Honestly, I think it's mediocre series at best and overrated (and understand that I've been a Sherlockian scholar for over 15 years.) I think the cinematography is nice, but I think the writing fails as a mystery series. Usually mysteries give you all the facts and you solve the mystery with the detective; this series withholds facts, so the ending seems more spectacular and that's just lazy writing. Also, I find the writing regularly sexist, racist, and immature. I think the series relies too heavily on "fanservice" that it gets in the way of the story itself. To say "I'm not gay" is funny the first two or three times; after that, it comes off as immature and supremely bigoted. Generally, the episodes are just mediocre to me. The series takes too much from Baring-Gould's SHERLOCK HOLMES OF BAKER STREET, which is a book I despise with all my heart; I hate that Sherlockians take it as the bible, because it's the most "fanficy book that every fanficed"; it's just badly-written theories with next to no canonical evidence and notations. I despise the portrayal of Moriarty, which is odd because I like the actor a lot, but I think his Moriarty is horrid. What is meant to be "terrifying" comes off as comical; he's just a live-action version of Him from POWERPUFF GIRLS.