technology. I was looking forward to the darker answer to the similarly bland and daft Disney version but that one at least looked cute. This one - for whatever that means - is a full-bodied Netflix movie in all the worst ways: so inconsequential, so drab, so generic, home to tons of slimy CGI, and the voice acting is somehow as shallow as the 2016 one. That Benedict Cumberbatch tiger is supposed to look villainous but it looks hilariously silly.