What a crazy idea.
No, not that Sherlock Holmes was put into a cryogenic chamber and awakened
80 years later - but that Watson is played by a female. What an absurd idea.
Of course, this isn't the original Watson, long dead, but his great grand
daughter. I am an Anything Sherlock kind of guy. Hell, even watched the Will
Ferrell Holmes and Watson that should rightfully have ended multiple careers.
And then of course, Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes. God knows how many
versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles I have sat through. So, Holmes
being awoken in modern times sounded just fine.
Jane Watson (the always appealing Margaret
Colin) is a private detective in Boston with a business that even Sam Spade
would look down on. To pay the bills, she decides to sell the family home
in England last lived in by our great John Watson. He has left a note for
the next inhabitant. Go to the basement filled with steampunk levers, gears
and hissing and do this. A life depends on it. Sherlock Holmes life. As he
(Michael Pennington) explains upon waking up, I was poisoned with the bubonic
plague and had only days to live. So, I put myself into this sleep. Please,
tell me that there is now an antidote.
There is and as you can imagine, there are
lots of fish out of water moments as we go along. Some cute. Some labored.
He goes with Watson to America to solve a case that Connie Booth (Fawlty
Towers) hires them for. Someone is killing a group of men who have something
to do with a robbery of $800,000 years before. Slightly based on Doyle's
The Sign of the Four. The case takes them all over America and thankfully
there is no romance between the two of them. Not sure I could have taken
that. The pilot was not picked up for a TV series. A female Watson. What
were they thinking? This is directed by Kevin Connor who has some nifty films
on his resume - At the Earth's Core, The Land That Time Forgot, The Time
That People Forgot and Warlords of Atlantis.
