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Sherlock Holmes is only recently in the public domain (at least in full), and hoo boy, are creators going to make the most of it—there are at least three major Doyle-adjacent works streaming in 2026, and I’m probably missing a couple. Not that IP was ever much of a barrier, as evidenced by the hundreds of films, books, porn parodies, etc. released in the near-century since Arthur Conan Doyle’s death. Which is all to say that Holmes is pretty resilient as a character, and, while I wouldn’t have said that we need a zippy, Guy Ritchie Sherlock prequel—Young Sherlock is unique, and quite a bit of fun. It’s stretching the character to nearly his breaking point, for sure, but maintaining at least a reasonable bit of respect for the canon, with a well-cast lead in Hero Fiennes Tiffin alongside Dónal Finn
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