Right. I also liked that Holmes and Watson were almost instantly tight with each other. I loved the episode. This is one of those rare shows I hope to watch again.
#2 tomorrow night. 
I wish american tv could do stuff like this.
Woah, hold on! American TV is hitting it out the park right now. It’s mostly HBO, but by fuck there’s a load, an absolute fucking load, of great stuff. A golden age.
Yeah, freakin’ baseball. 
Okay, my statement isn’t fair. I don’t have cable. I had it disconnected years ago in a fit of rage after watching Bill O’Reilly followed by Sean Hannity then topped off by Ann Coulter.
Maybe not in that order. Now I got a friggen headache. :mad:
Are they who you’re talking about?
Ow ow ow!
Okay, there is PBS, but a lot of their stuff i from elsewhere.
Well, they don’t treat aneurisms with trepanation anymore; I had one stented and clipped last year. They use a process called “coiling” where they go in through an artery in the thigh, thread it up the carotid and into the brain. Not sure how one location would be more “impossible” than another in this manner; if blood flows into it, it should be reachable. And with the UK’s sweet public health system, the cabbie wouldn’t even have to go out of pocket!
There is nothing better than The Wire or The Sopranos. Or Cheers or Frasier or Hill Street Blues. Or NYPD Blue, or The Simpsons or South Park. There is one thing you Yanks do, amazingly well, and that is great telly. Or BSG or the X-Files or the West Wing.
Shhh. You’re not supposed to say that!
Snipped mucho by me.
Prime Suspect was at least a notch above any of those cop shows I left in your post.
I haven’t watched my set of The Sopranos yet.
I’ll give you some of the comedy stuff, esp The Simpsons.
We have nothing of the quality of the subject of this thread.
PBS has only the three episodes listed. Is that all? The series ends on a cliffhanger?
That’s all that was made by the BBC, although a second series is set to air a year from now.
Will they re-run these three? I missed last night’s. Fell asleep.
I guess all three will be available on DVD. That, with “bonus” stuff, would be great.
Available Nov 9, all three. $25.
Personally, I loved the first one basically just because it was hilarious. Numbers 2 and 3 were more standard Sherlock Holmes and I couldn’t help feeling like I was watching low-rent versions of Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard going about run of the mill mysteries. The actors, stories, and direction of the series lent itself better to comedy than a serious format. Hopefully when they make more episodes, they’ll make them more like a Study in Pink.
Do you mean the way he crosses his legs and settles into a chair? Jeremy Brett did this in the Granada Television version…
I think Cumberbatch definitely took a lot of acting cues from Brett. The way he says “MRS. HUDSON!” sounds exactly like Brett, and I noticed in the final episode, at least, that he does the little “quick smile” thing that Brett did.
I’m not familiar with any other versions of Sherlock Holmes, tho. Brett may have taken those things from previous portrayals or they may have been in the books.
I really like this series!
I was pretty happy with the series, and would love to see more, but I thought [SPOILER]Moriarty’s reveal was a bit weak. I would’ve preferred that we’d seen him earlier than that very episode. We didn’t see him in the two previous episodes, did we?
And I gotta say, I got very excited when it looked, however briefly, that Watson was Moriarty. Yeah, it would’ve been a huge change, but dammit it would’ve been cool if that had been true.[/SPOILER]
I had a really hard time following episode three, and even dozed a couple of times. What was with the golem? Where did he come from?
He’s an assassin who was hired by the gallery owner (at Moriarty’s behest, I believe) to kill the security guard who found out that the painting was a fake.
I must have dozed longer than I thought. 
USA dopers: Streaming shows available here.
BTW, Brit-dopers: what is Cummings’ accent?
Alan Cummings is Scottish.
Wow. I actually used to have a good ear for accents. Maybe it’s limited to USA now.