Enola Holmes 2

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{5/5} “‘Wait here, keep guard. If anyone comes, tell them you’re a lord or something.’ ‘I am a lord.’ ‘Well then, they’ll likely believe you.’” Enola Holmes 2, released in 2022 Enola has opened her own detective agency but most potential clients can’t get past the fact that she’s a girl. Just when she thinks […]

Miss Sherlock (season 1)

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{4.5/5} “Eliminate the impossible, and you’re left with the unlikely truth.” Miss Sherlock season 1, aired in 2018 Sherlock is a consulting detective for the Tokyo police department. She can tell things about a person just by looking at them, puts pieces together in a way that no one else does, and is fairly rude. […]

Enola Holmes

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{4.5/5} “There are two paths you can take, Enola: yours, or the path others choose for you.” Enola Holmes, released in 2020 Enola’s mother has disappeared, and her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft — neither of whom she’s seen in years — return home. Mycroft’s plan for Enola is to send her to a boarding school, […]

Elementary (season 7)

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{5/5} “As long as we’re together, what does it matter?” Elementary season 7, aired in 2019 Sherlock and Joan are looking into an acid attack, but unlike similar recent attacks this one wasn’t a robbery. Joan is having some trouble adapting to life in London, since all her friends and family are back in the […]

Elementary (season 6)

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{5/5} “It made me realize that grudges are pointless, and that people who hold them are petty and small minded. I am neither of those things.” Elementary season 6, aired in 2018 Sherlock finds out what’s been causing his memory loss and hallucinations — he’s suffering from post-concussion syndrome. His doctor is giving him a […]

Elementary (season 5)

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{5/5} “I now value the work that we do, first and foremost because I do it with you.” — Sherlock, to Joan Elementary season 5, aired in 2016-17 Sherlock agrees to solve a murder for a drug dealer — and then finds out that a vanished metal box contains a priceless Chinese antiquity. Sherlock and […]

Sherlock (season 4)

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{5/5} “I delete any text that begins, ‘Hi.’” — Sherlock Sherlock season 4, aired in 2017 Moriarty seems to be back but Sherlock is confident it’s just a game Moriarty set up in case of his death. Meanwhile, John and Mary have a baby girl. Mary discovers that one of her old spy colleagues is […]

Elementary (season 4)

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{5/5} “No murder should go unsolved and no murderer should walk free. To think otherwise is to descend into a pit of moral relativism.” Elementary season 4, aired in 2015-16 Sherlock’s father arrives in New York — he says he wants to help Sherlock because of his relapse. Sherlock doesn’t believe him. Meanwhile, Sherlock and […]

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

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{4/5} “Our way of life is under threat from an invisible enemy. One that hovers at our elbow on a daily basis. These enemies are everywhere — undetected, and unstoppable.” Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, released in 2015 A woman wearing her wedding gown kills herself. Later she is seen in the street shooting her husband. […]

Mr. Holmes

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{4.5/5} “Death, grieving, mourning — they’re all commonplace. Logic is rare, and so… I dwell on logic.” Mr. Holmes, released in 2015 Sherlock Holmes is old and getting forgetful — he lives in the country and keeps bees. He gave up detective work years ago. He recently returned from Japan, where he procured some prickly […]