Sherlock - A Scandal in Belgravia. Steven Moffat is on rip-roaring form here. The pace and speed is blistering but everything, everything is on point. Writing, acting, editing, directing. All of it.
It's just that good. Highly recommended.
Agreed. It's probably the best yet. I'm still not sold on the guy they have playing Moriarty, though.
Nor am I. I just started watching the show a couple of days ago, and now I'm caught up to last week's episode. I
really don't like this show's Moriarty, who comes off less as a meglomaniacal kingpin of crime and more of a Joker impersonator by way of the Dark Knight.
Overall, I like the show and I think it largely makes the right updates to make the source material relevant to a modern audience (though I still really like Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes). Really, my only two big issues with the series are that the 2 hour stories can
really drag around the 1 hour mark, and I wish the show didn't reference the original stories as much as it does. It was particularly absurd in the Season 1 finale, where
at least 3 old Sherlock Holmes stories were thrown together in a blender. I could also do without the gay jokes,
especially with this series making it very much clear that Holmes and Watson are
not. It's not blown ridiculously over-the-top like the Guy Richie movies do, but I still have to groan as a Sherlock, Holmes fan every time they go to that well.
I've also been watching the occasional episode of the 1991 animated TV series
The Adventures of Tintin, somewhat in preparation for eventually seeing the recent animated film. It's good old-fashioned adventure storytelling that reminds me a lot of Jonny Quest (or perhaps I should say that Jonny Quest reminds me a lot of Tintin considering the Tintin novels came first). The animation is really spotty and the video quality of this restored series varies wildly, but the character designs are nice and memorable in their simplicity. Sadly, the show seems to have a nasty case of
Twin Peaks syndrome in its soundtrack, where the show
only uses the same
one song the entire episode.