Several months ago I read about the filming of a new Sherlock Holmes series starring Rupert Everett. I looked forward to seeing the first episode, and was able to see it last night. The episode was entitled “Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking.”

The casting of Everett was the big news about this new series, and as I expected, he puts his own style or interpretation into the role in a way that is quite different from Jeremy Brett’s. I believe that noone can match Brett in this role and last night’s episode served to confirm this. Not that Everett does a bad job at all, but he is not quite convincing somehow. I saw too much of his previous work in this role and not much that was different and unique.

Even so, the episode was quite enjoyable, if a bit too full of the prototypical foggy scenes. Watching this episode would make one think that London was one great big fogbank, 24/7. Of course it had a lot of problems with smog and so forth at the time at which this story is set. But it was a bit too omnipresent in every scene.