I generally enjoy BBC productions and British creativity. One of the main reasons I enjoy British productions over American productions is that the British artists are more creative, imaginative, and less sensational in their presentation, providing a compelling story and photography, without all the non-stop unrealistic action and special FX that the less imaginative American productions rely upon. Unfortunately, in this series the Brits have delivered the same material as the Bond series and the super hero series, with Holmes and Watson becoming macabre quasi-supermen.

I would prefer a believable story, where Holmes, Watson, and their nemeses accomplish things that are humanly possible, versus things that only a super hero with magical powers and nanosecond timing could accomplish. The original Sherlock Holmes, although genius in his deductive reasoning, was a believable character doing things conceivably possible for a human. These stories by Conan Doyle were compelling and watchable. After watching this series, I almost need to spend three hours decompressing on my analyst's couch (if I had an analyst). Just TOO much death, perversion, psychosis, and other human dysfunction crammed into a few characters in a single movie/episode. Very dark, depressing, and difficult to process.

However, I will watch the next one when available on Netflix. Sometimes we are gluttons for abuse.