Monday 31 December 2018

My 2018 Awards: Part 2 - Sherlock Holmes


Plays:
5) 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' - Stonyhurst College, Hurst Green.
4) 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' - St. Michaels and All Saints Church, Chiswick
3) 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' - Lincoln Castle
2) 'Sherlock Holmes: The Last Curtain' - Rose Theatre, Kingston
1) 'The Sign of Four' - New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth



(Honourable Mention: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' - Undershaw, Hindhead; 'Sherlock Holmes: The Panto' - Barns Green Village Hall, Horsham)

(Dishonourable Mention: 'A Study in Nova Alba' - Cornerhouse, Surbiton)


Films:

[After three years away from cinemas, they have been two portrayals of Holmes in the past year. Although neither was a critical success, one stood head and shoulders over the other for me]

2: Holmes and Watson  (dir: Etan Coen)      [Not as bad as all the stuff I had read prior to going to see it suggested. It was OK - just not very funny]

1: 'Sherlock Gnomes'   (dir: John Stevenson)    ['Gnomeo and Juliet' sequel, with multiple nods to the original stories and 'Sherlock', including a large number of visual gags that only I seemed to get in the screening I went to. Even Johnny Depp was surprisingly restrained as Sherlock, and I was pleased to see Dan Starkey's name in the closing titles]




'Elementary' Episodes:
5) 'The Adventure of the Ersatz Sobekneferu' (6.10)
4) 'Uncanny Valley of the Dolls' (6.16)
3) 'The Visions of Norman P. Horowitz' (6.18)
2)  'Pushing Buttons' (6.3)
1) 'Whatever Remains, However Improbable'  (6.21)



[No 'Sherlock' this year, so only what could have been the final season of 'Elementary', but it has been renewed for one more season, and the ending of the last episode sets up an interesting finale season].



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