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Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia (TV)

Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia

2012

Paul McGuigan

Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Lara Pulver, Mark Gatiss ...

8.1

13,678

Mystery Following a bizarre stand-off with master criminal Moriarty, ended when the villain responds to a phone call, Sherlock interrupts his investigation of a rural slaying when summoned to Buckingham Palace. Dominatrix Irene Adler has incriminating photos of a royal princess which Sherlock is engaged to retrieve. However, having engineered a meeting with Irene, Sherlock realizes that she has far more dangerous evidence in her possession, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Sarah Crompton Telegraph	"Benedict Cumberbatch is utterly credible as a man who lives entirely in his cerebellum with little regard for the world outside, make Sherlock the perfect depiction of Holmes for our times"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Sutcliffe The Independent	"Lovely performances and great writing, the whole thing is filmed with such invention"	POS
United Kingdom	Sam Wollaston The Guardian	"Conan Doyle's (...) been Moffatised as well as modernised. He starts off parallel but then wanders off left and right, into international terrorism and CIA plots and complicated conspiracy theories"	POS
United States	Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly	"I deem this season premiere a satisfying success, with a gratifyingly substantial role for Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes"	POS
United Kingdom	Radio Times	"In the space of just four episodes, Cumberbatch has certainly done enough to earn that deerstalker (...) so let’s hope they keep up the high quality when they encounter a certain fearsome hound."	POS

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