I don't know about overall; I missed it entirely the first time around, so I've only seen the first five episodes in the current rotation. It's a bit ropey, so far: very Saturday-morning-cartoon-ish, and the extent to which any given episode is a Sherlock Holmes story rather than a future-cop show with a guy named Holmes in it varies quite a bit.
I do like the third episode, though; it's got a reasonably Holmes-ish Holmes, allowing for the fact that he's investigating giant hound sightings at a tourist resort on the moon. There's a nice bit where the hound makes its first overt attack, and while everybody else is running around panicking because there's a giant hound pressing up against the atmosphere dome and howling dismally, Holmes's first reaction is "Given that the hound is outside the atmosphere dome, how is the howling audible?"
In the first episode, it is the Future. There is a criminal mastermind who looks exactly like Professor Moriarty. One woman, Inspector Beth Lestrade, believes he might actually be Moriarty, despite the minor detail that Moriarty's been dead for centuries. She decides that the world needs Sherlock Holmes back, and has him revived using a new experimental process. (Conveniently, Holmes's body is ready to hand in a Scotland Yard evidence locker, embalmed in honey. Nobody bothers to explain why.) There is some running around, culminating in a face-to-face confrontation between Holmes and the man who looks like Moriarty, despite which Holmes also declines to subscribe to the it-really-is-Moriarty theory, for reasons to be elaborated on in episode two. (Also there is some business involving a criminal scientist named Fenwick, who you can tell is a criminal because he's ugly in that special cartoon-villain way where if he wasn't walking and talking you could be forgiven for thinking he'd been dead for a while. He'll be back.) At the end of the episode, Holmes and Lestrade discover that Lestrade's robot assistant, which she had set to reading and analysing all of Dr Watson's journals, now believes that it is Watson. Everybody laughs (except Holmes, who looks seriously disturbed).
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I do like the third episode, though; it's got a reasonably Holmes-ish Holmes, allowing for the fact that he's investigating giant hound sightings at a tourist resort on the moon. There's a nice bit where the hound makes its first overt attack, and while everybody else is running around panicking because there's a giant hound pressing up against the atmosphere dome and howling dismally, Holmes's first reaction is "Given that the hound is outside the atmosphere dome, how is the howling audible?"
In the first episode, it is the Future. There is a criminal mastermind who looks exactly like Professor Moriarty. One woman, Inspector Beth Lestrade, believes he might actually be Moriarty, despite the minor detail that Moriarty's been dead for centuries. She decides that the world needs Sherlock Holmes back, and has him revived using a new experimental process. (Conveniently, Holmes's body is ready to hand in a Scotland Yard evidence locker, embalmed in honey. Nobody bothers to explain why.) There is some running around, culminating in a face-to-face confrontation between Holmes and the man who looks like Moriarty, despite which Holmes also declines to subscribe to the it-really-is-Moriarty theory, for reasons to be elaborated on in episode two. (Also there is some business involving a criminal scientist named Fenwick, who you can tell is a criminal because he's ugly in that special cartoon-villain way where if he wasn't walking and talking you could be forgiven for thinking he'd been dead for a while. He'll be back.) At the end of the episode, Holmes and Lestrade discover that Lestrade's robot assistant, which she had set to reading and analysing all of Dr Watson's journals, now believes that it is Watson. Everybody laughs (except Holmes, who looks seriously disturbed).