How BBC's Sherlock subverts the "loner genius" archetype
Sherlock Holmes is an asshole. That’s part of the fun. In all his many iterations, the impossibly brilliant detective…
Millie Bobby Brown to play the sleuthing little sister of Sherlock Holmes
After a youth spent fending off D&D monsters and city-demolishing lizards, Millie Bobby Brown is ready to solve some…
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Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly hit career lows in the abysmally unfunny Holmes & Watson
We’ve been telling jokes about Sherlock Holmes since the beginning. The earliest send-ups of the world’s greatest…
Neil Gaiman tackles Sherlock Holmes in this A Study In Emerald exclusive
Sherlock Holmes is one of the greatest detectives in the literary canon, and he’s about to face off against one of the…
Warner Bros. will go back to Baker Street in 2020 for Sherlock Holmes 3
We don’t know what’s going to happen to the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Avengers 4 next year, but at least Robert…
40 years before Sherlock, Billy Wilder offered a lovelorn, lightly revisionist Holmes
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The appeal of Sherlock Gnomes is strictly elementary
Methodically going through famous works of literature and performing a find/replace on words that rhyme or can be…
One of the best Sherlock portrayals came from the Soviet Union
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Basil Rathbone’s Hound Of The Baskervilles is the definitive Holmes adventure
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Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly will sing to each other as Holmes & Watson
Will Ferrell has demonstrated his singing ability on many an occasion, and we’ve also witnessed John C. Reilly showing…
Sherlock Holmes 3 puts a team of writers on the case of its script
Despite the fact that there are plenty of other ways to get your Sherlock Holmes fix these days, Robert Downey Jr. is…
A pocket history of the French badass who inspired Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes seems like a pretty interesting guy, what with the opium addiction, the violin playing, the crime…
Bounty hunters and trans representation share the page in this sci-fi comic
Stick around the comics industry long enough and a lot of the discourse surrounding the idea of “representation” begins…
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is writing a comic book about Sherlock Holmes’ smarter brother
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is following the standard post-basketball career arc for a 19-time NBA All-Star player: Write a…
This video critique gives CinemaSins a taste of its own medicine
We at The A.V. Club are committed to providing pop culture commentary, so who are we to judge the popular CinemaSins…
What role has already been definitively portrayed?
This week’s question comes from A.V. Club contributor Caroline Siede:
What happens to all the mail sent to Sherlock Holmes?
It is one of the most famous addresses in all of Western literature: 221B Baker Street, London. Now, an episode of the…
Don’t hurt them because they’re pricks: 5 times pop culture said hedgehogs deserved it
Much to the chagrin of hedgehog owners everywhere, pop culture has historically been unkind to the animal. From the…
Sherlock Holmes never said, “Elementary, my dear Watson!”
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has proven to be one of literature’s most enduring characters, finding life well…