Young Sherlock review – the detective in Guy Ritchie’s geezerish caper has the charisma of a naff waiter Guy Ritchie's take on the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes is out now on Prime Video, and it's a right old mess. The problem isn't that his Young Sherlock series doesn't try to do something new with the character – it's just that what he does try looks like a lazy, unoriginal rehash of his previous work. The show's protagonist, played by Henry Lloyd-Hughes, is meant to be the young Holmes before he became the great detective. But instead of bringing any real depth or nuance to the role, Lloyd-Hughes just seems to be going through the motions. He has all the charisma of a naff waiter trying to upsell you on a mediocre bottle of wine. Ritchie's direction is similarly uninspired. The show's tone is all over the place – one minute it's trying to be a gritty, hard-boiled detective drama, and the next it's veering off into cartoonish action-comedy territory. It's like Ritchie took every bad habit he developed in his earlier work (think Lock, Stock or Snatch) and amplified them to 11. The supporting cast fares no better. The usually reliable Iqbal Khan is wasted as a generic "wisecracking sidekick", while the normally excellent Jonathan Aris is stuck playing yet another forgettable villain. Even the usually reliable production design looks like it was cobbled together from bits and bobs left over from other, better shows. The only real surprise here is how quickly the show's momentum dies. What starts off as a moderately intriguing mystery slowly devolves into a series of tedious, predictable plot twists. You can practically feel Ritchie's attention span waning as the episodes go on – it's like he got bored wit...#Guy_Ritchie #Henry_LloydHughes #Iqbal_Khan #Jonathan_Aris #Sherlock_Holmes #BBC_Elementary #CBS_Series #Jonny_Lee_Miller
