- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
Sherlock bursts into the flat at 221b holding a bloodstained harpoon and looking furious... There, that got your attention, didn’t it? And it works on screen, too, a typically ripe Sherlock device, having fun with its crazed, all-capable hero even as it gently mocks him. At one point John Watson tuts at Sherlock for being flashy with his deductive powers. “Of course!” our hero roars back. “I am a show off! That’s what we do!”
But the showing off takes a very different form this week. After Steven Moffat’s gymnastic, high-octane opener, Mark Gatiss’s The Hounds of Baskerville is more of a creepy affair, all jittery camerawork, paranoia
and suspense. A Devon man (Russell Tovey) is haunted, you might say dogged, by memories of his father’s violent death on Dartmoor 20 years previously. So the consulting detective tries to find out what secrets are hidden at the nearby Baskerville research centre. Is there really, as local tourist lore suggests, a giant hound on the loose?
About this programme
2/3. A terrified client claims his father was killed by a monstrous creature stalking the wilds of Dartmoor, so Holmes and Watson head to the countryside to investigate. But what seemed like mere fantasy back in Baker Street proves a very different prospect when the duo look into an ultra-secret army base at the edge of the moor. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman star in this adaptation of Conan Doyle's most famous Sherlock Holmes story, The Hound of the Baskervilles, with Russell Tovey (Being Human), Amelia Bullmore (Twenty Twelve) and Clive Mantle (Casualty).
Cast and crew
Cast
- Sherlock Holmes
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- Dr John Watson
- Martin Freeman
- Mrs Hudson
- Una Stubbs
- DI Lestrade
- Rupert Graves
- Mycroft Holmes
- Mark Gatiss
- Henry Knight
- Russell Tovey
- Dr Stapleton
- Amelia Bullmore
- Dr Frankland
- Clive Mantle
- Dr Mortimer
- Sasha Behar
- Major Barrymore
- Simon Paisley Day
Crew
- Director
- Paul McGuigan
- Executive Producer
- Steven Moffat
- Producer
- Sue Vertue
- Writer
- Mark Gatiss
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