Sherlock - — 2010

Moffat and Gatiss, both self-confessed Holmes obsessives, realized that Doyle’s original stories were structurally perfect for modern television. The original Watson, invalided home from the Second Anglo-Afghan War, translated seamlessly to a veteran of the conflict in Afghanistan—a haunting parallel that highlighted how little the trauma of war had changed over a century.

(2010–2017) redefined the legendary detective for a digital age, replacing the Victorian fog and hansom cabs with smartphones and high-speed data Sherlock - 2010

The genius lay in the details. The famous magnifying glass was replaced (or supplemented) by a smartphone and nicotine patches. The "Harding Brothers" (theatrical agents) became a Wikipedia entry. The Agony Column of The Times became John Watson’s blog. The showrunners treated the canon with reverence but not reverence of the aesthetic—rather, reverence of the spirit . They stripped away the Victorian trappings to reveal the beating heart of the characters beneath. The famous magnifying glass was replaced (or supplemented)