Guy Ritchie’s Prime Video origin story series Young Sherlock follows a teenage Sherlock Holmes (Hero Fiennes Tiffin) in his pre-detective Oxford University era and introduces his longtime rival James Moriarty (Dónal Finn). We would never know that these two characters were destined to be mortal enemies, as their friendship is really the heart of the first season.
“I had to keep telling myself to forget knowing the inevitable of knowing where their friendship ends up,” Fiennes Tiffin said during their panel at Deadline Contenders TV. “The idea of them initially being friends really enriches the idea of them getting to where they get to.”
Finn had a revelation about Moriarty’s life post-friendship with Sherlock. “How painful a breakup can be, because essentially if they’re best friends, then the idea of them being enemies at a later point in life is only colored more greatly by a sense of
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