Young Sherlock

[Drunk Monk]

Young Sherlock. March 4. With more Guy Ritchie!

This is Guy Ritchie lite, or Guy Ritchie made-4-tv. It’s got his usual themes, a major bromance between Sherlock & Moriarty, rollicking fistacuffs, protags with macho punkish attitudes, some swirling cinematography, rocking modern jigs, but not much profanity or graphic violence. Sherlock iz at Oxford with Moriarity, and we meet Mycroft and Lestrade. All in all, about what you’d expect. Honestly Sherlock is up there with Spider-man when it comes to different versions of him. What I didn’t expect was a Kung Fu Princess. It’s not particularly good Kung Fu, but it’s all about Chinamaxxing right now, isn’t it (so why am I not cashing in more? Too ABC maybe). 
8 eps cover one long mystery to solve. I’m 2 deep and down to watch more.
Mildly D00M recommended at this point. It’s ok so far but I’m hoping it gets better.

[Drunk Monk]

Ep3 opens in China. Then there’s a good plot twist and I’m slightly embarrassed I didn’t see it as it played out in ep1, but in my defense, all Chinese look the same. Well played Guy. I’m all in now. Still not overwhelmingly awesome, but entertaining in a light sorta way. The funny bits are majorly redeeming. And Colin Firth hamming it up as the painfully British Bucephalus works well.