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Heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Tommy (Kevin McKidd). He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane (Kelly Macdonald), along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 10, 2022 - 11 comments

The UK National Theatre's 2011 production of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, starring Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternating the roles of the Creature and Victor Frankenstein. On YouTube (both versions) this week as part of the NT Live project. [more inside]
posted by Major Clanger on May 4, 2020 - 5 comments

Series finale: Holmes and Watson battle with tech billionaire Odin Reichenbach; and receive word of their old enemy and Sherlock's former love, Jamie Moriarty.
posted by oh yeah! on Aug 15, 2019 - 17 comments

Holmes takes extreme measures to secure his return to New York when he leans on his father's disreputable connections to aid his legal re-entry into the U.S. Also, while Holmes looks for a way back to the U.S., Watson helps the NYPD investigate a murder at a storage facility that caters ton wealthy clients with items they want hidden from U.S. Customs. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jun 6, 2019 - 2 comments

Holmes and Watson try to work a stateside investigation from London when someone close to them is gravely wounded by an unknown perpetrator in the U.S. However, Holmes' stateside legal trouble--the result of a confession to a murder he didn't commit--threatens to derail their efforts. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jun 6, 2019 - 0 comments

In the Season 7 premiere, Holmes and Watson now work as consultants for Scotland Yard in London. The job take them inside the tabloid journalism industry when a popular model is the victim of an acid attack. Also as Watson grows increasingly homesick for New York, Captain Gregson is wracked with guilt over his unresolved rift with his former consultants. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on May 23, 2019 - 8 comments

Holmes and Watson's deadly conflict with Sherlock's former friend Michael intensifies when their newest victim looks to be the serial killer's latest prey. (Part 1 of 2) [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Sep 14, 2018 - 4 comments

Holmes engages an old foe to protect his father, Morland. Holmes and Watson search for a killer connected to the tobacco industry when a lawyer, who was reviewing a major cigarette distributor's finances, is murdered.
posted by carbide on Jul 13, 2018 - 9 comments

While Kitty tries to find a runaway teen, Sherlock and Joan work a case in which the murder of a brilliant bioengineer looks to be at the hands of a drug cartel. Also, Joan makes a major life decision but worries it will impact Sherlock negatively, not knowing that Sherlock has big news of his own.
posted by everybody had matching towels on Jan 20, 2015 - 2 comments

In which the prior associations of the kidnappers of a young girl forces the police to bring in another consultant in addition to Holmes and Watson: Moriarty. [more inside]
posted by homunculus on Jan 1, 2015 - 2 comments

The game of cat and mouse mole is afoot! Sherlock and Joan try to determine the identity of the double agent, but are they the hunters or the prey? Season finale.
posted by homunculus on May 15, 2014 - 14 comments