Watch This: Sherlock

I know a lot of folks don't have the ability to watch British television series here in the United States, but if you own Netflix then you should be able to look up the following one. In fact, that is one of the main reasons I recommend Netflix as a service, not because it hogs your internet and kills your ability to use other devices, but because it gives you access to several top British television series that you probably want to watch. So check to see if you get this one, I promise it is not a let-down.

Sherlock [2010]

To describe this show in the most basic form, it is the re-imagination of what Sherlock Holmes would be in modern day. It is a clever, witty show where the young crime-solving genius goes about Great Britain solving crimes that the police cannot put together. So if you are into crime television shows, then look this one up right away!

If I had to describe what I like about this series versus all of the other crime series that are out there, it is like the television show House was turned into a cop drama. He has the same sorts of characteristics that you see in the original House character. Witty, extremely intelligent and not afraid to flaunt it, and overall for some reason like-able when everyone else in the world seems to hate him. 

But where this show really shines right now is in the mysteries. They are well crafted into an hour and a half show where the characters seem to have major issues that need to be solved and they have truly super-vilianous characters with a reason to act the way they do. This is no petite crime show, he's going after the series killers and super-crooks that no-one else can catch. All-the-while they try and keep the character true to the original story-told version, where the evidence is key and technology sits more on the back-burner for this one.

Anyway, if you have about the same amount of time as a short movie, then pick up a copy of the first episode and watch it!

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