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Sherlock: "A Study in Pink"

Sherlock Holmes is frequently depicted in pop culture as the ultimate atheist. So naturally producer Steven Moffat's newest version of Sherlock Holmes ends up solving a case by stealing a gimmick from renowned Catholic author G. K. Chesterton.

Apart from that, the show is quite clever. When I first heard that Moffat was creating a TV series about a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, I thought it would be awful. But actually the TV series turned out to be quite good. It doesn't hurt that Martin Freeman of The Office (UK) fame plays a great modern-day version of Dr. John Watson. The show even provides a good explanation of why a guy like Watson puts up with an eccentric like Sherlock. Granted, the constant hints of latency get a bit tiresome. But it says something for the way Benedict Cumberbatch plays Sherlock that the hints seem less tiresome than usual. Plus Una Stubbs plays a great Mrs. Hudson and Louise Brealey just breaks my heart as Molly Hooper, the pathologist in the local morgue who has such an obvious unrequited crush on the title character. Even the obligatory references to the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories are done quite nicely.

I wish all my fears were dealt with as easily as the ones I had concerning this show.