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Watch ms sherlock2/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Shows like Elementary and Sherlock have brought Conan Doyle’s hero back to our screens over the past few years. ![]() In these facts alone Miss Sherlock injects Holmes’s old white corpse with new energy. So, we have our Sherlock and our Watson, two attractive young women solving crimes in contemporary Tokyo. Listen closely, and you’ll hear her referred to as Wato-san-her first name, plus an honorific. Tachibana (Shihori Kanjiya) is the straight man in the relationship. She plays the cello, instead of the traditional violin. A great deal more is recognizable as original Arthur Conan Doyle material, but tweaked: Sherlock, played by Yūko Takeuchi, is slender and eerie and brilliant, but unmistakably female. ![]() The strange young woman’s name is Sherlock. 221B is, of course, an address in Baker Street, in London. Watson’s return from the Second Anglo-Afghan War. You might recognize Tachibana’s Syria story as an update to Dr. ![]() Miss Sherlock is a new adaptation of a much-reprised tale. HBO’s new take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective sees two young women solving crimes in present-day Japan. The New Republic The Irreverent Joys of a Japanese Sherlock Holmes ![]()
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