rupert everett have the aquiline profile and world weary vocal delivery that be necessity for a screen holmes and but he ( and the excellent actor around him ) be hamstring by a cliché ridden script . sherlock holmes and tell watson to keep your breath to cool your porridge . the last two time i hear that expression on screen be both in adaptation of pride and prejudice and i certainly mean no disrespect to either of them . holmes be also make to deploy a mary poppins aphorism about pie crust and promise perhaps you remember it from your childhood disney view . this be a good look production ( apart from the occasional wobble from the annoyingly popular unsteadicam ) and though i have it on good authority that london fog do not swirl rapidly around the lamppost and chimneypot . beautifully design interior include a duchess drawing room and a victorian graveyard and an underground lair of the villain ( he always have a lair and doesn not he ) and and a ceramic tiled morgue . costume be in a muted color palette of cream and black and olive green and and brown and and the girl in their costume for a classical tableau look a if they have step out of a alma tadema painting . in addition to everett a holmes and the production be grace with a uniformly strong cast . ian hart bring an acerbic vigor to the role of dr. watson and and neil dudgeon injects lestrade with some humor . the superb helen mccrory and a watson american fiancée and initially appear brash and pushy ( she call holmes sherlock throughout and even though his best friend watson invariably call him by his last name ) and an often observed trait of american woman in british film or tv production and but she be too good an actress to keep to that one note character . guy henry be disgracefully underused give him a big role . the story be a new one and which be not in itself a criticism while it be creepy and intriguing . the most glaring problem of the show be with the script while i hope that director simon cellan jones continue to make more holmes story but that writer allan cubitt will not .