The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose ends.
Acting
Everett's languid, bitter Holmes—like a hungover Cumberbatch.
Production
Mud, fog, and moral rot—London never looked this suffocating.
Director
Simon Cellan Jones
Rupert Everett
Sherlock Holmes
Ian Hart
Dr. Watson
Neil Dudgeon
Lestrade
Anne Carroll
Mrs Hudson
Tamsin Egerton
Miranda Helhoughton
Perdita Weeks
Roberta Massingham
Michael Fassbender
Charles Allen
Helen McCrory
Mrs. Vandeleur
Julian Wadham
Hugo Massingham
Guy Henry
Mr. Bilney
Eleanor David
Mary Pentney
Jonathan Hyde
George Pentney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Everett and Hart both played Watson in other adaptations—Hart in 2002's 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' with Richard Roxburgh's Holmes.
This BBC Granada revival deliberately rejected Ritchie's action-Holmes trend, leaning into Jeremy Brett's melancholy instead.
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