'THE IRREGULARS'
TURNS SHERLOCK UPSIDE DOWN
I'm not sure how this one escaped my attention before, but I'm guessing it is better late than never and it is, admittedly, still in production: new TV series THE IRREGULARS will pair up Henry Lloyd Hughes and Olivia
Grant again after they played a married couple in Indian Summers. Nine episode Netflix crime mystery period set series will be based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the Baker Street Irregulars (boys who worked as intelligence agents) working for Dr Watson saving London from supernatural elements.
Henry Lloyd Hughes will be Sherlock Holmes |
The Plot
The series will be written by Oscar nominated writer Tom Bidwell (Netflix and BBC One's Watership Down) and will focus on the Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of street children who in canon helped Sherlock Holmes gather evidence for his cases. However, it will turn this
traditional relationship upside down, portraying the Irregulars as a
"gang of troubled delinquent teens who are manipulated into solving
crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business
partner", while Holmes takes credit for their success. The series will
also feature supernatural elements, as the Irregulars realize they are
up against a dark forces that threatens not only London but "potentially
the entire world. With Henry Lloyd Hughes as Sherlock Holmes and
Witcher's Royce Pierreson as Dr John Watson,it will have Clarke Peters,
Thaddea Graham, Darci Shaw, Jojo Macari, McKell David and
Harrison Osterfield also in the cast of the series which started
shooting in September and was supposed to work till May but had its
production stopped with only two more weeks left to shoot.
The series will be written by Oscar nominated writer Tom Bidwell (Netflix and BBC One's Watership Down) and will focus on the Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of street children who in canon helped Sherlock Holmes gather evidence for his cases. However, it will turn this
Royce Pierreson will be Doctor Watson |
An evil Holmes & Watson? That's a switch. I hate it, though, when classics introduce some bullshit "supernatural" element to ramp up the excitement level for today's kids.
ReplyDeleteEverything that changes a classic is a horrid and offensive idea. If you want to change an existing story write your own one.
DeleteThis one sounded really good until I saw "Sinister Dr. Watson". How can Dr. Watson be evil? I refuse to believe it. Especially since I have a strange habit of calling my baby boy Dr. Watson..
ReplyDeleteI refuse to believe it myself, they try to sinisterize everything these days.
DeleteAgreeing with the other ladies here. I don’t like the retelling of this classic story. Write your own trash and leave the classics alone.
ReplyDeleteSometimes they really go toooooo far. I'm currently watching that GREAT series on Catherine the Great with Elle Fanning, and it is an unspeakable offensive trash if there ever was one.
DeleteGood thing I skipped that one then!
DeleteIt scandalizes the eff out of me every new episode.
Delete"sinister Doctor Watson" lol I love the premise.
ReplyDeleteYou are the first one today :)
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