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Positive:
9
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10
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0
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Critic Reviews
The Mercury NewsMar 6, 2026
Season 1 Review:
This is a grand adventure and cracking good mystery awash with gaslighting, brawls, murders, red herrings and a secret society. Better yet, it provides a better understanding of how the past and Sherlock’s dysfunctional parents (played by Natasha McElhone and Joseph Fiennes — Hero’s actual uncle) and his ardently disappointed brother Mycroft (Max Irons) ushered in Sherlock’s anxiety and neuroses.
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The GuardianMar 4, 2026
Season 1 Review:
It doesn’t help that Fiennes Tiffin has been teamed with the explosively charismatic Finn, whose presence here reduces everyone within the blast zone to a smoking hillock of moustache. Still. The Tintinny stuff is a hoot and Firth is a blustery joy. And there’s a breeziness to all the capering that ensures even at its most geezerish, this is one Guy Ritchie joint wot ain’t entirely pony.
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Radio TimesMar 2, 2026
Season 1 Review:
All that being said - the messiness, the weak characterisation, the lack of fidelity to the source material - it has to acknowledged that Young Sherlock is not a slog to get through. .... Young Sherlock is a proper rollicking adventure, with a sense of fun that prevails even as more brooding elements descend.
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Mar 3, 2026The PlaylistMar 16, 2026
Season 1 Review:
The evidence points less to a must-watch new Holmes chapter than to a handful of performers worth tracking from here. Unless you’re a casting agent, or a truly die-hard Sherlock Holmes completist determined to inspect every clue in the canon, there isn’t an especially convincing reason to open this case file.
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Mar 4, 2026
Season 1 Review:
While the other characters in the series talk a lot about how smart Sherlock is, Ritchie hasn’t got the patience or confidence to persuasively demonstrate this. What the script lacks in procedural credibility, the direction makes up for in an almost desperate speed. .... We know Sherlock and Moriarty will one day end up as archenemies. But, for now, neither young man is engaging enough to make you care how, and no amount of fisticuffs can fix that.
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RogerEbert.comMar 4, 2026
Season 1 Review:
The audience has to manage at least four different, weakly written subplots over the course of eight episodes, and the stories are shot to serve the action set-pieces, rather than the other way round. It does not help that the lead actors have not yet honed their talents well enough to expand the meager material, causing their performances to feel like impressions of the characters rather than fully realized portrayals.
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Mar 3, 2026
Season 1 Review:
This Sherlock is smart and periodically mopey, but he isn’t a compelling character on any level. .... The middle of the season isn’t just dumb, it’s dull and overextended. But then the show picks up again for the last two episodes, which hop around the globe, feature various twists and come close to salvaging the rest of the series.
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