He brings a certain warmth laced with plenty of deadpan humor to the series. He has embraced the role and made it his own, completely unlike any other actor’s performances as Dr. Martin Freeman plays an invalided soldier and medic back from Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress. There can be no Sherlock Holmes without a stalwart Dr. Would Jeremy Brett approve? I think he would. Instead he has given his own spin on playing Sherlock as slightly asperger-ish, high-functioning sociopath with arrogance matched only by a truly genius level brain. Cumberbatch probably knows this and wisely doesn’t channel Brett. His Holmes was a force of nature, impossible to contain and best left to express itself until it was spent. Brett set an impossibly high bar with a tour de force performance as Sherlock Holmes. The only one who did this better is the late great Jeremy Brett. What Cumberbatch brings to the table is that physically he looks like no other actor, projects a certain gravitas and intelligence which has not dimmed through the season, straddled the fine line between manic intensity and madness and makes arrogance seem like a virtue. Benedict Cumberbatch is a revelation as Sherlock Holmes. The casting of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman is inspired. This firmly grounds the series in the present day and any reference to the past is gradually and inexorably forgotten after watching the lead actors breathe new life into their roles. Sherlock’s favorite tools are texting and web surfing which powers his extraordinary deductions. Shots of London are artfully fast forwarded, blurred and tinted to dramatic effect. Victorian era houses, hansoms, castles and mist is replaced by modern-day London’s chaotic hustle and bustle, skyscrapers and cabs. The writers have made sure that the juice is worth the squeeze. The series bristles with wit, charm, astounding sequences of deductions and some clever who-dun-its. The writers of the BBC Sherlock Series, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss had done the impossible – shepherded Holmes and Watson into the 21st century without compromising the vision of Conan Doyle as to the characterization of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. I’m happy to let you know that Conan Doyle would not be turning in his grave any time soon. Any attempt which doesn’t stand up to that mark would be an affront to Sherlock fans and to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary characters themselves. Personally, I had concluded that the brilliant Granada series starring Jeremy Brett as a living personification of Holmes would never be topped. I dreaded the thought of watching another attempt at bringing Sherlock Holmes, Dr.
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