The show’s big innovation is to turn the Irregulars into angsty teens. From Hollyoaks-level acting to mid-tier production values and storylines that owe more to Doctor Who than Doctor Watson, it is stonkingly adequate.
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Netflix’s new series is a thunderingly competent re-imagining of the story of the Baker Street Irregulars, those sooty-faced scamps who served as Sherlock’s eyes and ears in London’s underworld. And in this league table of Baker Street by-products The Irregulars is bang in the middle. Sherlock Holmes spin-offs come in every configuration, from the delightful (the first season of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock) to the unwatchable (the final season season of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock). And no fictional world has been bent into wonkier shapes than that created by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887 when he began to write about a sleuth with a low-grade cocaine addiction and a love for games of of logic.
Whether a four-hour Justice League or a $1 billion Amazon TV series based on the glossary at the back of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings that nobody ever reads, expanded universes are all the rage.
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