"Young Sherlock" highly recommended it.

[underpants]

Very English. The years going into adulthood. Very entertaining. Very smart.

One season. 8 episodes. Prime video.


Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Sherlock
Joseph Fiennes (his uncle) as his father Silas
Max Iron as older brother Mycroft
Donal Finn as Moriarty.

Sherlock and Moriarty are a team in this. Both young always in trouble at Oxford types. Great brotherly competitive repartee and fighting between the two especially early on.

Guy Ritchie produced.

84% on Rotten Tomatoes
7.5/10 on IMDB.


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8599532/


Young Sherlock is a new action-mystery series on Prime Video that reimagines the origin story of Sherlock Holmes as a rebellious, 19-year-old in 1870s Oxford, starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin, and executive produced by Guy Ritchie, who also directed the first two episodes. The show follows a disgraced, unfiltered Sherlock as he gets involved in a murder case that spirals into a globe-trotting conspiracy, introducing key characters like a young James Moriarty and his brother Mycroft. The first season, inspired by but diverging from Andrew Lane's book series, dropped all eight episodes on March 4, 2026.

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1. Loved the Barry Levinson/Spielberg version

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2. Queued it up!

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3. We've been watching it...

...and agree that it's really good! Guy Ritchie raised the bar for Holmes movies with Robert Downey and Jude Law, and I'm glad he's in on this.

[underpants]

4. This gets near the high bar set by Cumberbatch

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/

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5. Yes, Cumberbatch and Freeman were great!

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6. I dropped out at the end of Episode 2.

I was bored out of my skull. There’s nothing especially Holmesian about the show. It’s just a generic Victorian Era action-adventure with the name of Sherlock Holmes added.

Guy Ritchie is an established fuck-up when it comes to screen portrayals of Holmes. The movies sucked. RDJ, a brilliant actor, was not convincing in the slightest as Holmes. Jude Law was wasted as Watson. The only thing to recommend the movies is the ravishing Kelly Reilly.

The Chris Columbus “Young Sherlock Holmes” was vastly superior. And the Benedict Cumberbatch series proved it could be unorthodox, and still be entertaining and respectful of the source material.

I’m a huge fan of the SH literary canon. But I’m not a fan-boy. I enjoy departures from Doyle if they’re done well.

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7. The commercials are relentless on MS-NOW.

Enough to make me not want to watch.

But I will try it because of your sincere recommendation.

My personal favorite take on Holmes was the series with Jeremy Brett.

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