EXCLUSIVE: Young Sherlock is Prime Video’s number one show and its producers have high hopes it stretches to Season 2 and beyond.
The eight-parter is the origin story of the titular detective, played by Hero Fiennes Tiffin, and takes in the friendship between Holmes and nemesis-in-waiting James Moriarty, played by Dónal Finn. What starts out as a murder mystery set amid Oxford’s dreaming spires becomes a globe-trotting adventure with a very personal angle for Holmes and family.
Most viewers will know that the two main protagonists ultimately become foes, which lends their on-screen relationship an edge amid the banter and bonhomie.
“There’s a sort of inexplicable attraction between them because they stimulate each other as only intellectually they can; they’ve each met their match. At a young age, that translates immediately into friendship, but the competition between them and the foundations of the enmity are all there,”
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