re: #21 William Lewis

It depends on how much you’re willing to give up in the translation from a classic old book to a new TV series. One of my favorite adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes mythos is the BBC’s production of a modern-day Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular hero, and Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson. The stories followed the same essential plot as the originals, but the innovative deductive leaps were completely reimagined to fit into modern London. Cell phones were a prominent part of the Moriarty arc, if I remember correctly. It was really good, even if it threw away all of the quaint charisma of the classical Victorian London formulation.