![]() But in its specifics and its character details, it’s an unapologetically wacky crime show driven to outdo itself (and its fellow Sherlock series) with increasingly outlandish cases for Sherlock (Yuko Takeuchi) and her nascent partner, Wato Tachibana (Shihori Kanjiya), to unravel. On that level, it has more in common with Elementary than, say, Sherlock, with its feature-length episodes. It is, at its core, a run-of-the-mill hour-long police procedural. ![]() Miss Sherlock offers a genuinely fun, slightly uneasy take on a familiar concept and character dynamic. In this case, however, the show in question works in favor of HBO and its subscribers. It’s not so much a gamble on HBO’s behalf as it is a necessity. Audiences are so eager to consume content they’re seemingly more willing than ever to give something like Miss Sherlock a try. As evidenced by Netflix’s recent string of international offerings, like Dark, The Rain, Babylon Berlin, Sacred Games and more, the push for subscribers’ eyeballs means content providers need no longer live in fear of the dreaded subtitle. That is: making all the content produced under the HBO shingle available to everyone - whether it originates in the U.S. On the other hand, the show’s availability is evidence of HBO taking a page from Netflix’s everything to everyone playbook. Watson as gender-flipped characters in modern-day Tokyo. More: Jack Ryan Review: The Series Is Better When It’s Not Blowing Stuff Upĭelivered to HBO subscribers through HBO Go or HBO Now, Miss Sherlock is on one hand a chance to see a clever re-invention of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. ![]() It’s a valid question: how many different iterations of the same character can the pre-existing IP-driven popular-culture content machine pump out before audiences have had their fill? With the debut of HBO’s Asia’s charming Miss Sherlock, the answer seems to be…well, a lot. Reilly set to hit theaters later this year, a question of Holmes over-saturation begins to creep into one’s mind. With a third Sherlock Holmes film led by Downey and Jude Law presumably on the way, and a comedic version starring Will Ferrell and John C.
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