TV GUIDE: Weekend TV: Sherlock and Jesse Stone; Finale Fever
May 18, 2012
by Matt Roush
The timing is as uncanny as the sleuth is eternal. On the heels of CBS announcing a promising new modern-day Sherlock Holmes series Elementary for fall, PBS' Masterpiece Mystery! wraps the second season of brilliant contemporary Sherlock movies on Sunday (check local listings) with its most dizzying and dazzlingly literary adventure yet.
"The Reichenbach Fall" (inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Final Problem") pits the exasperating Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) against his greatest nemesis, the playfully malevolent arch-fiend Moriarty (Andrew Scott, a master of smarmy smugness). It opens with (mild spoiler alert for non-Holmes aficionados) Sherlock's long-suffering sidekick (droll Martin Freeman) tearfully lamenting to a therapist, "My best friend, Sherlock Holmes, is dead."
Indeed, the cat and mouse between sleuth and master criminal has never been more lethally entertaining, as Sherlock's own reputation comes under attack from the elusive Moriarty's diabolical schemes. "Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain," taunts the evil and obsessed madman. "You need me — or you're nothing." The greatest fear for both men is to ever be considered ordinary. Thankfully, nothing about Sherlock comes close to being routine...
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