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May 7, 2012100Sherlock strikes a perfect--and delicious--balance among comedy, pathos, murder, and mystery.
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100Each week, the series takes on a Holmes classic, updates it, turns it on its ear and leaves you breathless.
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100The fun is in the snappy dialogue and the impeccable actors delivering it.
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100Intricate plots (many updated versions of old favorites), fast pacing and smart, witty writing make Sherlock one of the most dazzling confections on TV.
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100The beauty of this series is that it's so entertaining and so well-executed.
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90Sherlock is an elegant updating of Conan Doyle's stories, not an overhaul.
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100This Holmes update's second season continues to be both clever and classic.
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90It's no mean feat, either, to follow three highly entertaining reinventions of stories involving one of literature's most adapted characters with three more even better than the first. But it must not be impossible, because Sherlock has done it.
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80The case [A Scandal in Belgravia] is much more complicated than that [photos involving a member of the British family] of course, so much more that it, as with the episodes that follow, occasionally threatens to collapse under its own writhing weight. Fortunately, the thrill of Sherlock Holmes was never so much plot as character.
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100This is TV pleasure at its most intense, without even a shade of guilt.
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100Three scintillating new Sherlock brain-teasers.
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90Sherlock, which impresses again in the three-episode season that returns on PBS.
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70Sherlock is too often a petulant know-it-all, which grows tiresome and makes a viewer painfully aware that each episode is 90 minutes long.... Sherlock's redundancies are improved by a couple of longer story arcs.
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90Sherlock is a wonderful series. Just thinking about it makes me smile.
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80Most of the time Sherlock's cheeky sense of humor makes this version of the character a delight.
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83Ultimately, Sherlock doesn't play fair, but the game is so enjoyable, you'll be happy you joined in.
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90Sherlock weds the old and new in much the way Holmes solves his cases--making a complicated process look almost effortless.
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80Sometimes this focus on technology feels a bit heavy-handed, but in general this is a series that seems to be growing more assured as it goes along.
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80This year, once again, Benedict Cumberbatch's modern-day Holmes and his intrepid sidekick Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) provide breathtaking non-stop exhilaration.
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80This season's three installments--"Scandal in Bohemia" is followed by a scary "The Hounds of Baskerville" and "The Reichenbach Fall" in which nemesis Moriarty (Andrew Scott) returns--make a pleasingly diverse set.
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88Stick with it, and this Sherlock proves to be a fun and exhilarating TV experience.
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100Sherlock is an electric marriage of great writing with great performances.
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100In season 2 of PBS's richly clever Sherlock, the Victorian tales have been refitted to our century. [14 May 2012, p.44]
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91The new season pops with all the visual energy of the first. [4 May 2012, p.67]
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