I love Lucy Worsley, so I've been looking forward to her 3-part series on Sherlock Holmes and Doyle ever since they announced it a year ago. It apparently was called Killing Sherlock in the UK and already aired there months ago. PBS is just now airing the show in December. The first episode was okay, but so far I haven't seen Worsley reveal any secret or new discovery that I didn't already know. I suppose people who are more casual Holmes fans, who never read a biography of ACD or a Sherlockian book, would be more easy to impress with these facts. I know I was surprised last year when Worsley's series on Agatha Christie talked about her childhood fears.
I was hoping that my PBS Passport would allow me to watch all 3 episodes at once, (because they've allowed that with other shows on their streaming platform), but nope, it's just 1 episode at a time, along with a few preview clips from the later episodes. I did like seeing the Reichenbach Falls and some of the experts that she consults about the stories. I wonder how Worsley will cover Doyle's courtship of Jean Leckie and whether she'll be skeptical about Doyle being faithful to his first wife Touie while she was alive. Many Sherlockians in the early days were willing to believe Doyle and take him at his word. I know she'll probably cover Doyle's Spiritualism and his friendship with Harry Houdini, but I wonder if she'll also cover the Cottlingley Fairies too. We'll see.
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