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.

[Drunk Monk]

E4 reveals a conspiracy in the asylum
E5 converts to a ghost story
Waiting for the return of the Kung Fu Princess

[Greg]

One Ep in. Kind of fun. Sherlock the cheeky one. Nice Easter eggs of various Holmes characters over the years. I like the Oxford setting. I'll watch more.

I knew bad things were going to happen when the drink was mixed.

[Drunk Monk]

Seen

Stacy caught up to me in a solid binge and we watched the last two eps together, which we both enjoyed. She was amused when I produced an emei piercer (the sharp weapon that the KF princess uses) from off my desk. Been chipping on an article about them. 

I’m sticking with my initial Guy Ritchie lite review, and GR lite isn’t a bad thing, just an observation. Kind of fun is spot on. It didn’t blow me away but I was consistantly entertained as long as I didn’t think to hard about it. 

There was another decent twist that I would’ve seen if I was paying better attention (in retrospect it was so obvs) but it worked as a fair mcguffin. All the intro credit images fell into place. There’s plenty of room for another season and I’d tune in for it.

D00M recommended.

[Drunk Monk]

I'm not sure I have the bandwidth for this but I'm pondering interviewing the stunt coordinator about the Kung Fu princess...

*** Virtual Interviews Available ***

THE CRAFT TEAM BEHIND 

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The following artisans are available for virtual interviews:

Casting Directors | Dan Hubbard, CDG, CSA & Rory Okey, CDG, CSA

Directors of Photography | Mark Patten, BSC (101- 105, 107, 108) 

Editors | Miikka Leskinen (101,102,103) & Tim Murrell (101, 102, 104)

Production Designer | Tom Burton

Lead Set Decorator | Barbra Herman-Skelding

Costume Designer | Jany Temime 

Makeup Designer | Siân Grigg 

Composer | Chris Benstead 

Music Supervisor | Ian Neil  

Stunt Coordinator | David Forman 

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[Greg]

Suck it up, buttercup and do it.

[Drunk Monk]

Thinking about it. I may. I've got a great angle. It would be an easy interview. 

Won't be as good as a carpenter interview tho... 

Once you've had a wood butcher, you never go back.

[Greg]

Still waiting for the article on Irish stick fighting.

[King Bob]

Greg is a carpenter. You can just interview him.