It’s 1896 and Sherlock Holmes (David Thewlis) seeks the kidnapped Doctor Watson and Watson’s wife. Holmes’s maid has been murdered as a warning for Holmes not to take active investigations. A young woman from California arrives in London and seeks out Holmes. Her name is Amelia Rojas (played by Blu Hunt) and she claims she’s Sherlock’s daughter. Sherlock is skeptical, but sees that Rojas has potential to assist him without endangering Watson and his wife.
Amelia Rojas has her own agenda: she wants to discover who murdered her mother. Holmes promises he will train her in his detective methods. Together, Holmes (in disguise) and Rojas, posing as a maid, investigate the kidnapping of the daughter of the American Ambassador to England. Plenty of suspense!
I’ve watched the two episodes available for viewing and intend on watching all eight episodes that drop on Wednesdays. If you’re a Sherlock Holmes fan, Sherlock & Daughter will entertain you. GRADE: Incomplete, but trending towards a B+
Pass for me.
I rarely like these modern Holmes things. I did like the Enola Holmes movies, particularly the second. The worst, to the extent of turning it off after 15 minutes because I hated everything about it that much, was the Robert Downey, Jr.- Guy Ritchie Holmes. Horrible in every way.
Jeff, you’re right about the Downey/Holmes movies. I like the Enola Holmes series–both books and movies. SHERLOCK & DAUGHTER has a similar vibe.
Entertaining as it may be, it’s still literary grave robbing!
Bob, maybe not grave robbing, but certainly “borrowing.”
I hadn’t tried it yet, but it did look like it could be interesting. The CW does manage to channel some interesting and/or pleasant work into US broadcast.
Todd, I watched a lot of DC TV series on the CW…until they were all cancelled.
CW has lost some of the relevant corporate backing. I’m slightly surprised they’re still up and running. They lost some good Canadian sitcoms they were running after last season…WILD CARDS remains shallow but usually amusing, and I’ll give at least a couple of their others a chance on a dull, tired night…
Todd, once the CW cancelled the DC TV series of shows, they lost me.
SUITS LA is a slightly more propulsive sort of thing in terms of clever but shallow…I haven’t ever watched the first SUITS series, but will finally give it a look sometime soon.
Todd, friends of mine who have watched both series of SUITS and SUITS LA tell me the original series is better than the current one.