sherlock

It's me, Suzanne, your resident suziebeezieland Anglophile, all excited about Sherlock, the new Masterpiece Mystery! series about Sherlock Holmes, set in modern times. We won't get it here in L.A. on KCET until this coming Thursday (although it started yesterday elsewhere) so I can't personally recommend it yet, but I'm excited. :) I know our Missy K. is a Mystery! fan. Are any of the rest of you? It has been my favorite and my best since I was in high school.  Although I don't watch all the series they air, because sometimes the more modern ones are too dark for me.  (Inspector Morse and its spin-off, Inspector Lewis, are my all-time favorites. And of course Poirot and Miss Marple.)

But I'm hoping this one will be good.  It was the hit of the summer in England, and there is a good article about it here in The Telegraph.  I don't know much, although I can tell you that Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock Holmes, does not appear to be related to my favorite designer, Jane Cumberbatch, although I could be wrong.  (I'm sure someone will let me know if I am.)  Martin Freeman, who plays Dr. Watson, some of you might recognize from the original British version of The Office. He's just been tapped to play Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's embattled The Hobbit, which also, oddly, will feature our beloved Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield (thanks for the heads-up on that, Jennie!) which really, with Richard's height and sharp features I'm not seeing, but the wonders of technology and all that, I guess.

I'd best wrap this post right up, because look how my brain rambles around.  

But also, puppy! Puppy! Puppy! Puppy! We're getting a puppy!

:)