“ It’s pretty [bad] when a story written over 120 years ago has better gender politics than its modern reimagining. With BBC’s Sherlock, this is exactly what happened. The most recent episode, A Scandal in Belgravia puts a modern spin on the Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia, and manages to engage in a horrifying mess of feminism-fail by the end.
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Irene Adler: how to butcher a brilliant woman character « Another angry woman (Spoilers)
Stavvers expresses the same issues I have with Sherlock 2.1* — 80 minutes of breezily enjoyable, followed by 9:30 of “oh, um, no … that can’t be right” and 30 seconds of “are you fucking kidding me?”
*watched via British vpn on BBC iplayer. Which is not piracy, I think, it’s … impersonating a British person? Illegal immigration?
