I watched Sherlock on Iplayer earlier. I started watching it on the telly last night, but decided to watch something else at nine. However, I was so taken by the half hour I did watch that I thought it well worth a proper reading. I was not disappointed: I thought it a masterful adaptation and modernisation of the original; I was extremely impressed with the writing, which has the subtlety and precision of a scalpel wielded by a master surgeon, yet wasn’t without humour. I was especially impressed with the characterisation of Holmes himself, which seemed both utterly modern yet retained something of the nineteenth century original. Making Watson into a blogger was a master stroke too. In all, it really was a damn fine bit of TV, and one I heartily recommend.