Editor’s Note: Welcome to our TV Rewind column! The Paste writers are diving into the streaming catalogue to discuss some of our favorite classic series as well as great shows we’re watching for the first time. Come relive your TV past with us, or discover what should be your next binge watch below: Anyone who watched TV in the 2010s has, at the very least, heard of Sherlock. The BBC’s adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous works made Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman household names (and Marvel stars!), but its wild popularity was not always a positive force. The show was huge on Tumblr in the early 2010s, creating a fandom that was passionate at best and incredibly toxic at worst. When that negativity found its way out of the bounds of the fandom, CBS’s Elementary was often the target. Elementary premiered two years after Sherlock in the fall of 2012, but its first critic was none other than the Sherlock showrunner himself, Steven Moffat. The series starred Johnny Lee Miller as Holmes and Lucy Liu as Joan Watson and was originally conceived as an adaptation of Moffat’s miniseries—but CBS had decided to regroup and move forward with
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TV Rewind: Elementary Was the Sherlock Holmes Adaptation We Deserved – Paste
