It’s indeed set in Victorian London — I guess this means, of course, that it will have no continuity with the regular program. (It seems like a show like this wouldn’t resort to something as campy as a dream sequence.)
The clip here is only a minute and a half, but it’s great fun seeing Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in the classic Sherlock Holmes setting. The props, costuming and the set look terrific. I guess they needn’t have altered the building facades on “Baker Street” if they are period buildings?
It’s funny too. When talking about Watson’s accounts, Sherlock says that he is “hardly in … the dog one.” If you’ve ever read “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” Holmes actually is absent for much of it, with Watson investigating.
The story doesn’t suffer from Holmes’ lengthy absence — Watson is a great reader surrogate, and the novel still a fun, moody, creepy mystery. And it made THE MOORS nice and creepy a hell of a long time before “An American Werewolf in London.” (Stay off them, by the way.) Read it on a park bench on a late Autumn, gray-clouded day, with a decent overcoat and some strong coffee. That’s how I did it.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 