Review

John Watson, serving as an army doctor in Afghanistan, was injured in an explosion and is now in London, unemployed and looking for a flatmate. And he wants to start a podcast. Of course, he moves in with the brilliant but eccentric Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective, and is immediately swept up in enthralling & funny mysteries and adventures.

Delighted to welcome two new podcasters to the team. Dr John Watson and his flat mate Sherlock Holmes. Crime is their business. Here’s a taster. Search Sherlock and co wherever you get your podcasts. https://t.co/CgC2RDNzmV pic.twitter.com/rWekRk9FE7

— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) October 10, 2023

This podcast/audio drama is great fun to listen to. It has all the old fashioned delights of a Sherlock detective story – the adventures are retellings of the original stories – with a contemporary London setting. Sherlock is the usual antisocial deductive genius archetype, and is explicitly autistic.

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Q&A: Who decided to make Sherlock canonically autistic? (Complete Q&A available on Patreon) #sherlock #sherlockandco #sherlockandcomeetup

♬ original sound – Sherlock & Co – Sherlock & Co

Watson is a true crime podcaster, with a humorously self-effacing, bumbling manner. Mariana works for Hudson’s, a real estate agency, and then later as Sherlock & Co.’s business manager – Sherlock keeps erroneously calling her ‘Mrs Hudson’. The Sherlock and Watson personas are in the same vein as the BBC Sherlock versions, but not exactly the same.

And the theme tune’s a banger. A violin banger! (It’s called ‘Mad Prodigy’.)

… and here’s Episode 1.

Emery, J. (Writer), & Jarrell, A. (Director). (2023–present). Sherlock & co. [Audio drama]. Goalhanger. https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/sherlock-co/id1710121792

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Usually mild infrequent swearing; details of murders, murder victims, violence; sometimes mild sexual allusions; usually mild drug & alcohol references (Sherlock famously uses opiates).

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