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“I feel like I should be proposing something controversial,” Mark Gatiss confides. Cleanly-cut in stylish gray suit and with an obvious flair for the debonair, it is no great stretch to detect in Gatiss himself the mannerly (if often slightly sinister) gentleman of his defining roles. From top-tier omnipotent government official Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock […]
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Sherlock has captivated a diverse audience internationally. For many fans, the true value of the show lies not in the cases themselves, but in the layers running beneath the show’s surface. One of the most popular topics amongst Sherlock fans is the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, and, more specifically, the idea that […]
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Nothing beats a good plot twist. Carefully built up to, and seemingly inevitable when revealed, the Good Plot Twist can be engaging, exciting, and satisfying. Sadly, there’s a difference between this variety of the technique (“Who hunts in the middle of a crowd?”) and the sort employed by both kids playing ‘Consequences’, and Moffat in […]
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While Amber looks into the reasons behind our fascination with the crime drama genre and its public perception, let’s take a look at some of the Oxford Student editors’ recommendations and the bigger hits of the genre. Inspector Morse & Lewis Let’s start with shows surely close to every Oxford students’ heart, the television series […]
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Steven Moffat had a tricky job to pull off as showrunner of Doctor Who, taking it off the hands of the man who spearheaded its revival and set the hugely successful tone for the modern incarnation of the show. But whilst it may have been easy to simply sit in Davies’ shadow and simply keep […]
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It could have been worse. When earlier this week Steven Moffat, longtime writer and showrunner since 2010, announced his decision to leave Doctor Who after the end of next series in Spring 2017 it marked the biggest change in personnel at the BBC since #TopGeargate last year. Moffat has managed to make his exit without […]
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I’ll start with a disclaimer; I’ve always been a massive Sherlock fan. I loved the first series uncritically, the second almost as much, and while I thought the show became a bit too self-referential and pleased with itself in the last series, I was very much still on board the Sherlock train and had high […]
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Although I was asked to write on a fictional character I secretly wish was real, I unashamedly confess that not only do I publicly hope Sherlock Holmes existed, but I often convince myself that he did in fact walk the streets of Victorian London. No other character exhibits such charisma, presence of mind and incredible […]
Continue ReadingThe New Year has begun and the first episode of Sherlock Series Three has aired. Here is your only warning: this review will contain spoilers. So if you have yet to watch The Empty Hearse, my advice to you is load up BBC iPlayer. Right now. And then read this immediately afterwards, of course. The […]
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